Robin Guthrie: Round Robin
Ex-Cocteaus man Robin Guthrie gives the scoop on his unique approach to music, and how these days he’s just as likely to make an album in the back of a camper van
The Go! Team, ‘Thunder, Lightening, Strike’
The Go! Team’s Ian Parton looks back on his complex relationship with ‘Ladyflash’, the breakthrough single from their debut album, ‘Thunder, Lightening, Strike’
Rolo McGinty
Rolo McGinty’s transition from indie darling to respected house producer has been a roller-coaster ride. From E in LA to spliffs with Scratch, he tells his unique story of a life in music
J Willgoose, Esq
Public Service Broadcasting’s J Willgoose, Esq reflects on his primary influences and inspirations. And yes, corduroy is one of them
PIG ‘Sinsation’ (JVC, 1995)
Raymond Watts, the man behind PIG, released ‘Sinsation’, an album arguably more likely to top the charts in the depths of hell
Field Music: Cafe Society
The new Field Music offering, ‘Limits Of Language’, finds brothers Peter and David Brewis in a nostalgic mood. Overdosing on Marmite in their favourite Wearside cafe, they look back on the vanished eateries and melancholy early Septembers of their youth
Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man
Former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday has just released his first solo work in 13 years. Reflecting his fabled life, steeped in hook-laden electronics, typically melodramatic and emotive, it’s one of the most absorbing albums he’s ever made
Jill Fraser: Pleasure Principle
Taught by John Cage, and having worked with Morton Subotnick and Serge Tcherepnin, pioneering electronicist Jill Fraser has had quite the career. Her new solo effort, reframing American revival hymns in a modular setting, finds her at the very peak of her powers
Memorials: Monumentally Good
Heirs apparent to the likes of Stereolab and Broadcast, Canterbury duo Memorials craft surrealist psych-pop and tape experiments into gloriously wayward grooves
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