Fini Tribe: From Start To Fini

With a new retrospective anthology charting the rise and fall of Scotland’s restless industrial creatives Fini Tribe, Chris Connelly, Davie Miller and Andy McGregor discuss the art of exploding paint balloons, being skint and the influence of bottle-smashing pensioners

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Mark Roland

Sleaford Mods: Grim Tales

byFat Roland

“In England, no one can hear you scream…” So say Sleaford Mods on their latest album, ‘UK Grim’. Maybe their angriest record to date, it depicts the gritty reality of the here and now with typically acerbic rage and stinging wit. Rooted in barbed electronics and driving, clubby beats, it finds the Nottingham duo on blistering form

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9 minute read

Public Service Broadcasting’s: Soul Mining

byMat Smith

Recorded in one of the communities where it happened, Public Service Broadcasting’s absorbing ‘Every Valley’ album tells of the rise and fall of the Welsh mining industry through the eyes of those it affected most deeply

LLong Reads

9 minute read

Working Men’s Club: Working Wonders

byBen Willmott

Working Men’s Club are ambitious and angry. They swear a lot and they’ve got a song called ‘John Cooper Clarke’. It’s no wonder their debut album is being touted as one of the best records of 2020

LLong Reads

10 minute read

Tim Gane: Sky High

byCarl Griffin

Stereolab man Tim Gane has spent the last few months trawling through the archives of Sky Records, the quintessential late-phase krautrock label. The result is ‘Kollection 01’, the first in an exciting new series of German music compilation albums

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Steve Hillage: All Systems Go

byBen Willmott

Depending on your vintage, you’ll know him from Gong, or as the big cheese of The Steve Hillage Band, or maybe he’s arch Orb collaborator and System 7 kingpin. As a boxset of Gong’s Virgin years emerges, we enjoy a free-range chat with the multi-faceted Steve Hillage

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Peter Baumann: After Dark

byJeremy Allen

Tangerine Dream legend Peter Baumann knows a thing or two about cosmic voyages. The synth maestro’s latest solo album, ‘Nightfall’, is a masterwork of transcendent atmospherics, shapeshifting soundscapes and an eerie “sense of the beyond”