Baxter Dury: Dury Service

bySian Pattenden
August 14, 2025

With its clubby swagger and “scuffed vignettes”, Baxter Dury’s new album, ‘Allbarone’, is a joyous tour de force of bangers and typically sardonic lyrical swipes.

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Sian Pattenden

Belbury Poly: The Fairy Hikers

byBob Fischer

For his latest release as Belbury Poly, Jim Jupp has assembled a Ghost Box supergroup with a mid-Atlantic feel. Gathered together for the first time, they discuss ‘The Twilight Zone’, flat-roofed pubs and the fairy folklore that inspired the new record

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8 minute read

The Wolfgang Press: Back To The Future

byDavid Stubbs

With a sonic reinvigoration, former 4AD outfit The Wolfgang Press are making a surprise comeback with their first album in almost 30 years – a brooding and typically multidimensional return to form

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8 minute read

Gazelle Twin: Last exit to grantham

byStephen Dalton

Before leaving the EU was a thing, Elizabeth Bernholz relocated from metropolitan Brighton to the soon-to-be “Vote Leave” climate of the Lincolnshire flatlands. The culture shock is still sinking in for Gazelle Twin, whose new ‘Pastoral’ album is an unsettling tour de force

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Mark Reeder: Reed All About It

byMark Roland

Mark Reeder is one of the many intriguing characters to have emerged from the outrageously fertile Manchester music scene of the late 1970s. Here he talks about New Order, his life in berlin, the art of the remix

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