Jeremy Allen speaks to the recently reinvigorated experimental synth pop band about covering an entire album by The Fall and the changing scene for electronic music

Globo have never really fitted in. That was certainly true when the renegade cell of electronically-minded musicians released their debut album Pro War in 1995, armed with just Akai samplers, drum machines and their wits. Comparisons with groups like Underworld were never quite right, and they couldn’t have been any more antithetical to the hedonistic London-centric Britpop parade that so obsessed the inkies at the time. 

Formed in Norwich in 1993 by then Melody Maker journalist Mark Wernham (who wrote as Mark Roland), plus illustrator Steve Appleton, filmmaker Paul Thompson and former member Ian McGregor, Globo…

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Gilroy Mere

Furlongs

A journey through the anceint rites of the Sussex countryside with wind chies, plinky keyboards and infectious acoustic guitar licks proves a triumph, for Travis Elborough

Furlongs by Gilroy Mere

On the cover of Furlongs is an illustration of a young man with not a whisper of a beard on his smooth chin. The hair is a W H Auden-era short back and sides with an unruly cowlick fringe. He is dressed neatly, in a shirt and tie, waistcoat or possibly sweater vest, a sketch pad and pencil in his hand. The man is framed by a pebble-dash wall and a slated windowpane from which he peers out at the world. Reflected on the glass are the green downland hills and…

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The four-track record takes its title from the Kuwaiti Arabic femme slang for “dirty old man”

Photo by Yasser Abubeker

Fatima Al Qadiri is back with a new EP for Hyperdub, titled 3TWI (عتوي).

Comprised of four tracks, the title is derived from a Kuwaiti Arabic femme slang term to mean “dirty old man”. It features guest contributions from longtime friends and collaborators Bobo Secret, Lama3an and Gumar, and pays musical homage to West Asian folk dance music.

To mark the record’s announcement, Al Qadiri has shared lead track ‘7ilween’, which translates to “pretty young things”. The song comes backed by a video directed by Sophia Al-Maria, which can be watched below. A press release notes that the visual nods to popular Iraqi dance…

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The seven-track LP is out in November

Photo by Guido Gazzilli

Donato Dozzy has a new album on the way for Tresor, titled Astro.

Marking the Italian artist’s second full-length release of 2026, after his collaborative LP with Batu, Exhale, came out in June, this new LP takes in seven tracks. It’s said to be inspired by Jumbo Machinders cartoons, which were based around Japanese robot action figures and were popular in Italy during Dozzy’s childhood.

Every episode of the cartoon was dubbed into Italian, and had its own specially written Italian theme song, which was pressed onto 7-inch vinyl. Last year, Dozzy took a sample from the first of the themes he ever owned, Astro Robot Contatto Ypsylon, and it appears on Astro’s…

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The ninth edition of the festival platforming punks of colour takes place in North London next month

Hang Linton, photo by Spence Hackett

Decolonise Fest has finalised the lineup for its ninth edition, which takes place at Signature Brew Blackhorse Road in London next month.

Running across 3 and 4 October, the festival’s stated aim is to celebrate punks of colour, which will be done via live performances, talks and workshops.

Piroshka and former Lush member Miki Berenyi, cult Scottish outfit Sacred Paws and fast-rising alternative rap trio Frozemode lead the musical lineup, which also includes Third Kulture, Baby Said, Uninvited, Mashaal, Hang Linton, Silver Tabby, Tmdistant, Eatboys. and Dygora.

Newly announced today is a lineup of workshops, panels and creative activity. On Saturday 3,…

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Now that the dust has settled on the 2026 World Cup of soccer, Wayne Rooney assists JR Moores with his rock content 

Dinosaur Jr., photo by Jeff Fowler

“I like a lot of them artists, but I thought it was crap.” Those aren’t my words. Those are the words of the BBC’s last surviving music critic, Wayne Rooney. Fingers crossed the ex-Man U. forward will replace Jools Holland or host next year’s Glastonbury coverage. That ought to curb excess use of the word “iconic”.  Rooney was talking about the World Cup final’s halftime show, an event less welcome than two hydration breaks and a career-jeopardising knee injury. The climax with Coldplay has been hailed in some quarters as a heartwarming touch of “genius”. They…

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James Johnston picked up a paintbrush while on tour with PJ Harvey ten years ago and never put it down again. This is what the practice has taught him. Words and candid photography by Wesley Doyle

Guildford-born James F. Johnston has spent most of his life known as a musician: founder of Gallon Drunk, a former member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Faust, and Big Sexy Noise with Lydia Lunch, he’s played on records by Barry Adamson, Dot Allison and PJ Harvey. It was while on tour with the latter that a way of killing time turned into a daily practice, then a livelihood, and is now – by Johnston’s own reckoning –  his primary identity.

The multi-instrumentalist is now…

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King Ayisoba

Pure Confusion

King Ayisoba’s seventh album was cut live in a single sitting. Everything else was built around it afterwards

Pure Confusion by King Ayisoba

The most useful thing to know about Pure Confusion is how it was made. King Ayisoba flew to England in November 2024, sat down in Adrian Sherwood’s studio in Ramsgate, and played the whole record in one afternoon. He says the songs were already finished in his head. Nothing about his performance was altered after the fact. The bass, the cello, the saxophone, the harmonica, the dub processing on the desk: all of it was added later, to a recording of a man who was alone in a room with a two-string lute made from a calabash…

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In an extract from the new book International Freak, author M. Syd Rosen describes a doomed attempt in 1970 to ignite a revolution with rock & roll

White Panthers EP by Robin Farquharson & The White Panthers

Born in 1930 into a privileged South African family, Robin Farquharson was part of a new wave of intellectuals who tasked themselves with reimagining society in the wake of World War II until everything fell apart. Watched by the secret police and hampered by mounting paranoia, Farquharson fled to 1960s London and tried to reinvent himself as a countercultural guru.

In 1970 the writer and would-be revolutionary recorded a single dedicated to the Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, then being held in Ealing Prison. Farquharson said the song…

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Marc Almond meets Patrick Clarke in Soho to discuss the death of Dave Ball, the final Soft Cell album Danceteria, his career as a shapeshifter, and why a tribute to the decadence of 80s New York marks a full circle moment

Photo by Mike Owen

I meet Marc Almond a few minutes’ walk from the Brewer Street flat in which he lived in the early 1980s. There is a longstanding urban myth that a pet boa constrictor once escaped from it and slithered into the Soho sewers where it slithers to this day, although Almond clarifies that it only got as far as terrorising the neighbours. “I think it got out through the piping and came out through their toilet. I got…

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