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
Wolfgang Tillmans ‘Build From Here’ (Fragile)
Picture This
Loren Connors & Mrs Bun
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Loren Connors & Mrs Bun
Normil Hawaiians
Normil Hawaiians’ Guy Smith (vocals), Simon Marchant (guitar) and Noel Blanden (drums) take on our quick-fire questions
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
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
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
No Type
Location: Montreal, Canada Est: 1998
Gross Motor
Intergalactic jungle gym adventures
NikNak
Nicole Raymond, aka NikNak, on the first and last albums she bought, and a go-to record