Viva La Evolution

Digital explorer and presenter Aleks Krotoski muses on the potential of the internet and AI, the symbiosis between humans and machines, and how we might cope with the next steps in technology

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Claire Carroll

Fukiya & Miyagi: “We’ve never even been to Japan”

byMat Smith

What’s in a name? Quite a lot it’d seem if you are as misunderstood as Fujiya & Miyagi, whose warm, thrumming tunes are… well, what? we do our best to get to the bottom of the whole thing

LLong Reads

7 minute read

Colin Newman: “I’m the world’s worst pop star”

byMark Roland

Which may well be the case, but when Wire’s Colin Newman also claims he’s a rubbish solo artist we just have to step in. Exhibit A? the lovingly reissued trio of his extraordinary 80s solo albums…

LLong Reads

8 minute read

onDeadWaves: Waving…Not Drowning

byBethan Cole

OnDeadWaves is a fascinating collaboration between Mute artists Polly Scattergood and MAPS, also known as James Chapman. Their self-titled album is one of the most melancholic records you’ll hear all year, but they insist there are nuggets of hope sparkling in the sadness

LLong Reads

5 minute read

Ah! Kosmos And Hainbach: Hum Comforts

byFat Roland

Berlin electronicists Ah! Kosmos and Hainbach conjure eerie, experimental music from old and obsolete machinery, transforming hum, noise and decay into haunting, hypnotic transmissions

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Orbital: Monster Sound

byStephen Dalton

They’ve patched up their differenceS (again) and turned in a banger of a new album (as always) for which they enlisted the help of some morris dancers and Professor Brian Cox (like you do). You need to ask who? It can only be the brothers Hartnoll and the unstoppable Orbital

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9 minute read

Working Men’s Club: Working Wonders

byBen Willmott

Working Men’s Club are ambitious and angry. They swear a lot and they’ve got a song called ‘John Cooper Clarke’. It’s no wonder their debut album is being touted as one of the best records of 2020