Natasha Barrett
Oslo-based electroacoustic musician Natasha Barrett reveals her influences – from owls and raspberries to Soundfield microphones
Pascal Gabriel
Producer Pascal Gabriel revisits his innovative work on a brace of 1988 megahits, ‘Beat Dis’ and ‘Theme From S-Express’
Library of the Occult
If you thought 2021 was a busy year for Library Of The Occult, 2022 is going to be a different beast entirely. We caught up with founder Tom McDowell to hear how he’s combining electronic music and literature to scare us even more…
Pneumatic Tubes: Son Of His Father
Infused with the spirit of Woodstock and resolutely “bound to the mountains”, Midlake and Mercury Rev’s Jesse Chandler pays tribute to his late father on a second album as Pneumatic Tubes
Jah Wobble ‘Bomba’
Jah Wobble talks us through his 1990 Invaders Of The Heart epic ‘Bomba’
Kings of Convenience ‘Versus’ (Source, 2001)
‘Quiet Is The New Loud’, the debut album from Norway’s Kings Of Convenience – Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe – is the gentlest strum and pluck of a record, and the Bergen duo were cast very much from an old school folk tradition.
Soft Cell: Cell Mates
Splitting up, getting back together (twice), a farewell gig that wasn’t quite goodbye… and now Soft Cell are making another welcome return. Marc Almond and Dave Ball remain as thick as thieves and ‘Happiness Not Included’, their first album for 20 years, shows why the duo are still the undisputed kings of twisted synthpop
Severed Heads: Fast Forward
While he might be curating an online archive for his maverick Severed Heads outfit, Tom Ellard is not a man to rest on his laurels. “Don’t you want to jump full-bodied into the future?” he asks
Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni: The Light Fantastic
Recorded in a Pisa living room rather than his Forst home studio where he’s worked for five decades, ‘As Long As The Light’, Michael Rother’s collaboration with partner Vittoria Maccabruni, fizzes with life
Cate Le Bon: Bon Voyage
From folk singer/songwriter to the electronic music top table, Cate Le Bon has been on quite the journey. With a new album, ‘Pompeii’, ready to roll, we find her at the peak of her powers