Long Reads

From classical licks and pop tricks to anything goes rave anthems, Anna Meredith’s new album shows just why she is one of the finest exponents of the electronic arts

The ever-inventive YACHT used AI to deconstruct their entire back catalogue and then painstakingly put the whole lot back together to create ‘Chain Tripping’, an album of the year contender that has to be heard to be believed

Ignored and derided during their early years, Section 25 have rightfully been favourably reassessed over the intervening years. With the release of a new boxset, the band’s Vin Cassidy traces their tumultuous history…

We visit Preston to meet Polypores and friends to talk Brutalist bus stations, Bob Moog, napping at gigs and, most importantly, how the city has nurtured a burgeoning electronic and experimental music scene

Between 1978’s ‘Obscure Alternatives’ and 1979’s groundbreaking ‘Quiet Life’, pure magic was afoot. Featuring brand-new interviews with all four surviving members, Japan reveal how and why they made the shift from guitar band to embrace the unstoppable synth revolution…

With a deep interest in the weird and wonderful world around us, London synth obsessive Alice Hubble really hits the spot with her debut album, ‘Polarlichter’

Clock DVA/The Anti Group’s Adi Newton has projects coming out of his ears and they’re all heading towards yours via his soon-to-be very busy ARMComm label…

Sheffield’s 65daysofstatic have rejected their old ways of working, and yet new album, ‘replicr, 2019’, is totally informed by their past. Any questions? Oh yes…

Tristram Cary, avant-garde exponent of all things EMS

Creating a live soundtrack to a silent Buster Keaton classic has been quite the learning curve for Derbyshire’s Haiku Salut, who are also adapting to life as a duo, for a little while at least…