John Maus: The Maus That Roared

byBen Gilbert
October 9, 2025

Synth-toting American firebrand John Maus is predicting a global apocalypse, as he returns to do battle armed with a new album

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101 Records of 1981

byES Staff

Have you all got something fizzy in your plastic glasses?

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Blitz Club: Frills And Spills

byES Staff

Our oral history of the fabled nightspot taps into the memories and wild stories – subversiveness, fisticuffs, the night David Bowie turned up – of the Blitz Kids who were there

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11 minute read

Aphex Twin: I Am The Music Maker

byBen Gilbert

The impact of ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ can’t be overstated. In the three decades since its initial release, it has minted the myth of Aphex Twin and redefined ambient, electronic and dance music. Richard D James, take a bow

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9 minute read

Barry Adamson: The Outsider’s Outsider

byStephen Dalton

From his days as the bass player in Magazine, to conjuring up imaginary soundtracks, to directing films in his own right, Barry Adamson talks us through an extraordinary career. And with a new solo album, ‘Know Where To Run’, he shows little sign of letting up

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12 minute read

Cold War Electronica: Atomic Anthems

byMat Smith

Five synth-driven gems from the 1980s that captured the paranoia and effervescent pop of the nuclear age – tales of tension, technology, hope and fear, as told by the artists themselves

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6 minute read

Warpaint: “Let’s just make some good old fucking rock and roll…”

bySophie Little

Despite their confrontational moniker, Warpaint are a harmonious bunch, both musically and personally. Bassist Jenny Lee Lindberg offers some wise words on how to be in a band that matters these days

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Ben Gilbert

101 Records of 1981

Blitz Club: Frills And Spills

Aphex Twin: I Am The Music Maker

Barry Adamson: The Outsider’s Outsider

Cold War Electronica: Atomic Anthems

Warpaint: “Let’s just make some good old fucking rock and roll…”

Jah Wobble ‘Bomba’

Nik Kershaw ‘I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me’

23 Skidoo ‘Coup’

Craven Faults: Faulty Towers

Bas Jan: Swamp Things

Fever Ray: Free Radical

Morton Subotnick: Quantum Bleep

Emil Schult: Updating The Man-Machine

John Maus: The Maus That Roared

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