Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here

Australian producer and ethereal soundscaper Penelope Trappes returns with the haunting ‘Heavenly Spheres’. Using just her voice, an upright piano and an old reel-to-reel, it’s a remarkable record steeped in phantasmal atmospherics and hypnagogic strangeness

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Leon Vynehall: More More More

byStephen Dalton

A cornucopia of artistic influences, Leon Vynehall makes music that’s sweeping in cultural scale and ambition. He talks about his new album ‘Rare, Forever’ and the experiences that have shaped it

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10 minute read

Special Report Kraftwerk At The Tour De France

byJools Stone

Last month, Kraftwerk played ‘Tour De France’ live at the opening stage of the world’s most famous cycle race – the first time they’ve done so in the 30 years since the track was recorded. As their legion of fans find themselves asking about almost everything the band do, “What took them so flipping long?”

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9 minute read

Jonny Slut : That Nagging Feeling

byKris Needs

With a killer electroclash compilation just released, Nag Nag Nag founder and DJ Jonny Slut lifts the lid on wild club nights, his Human League fixation and the time Cilla Black got down to some seriously filthy tunes

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8 minute read

Clay Pipe Music

byJeremy Allen

When Clay Pipe Music celebrated 10 years of releasing electronica with a distinct connection to place, founder Frances Castle took a wistful ramble through the winding country lanes of a label with a beguilingly calm appeal

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7 minute read

Snapped Ankles: Sticks and Stones

byBen Murphy

They dress as trees and play wooden log synths, and yet London’s subversive Snapped Ankles are living proof that you should never judge a book by its cover…

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9 minute read

TVAM: Art Of The Matter

byFat Roland

Following 2018’s acclaimed ‘Psychic Data’, TVAM’s Joe Oxley has reappeared with a second long-player, ‘High Art Lite’, all cranked-up synth distortion, shoegazey euphoria and white-hot noise. Get ready for a vertiginous wall of sound