Elizabete Balcus
Latvian electronica + fruit and veg
Blood Blood
Ominous, distorted ambientronics
Jeff Wayne ‘The War Of The Worlds’
With punk riding high, who knew a mix of Victorian sci-fi, disco and prog would have such an impact? Jeff Wayne on ‘The War Of The Worlds’ and the making of opening track ‘The Eve of the War’
Basingstoke. Kraftwerk. Karaoke slam.
Our so-called “columnist” with a pile of words in some kind of order. His column feels like that day your parents moved house and didn’t think to mention it. Eh? Not happened to you? Just us then…
Let’s Eat Grandma: Now Hear This
Marking a return to the fray with their second album, ‘I’m All Ears’, Let’s Eat Grandma dip their biscuits into waters new – musically and quite literally. We tag along for the ride…
L’Orange: Extraordinary Man
He’s deaf in one ear, makes beat-heavy music from unpromising raw material – including pre-war jazz and old radio shows – and yet Seattle’s L’Orange will change everything you think you know about hip hop…
Ben Chatwin
Composer/producer Ben Chatwin, reveals the first and last records He bought and the one he reaches for in an emergency
Castles In Space
Location: Biggleswade, UK Est: 2015
The French ‘Local Information’ (Too Pure, 2003)
Though Hefner survive in the collective consciousness as the exemplar of an indie guitar outfit, the band deployed vintage synths and drum machines on later recordings. Which means that this, The French’s ‘Local Information’, isn’t quite the without-precedent one-off it might first appear.
Hannah Peel
The electronica/brass band hybrid queen faces the quick-fire question machine