Features

Shimmering synths, hazy ambience and a spot of “space trumpet”… Space Blanket make warm, cosmic sounds you’ll want to cosy up to

Surreal and enigmatic, San Francisco avant-garde collective The Residents have been redefining art with their radical output for over five decades. Blending operatic form with macabre humour, their new work is another experimental triumph

From Amon Düül II to Popol Vuh – essential krautrock gems to plug into

As Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’ celebrates its big birthday, we examine its nuanced relationship with krautrock and Germany’s history

Having released a plethora of krautrock reissues and a stack of experimental/contemporary German music over the last two decades, Bureau B founder Gunther Buskies looks back at some of the key labels from krautrock’s formative era

Since 2007, Ian Hodgson has been the shadowy wizard operating the levers of the mysterious Moon Wiring Club. now he’s ready to pull back the curtain

Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay reflect on 20 storied years of making music as folktronica outfit Tunng, and unpick the band’s remarkable new album, which takes inspiration from ‘The Wicker Man’, sea shanties and the “wonder and magic of life”