Isobel Anderson: Site And Sound
To make her first album in almost a decade, Isobel Anderson decamped to a caravan site in Dungeness, where she explored the links between deep personal dilemmas and “overwhelming” global angst
Solex: Sample Pleasures
Elisabeth Esselink – aka Solex – made one of the most adventurous sample-based albums of the early 2000s. As ‘low kick and hard bop’ is reissued, she reflects on how its off-kilter ideas and sounds took shape
The Electronic Sound Seven Inch Single ES7130
ES7129 seven-inch features Gary Numan
Unicorn Ship Explosion: Horn Of Plenty
A detuned mass of driving electronics, oblique kosmische vibes and out-there transmissions, the first album by Stroud duo Unicorn Ship Explosion is an almighty statement of left-field intent
Suzanne Ciani: Every Trick In The Buchla
With a recording from a live performance in New York surfacing 50 years after she made it, Suzanne Ciani reflects on playing with Beck, getting tear-gassed, parking karma and, of course, quadraphonic sound