Wevie Stonder: Stuck On Stupid

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers

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Ben Murphy

From Forbidden Planet to Blade Runner 2049: The Troubled Past (And Future) of The Sci-Fi Soundtrack

byMark Roland

As ‘Blade Runner 2049’ hits cinema screens, the news that the film’s soundtrack composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been replaced at the 11th hour by Hans Zimmer comes with a sense of déjà vu. Like a time warping Philip K Dick short story, didn’t all this happen before? It certainly did…

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5 minute read

Liima

byMalcom Jack

Three Danes, one Finn, two bands, one called Liima, one called Efterklang, a UK tour, a couple of pints and chat about what’s what. Confused? It’s easily done

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8 minute read

Secession: The one that got away

byMat Smith

Cool band, good-looking singer, major label deal, infectious tunes. the Top 40 beckoned for 1980s Glasgow outfit Secession… some 18 years after the death of frontman Peter Thomson, we tell the story of a group who shouldn’t have fallen by the wayside

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7 minute read

Immersive Listening: Drowned In Sound

byBen Willmott

The development of new sound technology like Sony’s 360 Reality Audio is changing and redefining our sonic experience. Welcome to the world of Immersive Listening

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8 minute read

Eric Random: Totally Wired

byBen Murphy

Manchester post-punk innovator and electronic music adventurer Eric Random has seen a surge of interest recently in his classic material, and he’s returned with one of his best albums, the analogue synth-driven ‘Wire Me Up’

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10 minute read

Keith Seatman: Trip Advisor

byBob Fischer

There’s no one quite like Keith Seatman. His new album, ‘Sad Old Tatty Bunting’, is a psychedelic joyride through a parallel universe, a dreamlike England full of alchemists and scarecrows and gated communities guarded by gnomes