Sarah Nixey: Going Coastal

She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss

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Bob Fischer

The Umlauts: Umming and Ahhing

byJeremy Allen

A self-proclaimed “uber-group/circus troupe”, London quartet The Umlauts dabble in wonky minimal synths, art-punk and industrial vibes. Thrillingly visceral it all is too, as their ‘Another Fact’ EP vividly attests

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13 minute read

Ghost Box Records: Making Dead Men Sing

byCarl Griffin

We’ve had 10 years of wonderful music and fabulous visuals from those genre-defining folk at Ghost Box Records and we’re popping corks with label co-founders Jim Jupp and Julian House to mark the occasion. Stand by for stuff about synths, sci-fi, Bagpuss, electromagnetic fields, alchemists, William Burroughs and haunted dancefloors

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9 minute read

Yacht: The Shipping Forecast

byMark Roland

Former DFA recording artists Yacht have their very own belief system. They have a manifesto too. Not only that, the Los Angeles outfit produce shiny electronic pop music with side orders of extraterrestrial intelligence and future gazing. And it really is as marvellous as that all sounds

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4 minute read

Rainy Miller: Grim Tales

byFat Roland

Steeped in “northern gothic” atmospheres, Rainy Miller’s genre-blurring new album is bleak yet gripping, reflecting the huge emotional impact of a chance encounter

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8 minute read

Daniel Figgis: Meat and greet

byBen Willmott

Maybe he was in Virgin Prunes and the lynchpin of the Princess Tinymeat offshoot, or maybe he wasn’t. Discover how the enigmatic Daniel Figgis is still crafting beguiling music and bewildering audiences today, thank goodness

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12 minute read

DJ Shadow: Liquid Gold

byPush

“That style of beats is something I’ve been into my entire career,” says Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow, when I suggest to him that the output of his Liquid Amber label, including his own self-titled Nite School Klik EP, represents a quantum leap from his recorded history thus far.