Chicks On Speed: Fast And Furious

bySian Pattenden
November 13, 2025

Anarchic art-poppers Chicks On Speed are back with a career-spanning boxset and typically provocative new material. Co-founder Alex Murray-Leslie discusses witches, creative rebirths and trying to “break music”

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Sian Pattenden

Haiku Salut: Poetry in Motion

byBen Willmott

They refer to themselves as “three mute girls”, but Haiku Salut are very happy to talk about their superb new album and their unusual live shows, which have taken place in churches, libraries and even the deep end of a swimming pool

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11 minute read

Blancmange: Home Truths

byNeil Mason

Everyone likes Blancmange and their no-nonsense synthpop shizz, right? But forget what you think you know. With the release of an excellent new album, ‘Semi Detached’, Neil Arthur reveals why it really is time for a rethink

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6 minute read

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

byStephen Dalton

As if creating a spot-on retro horror flick soundtrack isn’t enough, los Angeles-based I Speak Machine have made the film to go with it. ‘Zombies 1985’ even stars Gary Numan’s kids…

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4 minute read

Gryphon Rue: Craft Punk

byJeremy Allen

Composer Gryphon Rue’s wonderfully esoteric and electroacoustic innovations echo the restless artistry of his forebears

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8 minute read

East India Youth: Right Here, Right Now

byMat Smith

From sleepy seaside town to thrumming back streets of East London, East India Youth’s follow-up to his Mercury-nominated debut is seeped in the sounds of the city – and it’s a sonic stunner

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4 minute read

Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show

byBen Willmott

Meet the Appealingly analogue and quirkily kosmische female duo Curtain Twitcher – the new synth-toting sound of Sheffield

Chicks On Speed: Fast And Furious

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Sian Pattenden

Haiku Salut: Poetry in Motion

Blancmange: Home Truths

I Speak Machine: Undead or Alive

Gryphon Rue: Craft Punk

East India Youth: Right Here, Right Now

Curtain Twitcher: Peep Show

Richard Norris, The Grid

Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords

Jah Wobble

Caterina Barbieri: Mother Universe

Julia-Sophie: Soul Inside

Tom Ravenscroft

AFRORACK London: Machine Learning

The Sound Of Science: New Scientists

Chicks On Speed: Fast And Furious

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