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YACHT: Sail Of The Century

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
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Section 25: Hilltop Blues

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…
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Polypores: Preston North Beginning

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
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Japan: Rising Sons

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…
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Adi Newton: Newton Bomb

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…
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65DaysofStatic: Day Trippers

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…
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Wayne Coyne

The Flaming Lips’ dreamer-in-chief Wayne Coyne serves up his formative influences, which take in painters going punk, communal rainbows and the power of wigging out
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Suicide, Brussels, 1978

You join us in Brussels, it’s 1978 and Elvis Costello is in town. His hand-picked support act? Alan Vega and Martin Rev’s Suicide. What could possibly go wrong?
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808 State ‘Pacific State’

Graham Massey on the making of 808 State’s ‘Pacific State’, the record that both defined and reflected the blithe spirit of the summer of 1989 better than any other