Bluedot 2023: Walk This Way

Ahead of Pavement’s Saturday night slot at this year’s Bluedot, Stephen Malkmus talks about the American indie/slacker outfit’s krautrock influences and the surprising electronics that lurk within their sound

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Mark Roland

Soon: Time For Action

byKris Needs

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

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13 minute read

Andrew Weatherall: “Getting a groove going in a cloud of smoke”

byBen Gilbert

The inside story of ‘Phonox Nights’, the forthcoming album from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh’s Woodleigh Research Facility project, which includes some of Weatherall’s final original recordings

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9 minute read

The Moonlandingz: Lunar Tunes

byBob Fischer

Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz

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8 minute read

Molchat Doma: This Is Not My Beautiful House

byMike Barnes

Having moved from their native Minsk to LA, the fourth album from Belarusian post-punk/synthpop outfit Molchat Doma also marks an expansive and propulsive “technicolour reinvention” of their sound. Taut, moody, imposing and typically brutalist, it’s one heck of a gut punch

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5 minute read

‘Inventions For Radio’: The Mother Of Inventions

byBob Fischer

In the mid-1960s, Delia Derbyshire collaborated with playwright Barry Bermange on ‘Inventions For Radio’, a series of groundbreaking sound collages. Dr David Butler, curator of the Delia Derbyshire Archive, looks ahead to a forthcoming boxset of these pivotal radiophonic recordings

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16 minute read

David Bowie: Speed Of Life

byMark Roland

Two pioneering albums, a classical music voiceover, a safari, an imposter, encounters with Blondie, Eddie & The Hots Rods and Devo and, in the midst of a bleak Berlin winter, an ill-fated film, David Bowie had reached almost terminal velocity by December 1977…