Long Reads

Chicago and Detroit club sounds, global rhythms and experimental beats – Sudan Archives’ latest offering is perhaps her most revealing and playful to date

Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album 

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are far more than simple musicians. From ingenious and engaging sound art to thought-provoking exhibitions and installations, here is a potted guide to some of their works beyond music

Californian trio Automatic channel 21st century angst into brilliantly effervescent synth/post-punk nuggets – and somehow still find time……

Emerging from an “abyssal realm of erotic delirium”, the latest work from Lucrecia Dalt explores the nuanced complexities of human connection. Co-produced by Dalt and David Sylvian, it’s a charismatic and enigmatic ode to love and longing

Anna Jordan, aka The Allegorist, conjures brooding synthscapes with cinematic flair. Her new project, a conceptual meditation on “the spectrum of life”, is a thoroughly scintillating tour de force

Cosmic icon and Casio busker The Space Lady reflects on her 50-year journey – from San Francisco street performer to her debut club tour aged 66 – and why she believes she’s finally ready to plant her feet back on terra firma

What do you get if you combine Gong’s flamboyant guitarist, an internationally renowned bagpipe builder and a six-time world snooker champion? The joyous friendships behind The Utopia Strong, whose third studio album, ‘Doperider’, is an occult-flavoured delight