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August 2024

  • Everything from sad orchestral to darkcore … Lance Gurisik.

    Contemporary album of the month
    Lance Gurisik: Proffer review – a heart-wrenching, genre-crossing compendium

    The Australian composer’s latest offering is a mashup of electronica, minimalism, drum’n’bass and more – but it’s the orchestral tracks that really shine
  • Laurie Anderson.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Laurie Anderson

    Your chance to ask Anderson about taking avant garde music to the pop charts with O Superman, making an AI chatbot of her late husband Lou Reed or even having her own planet
  • Back to the club … Matmos at OFF festival in Katowice, Poland, in 2010.

    Hit em: how a dream about raves, graves and slime led Matmos’s Drew Daniel to a new music genre

    While Daniel slept, a girl introduced him to ‘super crunched-out sounds’ at a wild tempo. After he shared the details on X, producers are making his fantasies into reality

July 2024

  • David Lynch and Chrystabell.

    ‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery

  • ‘Just a beanbag short of a bliss-out’: André 3000 at the Art of Gallery of New South Wales.

    Volume festival: André 3000 brings experimental flute jams to an event that’s wonderful when weird

  • ‘The cacophony of existential questions’ … Beyza Yazgan.

    Contemporary album of the month
    Beyza Yazgan: Human Cocoon review – from Middle Eastern classical to American minimalism

  • Portrait of Alan Sparhawk, who wears a dark denim shirt.

    Low’s Alan Sparhawk on the death of his wife and bandmate Mimi Parker: ‘If you fall in love, you know this could happen’

  • Global album of the month
    Bizhiki: Unbound review – commanding Native American songcraft

  • ‘A folk music wolf in doom metal clothing’: readers’ favourite albums of 2024 so far

June 2024

  • Dirty Three Sydney Opera House credit Daniel Boud 006b

    Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything review – aggressive and transcendent

  • Drama and delicacy … Peiriant’s Dan and Rose Linn-Pearl.

    Folk album of the month
    Peiriant: Dychwelyd review – iridescent soundscapes summon spirit of the mountains

  • Dua Lipa, Bobby Vylan of Bob Vylan, and Nia Archives.

    From Coldplay to KMRU: who to see at Glastonbury 2024

  • Making quiet arrhythmic beauty from nature’s sonic universe … Nina Corti AKA QOA

    Contemporary album of the month
    QOA: Sauco review – electro-acoustic jewels incorporate the sounds of nature

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Mabe Fratti: Sentir Que No Sabes review – rich, rewarding, spellbinding music from a true original

  • James Chance, key figure in New York’s no wave music scene, dies aged 71

  • ‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention

  • Best culture of 2024 so far
    The best albums of 2024 so far

May 2024

  • Thou.

    Thou: Umbilical review – one of the finest metal albums of the past decade

    Huge riffs, guttural vocals and fearsome intent create a formidable wall of sound in the US band’s maximalist, in-your-face sixth album
  • Carlos Niño.

    ‘Collaboration lifts up the field, electrifying it’: musician Carlos Niño on jams with André 3000 and more

    The multi-hyphenate LA artist explains how he facilitates journeys into the ‘eternal depths’ – and why his new album is all about pregnancy and birth
  • More intense and focused … Ezra Feinberg.

    Contemporary album of the month
    Ezra Feinberg: Soft Power review – trippy, bucolic and playfully minimal

    Feinberg has moved from psychedelic rock to a hypnotic romanticism that invites us to share in its gently throbbing pulses and heart-tugging beauty
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