Memorials

All Clouds Bring Not Rain

One part Electrelane, one part Wire, Memorials are all gravy and All Clouds Bring Not Rain feels like a great lost album from some magical bygone era, finds Hayley Scott

All Clouds Bring Not Rain by MEMORIALS

There’s a ghost in the Leslie speaker. You can hear it on ‘Wildly Remote’, that blurred, rotor-smeared guitar tone fraying at the edges like a tape played too many times, dissolving the boundary between the song’s warm intimacy and something older, colder, and genuinely uncanny.

All Clouds Bring Not Rain is the second album from Memorials, the duo born out of two of the more quietly canonical acts in British underground music: Electrelane and Wire. The territory they cover is vast, traversed…

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Halo 38, released under the joint name Nine Inch Noize, is out this month

Nine Inch Nails are releasing a collaborative album with Boys Noize under the name Nine Inch Noize.

Titled Halo 38, its release this month will coincide with the two acts’ first live shows together under the Nine Inch Noize banner, which are scheduled to take place at Coachella festival. A billboard advertising the collaboration was spotted in Indio, California where the event will take place this weekend and next.

Boys Noize, real name Alexander Ridha, recently contributed to Nine Inch Nails’ TRON: Ares soundtrack remix album, TRON Ares: Divergence. Ridha also supported the band on tour last year and early this year.

Interscope will release Halo 38 on 17 April…

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WHOLENEW.WORLD collects official releases, live recordings and other material related to the late artist

A new fan-built archive website dedicated to documenting the life and work of SOPHIE has launched online.

WHOLENEW.WORLD collects the late artist’s official releases, live recordings and biographical material about SOPHIE’s life and career. The archive currently takes in live recordings from 2010 to 2020, and further material is due to be added soon.

Those behind the project are inviting people to contribute to the archive, with requests for assistance put out to collaborators, attendees of SOPHIE’s shows, and anyone who may have other information on, or undocumented material by, the artist that is not yet included. Only music that was officially released by SOPHIE will be hosted in…

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Fans believe new material could be on the way after a number of tapes were sent from an address linked to Warp Records

Boards Of Canada may be teasing a new release, with a number of VHS tapes being sent out to fans from an address linked to Warp Records and its retail arm Bleep.

Video posted to Reddit shows that the tapes feature static and decaying analogue visuals, as well as shortwave-style audio and vocal samples, leading fans to speculate that the duo will soon release new music. One Reddit user said they received the tape unexpectedly “from the same address that Warp and Bleep use for shipping” in the US.

Some particularly tuned-in fans have identified samples from the tape’s audio…

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The Icelandic artist will DJ at the August event

Björk is throwing a rave in Iceland to mark the total solar eclipse this August.

The one-day festival, Echolalia, will take place at Víðistaðatún sculpture park in Hafnarfjörður on 12 August. During the event, the festival site will experience complete coverage of the sun by the moon for one minute and four seconds.

Björk will DJ at the event, while Arca is also set to play. Other performances will come from Icelandic acts Sideproject and Ronja Jóhannsdóttir.

A press release announcing the festival read: “For years we’ve been having Mánakvöld – dance evenings under a full moon where Björk invites friends to DJ with her. This time we gather under the total solar…

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It’s the band’s first full-length release since 2021’s Seek Shelter

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Iceage have shared details of a new album, titled For Love Of Grace & The Hereafter.

Spanning 12 tracks, the follow-up to 2021’s Seek Shelter arrives off the back of the unveiling of the single ‘Star’ last month, which features on the new album. The LP was produced and mixed by the band together with Danish artist Nis Bysted at Silence Studio, in rural Sweden near the Norwegian border, last year.

“The songs needed to be immediate, urgent, raw, and fast,” said frontman Elias Rønnenfelt in a statement. “We wanted to try to shed any unnecessary weight. Catching outlets of energy is what excites us the most.”

To mark the announcement of For…

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Jlin and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith are among the other artists who feature on Mercury KX’s Pioneers

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A new compilation from the label Mercury KX sees a number of contemporary producers honour the work of women and gender-expansive artists who have helped shaped electronic music.

The 11-track Pioneers is being released in two parts, with the first of those already out now and the second set to arrive on 17 April. The release, which is inspired by the documentary Sisters With Transistors, sees a number of female producers honour the work of a chosen artist that has influenced them.

Among those who have contributed to the compilation are Loraine James (who honours Björk), Laurel Halo (who pays tribute…

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The song is “about what it feels like to exist in this climate,” Kelela said

Kelela has shared a new single, ‘idea 1’.

Marking the US artist’s first new music since 2023 album Raven, the song was made with producer Oscar Scheller and pairs Kelela’s voice with grungey guitars and dream-pop melodies. It’s expected that a wider project from the artist is on the way sometime this year.

“‘idea 1’ is about what it feels like to exist in this climate – the weight of being expected to witness, absorb, and speak truth at a time when the world feels like it’s unraveling,” Kelela said in a statement. “That’s a particular kind of burden Black women know intimately.”

She continued: “This song doesn’t offer…

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Returning with their first album in eight years, Guttersnipe’s Uroceras Gigas and Tipula Confusa tell Natalie Marlin how xenofeminism can save rock music from stagnation, and what we can learn from non-human creatures

“We both have a very deep interest in non-human life on Earth,” says Guttersnipe guitarist and vocalist Uroceras Gigas, “and the movements and systems of organisation that occur in termite colonies or ants or shoals of fishes.” Gigas, sitting in her home in Leeds, her walls adorned with gig posters from sets she’s played, speaks with an exuberant expansiveness that matches the vibrancy of her attire and multi-coloured hair, eager to springboard from any given topic out into a dozen tangential tendrils. In this case, it’s not long…

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Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg

The Brooklyn-based guitarist swerves sideways from her work with Bill Orcutt and Squanderers to produce a finely-spun album of oneiric country pop and folk rock

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“Only a month ago all of the habits of my old life died / Sounds so extreme, but it is not a lie / all is new / everything,” Wendy Eisenberg sing-speaks on ‘The Ultraworld’, a track that appears halfway through their latest album, a record full of dream-country-pop and intricate takes on 70s folk rock. The music arrives as a celebration of the artist’s newfound queerness and love. There’s a joyful feeling of reinvention throughout, integrating distant places and times into their life. The self-titled album features ten carefully…

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