Issue 93

The impact of ‘Selected Ambient Works 85-92’ can’t be overstated. In the three decades since its initial release, it has minted the myth of Aphex Twin and redefined ambient, electronic and dance music. Richard D James, take a bow

Blancmange have released some terrific albums in recent years – and ‘Private View’ is up there with their very best. In a hugely entertaining and highly revealing interview, frontman Neil Arthur gives the inside story on the band’s latest record and also talks art, swimming, dead men’s suits, recycling, smudged bindis, inflatable whales, luck, love, loss… and how everything is connected

Friskily mashing up lush electronica, post-dubstep, balladry, breaks and beats, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye offer up a proper melting pot of sonic delights. Meet the breakout stars of wonky art-pop…

For her latest solo work, the mesmeric ‘Let’s Turn It Into Sound’, American modular synthesist Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores complex emotions and communication, manipulating her voice into wordless entities. What she didn’t expect was that they’d start talking back…

Materialising from sonic dystopia and shadows into bright light, “analogue evangelist” Martin Jenkins and Ride guitarist Andy Bell join forces on ‘Let’s Emerge!’, the dazzling new Pye Corner Audio album

Unloved might be best known for soundtracking ‘Killing Eve’, but their third long-player, ‘The Pink Album’, widens the scope. Epic yet intimate, and gloriously diverse, it’s a beautifully spun fusion of psych hallucinations, fearless invention and melancholic jazz – and that’s only the half of it