Long Reads

The landscape of the north-west of England is at once rolling green hills and stark man-made skyline. Hailing from Widnes, Baltic Fleet draws Inspiration from these surroundings to create a different kind of escapism

Caught in the slipstream of a killer synth score for the TV event of the year, one half of S U R V I V E, A little-known synth band from Texas, and 100 per cent the ‘Stranger Things’ soundtrack composers, we communicate via fairy lights with Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon

An album of delicate synthpop? Just a female voice and a Buchla synth? Songs about space, washing machines, worms and electrons? Signed to Vince Clarke’s new record label? What’s not to like about Reed & Caroline?

Something of a best-kept secret, with her dazzling new album ‘Awake But Always Dreaming’ Hannah Peel is a star on the rise. We feel the increasing warmth of that limelight…

“I am not a soundtrack expert, I’m just a guy who loves music and happens to love film scores,” says Spencer Hickman, whose Death Waltz label specialises in beautiful vinyl reissues of cult film soundtracks. “This isn’t a definitive list, it’s just a list of soundtracks I like and you should maybe check out. Although there are a lot of classics, hopefully there are a few that you are not familiar with. Anyway, dig in and enjoy…”

Stepping out from the shadows of Deptford Goth, Daniel Woolhouse returns under his own name with new album ‘What’s That Sound?’. We talk eggs, soup, ceramics, cow ears. You know, the usual

As Bentley Rhythm Ace prepare to mark the 20th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, Richard March recalls the early days of the band and reveals there was actually a (sort of) method to their (extreme) madness

Gypsy fortune tellers, chocolate factories, gambling habits, Japanese plate-jugglers, watching trees grow… all in a day’s work when interviewing Yello’s Boris Blank and Dieter Meier as they prepare to release their first albumin seven years and play their first live shows ever

On their new album ‘White Glue’, Wrangler have teased a groove-fuelled sound from their glorious vintage machines. the tight-knit trio talk old kit, new kit and why less is more

Despite their confrontational moniker, Warpaint are a harmonious bunch, both musically and personally. Bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg offers some wise words on how to be in a band that matters these days