Long Reads

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 have been releasing lost soundtracks for more than a decade, as well as being home to the delaware road project...

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…

With nods to The Cure, Can, Björk and even Turkish rock, the latest offering from Welsh trio Adwaith fuses electronics, post-punk and psych to resounding effect

Kingsley Hall and Robbie Major are north-east duo Benefits. Combining poetic spoken word with slick retro beats, their second album seeks out beauty amid the “incessant barking” of the modern media landscape

Adi Newton (Clock DVA) and Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto) are electronic royalty. Steeped in “spectral dimensions and psychedelic radiophonics”, their second collaborative project as Soon is the sort of ambitious tour de force we’ve come to expect

Throughout their 20-year journey as CocoRosie, Bianca and Sierra Casady have been both revered and wilfully misunderstood. fully Embracing their “irrepressible artistic self-realisation”, they open up on creative freedom, sibling clashes and being “very witchy”

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