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Muse – The Wow! Signal
Muse The Wow! Signal Muse's tenth album may be their most grandiose yet. Our man in high dudgeon, JR Moores goes track-by-track with Matt Bellamy and the boys The opening track on Muse’s tenth studio album contains the lyric “I’ve got absolutely nothing / Absolutely nothing new to say.” Only joking. That’s a line from ‘Empty Pledges’ by Yard Act. Imagine hea
M. Geddes Gengras – Guest List
M. Geddes Gengras Guest List Modular whizz Gengras brings in pals from Body Meta, Charalambides and Six Organs of Admittance, but despite some dazzling moments, perhaps the overall record suffers from a surfeit of features Guest List by M. Geddes Gengras The word “meditative” is as groan-inducingly overused as a descriptor for ambient music as a word can be,
Going for the Jugular: On the Recording of the Velvet Underground & Nico
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground, author and music journalist Richie Unterberger re-assesses the role played by pop artist Andy Warhol in one of the seminal rock albums of the late 1960s John Cale and Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground performs on stage at the Cafe Bizarre, New York, Dece
Helen Svoboda – Headwater
Helen Svoboda Headwater On Room40, an album in which the gaps between sounds are sometimes as significant as the sounds themselves Headwater by Helen Svoboda For her latest album, Headwater, Helen Svoboda has stripped her work back to the essentials. The Finnish/Australian artist has assembled a minimalist album of double bass musings and vocals, frequently
Pomelo – Loreless
Pomelo Loreless Dutch duo make a woozy kind of pop, full of muffled rumbles and icy desperation LORELESS by POMELO On their debut album, Pomelo seek to strip themselves of context. Before sinking into what Wynnm Murphy (on a later track) will describe as “amnesia haze,” the singer attempts a sweeping personal introduction by drawing up their place in the fam
Truck Violence – The Weathervane Is My Body
Truck Violence The Weathervane Is My Body A cathartic blast of blaring noise rock from the Montreal four-piece The weathervane is my body by Truck Violence Two weeks before their debut Violence hit the shelves, Truck Violence’s home burned to the ground. Despite losing everything the Montreal-based four-piece picked themselves up and carried on doing what th
Debt Rag – It Is Clear What’s Going On
Debt Rag It Is Clear What’s Going On Olympia, Washington trio make Sesame Street no wave, a new kind of absurdist bubblegum avant-garde with the energy of a perpetual motion machine and not a guitar in sight It Is Clear What's Going On by Debt Rag There is something pointed about calling your record It Is Clear What’s Going On in 2026 and then responding wit
Nature Boy: Driving Through Belgium by Anton Pearson
This ambient side project from the guitarist in Squid reaches back through a deep history of British music inspired by the countryside Credit: Holly Whitaker Locked into the grind of city living, it’s easy to feel depressed, isolated, alienated. The world we live in feels so hostile, and it’s all too easy to feel completely disconnected from your peers, your
Akusmi – Terra Incognita
Akusmi Terra Incognita Pascal Bideau’s latest album as Akusmi plays out like a collective expression of notional anthems from unknown lands, says Bernie Brooks Terra Incognita by Akusmi Just shy of a decade ago, I toured part of an automobile plant where trucks are assembled. While this was obviously a sanitised space intended for visitors, it was equally ob