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black midi cruising stream
black midi share new non-album single, “Cruising”
Leila Abdul Rauf premiere
See the hypnotic video for Leila Abdul-Rauf’s “Distortions in Phantasy I: Lure”
Mary Lattimore tour dates
Mary Lattimore announces fall tour
Full of Hell
Full of Hell announce new album, ‘Garden of Burning Apparitions’
Ty Segall Harmonizer
Ty Segall releases new album, Harmonizer
spellling tour dates
Spellling announces tour dates

Album Reviews

Eluvium Virga II review

Eluvium : Virga II

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Tangents Timeslips and Chimeras review

Tangents : Timeslips & Chimeras

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Durand Jones private space review
Durand Jones & the Indications : Private Space
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Roy Montgomery That Best Forgotten Work review
Roy Montgomery : That Best Forgotten Work
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Samia Scout EP review
Samia : Scout EP
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Album of the Week

Lingua Ignota Sinner Get Ready review
Lingua Ignota – SINNER GET READY

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Features

U2 The Joshua Tree

U2’s The Joshua Tree tackled the complexity of the American ideal

yob best albums
Celebrate the Catalog: The Yob discography
King Tubby best albums beginners guide
King Tubby: A Beginner’s Guide to the prolific dub innovator
Shins Oh Inverted World 20th anniversary
How The Shins’ Oh, Inverted World captured a timeless simplicity
Spellling interview
Spellling seizes the moment
U2 Unforgettable Fire world of light
U2 tapped into a well of light on The Unforgettable Fire
Daniel Miller Gareth Jones interview
Daniel Miller and Gareth Jones on releasing their debut album as Sunroof after 40 years
Joni Mitchell Blue at 50
A Little Less Lonely: Joni Mitchell’s Blue at 50
U2 War
U2’s War provided a triumphant close to their post-punk trilogy
Sons of Kemet interview Shabaka Hutchings
Sons of Kemet’s journey of the world of the artist