Caterina Barbieri: Mother Universe

Inspired by female philosophers, mystics and poets, ‘Spirit Exit’ – the new album by Italian composer Caterina Barbieri – is a modular synth fantasy, billed as her most profound work to date. Strap yourselves in for a cosmic journey…

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Claire Francis

Daniel Davies: Score Draw

byFinlay Milligan

He toured with The Kinks when he was two weeks old. He spent his teenage years with John Carpenter’s family. He’s played with Lemmy and he has a huge collection of synthesisers. Welcome to the world of Daniel Davies

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Ralph Lundsten: In The Realm Of The Dream Master

byScott Blixen

Colossus of the Swedish electronic scene. Artist, filmmaker and all-round legend in his own lifetime. Ralph Lundsten‘s musical output throughout his decades-long career has been prodigious. And he has done it all in some style

LLong Reads

17 minute read

Spiritualized: Suited, Rebooted

byIan Gittins

Billed as the Spaceman Reissue Program, the first four Spiritualized albums have been remastered, repackaged and re-released in glorious new vinyl and CD editions. Laid-back frontman Jason Pierce talks us through some of the most cosmic records of the last 30 years

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Miki Berenyi Trio: Tripla Crown

bySian Pattenden

Rising from the ashes of Lush and Piroshka, Miki Berenyi Trio’s shimmering dreampop drifts enticingly between melancholy and euphoria. IT’S deliciously hazy, shoegazey, a little bit electronic and utterly mesmeric

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Bas Jan: Swamp Things

byBob Fischer

The new album by London synthpop quartet Bas Jan deftly combines the everyday and the esoteric. Examples? Fonts on British road signs and the tragic history of Irish witchcraft...

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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