The band’s second album is getting an updated release to mark its 45th anniversary

Clock DVA’s 1981 album Thirst is getting reissued.

Marking 45 years since its original release, the band’s second studio LP has been newly remastered especially for the updated edition. The reissue will also include live and alternate versions of tracks from the record.

Speaking about Thirst, Clock DVA’s Adi Newton said in a statement: “We set out to form a new sound combination; to combine acoustics and electronics, merging the German electronic wave with the edge of The Stooges, the avant-garde of the French GRM musique concrète, and the pioneering audio-visual creativity of The Velvet Underground. To create a harder form of electronic music with real energy.”

Listen to the…

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As he prepares to embark on his first ever headline music tour, Peter Capaldi takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from the parallels between Talking Heads and Doctor Who, to the time he found himself in a room with Kate Bush

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Peter Capaldi’s latest role isn’t to fuck the fuck in (or indeed fuck the fuck off) like The Thick Of It’s Malcolm Tucker, or nail an outfit inspired by David Lynch and David Bowie as he travels through time as the Twelfth Doctor. It’s to sit on a tour bus from Newcastle to Edinburgh, Cardiff to Brighton, get behind a microphone, and sing.  “I’m not trying to be a pop star or…

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Harry Sword explores the world of the cult London shop and record label – one of the most vital imprints for adventurous leftfield heavy metal – offering ten entry points into one of the most beguiling and bewitching catalogues out there

Crypt of the Wizard have ploughed an idiosyncratic furrow through the strangest corners of deeply underground sonics of cleaving ferocity and beyond since 2015. The shop has become an idiosyncratic institution through sheer dogged belief in the power and glory of heavy metal. Setting up on Hackney Road – and expanding to found a label in 2018 and a festival starting in 2024 – CotW remains the only specialist metal emporium in London. Initially the brainchild of founders Charlie Woolley…

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Shackleton

Euphoria Bound

More dreamstates and haunted dancefloors from the Lancashire-born producer in permanent exile

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The gamification of the music industry isn’t a choice anymore, it is part of the hustle and grind. As the discourse flits from topic to topic like a hummingbird, the actual art behind the wall of commerce gets brutally atomised. Instead of democratising music, platforms like TikTok have turned musicians into manic clowns: aggressively performing their next trick for a dead-end of likes and disembodied yellow thumbs. Music is part of an extended human centipede of content. Sometimes, it’s the least important bit.

So when an artist is truly disconnected from the machine, it’s not just an enviable flex of self confidence, it suggests they are…

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The jungle producer’s second album for the label is out in March

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Xylitol, the production moniker of Catherine Backhouse, has a new album on the way for Planet Mu.

Spanning 10 tracks, Blumenfantasie builds on the melodic jungle sounds of Backhouse’s previous LP for the label, 2024’s Anemones. Sarajevo-born minimal synth composer Miaux, whom the producer has described as “a kindred spirit in terms of her directness and melancholy, as well as her lightness of touch”, is listed as an influence on the album.

Expanding further, Backhouse said Miaux was the “single biggest inspiration in the shift between Anemones and Blumenfantasie and I think the shift of mood and palette is quite apparent, even if our music is very different in how it presents”….

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Arca has remixed Robyn’s recent single ‘Sexistential’.

Pushing the original cut further into club music territory, the Venezuelan artist’s take on the song features her own vocals. You can listen to it below.

In a statement, Arca said: “I’ve loved Robyn’s music for years, and am psyched to offer my support and encouragement to her. I want her sense of humour – bold vision and sense of melody is so important! And this track I’ve remixed, ‘Sexistential’, deconstructs pleasure, play and motherhood in such a refreshing way. Purr!”

‘Sexistential’ is the title track from Robyn’s forthcoming album, which is her first in eight years. Announced last month, it will be released via the Swedish artist’s new label home of…

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Your Rum Music roundup returns for 2026, where Jennifer Lucy Allan presents early AOTY contenders from Silvia Tarozzi, Tashi Dorij and more

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January feels like it’s been three months long. I made few resolutions. I will be writing half a book’s worth of words before my birthday at the end of March, which feels enough of a goal. I did pitch myself a target for reading (52 books) and wrote the word “FLOSS” in the front of my diary. It’s going to be a busy year, and it’s already in full swing, with releases already dropping that I feel are solidly in the running for my AOTY list, namely by the increasingly prolific Tashi Dorji, and…

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Bloody Head

Bend Down And Kiss The Ground

Nottingham quartet drag noise-rock and psych into some dank, unwholesome places

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Bloody Head have been lurking at the fringes for some ten years now, occupying a greasy, hard-to-clean crevice where noise-rock and psychedelia begin to intermingle. In this time they’ve tottered, threatened, collapsed and cajoled, their unexpected incursions akin to having a mysterious, slightly cracked ‘character’ glom onto you at the pub. Like said pub weirdo, they charm and bemuse and recount tall tales, all while a violent sense of mania flickers intermittently behind the eyes.

Bend Down And Kiss The Ground comes hot on the heels of last year’s excellent Perpetual Eden, and hews close to that…

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Dispel the winter gloom! Our subscribers can catch up with all the music we wrote about last month

Even though January’s always a bit of a quiet month for releases we’ve still got a fair wedge of music for our Subscribers to kick off 2026, with the playlist featuring the likes of MPTL Microplastics, Knats, Denzel Curry, Dry Cleaning, The Soft Pink Truth, Craven Faults, Qasu, Peaches, Jane Weaver, Zu, Sleaford Mods, Lightning Bolt, Megadeth, Thundercat, Bruce Springsteen, Robyn and Shackleton is below. Our Subscriber Plus members also have access to bonus playlists – the music from Peaches and Mike Dirnt of Green Day’s Baker’s Dozens, artist guides to go with the Strange Worlds Of David Berman and Toumani Diabaté, the…

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Ahead of the release of debut album Domestic Bliss and an appearance at Acid Horse festival in May, the amniotically-linked trio speak to Archie Forde

London trio Voka Gentle have been playing music together in some form “since the womb”, their guitarist, William J. Stokes tells me. Which might be why their latest album, Domestic Bliss, works so well. Composed of identical twin sisters Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William, Imogen’s husband, the band craft left-field, mercurial pop that’s as hard to box into a genre as it is easy to enjoy. 

Recorded at London City University, where the band taught sound workshops in exchange for studio time, their latest LP is a tour-de-force in this synergistic mode of music-making, which yields some sporadically…

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