Two decades on from the release of Liars third album, Luke Turner argues that its percussive invention shouldn’t obscure a rich, emotional core. For our top tier subscribers, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.

There were arses everywhere. Male and female arses alike, pale against the green paint of the metal fence that darkened with urine, or sticking out from behind swamped portaloos and food stalls, pissing into the municipal grass. The bogs were overwhelmed but so were the bars that fuelled them, staff facing epic queues of angry punters who got to the front only to be told the booze had run out. By the…

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Peaches

No Lube So Rude

Back after eleven years and filthier than ever, Peaches returns with an album full of bangers and more than a few profanities – but does it all get a bit one note sometimes?

No Lube So Rude by Peaches

If the personal is the political then No Lube So Rude is a deeply political album. In a new dark age of censorship, from the UK’s Online Safety Bill to the takeover of TikTok by Trump-affiliated right-wing multibillionaires in the US, our right to say and see what we want is being quietly but quickly eroded. Peaches’ new album is a kind of corrective, a brazenly filthy collection of songs that in another age could have instigated an obscenity trial or…

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It’s the band’s contribution to War Child’s forthcoming HELP(2) album

Pulp have released a new song, called ‘Begging For Change’.

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and produced and mixed by James Ford and Animesh Raval, the song appears on the forthcoming War Child album HELP(2), which is inspired by the charity’s previous 1995 release of the various artists album HELP.

Pulp’s song features contributions from a children’s choir, as well as backing vocals from guests Damon Albarn, Grian Chatten, Kae Tempest and Carl Barat at the beginning of the track.

In 1996, the band’s album Different Class was nominated for the Mercury Prize alongside the original HELP compilation. After winning the award, Jarvis Cocker dedicated it to War Child, and donated the £25,000 prize money to the charity during…

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The recordings were captured at jazz clubs in New York and Philadelphia between 1961 and 1965

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A fabled collection of John Coltrane live recordings dating back to the 60s are set to get their first official release this year.

The recordings featured on Tiberi Tapes were captured at jazz clubs in New York and Philadelphia between 1961 and 1965 by saxophonist Frank Tiberi, but had been stored away in a private collection until now. They will now be unleashed to the world as part of celebrations of what would have been Coltrane’s 100th birthday this September, with an initial exclusive release scheduled for Record Store Day on 18 April and a wider release to follow in September.

Record label Impulse!’s…

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The four-piece’s self-titled debut album is out in April

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Cameron Picton – the bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter previously of Black Midi – has founded a new band, My New Band Believe.

The four-piece are set to release their debut self-titled album, which takes in eight tracks, via Rough Trade in April. Kiran Leonard, guitarist Caius Williams, drummer Steve Noble and drummer Andrew Cheetham all contribute guest turns on the record.

To mark the announcement of the band and album, My New Band Believe have shared their first single, ‘Numerology’, which doesn’t appear on the LP itself. The song will be released as a bonus 10-inch with a special edition of the album, and can be listened to…

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It’s the second cut to be unveiled from their forthcoming self-titled album

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Sunn O))) have shared a new song, titled ‘Butch’s Guns’.

The new cut is the second track to be shared from the group’s forthcoming self-titled album, which marks their first full-length release since signing to Sub Pop last year. They previously released lead track ‘Glory Black’ last month alongside news of the album.

Sunn O))) follows recent maxi-single Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise The Chalice & Reverential. The LP was co-produced and mixed by the band and Brad Wood at Bear Creek Studios in Woodinville, Washington a year ago. The album’s front and back covers feature paintings by the late American artist Mark Rothko, while the liner notes have been…

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The five-track record is a collection of instrumentals

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Alabaster DePlume is set to release a new EP, Dear Children Of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue.

Spanning five tracks, the entirely instrumental record was recorded at Brooklyn’s Figure 8 Recording studio last March, with post-production work by DePlume carried out at London’s Total Refreshment Centre. It sees the artist play saxophones, sampler, synths and guitars, with support from Shahzad Ismaily on bass and Tcheser Holmes on drums.

The trio had been touring the US together around the time of recording the material on Dear Children Of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue, and had built such a strong on-stage rapport that they decided to capture that connection by taking some studio time…

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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Christian Eede shakes tQ with the heavy sounds of 90s and 00s Slovakian techno, and the scene around the U.Club (pictured below)

Any discussion about the history and evolution of techno over the past near-four decades will always naturally be dominated by two cities: Detroit and Berlin. For a period of around 10 years, though, beginning in the mid-90s, the capital of Slovakia, Bratislava, became a vital outpost for an austere, industrial-edged take on the genre that was cultivated at the now-closed U.Club.

Opened in 1993 by Tibor Holoda, the venue was situated inside a former underground nuclear bunker that was built by the ruling Communists to prepare for the possibility of Cold War-era apocalypse….

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The Hen Ogledd family keeps on expanding – the group’s sound, likewise. But more than anything, Discombobulated sounds like the present, finds Jeanette Leech

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Hen Ogledd’s Discombobulated is in the radical mould of music that tackles the now. Unconcerned that references may go out of date, the timelessness of their sound comes in documenting the present, rather than in seeking to transcend (or ignore) it. Lyrically, Discombobulated celebrates dissent with all the force of the protest tradition in folk music; musically, the album glues together sounds and genres to evoke the chaos of today.

Hen Ogledd is the project of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington. The first releases were just Dawson and Davies; since then,…

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Voka Gentle

Domestic Bliss

Greek mythology, Kraftwerk synths and Jude Law wend their way through the trio’s follow-up to 2021 album Writhing!

Domestic Bliss by Voka Gentle

Ten thousand years ago, a man died in what would become Somerset. His bones waited in a cave until 1903, when they were discovered and given a name: Cheddar Man. Now he’s the subject of a song by Voka Gentle, who use his story to contemplate what we’re doing to the places where people have lived for millennia. “Let’s say the sea levels rise and we lose north Somerset, which, by the way, is looking increasingly likely…” William J Stokes’s voice is dry, conversational, with the studied neutrality of a local news presenter. Beneath it, the music…

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