In this month’s edition of the Low Culture Podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner discuss the cult classic of blurred identity and the failing 60s counterculture

“You’re the lone ranger!”, “I like a bit of a cavort!”, “It was Mad Cyril”, “Comical little geezer – you’ll look funny when you’re 50”, “Too much vitamin B12 has never hurt anybody”. The countercultural gangster film Performance (1970) might be so endlessly quotable it ended up in songs The Happy Mondays and Big Audio Dynamite, but there’s much more to it than that, as John Doran and Luke Turner discuss in the latest edition of the Low Culture Podcast. Shot in 1967 but only premiered in 1970, Performance is a riot of firsts – Mick Jagger’s debut starring…

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An album of sonic and metaphysical skirmishes from the Syrian-born, Montreal-based experimental musician

For Sam Hoyek, the decentralised songs on Demonstration 01: Anomalous are inflicted by sounds which seem to transgress interior/exterior borderlands. They creep in from outside. There’s a porous sense of exchange. Of ideas lost and gained. Of sounds encroaching on a destabilised core before dissipating away. The result is a constantly shifting record which rattles through styles and genres quicker than a Reform councillor collecting their P45.

These turns and pivots speak to a restlessness but also an urge to explore, to express, influenced by the left hand paths of chaos magick. It’s the sound of Arca, of aya, of Tim Hecker, of Kayo Dot with Ben Frost filling…

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With his plain speaking, crisp production and fearsome focus, Ice-T became, not only hugely famous in 1991 but hugely influential as well, says Angus Batey

Thirty-five-years on from his finest on-record hour, Ice-T sometimes looks like a hip hop underachiever. While politically contentious, he never seemed to command the news media like Chuck D; despite being a gangsta rap pioneer, you always got the sense he was maybe a bit tamer, a bit less parent-threatening, than NWA or Cube. Never a dynamic poet, never a west coast Rakim, nor a freewheeling master rap stylist a la Busta or Slick Rick, his name tends to get left out when true-school heads or rock-crit listmakers gather to anoint and appoint the approved membership…

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Darkthrone

Pre-Historic Metal

Fenriz and Nocturno Culto emerge from their respective dark corners for their 23rd album together – and it may be their freshest yet, finds Kez Whelan

Pre- Historic metal by Darkthrone

There’s something oddly cosy about the release of a new Darkthrone album in this day and age. Whilst their immediate peers find themselves clutching at relevancy, either smothered by the controversies they courted in their youth or, conversely, coasting on former glories and embracing the transition into festival-ready legacy acts, Fenriz and Nocturno Culto have simply been enjoying the hermitic lifestyle they settled into years ago, jamming out a seemingly endless supply of riffs in their garage with nary a second thought for the outside world.

Nonetheless, it still feels like a…

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She’s also shared lead single ‘Paradise Rains’, which was co-produced with TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek

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Eartheater is releasing a new album, titled Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message.

Spanning 11 tracks, it features a guest contribution from Oklou on one cut, as well as co-production from TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, as well as Nosaj Thing and others. The artist, real name Alexandra Drewchin, started working on the record soon after the birth of her daughter. (The closing track, ‘Nova’, is named after her child.)

To mark the album’s announcement, which follows 2023’s Powders, Drewchin has shared lead track ‘Paradise Rains’. You can listen to the song below.

‘Paradise Rains’, she said in a statement,…

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The two-day festival will take in sets from Flowdan, Slikback, and upsammy & Valentina Magaletti, among others

A new festival, CONTRA, is set to launch at Berlin’s Kraftwerk complex later this month.

The two-day event’s programming will be spread out across the vast building, as well as its adjoining Tresor, Globus and OHM venues. A lineup of more than 70 artists will present DJ sets and live performances, encompassing club music and more experimental fare. Paris-based creative studio Matiere Noire will handle the festival’s spatial design, while the team behind the long-running Berlin Atonal also have a hand in the event’s organisation.

Among the first wave of acts confirmed to play the festival are Flowdan, Slikback, upsammy & Valentina Magaletti, Juliana Huxtable, Bill…

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As the alias-hopping Angel Marcloid releases her mind-bending first album for Warp, she takes Alastair Shuttleworth through the records which have shaped her life, from Dream Theater, Wolf Eyes and early emo, to a passionate defence of The Morning Of

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As a child, Angel Marcloid had an imaginary nemesis: a demon called Ricky, who appeared in some early song lyrics. The Chicago experimentalist recently revisited the creature for ‘A Demon & Its Spinal Cord Flapping In The Wind,’ from her triumphant new Fire-Toolz album Lavender Networks. In those old writings “there’s a visual of me having defeated the demon, but there’s no violence,” she tells tQ. “I think it would have been more of a spiritual warfare.” Regardless,…

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Sergeant

Symbols

From Belgium, an experimental rock trio unafraid to slice up their own jams with a pair of garden shears and dance merrily amongst the shreds

Symbols by Sergeant

Brussels-based plunderphonic rock band Sergeant’s self-titled 2023 debut saw the band homaging “DJ Shadow in reverse”, splicing and collaging their own wayward jams into avant-pop songs. Jagged little guitars, discreetly flickering beats, and detached, lost-sounding vocals pushed the band towards a phantom pop music, but maybe more of a record of moments rather than a cohesive classic.

Far more realised, then, is the group’s new follow-up Symbols. The duo of the debut, composer Benjamin Cools and vocalist Ferre Marnef, have become a trio, enlisting daydream-voiced Geraldine Vanspauwen as a full member, and Sergeant are…

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The 11-track record will be released in August

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Overmono have shared details of their second studio album, titled Pure Devotion.

Comprised of 11 tracks, the new record features guest contributions from John Joseph Holt, Ruthven, Kindora and Rock Floyd. While making the record, the brotherly duo used synths from the 70s and 80s, as well as an antiquated train announcement speaker.

In a statement attributed to the pair, they said: “For us, making music has always been about having fun: being in the studio together, having a laugh. [It’s] a never ending process of exploring new ways of making tunes. Forever learning, always trying to get better.

“With this album, we wanted to try [to] make something that captured the physical…

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The follow-up to 2022’s Trouble The Water is out in July

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Show Me The Body have announced their return with a new album, titled Alone Together.

Spanning 13 tracks, the follow-up to 2022’s Trouble The Water focuses on themes of praxis and putting belief into action, according to a press release. The band made the record with producers Klas Åhlund (whose past credits include work with Robyn) and Kenneth Blume III (who has recently worked with Geese and Fcukers).

Referencing words that Åhlund passed on to the band while they were working on Alone Together, frontman Julian Cashwan Pratt said: “There’s certain parts of our music that are distinctly Show Me The Body. And he was like, ‘Those parts only…

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