Long Reads

Langham Research Centre are fanatical about tape manipulation and the sonic smorgasbord that surrounds us. And if you have ever wondered what an abandoned nuclear weapons testing site overlooking the North Sea sounds like…

A limited edition (of one) boxset for £10,000. A can of Antarctic air for £500. A toilet roll for £200. A hole punch for £50. An album of electronic rock (or should that be rocktronica?) with 2021 written all over it. Enter the mighty strange world of studio perfectionist and cult phenomenon Steven Wilson 

With ‘Dead Club’, Tunng have been on a journey that’s taken them beyond the album, beyond music, beyond life itself. Sam Genders and Becky Jacobs explain why they’re tackling death head on

Pete Bingham, lynchpin of cosmic rockers Sendelica, has put together one of the weirdest musical collectives known to man. Or beast. Meet The Lost Stoned Pandas, whose members include Electronic Sound’s own space voyager, Panda Kris

Working Men’s Club are ambitious and angry. They swear a lot and they’ve got a song called ‘John Cooper Clarke’. It’s no wonder their debut album is being touted as one of the best records of 2020

Starting in 1968, San Francisco musician Doug McKechnie was one of the very first people to play a Moog. Stand by for a remarkable story involving Hell’s Angels, FBI agents, concrete caverns and a pyramid of Mexican weed

In the 1980s, a decade epitomised by big hair, outlandish outfits and believing your own press, nobody did it better than bizarro electro-rockers Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a band that viewed hyperbole as a badge of honour rather than an insult

He’s been known by many aliases throughout his long solo career, but Richard H Kirk is now once again Cabaret Voltaire. After a hiatus of more than 25 years, the Cabs’ ‘Shadow Of Fear’ album is both a reflection of the current madness and a nod to the possibility of happier times ahead