Scaler: Hammer Time

Mashing up trip hop, drum ’n’ bass, techno, metal and drill, Bristol’s Scaler unleash a pounding sonic brew

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Bas Jan: Swamp Things

byBob Fischer

The new album by London synthpop quartet Bas Jan deftly combines the everyday and the esoteric. Examples? Fonts on British road signs and the tragic history of Irish witchcraft...

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Asian Dub Foundation: ADF THX FAB

byStephen Dalton

Not content with delivering a thumpingly good new album, Asian Dub Foundation have also penned a superb live score for George Lucas’ dystopian sci-fi classic ‘THX 1138’. “Our default position is to do the opposite of what most bands do,” says ADF main man Steve “Chandrasonic” Savale. And then some

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Beatriz Ferreyra

byJo Hutton

Electroacoustic musician Beatriz Ferreyra, who has been composing since the 1960s and still works every day in her home studio in France, talks about walking out on Stockhausen, recording in stairwells, and her fascinating new album ‘Huellas Entreveradas’

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Haiku Salut: Ghost Hunters

byStephen Dalton

The latest Haiku Salut album is based around found sounds the group have gathered from across the globe over the last five years – often in very strange and spooky places. Is your spine ready for some tingling?

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Tears For Fears: Fear Factory

byJeremy Allen

Celebrating the release of the first Tears For Fears album since 2004, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith reflect on a five-decade career and talk about loss, working under duress, musique concrète and Gothic architecture

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Whatever The Weather: Gale Force

byStephen Dalton

From upfront electropop and reflective spoken-word sonics, drawing on everything from jazz to dancefloor bangers, to her latest detour into mellow abstract moods as Whatever The Weather, we dare you to pigeonhole the musical whirlwind that is Loraine James

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Mat Smith

Bas Jan: Swamp Things

Asian Dub Foundation: ADF THX FAB

Beatriz Ferreyra

Haiku Salut: Ghost Hunters

Tears For Fears: Fear Factory

Whatever The Weather: Gale Force

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Marvin Gaye ‘Sexual Healing’

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Vicky Clarke: Neural Pathways

Loula Yorke

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Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires

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Scaler: Hammer Time

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