Insecure Men

A Man For All Seasons

Co-founder of Fat White Family manifests transition through love songs

A Man For All Seasons by Insecure Men

With its ecstatic chorus resembling ‘Crimson and Clover’ by Tommy James & the Shondells, ‘Alien’ is a charming account of stalking an object of desire. “I see you cry, see you trying to boil an egg, see you desperately alone, see you out with other men”. While not necessarily a crooner, Adamczewski is an articulate storyteller. “I was born to be your lover, I was born to be your man,” he intones.

A Man For All Seasons appears to be a concept album that might evoke The Love Cycle by Forever Amber, especially in the minds of those familiar with…

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Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs’ first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines. Cabaret Voltaire rehearsal shot by Pete Hill

Cabaret Voltaire’s world has always been strange though it was perhaps at its strangest between 1974 and 1982, before tracks like ‘Sensoria’ and ‘Just Fascination’ propelled them more forcefully onto dancefloors. A major part of that story is Chris Watson, one of three founders, who reluctantly left the band in 1982 in order to pursue the vocation of television sound recordist. This was a métier that would take him to Tyne Tees in Manchester and then across the seven seas of Planet Earth, recording the sounds made by penguins…

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Sarathy Korwar

There Is Beauty, There Already

Korwar’s meditative drum-suite portrays an artist rediscovering their roots while challenging the notion of rhythm itself

There Is Beauty, There Already by Sarathy Korwar

Across a forty-minute drum-based suite, drummer and composer Sarathy Korwar reveals the transcendental nature of repetition as a thing of awe and beauty. Combining tablas, Southern Indian clay pot ghatams, drum kit, bells, xylophones, vocal drones and a Buchla Music Easel, Korwar unveils a morphing and organic investigation into rhythm itself. With previous work exploring identity, migration and futurism, Korwar is going back to basics on his latest release, There Is Beauty, There Already, showcasing the depths to which the drums can reach as instruments for ascension.

Korwar’s rhythmic layering is of particular note….

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It’s their first non-collaborative record in almost nine years

Converge are releasing a new album, Love Is Not Enough.

Comprising 10 tracks, the band’s 11th studio album follows 2021’s Bloodmoon I, which they made in collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe and Stephen Brodky. The new LP is the group’s first made solely with their four core members – vocalist Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller – since 2017’s The Dusk In Us, however.

In a statement about the new album, Bannon said: “It does a thing that no other Converge record does – it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right…

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They’ve also shared a video for lead track ‘Scales will fall’

Hen Ogledd – the band of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington – have announced their first new album in six years, DISCOMBOBULATED.

Drawing on themes of political tumult, personal crises and mental wellbeing, work on the eight-track record began in 2024 when the band members were rallied together by for studio sessions by drummer and friend of the group Will Guthrie. The album features the voices of friends’ and band members’ children, as well as field-recorded horses and insects captured by Chris Watson and David Reid.

Among the other contributions to appear on DISCOMBOBULATED are the drumming of Guthrie; spoken word from Matana Roberts, Truly Kaput, C. Spencer Yeh and…

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The releases include remastered audio, as well as unheard demos and other bonus material

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Alan Vega’s first two solo albums, Alan Vega and Collision Drive, are being reissued by Sacred Bones.

Both LPs have been remastered from their original tapes for the updated release, and are also being made available on streaming platforms for the first time ever as part of the reissue campaign.

Sacred Bones will also put out an additional companion record, Alan Vega Deluxe Edition, which will be available as a limited deluxe double-LP, and include unheard demos, unseen photos and new artwork. The physical editions of all three albums will come with unseen photos and new album artwork.

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Lee narrates a new audiobook of the former Fall bassist’s acclaimed 2014 memoir The Big Midweek, which is released next week

First published in 2015, Steve Hanley’s memoir The Big Midweek (co-written with Olivia Piekarski) details his 19 years as the ‘backbone’ of The Fall.

Perhaps second only to Mark E. Smith himself when it came to shaping the group’s sound during his tenure, Hanley joined as bassist aged just 19 in 1979, and stayed the course until a now-infamously acrimonious departure, which followed a physical altercation between Smith and his bandmates onstage in New York in 1998

During that time, the band released some of their most enduring albums including Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted By Language, This Nation’s Saving Grace and Hanley’s…

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While music biz expert Eamonn Forde welcomes government plans to close the exploitative “secondary ticket” market, he argues that more needs to be done to help consumers and artists alike

Oasis live by Big Brother Recordings

Who will spare a thought for StubHub and Viagogo? They are two of the heavyweights of secondary ticketing, with the latter having bought the former in 2019 to gain an even bigger share of the market. They are the places where you can sell tickets for gigs that you can no longer attend. Great. So convenient. They also seem to be places where serially clumsy people, who somehow accidentally and repeatedly buy multiple tickets for a big show but then seconds later realise they cannot attend, can sell their unwanted tickets,…

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Kling Klang

Half Life

Kling Klang’s latest is gritty, bassy and stuffed to the gills with unusual synths from the get go

Half Life by Kling Klang

Avant-garde DIY project Kling Klang are one of the most exciting acts emerging from Liverpool’s underground scene right now. Toying with a concoction of experimental sounds, the collective has spent the last four years reinventing itself through the melodies of frantic keys, bassy electronica, buzzing synths and gothic arrangements.

Originally founded by Joe McLaughlin, Amy Corcoran and Peter Smyth, over the years, King Klang has shape-shifted its lineup and is currently composed of Part Chimp members McLaughlin and Jonny Hamilton, alongside a selection of other contributors.

Half Life, explores post-punk through a different lens. In a tracklist of ten…

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‘DⱯTS’ will be released by the label later this month

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PΞB, the Berlin-based industrial, noise and punk duo of Ilia Gorovitz and Asja Skrinik who are part of the 2025 SHAPE+ roster of artists, are set to release a new song on a compilation from Brussels-based label Antiboy.

‘DⱯTS’ will appear on the forthcoming release alongside new cuts from the likes of Shit And Shine, Arikon, Bakantez, Current 909, NNSQ and more. You can listen to a one-minute teaser for PΞB’s song, which centres around punishing bursts of bass, noise and off-killter drums, below.

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