Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are still coming up with the goods 45 years in. Their new album, ‘Bauhaus Staircase’, a glorious collision of hook-laden electropop and artistic sentiment, finds the synth pioneers in perfect sync
Steeped in sci-fi dystopia, avant-garde sensibilities and a multi-genre assault, Teeth Of The Sea exist in an “alchemical headspace” where sonically, almost anything goes
Bocca Juniors vocalist Anna Haigh, Jagz Kooner from The Sabres Of Paradise, and acclaimed Faber author Michael Smith share their memories of working with Andrew Weatherall
What do you get if you bring together ex-Cure drummer Lol Tolhurst, former Siouxsie And The Banshees sticksman Budgie and uber-producer Jacknife Lee? An exploratory and brilliantly inventive “electronic head-fuck”, that’s what
From the heart of Manchester’s thriving electronic scene, Hyperdawn’s asymmetric, future-facing music moulds tape loops, cut-up sounds and strange effects into wonderfully wonky experimental shapes
The inside story of ‘Phonox Nights’, the forthcoming album from Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh’s Woodleigh Research Facility project, which includes some of Weatherall’s final original recordings
The first interview with Andrew Weatherall outside of his role in the band Bocca Juniors, which was originally published in the UK weekly music paper Melody Maker on 17 August 1991
Rooted in fervent, free-form experimentation, Martin Rev’s formative 1970s cassette sonics not only fed into the arch-provocateur’s work with influential New York synth-punksters Suicide, but also his distinctive solo oeuvre. With a new release of archive recordings, he reflects on those gritty early years