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Arca Releases New Double-Sided Single, ‘Puta / Sola’ 6:12 AM (12 hours ago)

The tracks were debuted during the Venezuelan artist's performances at last month's Coachella festival

Arca has released a new double-sided single featuring the new tracks 'Puta' and 'Sola'.

Out now through XL Recordings, the release was previously teased in February via the Venezuelan artist's social media channels. The two tracks were debuted live last month during her performances at Coachella festival.

In a statement, Arca said: "'Puta' and 'Sola' are songs I've been perfecting for years. Taking my time writing, recording, producing and mixing them on my own, slow cooking, has been important to getting the music just right. I'm so proud of these songs, and both [video directors] Daniel Sannwald and Stillz are geniuses, the videos are so amazing.

"The themes lyrically span...

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Adrian Sherwood Unveils First New Solo Music in 13 Years 4:25 AM (13 hours ago)

The dub producer will release new EP The Grand Designer next month

Adrian Sherwood has revealed his first new solo music since 2012 in the form of a four-track EP, titled The Grand Designer.

Due out next month, one of its cuts features Sherwood's late friend and longtime collaborator Lee "Scratch" Perry, who passed away in 2021. The record forms the latest instalment of the UK dub pioneer's long-running "disco plate" series, which he's put out on his own On-U Sound imprint sporadically since the 80s.

Sherwood's last solo release was the album Survival & Resistance. In the 13 years since it came out, he has worked with Panda Bear, Pinch and African Head Charge, among others.

Listen to The Grand Designer's title track...

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Mike Drop: Finn Wolfhard’s Favourite Albums 12:48 AM (17 hours ago)

As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the Stranger Things star speaks to Alex Rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste

Photo by Emilia Voudouris

The leap from mainstream actor to indie musician is a precarious one. A few stick the landing, but art in general requires a certain hunger, which often seems to dissipate upon tasting your first million dollars in Hollywood. Maybe the music’s perfectly nice, but ultimately placid (Michael Cera). Perhaps it’s offensively overproduced (Jeremy Renner). Or maybe you go the Corey Feldman route (an ego trip gone horribly wrong). 

But when I heard Finn Wolfhard was releasing his solo debut album, I stifled the yawn. Alongside starring as Mike Wheeler in...

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Cole Pulice – Land’s End Eternal 13 May 9:00 PM (21 hours ago)

Cole Pulice

Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver's sax man goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

Land's End Eternal by Cole Pulice

Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental saxophone player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion. As wayward as the weather, the LP’s seven tracks morph and elongate constantly. Late in, a human voice is added, ascending through the mists like whale song from the depths. 

Suffused in a drowsy ache, Land’s End Eternal is frozen in that eternal moment of calm before the storm – it comes as no surprise that one of the...

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DJ Haram Details Debut Album for Hyperdub, ‘Beside Myself’ 13 May 9:52 AM (yesterday, 9:52 am)

Out in July, it features contributions from Moor Mother, Armand Hammer and more

DJ Haram has shared details of her debut album, Beside Myself.

Set to be released via Hyperdub, the 14-track record takes in contributions from the likes of her 700 Bliss collaborator Moor Mother, Cairo-based DJ and producer El Kontessa, and billy woods and ELUCID under their joint Armand Hammer moniker.

The album is said to explore themes of rage and grief, as well as the alienation of feeling out of step with the world. "This album is the antithesis to 'joy is resistance'," DJ Haram said in a statement. "I make the music that I need. No music has healed me yet. No music has healed the earth. No...

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Cabaret Voltaire to Mark 50 Years of Live Shows with Special Sheffield Show 13 May 8:40 AM (yesterday, 8:40 am)

The October gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project's discography

Cabaret Voltaire in rehersal room

Cabaret Voltaire are set to mark 50 years since their first live shows with a special performance at Sheffield's Forge Warehouse this October.

Taking place as part of this year's Sensoria Festival, the October 25 gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project's discography. This will include the group's early work, releases on Rough Trade and Factory Records, their output on their own Doublevision video label, and later material made with producers such as Adrian Sherwood and Marshall Jefferson.

In a statement, Mallinder said: "The live set is built from scratch but...

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Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel 13 May 3:00 AM (yesterday, 3:00 am)

Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.

Yunis

Every few days we get a new headline discussing the fate of club culture, (see here, here, here and here). It’s hard to argue against socio-economic factors and unstable politics, as scrutinised in such thinkpieces, as being among the main driving factors for clubs’ ongoing decline, but these articles often lack an important extra detail – the fact that contemporary club culture is also struggling to offer the truly transformative experiences that once defined...

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Chris Watson & Stephen Mallinder Reunite for Cabaret Voltaire Redux 13 May 1:26 AM (yesterday, 1:26 am)

Performance in Sheffield this autumn

Early Cabaret Voltaire performance, by Pete Hill

Today, 13 May 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the first performance by Cabaret Voltaire, at Sheffield Students Union Refectory. This will be commemorated in October by a live collaboration by founding members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder. We're told that "The intention for the performance in Sheffield is to curate this essential work and to acknowledge the timeless energy and to mark the continuing significance and power of what Cabaret Voltaire achieved. Original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are committed to stay true to the enduring vision of Cabaret Voltaire. The performance will cover the arc of their formidable output - from early experiments, and the first Rough...

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Billy Woods – Golliwog 13 May 12:08 AM (yesterday, 12:08 am)

Billy Woods

Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

GOLLIWOG by billy woods

At nine, Billy Woods was already creating worlds; he penned a story about an evil golliwog. His mother, a Jamaican professor of English literature, described it as derivative. His father, a Marxist exile from Zimbabwe, carried the scars of political warfare. These ghosts aren’t just part of his past; they’re woven into the very architecture of his music. They don’t speak; they’re felt, haunting every line.

Here we are, decades later: older, sharper, more haunted, still in conversation with that shadow. Golliwog isn’t just a return to that early story; it’s a reckoning with the symbols we inherit and the selves...

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Andrew Weatherall’s Studio Gear Put Up for Auction 12 May 9:26 AM (2 days ago)

The sale featuring various synths, pedals and other equipment is taking place with the support of the late DJ and producer's family

A collection of vintage synths and other studio gear previously belonging to Andrew Weatherall has been placed up for auction.

Taking place via Soundgas, an instrument resale platform, the auction has been organised with the support of the late DJ and producer's family. Among the items that have been placed up for sale are a Sequential Circuits Pro-One, a Moog Rogue, and two Roland items: a Juno-60 and a Juno-106. There are also various drum machines, FX systems and pedals available.

In a note shared alongside the auction, Weatherall's brother, Ian, wrote: ""We lost Andrew, totally unexpectedly, a little over five...

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Suede Unveil New Song 12 May 8:01 AM (2 days ago)

Live version of 'Antidepressants' online now

Suede live by Christophe Dehousse

Three years ago, Suede's Autofiction was roundly praised as being the finest album of the band's second incarnation, pushing the distinctive blueprint into grittier territories. On the evidence of the first non-live outing of new material, it seems that this might be a direction that the band are continuing in with what seems likely to be their tenth LP. 'Antidepressants' was recorded live at their triumphant Alexandra Palace gig in the summer of 2024, and can be heard below – tQ is excited to note that it at points has a heaviness that makes us think of The Fall group's 2007 belter, 'Fall Sound'. There seems to be a flash of...

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Blue Note Given License to Open London Venue 12 May 5:49 AM (2 days ago)

A new branch of the prominent jazz club will open in Covent Garden early next year

Famous New York jazz club Blue Note is opening a new branch in London in early 2026.

Blue Note London will be located in the basement of Covent Garden's St. Martin's Lane Hotel, and will take in two performance spaces: a 250-capacity main room and a 100-capacity second room.

At one point, it appeared that the venue would not be able to open after figures from the Metropolitan Police raised concerns to Westminster City Council during a licensing hearing in February. Officers told a licensing committee they believed Blue Note's proposed opening hours of 9am until 1am would "expose more people to crime and disorder in the...

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Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black 11 May 11:00 PM (2 days ago)

Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts "'n' Roll" to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker

Three Album Run is a series of tQ essays where we explore the best unbroken run of LPs in different genres. We've already looked at Krautrock but if you want to suggest a genre for a future essay please email John@theQuietus.com under the heading Three Album Run. The full rules are at the foot of this feature.

Once upon a time, during what was not so much a “golden age” as an ejaculatory age of denim and leather (and occasionally lace), there was no higher human aspiration than to...

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Quinquis – eor 11 May 9:02 PM (2 days ago)

Quinquis

eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

eor by QUINQUIS

Three years ago, Breton producer Émilie Quinquis decided, for pragmatic reasons, to learn to sail solo. Living on Ushant, an island with a landmass of six square miles off the cost of Brittany, she wanted to be able to come and go as she pleased. As she grew more confident at the helm, she graduated to travelling further out – to the Irish Sea, around islands off Scotland and north to the Faroes.

These journeys, a sense of Quinquis placing herself at the mercy of the elements and being amidst a world that ebbs and flows, rises and falls, came to shape her...

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Our Old Friend Robinson: An Interview with Chris Petit 9 May 9:00 PM (4 days ago)

Novelist, flim-maker, psychogeographer Chris Petit talks to Juliet Jacques about his new book Come In and Shut the Door and film D is for Distance

Ever since establishing himself with his films Radio On (1979) and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), novelist and director Chris Petit has remained one of the most fascinating and forensic voices within British counter-culture. He published his first novel, Robinson, in 1993, influenced by J. G. Ballard and Louis-Ferdinand Céline – its story about a man working in the film industry in Soho, becoming involved in pornographic productions, reaffirmed Petit’s place within the psychogeographic movement alongside Patrick Keiller and Iain Sinclair. His later novels have explored the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Second...

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Laura Cannell Discusses new Video & DIY Creativity on the Ancient Sutton Hoo Lyre 9 May 6:36 AM (5 days ago)

Laura Cannell tells us about the challenges of improvising and recording music made on a replica of an instrument buried with the Sutton Hoo ship in the seventh century

One of the most intriguing releases we’ve heard this year is LYRELYRELYRE, the new album on which Laura Cannell uses bass recorder and crumhorn alongside a copy of an instrument discovered in the 7th Century Sutton Hoo ship burial to create nine, haunting improvised tracks. Paddy Clarke has already reviewed the record in his Radical Traditional column, saying “listening to the chasmic reverberations on LYRELYRELYRE, it’s easy to imagine them echoing all the way back to the seventh century and beyond.” As ever in Cannell’s music, the East Anglian landscape ancient and modern glows as one....

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50 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited 9 May 1:57 AM (5 days ago)

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads. This feature was first published 26/07/15

“We’re standing on the edge, on the edge of time. And it is dark, so dark on the edge of time, and we’re tired of making love.”

So intones Hawkwind’s premier nasal-voiced woodwind player and resident birdman Nik Turner on 'Standing At The Edge', one of two spoken-word tracks from the band's most conflicted album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time. The 1975 LP is frustrating and beguiling in equal measure. And his words were pertinent, since this year saw the band reach the edge in more ways than one. There was the increasingly fractious personal relationships within the group,...

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Reissue of the Week: Butthole Surfers Live At The Leather Fly 8 May 11:00 PM (5 days ago)

Austin, Tx's Buttholes were notorious for any number of reasons, but, says Ned Raggett, why not think of them first and foremost as an inspired and shit hot rock group?

I'd heard the stories before I saw the show in Hollywood, of course. How could I not? I was only twenty years old in spring 1991, but ever since I'd picked up Musician magazine three years prior for its Pink Floyd cover story, I was thoroughly bemused by its lead album review being about some band called Butthole Surfers, how could I not have heard the stories? Accounts regarding two wild drummers and projected films showing penis removal surgeries and the like had circulated. One friend told me earnestly he'd heard...

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Moin – Belly Up 8 May 9:03 PM (5 days ago)

Moin

Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

Belly Up by Moin

Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews have always championed a sound that can’t quite be placed, but Moin’s experimental bedroom demo-tape vibe is the linchpin of their discography. 2021 debut Moot! was rich in post-punk rigour and chopped-up vocal samples. Drummer Valentina Magaletti joined the duo for 2022’s Paste, an avant-garde offering that hinted at the seeds of a bigger idea. ‘You Never End’ pushed the proverbial boat out, providing a semblance of regularity and straying from their typically piecemeal, Jenga-like philosophy. Now, with Belly Up, the London three-piece return to...

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Organic Intelligence XLIV: World-Building-For-One AKA DIY Synth Music for Getting Off-Planet 8 May 9:00 PM (5 days ago)

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, exclusive to tQ subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through a selection of transportive releases from DIY synth voyagers of the near past

Oksana Linde in 1985, by Mardonio Diaz

Floating in a netherworld of bedroom synths and home duped cassettes, the artists in this list exist in a nebulous sub genre of my own creation, one defined as much by quality of execution and mood as by style. Largely lo-fi, ephemeral, and hard to pin down in many ways, I recommend taking your own route through this music. It should be a solo mission; a choose-your-own-adventure through an infinity of bedroom synth music, via a universe of defunct blogs like Mutant Sounds; old Wordpress...

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Red Mar – Our Low Cell 8 May 12:45 AM (6 days ago)

Red Mar

Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

Our Low Cell by Red Mar

After a live recording and a clutch of varied, ambitious standalone tracks, UK post-rockers Red Mar unfurl their long-percolating debut. It’s a dense and often dazzling piece of work – but also one that sometimes risks losing a firm sense of self amid its many fragmented personalities.

Kicking things off with the seventeen-minute ‘Namokel’ is a bold, borderline arrogant move, but it effectively sets out Red Mar’s stall and their state of mind. Things start quietly enough. Acoustic arpeggios and mumblefuck vocals are threaded with drones and scritchy background noise, but it’s...

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Andy Bell – Ten Crowns 7 May 11:51 PM (6 days ago)

Andy Bell

Ten Crowns

Erasure singer heads to Nashville, belts out a suite of ten big pop anthems seasoned with a healthy dash of club music, gospel and Debbie Harry

Forty years at the top in pop is not to be sniffed at. And if you’ve got thirty-five Top 40 hits and five chart-topping albums under your belt to show for it, then you move into the territory of having ‘national treasure’ attached to your name. Truth is, Andy Bell (the Erasure one, not the Ride/Oasis one – easy to tell apart as one is a flamboyant entertainer known for occasionally wearing rubber leotards, and the other one is half of Erasure) is somewhat more than that. One of the great gay and...

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Everything is Permitted: Alamut by Laibach 7 May 11:42 PM (6 days ago)

Slovenian Martial Industrialists embark on what may be their most intrepid gambit yet – will they succeed? On the evidence of their latest album, it has at least pushed them towards some of their most adventurous and experimental music yet, finds Jeremy Allen

Laibach. credit: Nika Hölcl Praper

Alamut by Laibach

Laibach announced Alamut to a roomful of music journalists in London back in July of 2022. The album they were aiming to bring to fruition was unusual even by their unorthodox standards. The Slovenians set forth a project on an epic scale: a nine movement symphonic work to be performed in both Ljubljana and Tehran with a full orchestra, written by Iranian composers Idin Samimi Mofakham and Nima A. Rowshan in collaboration...

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Terraforma Exo Adds Lorenzo Senni, Rrose and More to 2025 Programming 7 May 4:14 AM (7 days ago)

The event will take place across three editions in Milan, Rome and Palermo

Lorenzo Senni

Terraforma Exo, the event founded by the team behind defunct Milan festival Terraforma, has revealed a second wave of acts playing its 2025 edition.

Now in its second year, Terraforma Exo will this year travel beyond Milan for the first time, additionally taking in programming in Rome and Palermo. The first of the three events is scheduled to go ahead in Milan across June 28 and 29, and will see Lorenzo Senni, Florian Hecker and HiTech newly join a bill that already included sets from Bill Kouligas & Forensis, and Heith, james K and Günseli Yalcinkaya.

The Rome event, scheduled for September 27, will now see a newly confirmed set...

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The Strange World of… Steve Aylett 7 May 12:00 AM (7 days ago)

With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue

“Every sentence comes directly at you.” 

This phrase used by Steve Aylett to describe the prose of his fictional author Jeff Lint also sums up his own writing to a T. Jam-packed with ideas that fly like cerebral machine gun fire, a relentless assault of dazzling literary fireworks – confrontational, often violent, and really freaking hilarious – one could easily spend all day musing on just one line of Aylett. The accumulation of these over the course...

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Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats 6 May 11:30 PM (7 days ago)

The Raincoats were revolutionaries first, musicians a close second. Ahead of her new book Shouting Out Loud, Audrey Golden traces a riotous journey across the world. Cover image by Maria Helena da Silva, courtesy of Ana da Silva

The Raincoats live in Warsaw 1978

In March 1978, The Raincoats boarded an eastbound night train from London. They were headed behind the Iron Curtain, where they’d be the first punk band to play in Warsaw. Students and activists who’d soon take on significant roles in the country's burgeoning Solidarity movement had organised underground gigs, and The Raincoats got invited to play. At Friedrichstrasse station in East Berlin, guards appeared, pointing machine guns, tightly gripping the leashes of their Alsatian dogs. From the elevated...

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Mclusky – The world is still here and so are we 6 May 9:01 PM (7 days ago)

Mclusky

The world is still here and so are we

Two decades since their last album, the Welsh post-hardcore group return with jagged riffs and irreverent song titles still firmly in place, finds Oliver Cookson

the world is still here and so are we by mclusky

The mere mention of Mclusky is often enough to elicit a laugh. Formed in 1996, the Welsh noise-rockers made absurdity their business from day one. With such song titles as ‘The World Loves Us And Is Our Bitch’ and ‘Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?’, it's safe to say they never took themselves all that seriously. Joking aside, the hard-riffing surrealists released a run of three stellar studio albums before splitting in 2005. Now, after a tantalisingly slow reformation...

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Metal Modernism Comes To Portugal! 6 May 8:12 AM (8 days ago)

TQ Editor John Doran & film maker artist Sapphire Goss present What Is This That Stands Before Me? in Porto on Thursday night... free entry!

After previous events in Prague, Ljubljana, London, Tasmania, Bristol and the Lake District, tQ Editor John Doran and artist film maker Sapphire Goss present their live documentary performance in Porto on Thursday.

The event is free to ticket holders (which can be requested here) and takes place at the Batalha Centro De Cinema, on Batalha Square on Thursday night.

https://vimeo.com/935368064

Using a mix of spoken word, film and music, they will trace some of its many revolutionary stages in half a century of cultural invention and reinvention. 'What Is This That Stands Before Me? Heavy Metal &...

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Jonny Greenwood and Dudu Tassa Share Statement in Response to BDS Campaign Against Concerts 6 May 3:05 AM (8 days ago)

Shows in Bristol and London have been cancelled following protest campaigns in solidarity with Palestine

Jonny Greenwood and Israeli collaborator Dudu Tassa have issued a statement in response to recent cancellations of their gigs, which were brought about after protesters linked to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) called on promoters to pull the events in solidarity with Palestine.

The Radiohead musician and Israeli singer are frequent collaborators, and have faced ongoing criticism of their willingness to perform in Israel amid the nation's ongoing military assault on Gaza. Tassa has also previously played as part of a band that entertained members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) supported protests against UK concerts by the pair...

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke 6 May 12:26 AM (8 days ago)

Patrick Clarke's seasonal exploration of forward-thinking folk music returns, featuring an interview with Eliza Carthy on the attentional ebb & flow the scene attracts, and the importance of hammering home an anti-fascist message, plus reviews of ten essential new releases – from magical Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the heart of Ireland's trad scene, via the Balkans, Lebanon, Argyll, Connemara and beyond

A still from Ben McElroy's film Widdershins & Deosil, dir. Benjamin Wigley

It’s a point I’ve made often in this column, but once again for those at the back: there is really no such thing as a folk ‘revival’. The term implies a cycle of death and rebirth, where in reality folk music is a constant thing, albeit...

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Das Kinn – Ruinenkampf 5 May 9:04 PM (8 days ago)

Das Kinn

Ruinenkampf

Frankfurt's former geriatric nurse imagines The Strangers discovering EBM on experimental Hamburg label Bureau B

Ruinenkampf by Das Kinn

Das Kinn, Bureau B’s new signing, feels like a bold new discovery even if he’s in his mid-40s. Hamburg’s experimental imprint finds itself in the unusual position of being one of the most consistently interesting labels on the planet whilst also fielding a roster of artists of a certain vintage such as Karl Bartos, Peter Baumann, Faust and Martin Rev. Fresher blood about the place augurs well, but don’t expect sunshine and roses. Ruinenkampf serves as a millennial cri-de-coeur, expounding upon how broken everything is.

Das Kinn arrives to the slow, steady beep beep beep of ‘Jamais Vu’. It’s a ballad of solemnity,...

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André 3000 Releases New Project, ‘7 Piano Sketches’ 5 May 6:55 AM (9 days ago)

It's the Outkast member's first new music since 2023's flute-focused New Blue Sun LP

André 3000 has released a new instrumental project, titled 7 Piano Sketches.

As the name suggests, it features seven tracks that are centred around the piano. Each cut is introduced by himself, or collaborators Emmy Paalman and Fatima Robinson reading the song's title. There are also occasional samples and vocal effects added across the record.

"The original title for it was The Best Worst Rap Album In History," André 3000 said in a press release. "And here is an excerpt from the original liner notes: 'It's jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all. It's the best because it's the free-est emotionally...

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