Saint Etienne: When The Saints Go Marching Out

After 35 years, Saint Etienne have made their final album. The upbeat new collection ‘International’ will be the last instalment in a recording career that has been both thrillingly eclectic and warmly indebted to their love of classic pop. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs look back on three decades’ worth of highlights

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Bob Fischer

‘Stranger Things’ Soundtrack: In Demand

byMark Roland

Caught in the slipstream of a killer synth score for the TV event of the year, one half of S U R V I V E, A little-known synth band from Texas, and 100 per cent the ‘Stranger Things’ soundtrack composers, we communicate via fairy lights with Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon

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Cold War Electronica: Wired For War

byDavid Stubbs

The birth of electronic music carried the tensions of its age – Cold War anxiety, nuclear dread and divided ideologies. From Stockhausen’s post-war Germany to musique concrète, radio labs and tape experiments, an avant-garde soundtrack emerged, documenting decades of division, secrecy and a world permanently wired for fear

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Alison Cotton: A Northern Soul

byBob Fischer

She has played synthpop with Saloon and folk rock with The Left Outsides, but Alison Cotton‘s new solo album enters more experimental territory, evoking the beautifully bleak heritage of her native North East

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Ulrich Schnauss: All Present And Correct

byMatt Parker

In the creation of his retrospective, ‘Now Is A Timeless Present’, shoegaze obsessive and Tangerine Dream member Ulrich Schnauss has spent two years lost in his own musical past. Lessons learned? Funny you should ask…

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Gazelle Twin: Last exit to grantham

byStephen Dalton

Before leaving the EU was a thing, Elizabeth Bernholz relocated from metropolitan Brighton to the soon-to-be “Vote Leave” climate of the Lincolnshire flatlands. The culture shock is still sinking in for Gazelle Twin, whose new ‘Pastoral’ album is an unsettling tour de force

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Jeff Mills: Astronaut of Sound

byFat Roland

Detroit techno pioneer, visionary DJ, science fiction obsessive and interstellar adventurer – Jeff Mills is a restless futurist

Saint Etienne: When The Saints Go Marching Out

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