With a combined age somewhere in the region of 130, French couple Pepe and Irene deliver a powerful industrial sound that a band less than half their age would struggle to match. Words: David McKenna.

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Strange World Of... The Strange World Of… Chris Watson. Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks ...

Mark Andrews looks into the four decade back catalogue of the mutant blues master and finds ten points of entry ...

With the end of June comes the slew of 2025-so-far charts and its accompanying discourse, the first proper attempt to ...

Black Antlers by Coil Black Antlers comes with less of the mythos that attaches itself to other Coil albums. Where Time ...

It was inevitable that David Lynch’s death would prompt re-engagement with his now completed body of work. In the UK at least ...

But Remember What You Have Had is centred, unsurprisingly, around O’Malley’s signature downtuned guitar chords. They sound ...

Baker's Dozen All For The Songs: Edwyn Collins’ Favourite Music. On the verge of a new album and his final ever tour, Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, ...

Music of the Month Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2025 From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, ...

Electronic Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative ...

Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days, now in its third years, has unveiled the full programme for their 2025 event, which takes ...