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Oneohtrix Point Never: Pure And Sample

Constructed from 1990s sample CDs, the new album from Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never is a vapour trail of media decay, ambient unease and salvaged sonic echoes

PVA: Do The Mash

Embracing the creative potential of imperfection, enigmatic London trio PVA craft a dazzling “battleground of ideas and sounds”

Sarah Nixey: Going Coastal

She was – and soon will be again – the enigmatic chanteuse with Black Box Recorder. In the meantime, Sarah Nixey’s new solo album ‘Sea Fever’, created on the coastline of her native Dorset, is a beautiful, wintry rumination on change and loss

Sleaford Mods: X-Cess All Areas

Sleaford Mods return with their most ambitious, sharp-tongued set yet, AS ‘The Demise Of Planet X’ cranks up fury and vivid sonics into a caustic portrait of cultural freefall and catharsis. They’re loud, angry and utterly irresistible

Propaganda: Wishful Syncing

As Propaganda unveil a definitive new boxset documenting their classic ZTT era, Ralf Dörper, Claudia Brücken, Susanne Freytag and Michael Mertens reflect on the tensions, triumphs and visionary studio craft behind ‘A Secret Wish’
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Factory Floor

Factory Floor are back… and feel like walking quickly but not quite running through a crumbling concrete industrial estate
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ESLS018 – Sunda Arc

Electronica and woodwind – together at last Sunda Arc is an electronic project that seamlessly blends digital soundscapes…
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Rupert Hine ‘The Shout’

In 1978, bizarre British horror film ‘The Shout’ boasted startling “electronics & effects” courtesy of musical polymath Rupert Hine. With the score now released for the first time, Fay Hine, Buried Treasure label boss Alan Gubby and writer Jon Collins tell his story 
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Tortoise ‘Djed’

With the release of their new album, ‘Touch’, Tortoise man John McEntire deconstructs the production of ‘Djed’, the Chicago band’s otherworldly defining track and blueprint for the mid-1990s post-rock scene