Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords
On his latest album, ‘Bolted’, the distinctive “sonic vocabulary” of producer Matthew Barnes – aka Forest Swords – feels more expansive than ever. Given his wide-ranging influences, it’s no surprise
Dave Clarkson
Dave Clarkson on the first and last albums he bought, and one he always returns to
Crisp Wolves
It’s a Scandi affair
Maria
Welcome to the “post-religious cabaret”
Nakayama Munetoshi
Music for, er, hairports
VLURE
Glaswegian rave punks set their sights
Blitz Club: Frills And Spills
Our oral history of the fabled nightspot taps into the memories and wild stories – subversiveness, fisticuffs, the night David Bowie turned up – of the Blitz Kids who were there
Kim Gordon: Only Connect
Kim Gordon made her name with US rock giants Sonic Youth, but her second solo album ‘The Collective’ continues her intriguing exploration of fractured hip hop beats and “abstract poetry fucked-up shit”
Lost Souls Of Saturn: Alternate Realities
As “multidimensional creative dissidents” Lost Souls Of Saturn, Seth Troxler and Phil Moffa fuse elements of techno, dub, house, jazz, psych and ambient into vivid and expansive new shapes. Enhanced by augmented reality, it’s quite the trip
Paranoid London: Punk Attitude
On their prog house-inspired new album ‘Arseholes, Liars And Electronic Pioneers’, provocative electronic duo Paranoid London are as anarchic, unfiltered and gloriously engaging as ever