Monasunne

Fields Become Sky

The past erupts into the present as composers Lara Agar and Louis d’Heudières go truffling through the teeming undergrowth of East Anglia

Fields Become Sky by Monasunne

Lara Agar and Louis d’Heudières are both from East Anglia and, although neither live there now, it lives loud in their imaginations. Their first release together as Monasunne is a landscape-driven conjuring of the region’s ancient history. Inspired by the lingering Anglo-Saxon presence in Suffolk, they have produced a writhing, expressive soundscape that is equal parts Laura Cannell and M.R. James.

The two are composers and performers. Agar’s experimental composition includes a piece based on the writings of Rachel Carson, an EP (Solstice), and work for dance and visual arts. D’Heudières, based in Hamburg,…

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The first album in a decade from the trailblazing Sheffield group asks, just how ribald can a man in his 60s get away with being in 2025?

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More by Pulp

“Help the aged / One time they were just like you / Drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue…”

Tnwey-six years after Pulp released ‘Help The Aged’, Jarvis Cocker now finds himself at an age where he can claim a free London bus pass. The dividing line between young and old that served as a comedy trope with a touch of pathos in that hit song is no longer just vanishingly thin but has disappeared altogether. The definition of old gets slipperier, of course, especially from a personal perspective as landmarks are…

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It’s out in September via AD 93

james K has shared details of a new album, titled Friend.

Building on two singles released over the past year via AD 93 – ‘Blinkmoth (July Mix)’ (which was listed among our favourite tracks of 2024) and ‘Hypersoft Lovejinx Junkdream’ – the 13-track record is the US artist’s third full-length to date, following 2016’s PET and 2022’s Random Girl. It draws on elements of trip hop, shoegaze and drum & bass.

The new album sees james K collaborate with a number of producers from across the club and ambient music world, including Priori and figures from the 3XL stable, such as Special Guest DJ and Ben Bondy.

To mark the announcement of Friend, the artist has…

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This year’s event will take in live sets from Moin, Djrum, DJ Marcelle and more

Berlin Atonal has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2025 edition this August.

More than 100 acts in total will play across the five-day event, with more acts set to be announced over the coming months. Among today’s announcement are live sets from Moin, Djrum, Niecy Blues, Purelink and GRIEND, a collaborative project of Puce Mary and Rainy Miller. DJ Marcelle is also listed to play a DJ set.

As ever, this year’s Berlin Atonal will also take in a number of special world premiere performances. Among those are live sets from Carmen Villain; Emptyset, presenting their latest album, Dissever; Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet, debuting…

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From soul to psychedelia via Santana, The Spinners and Sly Stone, legendary producer and DJ Arthur Baker takes Siobhán Kane through his thirteen formative records

Arthur Baker’s memoir Looking For The Perfect Beat surveys 50 years of life in music and culture, “dipping in and out of all these different things that were happening”. It traces his Boston beginnings and his time as a DJ in the 1970s, to moving to New York in the 1980s where he helped to pioneer ‘cut and paste’ sampling, bringing Kraftwerk’s ‘Trans-Europe Express’ crashing into Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force’s seminal track ‘Planet Rock’. In the 1990s he lived in London, witnessing acid house and Britpop and working with artists like New Order, before…

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Matthew Young

Undercurrents

Following re-issues of his 1980s album Recurring Dreams and Traveler’s Advisory, Drag City release new material by the New Jersey dulcimer player and electroacoustic composer

Undercurrents by Matthew Young

It is a rarity that an album has the effect of making the listener question the essence of linear time. Here you are offered incantations, tissue-like layers, faint ghosts in the machine, each listen unfurls something nuanced in the ear. Distant conversations, the sense of a thumb over a phone speaker, or the hearing of things from a distant window, are mixed on selected tracks with a distinct yearning, an undulant voice. This work feels like the unreliable, fragmented nature of memory itself and how instead, like the tides, we ebb, flow,…

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They’ve also shared the record’s opening track, ‘Incomprehensible’

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Big Thief have shared details of a new album, titled Double Infinity.

Marking the band’s follow-up to 2022 LP Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the nine-track album was recorded last winter at New York City’s Power Station studios. Across a period of three weeks, the trio of Adrienne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia met to play together and improvise various arrangements, while joined by a collective of guest musicians.

To mark the announcement of Double Infinity, the band have shared lead track ‘Incomprehensible’, which opens the album. You can listen to the song below.

The band will head out on an extensive tour of the US in support of…

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The full stage breakdowns has revealed a number of TBA slots and potential special guests

Glastonbury has shared the full lineup and stage times for its 2025 edition.

Taking place at its usual home of Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset later this month, this year’s festival will be headlined by The 1975, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, and Olivia Rodrigo. Among the other headline names playing are Charli xcx, John Fogerty, Rod Stewart, Doechii, The Prodigy, Alanis Morissette, Deftones, Busta Rhymes, Overmono, Four Tet, Caribou and ANOHNI And The Johnsons.

The lineup also spreads out across hundreds of other stages, with thousands of acts having been booked to play various areas of the vast site.

Most intriguingly, the stage breakdowns have revealed a…

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As she shares new track ‘Distress Tolerance’, DJ Haram speaks to Jesse Dorris about her roots in New Jersey clubs and the Philadelphia underground, the complexities of DJing and identity, and charting her own path on debut album Beside Myself

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DJ Haram and I are sitting on a sunny spring day in a coffee shop near her Brooklyn neighbourhood, talking shit. “I’ve had to recognise over the past couple of years that I actually do like to fight,” she laughs. This energy powers much of her long-awaited debut album, Beside Myself, seemingly designed not so much to set the dancefloors on fire as to burn a few bridges. Gone, mostly, are the precision-detonated, arabesque drums that established her…

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In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports from this year’s New Trad Fest in the Loire region and rounds up new releases including a surrealistic Breton folk duo, Japanese gagaku-inspired drones and much more

Ludu Du at New Trad Fest, by Titouan Massé

Last year, when I wrote about New Trad Fest, it was in abstract terms as I was largely relying on reports from people who had attended. This time round, for the second edition of the festival which ran earlier this month, I was able to get myself to the charming medieval town of Saint-Aignan-Sur-Cher, situated amid the châteaux of the Loire-et-Cher department, for two nights at least. This meant missing one of the only non-French…

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