Faust: Freak Power

byJeremy Allen
September 9, 2021

Faust produced four albums of head-spinning brilliance between 1971 and 1974. It might have been five if half the band hadn’t been carted off to jail...

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Fukiya & Miyagi: “We’ve never even been to Japan”

byMat Smith

What’s in a name? Quite a lot it’d seem if you are as misunderstood as Fujiya & Miyagi, whose warm, thrumming tunes are… well, what? we do our best to get to the bottom of the whole thing

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Alan Sparhawk: Petal Power

bySharon O'Connell

Dedicated to his late wife and former Low cohort, Mimi Parker, and made using his children’s drum machine and synths, Alan Sparhawk’s astonishing solo debut is both profound and propulsive

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PVA: Do The Mash

byPaul Weedon

Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”

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Crimewave: Long Arm Of The Loud

byFat Roland

Fresh from Manchester’s electronic underground, Crimewave twists warped loops, trip hop vibes and shoegazey fuzz into a blistering maelstrom of energy – with not a synth in sight

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Pepe Deluxé: Cabinet of Curiosities

byBen Murphy

A spectrogram-powered Russian synth, Tibetan drums made of human skulls, and the world’s largest cowbell are just some of the weird instruments that feature on the new album from Helsinki’s Pepe Deluxé. We lift the lid on their box of delights