e.m.arson: Burning Down The House

byMark Roland
August 13, 2026

Field recordings, drones, tape loops, dreampop and mystery are the key ingredients for the startling debut album from sound artist e.m.arson. What is it that lights her fire?

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Mark Roland

The Home Current: Current Affairs

byBob Fischer

Releasing a mere seven albums in the last 18 months, what has made Danish DJ/producer Martin Jensen – aka The Home Current – such an unstoppable force? Among the unlikely answers are Brexit and birdwatching

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5 minute read

Tristwch Y Fenywod: A Kind Of Magick

byClaire Francis

Channelling early 4AD and ‘Pornography’-era Cure, the haunting liturgies of Welsh-language, avant-goth trio Tristwch Y Fenywod are rooted in atmospheric darkwave and alien folk music. Dry ice optional

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9 minute read

Telefis: Town to Town

byBen Willmott

First meeting in Dublin during the 1980s, Microdisney’s Cathal Coughlan and uber-producer Jacknife Lee have recently reconnected. Working via a musical trans-Atlantic hook-up their new album as Telefís is a real cracker

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22 minute read

Scritti Politti: The Beez Knees

byStephen Dalton

As reissues of ‘Songs To Remember’ and ‘Cupid & Psyche 85’ drop, Green Gartside retraces Scritti Politti’s path from “scratchy-collapsy” post-punk through to slick 1980s electropop and beyond

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9 minute read

Yello: Holy Banana

byBen Murphy

Dieter Meier and Boris Blank are back with a new Yello album. Four years in the making, it’s a collection of typically sassy and surreal electronic pop songs, including one with a mysterious fruit reference…

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9 minute read

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark: Razzle Dazzle

byWyndham Wallace

Commercial failures, artistic triumphs and overdue celebrations… On the eve of two exclusive live shows, Andy McCluskey discusses ‘Dazzle Ships’, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s often overlooked 1983 masterpiece