Charlie Brigden provides ten entry points into the work of Hildur Guðnadóttir and talks to her about DC supervillains, doing the school run, and creating the sound of radiation

Hildur Guðnadóttir is inarguably one of the greatest composers of the modern age, especially when it comes to film scoring. The recipient of an Oscar, two BAFTAs, two Grammys, and a Golden Globe, her fierce and uncompromising style has garnered plaudits from across the world for soundtracks such as Chernobyl (2019) and Tár (2022). Not satisfied to just provide music for the screen however, she has also released music with the likes of Throbbing Gristle, Sunn O))), and Nico Muhly, and has acted as vocalist for Icelandic electronica band Múm. 

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Doug Wallen salutes a band who represent the busyness, the work ethic and the willingness to collaborate in a city’s rock scene. Portrait by Sian Stacey

Power Of Now (AUS) by Season 2

There’s no such thing as a supergroup in Melbourne. It’s a city where it’s commonplace for musicians to play in multiple bands. Besides fostering camaraderie, familiar faces are often seen making up different configurations with other familiar faces, and this helps tease out new dynamic contrasts in sound and personality.

Perhaps this is why, in the case of Season 2, there might be between three and five people singing on any given song. The quintet coalesced in 2024, when keyboardist Claudia Serfaty (The Stroppies) and guitarist Freya McLeod (Phil &…

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Protect Brockwell Park is unhappy with Lambeth Council’s decision to green-light events such as Field Day and Wide Awake

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Campaign group Protect Brockwell Park, primarily formed of a number of South London residents, has challenged Lambeth Council’s decision to green-light another summer of daytime festivals at Brockwell Park.

The group is unhappy that events such as Field Day, Wide Awake and Mighty Hoopla will continue to go ahead in the park this summer after receiving approval from the local council. Last summer, they launched their campaign against such events when they crowdfunded more than £30,000 to launch a legal fight against Lambeth Council, describing the granting of licenses for the day festivals as “unlawful”.

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The Chilean artist has delivered three remixes of the Japanese experimental band

Ricardo Villalobos has remixed the band goat (jp) on a new release for French label Latency.

Without References/Cindy Van Acker (Ricardo Villalobos Variations) takes in three remixes of the Japanese experimental band. One of them sees him rework the track ‘Orin’, which you can listen to below, while he has also delivered two takes on the song ‘Factory’.

The release follows on from Latency putting out another Villalobos remix, of Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, last year.

Latency will release Without References/Cindy Van Acker (Ricardo Villalobos Variations) on 5 June 2026.

Without References/Cindy van Acker (Ricardo Villalobos Variations) by goat (JP), Ricardo Villalobos
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It’s an alternate version of his song ‘What Is The Reason For It?’, featuring Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade

Mexican Institute Of Sound, David Byrne, Natalie Lafourcade (L-R)

David Byrne has shared a standalone new single, ‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’

The new cut reimagines Byrne’s song ‘What Is The Reason For It?’, which appeared on last year’s Who Is The Sky? LP, and features added vocals from Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade who takes the place of Hayley Williams from the original track. Adding elements of brass to the song via production from Mexican Institute Of Sound, the new track is said to draw on Byrne’s own experiences of Mexico City.

Listen to ‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’ below.

‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’ is out now on Matador.

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Fans in Tokyo, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Glasgow, New York and Los Angeles will get a chance to listen to the album a week before its release

Boards Of Canada have shared news of a series of album listening events for their forthcoming LP, Inferno.

The album is due for release at the end of May, but fans in Tokyo, Berlin, Barcelona, London, Glasgow, New York and Los Angeles will get a chance to hear the album a week in advance of its release on 22 May. Details of the respective listening sessions, including exact venues, are still scarce, but for now, fans are invited to register for pre-sale tickets here with the sale itself set to go live this Friday (1…

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It marks the first time that the Polish festival has spread across two cities in its main base country

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Unsound’s 2026 edition will take place across two cities for the first time, with a continuous programme set to run between Warsaw and Kraków.

The two locations will be linked by a dedicated “Unsound Train” running between the two cities on 7 October. This year’s festival theme is ‘SOFT POWER’, with programming set to explore the concepts of global lawlessness; artificial intelligence and the dominance of algorithms; and other topics.

Full festival passes will give attendees access to programming across both cities, and there will be no repeat performances across the two locations.

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Returning for a stripped-back limited edition, a leaner edition of Birmingham’s finest DIY festival is no less mean, finds Patrick Clarke, who picks out five favourites from this year’s bill

The Supersonic Festival crowd during Prostitute’s Sunday night headline set, photo by Sam Wood

This year’s edition of Supersonic is a truncated one. Normally a late summer three-dayer over a handful of venues, after several years of being buffeted around and squeezed by gentrification and local government indifference, forced to source a new venue every edition, sometimes at just a few weeks’ notice, for 2026 the festival has slimmed down to two days and one venue. Its much-loved marketplace returns to the nearby Zellig complex, but only for half the weekend. The…

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From sophisticated coffee table electronica and dubwise armchair albums to hardware outsider house and minimal masterpieces, Jaša Bužinel unearths the best in brand new contemporary electronic music

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Drexciya’s Gerald Donald and James Stinson were two funny blokes. I recently came across the Hypothetical Situations album from their side project Abstract Thought from 2003 and had to squint when I skimmed the tracklist. At first glance, it’s what you’d expect from the world of Drexciya: conceptual, highbrow techno titles typical of much of their catalogue, such as ‘Synchronised Dimensions’, ‘Solar Pulse’ and ‘Galactic Rotation’. The usual Afrofuturist, space-age terminology. But tucked in between, perhaps as a kind of Easter egg, is a track called ‘Me Want Woman’s Punani’. A tribute to…

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Carla dal Forno

Confession

The Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist speaks with a new kind of intimacy on her fourth album

Confession by Carla dal Forno

Carla dal Forno has long taken inspiration from the murky, minimalist synth-driven post-punk and industrial music that proliferated in mass quantities in the 80s. But whereas most artists mining that territory emphasise the dark, alien qualities of that sound, dal Forno has always been more interested in its sense of intimacy. On her latest record Confession, that intimacy comes to a head with the vulnerability of yearning for new love and mutual affection, with open-ended introspection that explores the spaciousness of unanswered questions. Confession presents dal Forno’s music at its most lush and sensual, evoking 90s dream pop as…

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