Kinlaw & Franco Franco

Faith Elsewhere

The Bristol-based, Avon Terror Corps-affiliated duo of Kinlaw and Italian MC Franco Franco bend time and space into terrifying new shapes

Faith Elsewhere by Kinlaw & Franco Franco

“Feels like a thousand years shut in the room, the wallpaper messed with muddle and paranoia, the machine’s looming watches you from within, the pointed finger, the missing face,” riffs MC Franco Franco over porous industrial thumps and bursts of noise laid beneath him by producer Kinlaw. Although ‘Air Loom Gang’, the opening cut from the Bristol-based duo’s latest album Faith Elsewhere, alludes to the wild claims of the 19th-century merchant/conspiracy theorist/activist James Tilly Matthews about warmongering mind-control methods, the lyrics at hand are anything but historical or hysterical. They…

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Claire Biddles speaks to the (Northern) English musician about her American influences, about processing intense grief and about working with close friends

Daughters by Jennifer Walton

On the cover of Jennifer Walton’s album Daughters lays a severed plait, tied with a bow and perched on a satin cushion. “In the midst of grief, I got the worst haircut of my life,” explains the Sunderland-born musician, now based in London, whose record deals with the recent death of her father. “It was kind of like a bob with long bits, just awful. So I cut it off myself and kept it because I knew it would come in handy, which it did. I think your own objects can end up haunting you.” Somehow this eerie…

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In this month’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner and Jude Rogers celebrate the half century of Brian Eno’s wonderful third solo album

In this week’s Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner is once more joined by Jude Rogers for a chat about Brian Eno’s Another Green World. Released 50 years ago next month, this is the sound of Eno working out who he was as an artist in a gloriously tricksy, strange album that blends songwriting and his rich, distinctive voice with the more textual, proto-ambient music for which he’d become synonymous. Best approached by reciprocating the sense of wonder with which it is imbued, Another Green World is a thoughtful, melancholy, fragile record, arguably one of Eno’s most emotionally resonant moments….

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The Philadelphia group turn shoegazing on its head, replacing its hazy nostalgia with a restless, anxious energy, finds Aydin Khalili

photo credit: Kasey Agosto

It’s a quirk of fate that shoegaze has seen such a resurgence decades after being largely abandoned by its main proponents. Perhaps the media were mostly to blame, pushing bands to look up from their pedalboards and lean into more alt-rock or Britpop affiliations in the mid-90s. Even so, it seemed they had reached the limits of their futuristic, innovative sounds back then. Though we’ve seen reunions and new material from veterans like Slowdive, Ride, Lush, and Swervedriver over the past decade, what distinguishes this reinvigoration is its embrace of fresh touches and new ingredients.

Well, it’s not exactly…

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Previously only available as a Japan-exclusive CD, the set features reworks by Justice, Soulwax and Basement Jaxx

Daft Punk’s 2006 remix album for 2005 LP Human After All is to be pressed on vinyl for the first time.

The collection of reworks was previously only made available as a Japan-exclusive CD, though it was given a wider digital release in 2014. The new vinyl pressing will come in the form of a limited 2xLP gatefold edition.

The 15-track Human After All Remixes features reworks of Human After All tracks by the likes of Justice, Soulwax, Basement Jaxx, Peaches, Erol Alkan, Vitalic and Daft Punk themselves. You can listen to the full release below, and pre-order the vinyl here.

Daft Life Ltd. will release Human…

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The final instalment of the Canadian artist’s trio of LPs is out next month

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Kara-Lis Coverdale has shared details of her third album of 2025, titled Changes In Air.

Comprised of five tracks, the LP sees Coverdale play electric organ, modular synths and piano. It was adapted from a work originally written for an installation at Skarven in Oslo, which is a floating sauna, facing a fjord, that is heated by wood fire and solar radiation.

Five ‘materials’ are said to influence the album’s arrangements: wood, water, sun, glass and metal. Coverdale composed, played and recorded Changes In Air in Marquette, Manitoba in 2019, and completed it this year.

The new record follows on from May’s From Where You Came, which was Coverdale’s first new…

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The new track is the first taste of forthcoming album Mercy, which is produced entirely by The Alchemist

Armand Hammer have shared the first preview of their forthcoming The Alchemist-produced album, Mercy.

The track, ‘Super Nintendo’, sees the duo of billy woods and ELUCID trade bars over a lilting beat and earworm of a synth line reminiscent of the video game sounds one might have heard from an old Nintendo console in the 90s. Listen to the song below.

Spanning 14 tracks, Mercy takes in guest vocals from Earl Sweatshirt, Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris, Cleo Reed, Kapwani and Silka. It’s Armand Hammer’s second album with The Alchemist, following 2021’s Haram.

The new record, a press release said, is “made out of blood and empire, children’s laughter, unpaid…

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‘House Of Dead Memories’ arrives alongside news of shows in London and New York featuring the original lineup

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Sugar, the trio formed by Bob Mould in the wake of Hüsker Dü, have reunited.

The group have shared their first piece of new music together in over 30 years in the form of the track ‘House Of Dead Memories’. You can watch a video for the song below.

They’ve also confirmed their first live performances together since January 1995, which will take place at New York City’s Webster Hall on May 2 and 3, 2026, followed by a pair of shows at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on May 23 and 24, 2026. The four dates will see the original lineup of Mould, bassist David Barbe and drummer Malcolm…

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The song had previously only been heard via bootlegs and a live version

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The final song recorded by Life Without Buildings before their 2002 split is to be given a first-time official release.

The track in question, ‘Love Trinity’, previously received a small Australian release, but has mostly only been heard by fans via bootlegs and the live version that and appeared on the live album Live At The Annandale Hotel, released after the band’s split.

The previously unreleased studio recording is now being shared by Glasgow label Errol’s Hot Wax, with the digital release available and the 12-inch vinyl set to be made available from November 21. Find the single via Errol’s Hot Wax’s Bandcamp page, and listen to the song…

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DJ Babatr

Root Echoes

Dancefloor relics alongside new interpretations of his era-defining sound from the inventor of Raptor House

Root Echoes by DJ BABATR

Music history bristles with tragic accounts of trailblazers who only got their due after their passing. Pedro Elías Corro, alias DJ Babatr, the godfather of raptor house, was already an icon of the Caracas underground when his “second coming” came, after a 14-year hiatus. His productions had been circulating widely beyond domestic borders via bootleg CDs and various compilations. Western audiences were just starting to take notice. A new generation, notably US producer Nick León and the Colombian TraTraTrax crew, recognised him as one of dance music’s unrecognised visionaries. The fruit of their collab, ‘Xtasis’, co-produced by León, remains an…

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