While black metal history is often the story of errant youth reaping chaos, Agriculture plough their own furrow. Dan Franklin meets a band who sow explosive seeds via songwriting and then reap joyous brinkmanship onstage. Main portrait by Olivia Crumm

The Spiritual Sound by Agriculture

The storm clouds are towering over Brighton Palace Pier for Agriculture’s arrival at the Dust nightclub for the second night of their UK tour. They have travelled from Bristol on this leg, evidenced in the branding on guitarist/vocalist Dan Meyer’s new cap: “Stonehenge est. 3,000 BC”. Sadly we don’t get enough time together to discuss their opinions on the Neolithic transition from hunter-gathering to farming.

Seeing Agriculture in a venue fifty metres from the English Channel is fitting…

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Luke Turner and guest Jude Rogers go on holiday by mistake to discuss masculinity, England, and myths of a healing countryside in Bruce Robinson’s masterpiece

With John away, Luke gave tQ regular and all-round excellent scribe Jude Rogers a shout to see if she’d be up for coming on a special edition of the Low Culture podcast about Withnail & I, Bruce Robinson’s 1987 masterpiece – a searing, hilarious, beautiful portrayal of complex male relationships, the brokenness of post-war England, and the failure of the 60s counterculture. Jude and Luke discuss gender in a film in which there are after all only about three female characters – is Withnail & I simply for blokes, or is something more complex, and sensitive, at play?…

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Ganser

Animal Hospital

Producer by Angus from Liars, the latest from the slimmed down Chicago trio has its share of curveballs, still plenty rockin’

Animal Hospital by Ganser

They sure know how to pick ‘em. Producers, that is. Ganser’s previous album, Just Look At That Sky, was co-produced by Mia Clarke from Electrelane. The same role, on this new one, has been filled by Angus Andrew of Liars. For those who aren’t aware, Electrelane and Liars were two of the greatest bands of the 2000s. The former made art-rock masterpieces such as Axes at a time when the NME was championing the glossier tosh of Kasabian and The Killers. Liars (who still exist with Andrew as sole constant member) swerved styles with such unpredictable…

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The Detroit techno legend will play club shows in London, Tokyo, Paris, Osaka and Hong Kong through the remainder of the year

Jeff Mills is heading out on a special tour to mark 30 years since the release of his iconic mix Live At The Liquid Room.

The run of dates will see him play clubs in London, Tokyo, Paris, Osaka and Hong Kong through the remainder of this year, with further shows in 2026 set to be announced at a later date.

Recorded in October 1995 at the Tokyo club of the same name, and released in May 1996, Live At The Liquid Room – Tokyo is widely seen as one of the greatest DJ mixes of all time. Across 38 tracks…

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vari/ations – Ode To Oram will be released in November

A new compilation is set to celebrate the legacy of legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop co-founder Daphne Oram.

Spanning 10 tracks, vari/ations – Ode To Oram sees a number of contemporary artists contribute tracks made using sound samples taken from over 280 of Oram’s archival audio tapes – some of which have never been heard before.

Among those who feature on the release are Cosey Fanni Tutti, TAAHLIAH, Marta Salogni, Deena Abdelwahed and Arushi Jain. The compilation is a partnership release between the label Nonclassical, the Oram Awards and Oram Trust.

“It’s been such a privilege to work with Daphne’s sounds,” Fanni Tutti said in a statement. “She’s been an inspiration for so many years….

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Through The Open Window features recordings by the artist dated between 1956 and 1963

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Some of Bob Dylan’s earliest musical recordings are set to be collected in a new box set, Through The Open Window: The Bootleg Series Vol. 18.

Capturing Dylan’s work between 1956 and 1963, the box set revisits his teenage years living in Minnesota, through to his early days in New York’s Greenwich Village. It will be released digitally and in 8xCD, 2xCD and 4xLP editions. The physical editions will come with a 125-page liner notes essay penned by historian Sean Wilentz.

The last two discs of Through The Open Window capture a famed concert that Dylan played at New York’s Carnegie Hall on October 26, 1963. The recordings of the performance are previously…

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The artist’s second studio album is her first full-length effort since signing to XL Recordings

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keiyaA has shared details of her second album, hooke’s law.

Spanning 19 tracks, it marks her first full-length release since signing to XL Recordings last year. It features recent single ‘stupid prizes’, as well as a new track called ‘take it’, for which you can watch a video below.

In a statement, keiyaA described hooke’s law as “an album about the journey of self love, from an angle that isn’t all affirmations and capitalistic self-care. It’s not a linear story with a moral at the end. It’s more of a cycle, a spiral – it’s Hooke’s law.”She continued: “With this work I aim to interrogate…

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Galya Bisengalieva

Polygon Reflections

Remixes by The Bug, KMRU, Lucy Liyou and others transform the Kazakh violinist’s 2024 album of relections on the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site

Polygon Reflections by Galya Bisengalieva

Galya Bisengalieva tells historical stories through poignant compositions. The Kazakh violinist’s music stems from deep research into her heritage and Soviet memory, finding undertold stories and retelling them through mood-conjuring, expansive music. It is at once personal and communal, a means of sharing the past through music. With Polygon Reflections, Bisengalieva expands her storytelling by inviting nine electronic musicians to offer their own takes on her 2024 album Polygon, which was a stark musical response to the life and aftermath of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site (The Polygon). The resulting album is…

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Dopethrone, says Dan ‘The Doom’ Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection on her mind. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard’s most notorious album

Anyone stricken with grief at the death of Ozzy Osbourne might have taken to their beds this summer to binge-watch The Osbournes. If they had, during episode 10 of the second season (which originally aired in February 2003) they might have made an interesting discovery. As Sharon Osbourne ventures into teenage son Jack’s disorderly bedroom and makes her way to the ensuite bathroom, she stumbles upon a discarded used…

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NEW YORK

Push

The duo of artists Gretchen Lawrence and Coumba Samba captures the peculiar numbness of the present, finds Hayley Scott

Push by NEW YORK

There’s something phantom-like about NEW YORK’s presence, their un-Googleable name serving as both obstacle and invitation. In an era where young artists saturate every digital channel to fight algorithmic obscurity, the London-based duo of American Coumba Samba and Estonian Gretchen Lawrence have chosen deliberate elusiveness instead. It’s a radical stance that extends into their music: capturing digitally mediated existence without succumbing to its demands for constant visibility.

2024’s rapstar was a deadpan testament to the terminally online. The album occupied a strange middle ground between tedium and unease: grating yet oddly comforting, music so inert it became the perfect…

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