Nash The Slash: Under Wraps

byJeremy Allen
September 10, 2026

Swathed in bandages and cloaked in mystery, Nash The Slash was one of music’s true eccentrics. As a revealing new documentary arrives, Gary Numan, Bill Nelson, Steve Hillage and Youth recall their encounters with the Canadian electronic/art rock pioneer

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Jeremy Allen

Yard Act: Utopian Values

byJim Butler

A contemplation of success and the power of hope, Yard Act’s much-anticipated second album finds the innovative Leeds outfit in superlative form

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Section 25: Hilltop Blues

byBen Murphy

Ignored and derided during their early years, Section 25 have rightfully been favourably reassessed over the intervening years. With the release of a new boxset, the band’s Vin Cassidy traces their tumultuous history…

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1975: Kernkraftwerk The Nuclear Powerplant

byMark Roland

Forty years since the release of Kraftwerk’s ‘Radio-Activity’, we take a close look the dark horse of the five-album masterwork the band produced between 1974 and 1981

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Nabihah Iqbal: The Stuff Of Dreams

byStevie Chick

After overcoming immense challenges during its gestation, the second album from London producer Nabihah Iqbal – the left-field, intimate and gloriously melancholic ‘Dreamer’ – is an unequivocal triumph over adversity

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Conny Frischauf: Pick And Mix

byMat Smith

Combining playful electronics, left-field pop and wonky jazz vibes, the synaesthetic sound world of Viennese electronicist Conny Frischauf is packed full of sonic possibilities

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4 minute read

Cold War Electronica: Cold Warrior

byMark Roland

Factory Records insider and founding member of Die Unbekannten, Mark Reeder arrived in West Berlin in 1978. His Cold War life in the divided city, smuggling music into the East like a dangerous subversive, reads like a post-punk spy yarn