Features

Having met at an Aphex Twin listening party – as you do – New York’s AM Boys deploy synths, drum machines and vocoders to craft enticingly languid pop and electronic instrumentals, imbued with all-essential “space echo”

Cosey Fanni Tutti’s new solo work is an absorbing “sound cameo” – a profoundly personal sonic reflection of her life that, true to form, finds joy in resistance. Also on the agenda are Delia, Throbbing Gristle and the strange power of dreams

Producer Daniel Avery, Ghost Culture’s James Greenwood and Working Men’s Club frontman Syd Minsky-Sargeant join forces as Demise Of Love – a synth-powered supergroup with a dark heart

Marking their 30th anniversary, pioneering Austrian label Editions Mego – formerly Mego – continue to thrive, carrying forward the fearless sonic legacy of visionary founder Peter Rehberg, who passed away in 2021

To create a new Radiophonic Workshop sample library, esteemed former members reconvened at the BBC’s iconic Maida Vale studios for one last poignant rendezvous

Steeped in “northern gothic” atmospheres, Rainy Miller’s genre-blurring new album is bleak yet gripping, reflecting the huge emotional impact of a chance encounter

An Xmal Deutschland retrospective covering the German goth/post-punk band’s defining 4AD years prompts singer Anja Huwe to reflect on her teenage epiphanies

Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz

On his latest album, Yorkshire’s Kirk Barley finds the perfect balance between avant-garde pointillism and meditative flow