Jailed Lead Singers
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is Record Collecting
Pet Shop Boys: Boys Keep Swinging
Pet Shop Boys are back with ‘Nonetheless’, their 15th studio album and a fresh creative peak that imbues their quintessential electonic sound with string arrangements and live instruments
Normil Hawaiians
Normil Hawaiians’ Guy Smith (vocals), Simon Marchant (guitar) and Noel Blanden (drums) take on our quick-fire questions
Loren Connors & Mrs Bun
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Loren Connors & Mrs Bun
Anne Clark ‘The Sitting Room’ (Red Flame, 1982)
Fittingly for an album called ‘The Sitting Room’, I first came across Anne Clark’s debut long-player from 1982 while sitting in the living room of a friend-of-a-friend’s flat in Berlin last summer
Richard Norris, The Grid
In his new memoir, ‘Strange Things Are Happening’, Richard Norris remembers when The Grid headed to Asia and Australasia for a culture shock-inducing tour supported by Autechre
No Type
Location: Montreal, Canada Est: 1998
Jonny Trunk
Genial big cheese of the brilliantly esoteric Trunk Records, Jonny Trunk’s influences include squeaky plimsolls and pretending to be a falling leaf
NikNak
Nicole Raymond, aka NikNak, on the first and last albums she bought, and a go-to record
Gross Motor
Intergalactic jungle gym adventures