Xmal Deutschland: Present And Correct
An Xmal Deutschland retrospective covering the German goth/post-punk band’s defining 4AD years prompts singer Anja Huwe to reflect on her teenage epiphanies
The Moonlandingz: Lunar Tunes
Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz
Kirk Barley: Lux Life
On his latest album, Yorkshire’s Kirk Barley finds the perfect balance between avant-garde pointillism and meditative flow
Richard Fearless: Facing Up
On Death In Vegas’ first album in nine years, Richard Fearless channels grief, memory and raw emotion into visceral electronics – all caustic rave energy and fractured beauty.
Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke: Tales of the Unexpected
What happens when electronic visionary Mark Pritchard teams up with Radiohead’s enigmatic frontman Thom Yorke? That will be ‘Tall Tales’, a gloriously hyperreal, “elegantly unhinged” album of sonic trickery and digital effects, with mind-zapping visuals by artist Jonathan Zawada
Barry Gray: Scoring Position
With their promise of exhilarating retro-futuristic adventures, Barry Gray’s defining soundtracks for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson fizz with bombastic brass, sweeping strings and daring electronic innovation
Buried Treasure: Raider of The Lost Archive
Buried Treasure have been releasing lost soundtracks for more than a decade, as well as being home to the delaware road project...
Hekla: Holy Wail
Icelandic theremin virtuoso Hekla crafts eerie ambient soundscapes that groan with feedback, blackened drones and a healthy dose of “sci-fi gloam”. Prepare to be subsumed…
Hi-NRG Heaven
An essential new compilation of queer club classics featuring Pet Shop Boys, Sylvester, New Order, Grace Jones and more reflects the vibrant Hi-NRG scene of the 1980s and the associated tracks that set the decade alight
Marina Zispin: Peek-A-Boo
Experimental darkwave duo Marina Zispin conjure shadowy sonic realms teeming with glacial synthpop and spectral hues. Spellbinding stuff it is too