Human Leather

Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body

Amée Chanter and Thomas Close still sound like Lightning Bolt crossed with Electric Wizard but with a surprising new knack for melody, finds Jon Buckland

Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body by Human Leather

When my wife was little, she dreamt of being a hand model, gesturing alluringly towards the various prizes on Bruce’s Price is Right. At the time, no artists were crafting music for people with her ambitions. In 2021, Saint Surly and Dyl Thomas addressed this with their predominantly instrumental track featuring a sample of Seinfeld’s George bemoaning the effects of stress on his money-making epidermis. More famously, Queens of the Stone Age closed their self-titled debut with ‘I…

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It’s preceded by nine-minute lead cut ‘The Happening’

Jeff Mills has a new album on the way with his Tomorrow Comes The Harvest project.

Due out early in 2026, Forbidden Planet’s tracklist is still yet to be announced. It follows on from the group’s last album, 2023’s Evolution.

The trio have shared lead single ‘The Happening’, which is a nine-minute improvised piece and can be listened to below.

The group are heading out on an 11-date tour starting this Thursday in Naples., which begins in Naples this Thursday. The run of shows will include a night at London’s Jazz Cafe this Saturday (September 27).

Mills is also soon set to begin a special tour marking the 30th anniversary of his iconic Live At The Liquid…

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He’s also shared the lead track from the record, ‘Starburst’

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Danny Brown has a new album on the way.

The US rapper’s seventh studio LP continues his long-standing partnership with Warp Records, and spans 14 tracks. A press release notes that it’s Brown’s first record written and created in sobriety, and sees him work with a number of artists from outside his traditional musical world, including Jane Remover, Quadeca, underscores and Femtanyl.

To mark the album’s announcement, Brown has shared lead track ‘Starburst’, which you can watch a vdi below.

Warp Records will release Stardust on November 7, 2025.

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Its first release is the EP Approaching, which will be released via !K7

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Marcel Dettmann has launched a new alias, My Own Shadow.

Its first release will be a five-track EP called Approaching, which will be released through !K7. The record explores techno and ambient music, while the new alias is an attempt to fold his alternative musical influences, like Depeche Mode and The Cure, plus early post-punk and industrial, into the club-friendly sounds he’s most known for.

“I’ve reached a point where I don’t just want to release tracks or play club sets,” he said in a statement. “I want to create a space where all of my artistic expressions meet.”

Listen to lead track ‘DMT’ below.

!K7 will release Approaching…

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The Irish trio plan to take legal action against the ban, as well as MP Vince Gasparro

Kneecap have been banned from entering Canada, according to a recent statement shared by Toronto MP Vince Gasparro.

Posting on X, formerly Twitter, last Friday (September 19), Gasparro, who serves as the parliamentary secretary to Ontario’s secretary of state for combatting crime, said the government considers Kneecap “ineligible to enter our country”. The trio had been due to play four shows in the country next month, with two of those set to take place in Toronto, and the other two in Vancouver.

Gasparro added: “The group have amplified political violence and publicly displayed support for terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.”

In response to Gasparro’s words,…

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In his latest French music round-up, David McKenna looks at what the French mean by ‘electro’ and delves into new releases from a multi-faceted Franco-Senegalese artist, guitar-and-damaged-turntable improv and more

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Standfirst: In his latest French music round-up, David McKenna looks at what the French mean by ‘electro’ and delves into new releases from a multi-faceted Franco-Senegalese artist, guitar-and-damaged-turntable improv and more. 

A recent call by Emmanuel Macron to have French electronic music, or ‘French Touch’, added to the UNESCO cultural heritage list – as Berlin techno has been – was greeted with some perplexity and even derision in the Anglosphere, thanks to his claim that the French are “the inventors of electro.” Typical comments below a news piece on Mixmag would be,…

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‘Paintwork’, an album track from This Nation’s Saving Grace, is in some respects the key to the song-writing processes of The Fall. John Doran looks back to 1985 with some help from Mark E. Smith. Originally published in 2010

Mark E. Smith writes… no, he builds a song to the standards he requires, just for other people to turn up to complain about the lack of respect he has shown for the finished product. The bloody cheek! They are busybody site inspectors complaining about his lack of understanding about current health and safety regulations. He is a hard bitten old school site foreman bitching bitterly about the nanny state while dragging on a roll-up.

“And sometimes they say, ‘Hey Mark,…

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Kieran Hebden + William Tyler

41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s

Dudes from Four Tet and Lambchop pick up their acoustic guitars and take a look at America

41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s by Kieran Hebden + William Tyler

If you can remember the late 80s then you probably wish you weren’t there. Kieran Hebden and William Tyler’s debut album together, 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, is an exercise in memory that begs the question: what fannish interests from that period would you like to hang onto and what would you rather forget? And even if you hide those embarrassing brief compulsions and fads away retrospectively, did they shape you any less? Hebden and Tyler go excavating a shared past on different continents on 41…

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Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin

Ghosted III

The third hook-up between the Australian guitarist and the Swedish rhythm section feels relaxed and nimble – and more ghostly than ever

Ghosted III by Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin

In the world of free improvisation and experimental music, ad hoc ensembles named just for their members are more often than not ephemeral, one-off formations. Australian guitarist Oren Ambarchi has participated in a fair share of such outfits, collaborating with everyone from electronic musician Ricardo Villalobos to noisenik Keiji Hano. His 2022 meeting with the Swedish duo of drummer Andreas Werliin and bassist Johan Berthling appeared likely to face the same fate of showing us a great time and then ghosting us for…

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Following his involvement in Tai Shani’s The Spell or The Dream at Somerset House, Mo’min Swaitat of the Palestinian Sound Archive tells Rob Corsini about how the project is preserving Palestine’s musical and cultural history

Photo courtesy of Mo’Min Swaitat

Growing up in a Palestinian Bedouin family, music was around Mo’min Swaitat from a young age. Gatherings, weddings, and evenings in living rooms were spent listening to music, often played by Swaitat’s family – many of whom were musicians themselves. This music wasn’t just for entertainment though; it also functioned as a collective cultural archive. “Living in a Palestinian Bedouin family is quite often haunting,” Swaitat says. “In a good way – there’s a story that follows us.”

Swaitat moved to London in…

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