Ah! Kosmos And Hainbach: Hum Comforts

byFat Roland
June 11, 2026

Berlin electronicists Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach conjure eerie, experimental music from old and obsolete machinery, transforming hum, noise and decay into haunting, hypnotic transmissions

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1975: Kernkraftwerk The Nuclear Powerplant

byMark Roland

Forty years since the release of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’, we take a close look the dark horse of the five-album masterwork the band produced between 1974 and 1981

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7 minute read

Jóhann Jóhannsson: Ice-Cold Thrillers

byMark Roland

Best keep an eye on Jóhann Jóhannsson, blink and it seems Iceland’s finest ups his game yet another notch. His ‘Arrival’ soundtrack was special, what can we expect from his work on the new ‘Blade Runner’ film due later this year?

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8 minute read

Apparat: Losing My Edge

byMat Smith

Embracing analogue hardware, Apparat’s latest release is a richly detailed, quietly triumphant work, born from crippling writer’s block and transformed – almost imperceptibly – into a form of sonic therapy

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9 minute read

Rodney Cromwell: Warts And All

byBob Fischer

Adam Cresswell is Rodney Cromwell. Previously, he’s been Arthur from Arthur And Martha, a founder member of Saloon, and a man whose life was changed by a shattered jar of pickled onions

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6 minute read

Save Our Sounds

byNeil Mason

As the British Library sound archive launches a multi-million pound project to save the nation’s sounds, we take a guided tour of their ever-growing collection to get an idea of the task ahead

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9 minute read

Lucrecia Dalt: Space Invader

byClaire Francis

Lucrecia Dalt’s latest album is a sumptuous and radiant sci-fi meditation in which the bolero, salsa, mambo and merengue influences she absorbed throughout her childhood are refracted through “machinic distortions”. But an alien presence is lurking…