It marks Dan Snaith’s first release since last year’s Honey LP under his Caribou alias

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Daphni, real name Dan Snaith, has shared a new standalone single, titled ‘Sad Piano House’.

Out now, it’s the first material to emerge from Snaith since he released the album Honey under his Caribou alias last year. You can listen to the new song below.

In a statement, the producer said: “I DJ’d a lot last year in the lead-up to the Caribou album and inevitably ended up making a bunch of new music to play out in those sets. I’d made this one but knew that I wasn’t sure about it or when it would ever get a release so I sent it over…

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Holy Scum

All We Have is Never

Members of GNOD, Ghold and Dâlek assemble for a brutal broadside against ‘fancy music’

All We Have Is Never by Holy Scum

On Valentines Day, 1945, agricultural worker Charles Walton was found brutally murdered in Warwickshire in what appeared to be a ritualistic killing. Rupert Russell’s new film, The Last Sacrifice explores the psychic and cultural impact of this case, suggesting that the still unsolved crime planted the seeds of the notion of a ‘hidden Britain’: an occluded darkness lying beneath our fertile soil. It was this feeling, Russell argues, that birthed the classic era of folk horror cinema, reckoning as it did with the ominous ‘otherside’ of this green and pleasant land.

When noise-rock supergroup Holy…

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Ahead of the release of her new album 2t2, Cosey Fanni Tutti is interviewed by inimitable film director Peter Strickland, before the tables are turned, with both parties free from any kind of interference from us

Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get artist, author and industrial music pioneer Cosey Fanni Tutti together with visionary film maker Peter Strickland, so we left them to interview one another with no interference from us.

Cosey Fanni Tutti, artist, musician and writer, has cut a unique path through the musical landscape since the initial termination of the Throbbing Gristle/TG mission in the early 1980s. Often working with life partner Chris Carter as one half of Chris and Cosey and Carter…

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John Surman and Karin Krog

Electric Element

Jazz vocalist Karin Krog and saxophonist John Surman branch out into glitchy, experimental electronics on this newly unearthed cut from 2013

There’s an ineffable sense of mystery to this collection of previously unreleased material from saxophonist John Surman and jazz vocalist Karin Krog. Recorded over three days in 2013, abandoned when the theatre project it was commissioned for never came to fruition, and finally unearthed this month by Trunk Records, Electric Element sees the duo (along with Surman’s son Ben) abandon traditional jazz entirely in favour of a set of wonderfully weird vocal and electronic experiments.

Over nine tracks – five substantial compositions and four brief interstitials, which mainly act as codas to the longer pieces –…

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Two decades on from his early successes, the English singer-songwriter finds rebirth in the eldritch landscape of the east of England

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As the pandemic loomed over London in 2020, Patrick Wolf was living in a Lewisham tower block where he cut the desolate figure of the Arthurian Fisher King. A wounded protector surveying his barren kingdom, gripping onto the Holy Grail of his voice as he drank himself into oblivion. Neither alive nor dead, a man very firmly on the edge.

Twenty years before, when Wolf first emerged, he was seen as the next break-out star alongside Amy Winehouse. His first two albums Lycanthropy and Wind in the Wire were an almighty deluge of high-octane fucked-up acid folk, cut…

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1966 – 2025

Douglas McCarthy, vocalist for electronic body music pioneers Nitzer Ebb, has died. The band’s Instagram account issued a short statement saying “It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform that Douglas McCarthy passed away this morning of June 11th, 2025. We ask everyone to please be respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family in this difficult time. We appreciate your understanding and will share more information soon.”

Born in Barking in 1966, McCarthy was part of the London diaspora that moved down the Thames estuary to populate Essex in the mid-twentieth century. The son of a metal worker, McCarthy lived on Canvey Island until his parents moved the family to the Chelmsford area. Nitzer Ebb were formed…

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News of Wilson’s death at the age of 82 was shared by his family

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Brian Wilson, the musician best known for his pioneering work with The Beach Boys, has died aged 82.

The news was shared in a post by Wilson’s family on social media, which said: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”

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The 23-track TD10 features new cuts by Pearson Sound, Skee Mask, 33EMYBW and more

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Timedance, the label run out of Bristol by Batu, is set to mark its 10th anniversary with the release of a compilation, TD10.

Featuring 23 tracks, the collection brings together cuts from longtime affiliates of the label, as well as others making their debut on the imprint. Among the debutants are Pearson Sound, Skee Mask, 33EMYBW, Minor Science, Bambounou, Polygonia and Lechuga Zafiro. Returning to the label with new cuts are Verraco, re:ni, Metrist, Lurka and, naturally, Batu.

Alongside the compilation’s release, Timedance will be marking its 10-year anniversary with a run of special events led by a collaboration with Tilburg festival Draaimolen this September, which will…

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The Prague event will take in sets from Loraine James’ Whatever The Weather project and Colin Self

Lunchmeat Festival has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2025 edition later this year.

Returning to multiple venues across Prague, the event’s 16th edition will take in special performances from Loraine James’ Whatever The Weather project; Colin Self, presenting their Gasp! show; Danny L Harle, who will showcase all-new music; Mun Sing, with an audiovisual live show; and Lee Gamble, who will DJ.

Also confirmed are Ursula Sereghy; Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori, presenting their audiovisual live show A Forbidden Distance; mʊdʌki & phonon~, with the world premiere of an audiovisual show called Drizzle; Aitcher Clark; and Gorgonn & Utku Önal, who present…

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Ahead of his performance of FAVN at Milan’s Terraforma Exo this month, Siobhán Kane speaks to artist Florian Hecker 

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Florian Hecker is an artist who explores the sensual and psychological side of the listening process. FAVN is a distillation of that exploration, with almost a decade of shapeshifting history, from its early imaginings in 2016 at Alte Oper, Frankfurt, to the exhibition Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese in 2017 at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, and a forthcoming reimagining for Terraforma in Milan on 28 June.

FAVN is described as an “automated performance tracing the blurry boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucination”. 19th century conceits are everywhere, from the emergence of psychophysics, to the Stéphane Mallarmé poem ‘L’après-midi d’un faun’…

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