Xeno & Oaklander: In A Different League
NY synthpop duo Xeno & Oaklander are back with their ninth album, and it’s a real corker – all retro-futuristic earworms, analogue anthems and an intriguingly murky backstory
Alex Paterson: Sphere And Now
As driven and restless as ever, and with a new, career-spanning “director’s cut” compilation in the shops, The Orb’s Alex Paterson reflects on his eventful 30-year journey – with good tales, to boot
Throbbing Gristle: Shock And Awe
Throbbing Gristle’s visceral live performances were intense, powerful and often overwhelming. Notable witnesses and band insiders recall their heady experiences of seeing TG in the flesh
Throbbing Gristle: Art Throbs
Famously described as “wreckers of civilisation”, Throbbing Gristle’s influence on counterculture music and arts has been immense. We speak to Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and others about the seismic impact of the industrial revolutionaries
Nídia And Valentina Magaletti: Opposites Attract
Afro-Portuguese producer Nídia and experimental percussionist Valentina Magaletti have teamed up for ‘Estradas’, a melodic and pulsating tour de force of eclectic rhythms and essential beats
White Noise: Lightning Strikes
Dark, psychedelic, sensual and enticingly strange… with their trailblazing 1969 debut album ‘An Electric Storm’, White Noise – Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and David Vorhaus – created visionary electronic music that has continued to resonate ever since. Vorhaus, Hodgson and others revisit the story behind this extraordinary record
Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power
Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive
cumgirl8: Riot Grrrls
Extraterrestrial interlopers, hyperreal post-punksters or “cyberfeminists”? Whichever way you see it, NYC’s cumgirl8 are here to save us
Faithful Johannes: Yours Faithfully
Faithful Johannes? The Alan Bennett of hip hop. Sir John Betjemen with beats. And weighing on his mind at the moment are life-threatening lawns, river monsters called Tony and the “icky” thoughts that have inspired an album riddled with very English anxieties
Rafael Anton Irisarri: Behind The Mask
Rafael Anton Irisarri’s mournful and majestic new work – all complex ambient and drone heft – heaves with “simmering electric despondency”