Wu-Lu Learning To Swim On Empty South London's Wu-Lu releases first EP since debut LOGGERHEAD and retreats even further into his interior life, while pessimism and optimism are locked in fierce battle, says Arusa Qureshi Learning To Swim On Empty by Wu-Lu There’s an overwhelming feeling of emptiness that many of us can relate to at the moment...

25 years after it was first released we should now regard Moby's Play as the first album of the 21st Century, says Ed Gillet. This article was first published on 13 May 2019 In the two decades since its release, Moby’s Play has been many things: the epitome of late-capitalist muzak, infamously licensed for commercial use more than any album before...

The already brilliant and nerve-shredding cinematic soundscapes of Mike Patton's Fantômas now make much more sense two decades later, says Jeremy Allen Director's Cut by Fantomas What does cinematic mean in the context of music? Used frequently in music writing, it can just as easily refer to the viscerally paralysing orchestral dissonance of Bernard...

This week we celebrate the new Quietus with a compilation released right back when we started, and that inspired a lot of what the site became. Spring-like weather has finally arrived… and so has the new Quietus! Even as launch day was fast approaching last week, John and Luke still found a quiet hour to record the site’s regular podcast – this...

Beth Gibbons gives us the understanding of our mortality that we all need on her most revealing work, finds Puja Nandi https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/sets/beth-gibbons-life-outgrown?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing They say good things come in threes. Although not formally broken up, Portishead gifted...

JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection Mahti, photo by Aino Looking back on the peak of the CD-R era, it now seems like a golden age in the history of experimental music distribution. Dinosaurs (like me) claim that young people these days, who've grown up under...