The hip hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice enlisted Pharrell Williams to produce the new record

Clipse have shared details of their long-awaited new album, titled Let God Sort Em Out.

Following years of teasing a new project, the hip hop duo of Pusha T and No Malice have revealed that the follow-up to 2009’s Til The Casket Drops has been produced by longtime collaborator Pharrell Williams and will be released in July. Its lead single, ‘Ace Trumpets’, will be released tomorrow (May 30).

Having formed in the 90s, Clipse released three studio albums through the 00s: 2002’s Lord Willin’, 2006’s Hell Hath No Fury and 2009s’ Til The Casket Drops. After going on hiatus, the project’s two members released…

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As Underworld’s discography from 1994 to 2016 receives a ‘perfect sound’ reissue, Darran Anderson surveys how their frantic, beautiful music both embodied the overwhelm of city life and offered a rapturous escape from it

Underworld in 1996

Never trust an artist. Returning to his apartment, the young Soviet cinematographer Aleksandr Lemberg discovered his friend and colleague David Abelevich Kaufman had blackened the walls and ceiling in soot, upon which, he had drawn a multitude of clocks in chalk, all showing different times with wildly swinging pendulums. “I did not like this at all,” Lemberg later recalled. Kaufman was, by contrast, manic in his enthusiasm. In his mind, he had transformed what was merely a family home into a Russian Futurist masterpiece. The clocks were…

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Youthful London-based post-rock octet take a kintsugi approach to songcraft on their second album, with a little help from Caroline Polachek

Photo credit: El Hardwick

In recent weeks I’ve been obsessed with r/visiblemending, a joyously strange corner of the internet. Users of this subreddit don’t simply mend their own clothes, already a revolutionary act in the age of fast fashion, but do so in ways that make their garments look as though they have been amateurishly hand-fixed. Cross stitches in brightly coloured thread, patches of wholly different material, and a bit of ornamental sashiko for good measure, the visible menders transform their wearisome clothes into wearable artworks, beloved celebrations of the crafting process.

I find it impossible not to draw parallels between this…

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Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Гільдеґарда (Hildergard)

Recorded in a Cistercian abbey, electronic producer Oleh Shkudejko joins forces with Ukrainian vocalist Andriana-yaroslava Saienko to pay tribute to the 12th-century German mystic

Гільдеґарда (Hildergard) by Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Already on the fractious Madrigals, Heinali (Oleh Shkudejko) impressed with his ability to combine Renaissance polyphony with modern electronics. He created music that does not recreate the past but uses it as a foundation for contemporary sound constructions. That wasn’t only a formal experiment; today, it is also a gesture of memory, resistance, and spiritual mobilization. On Гільдеґарда (Hildegarda), a new album recorded with vocalist Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, this tension becomes the axis of their latest work.

Heinali has been exploring early music for the past decade, but not…

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The Portuguese festival will host Divide And Dissolve, Rashad Becker and more this October

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OUT.FEST has shared the first wave of acts playing its 21st edition later this year.

Taking place in the Portuguese town of Barreiro, the festival will feature headline sets from the likes of Divide And Dissolve, Rashad Becker, Beatrice Dillon, upsammy and Cuntroaches.

Also confirmed among the first artist announcement are Bhutanese guitarist Tasha Dorji; Japanese experimental musician Miki Yui; Galician sound artist Carme López; Swiss bassist Martina Berther; and Nyege Nyege Tapes affiliates HHY & The Kampala Unit.

Further names will be added to the bill in the coming months.

OUT.FEST will take place from October 2 to 5, 2025. Find more information here.
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The band’s 13th album will be released in September

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Saint Etienne have announced their last album, International.

Drawing to a close 35 years of recording music together, the band have decided to amicably call it quits with their 13th studio LP, which sees them team up with a cast of collaborators that includes Confidence Man, Erasure’s Vince Clarke, Erol Alkan, Paul Hartnoll of Orbital and Nick Heyward.

To mark the new record’s announcement, Saint Etienne have shared lead track ‘Glad’, which was co-written and produced with Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, and also features guitar from Doves’ Jez Williams. You can watch a video for the song below.

In a statement about ‘Glad’, the trio’s Sarah Cracknell said: “We…

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Richard Foster speaks to four “serious geologists” – Hildur Guðnadóttir, Emptyset’s James Ginzburg, Senyawa’s Rully Shabara and Sam Slater – about designing new instruments and the racket made by the heaviest of heavy metals

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OSMIUM by OSMIUM

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Words can, like Shelley’s, bring a certain irony to a situation. Written down, the bare facts about experimental supergroup Osmium and their self-titled debut look daunting. Oscar-winning composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir, Emptyset and Subtext engineer and producer James Ginzburg, Rully Shabara from Indonesian experimental duo Senyawa and Grammy-winning sound designer and producer Sam Slater used an array of custom-built instruments, self-designed robotics and modulations of the voice to “explore the relationships between humans and technology,…

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In the wake of Nightingales’ new record The Awful Truth, the band’s leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quinn for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater

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To the Shrewsbury Hotel by a bend in the Severn, where the décor features images of the city’s most famous son – Charles Darwin. Darwin with beard, Darwin with birds, Darwin with a monkey. There will be more monkey business in The Shrewsbury as the day evolves. 

Robert Lloyd, head Nightingale, Cannock Man, sits studying the form in his copy of the Racing Post. As hinted in Stewart Lee’s superb film on the songwriter, King Rocker,…

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Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)

On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief

Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition) by Sufjan Stevens

In 1978, a couple claimed to see a three-humped creature break through the surface of Wallowa Lake in Oregon. A beast that, to their eyes, most resembled a twenty-foot snake. Although if you had asked a woman called Irene thirty years earlier, she would have told you that it had the head of a hog. A century prior, a local resident heard a low bellow, like that…

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Smerz

Big City Life

Norwegian anti-pop duo send voice notes from the abyss of the contemporary mediascape

Big city life by Smerz

Big City Life isn’t so much an album as it is a masterful sequence of gestures: flickers of sound, half-decisions, the musical equivalent of shrugging while making eye contact. The Norwegian duo – Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt – still sound like they’re texting each other ideas at odd hours, deliberately left open-ended to preserve their magic.

Smerz are still working in the zone where club music, art-school minimalism, and emotional confession overlap. Big City Life operates on a kind of low-battery logic: everything flickers, fades, or folds back on itself with hypnotic intention. These are ideas introduced and strategically abandoned. Beats arrive…

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