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A Halloween take on 'Fire Of The Mind' here
Here’s something appropriate for the 31st October to bend past your ears – a droning, crunching, doomy cover of Coil’s hymnal ‘Fire Of The Mind’ by Hawthonn, the Leeds-based purveyors of occult esotericism whose album Red Goddess (of this the men shall know nothing) is a Quietus highlight of 2018. You can listen to the Coil cover above, and the aforementioned LP below.
Violinist and composer Laura Cannell explores a trio of new string compositions from the leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, previously a collaborator with Suzanne Ciani, Terry Riley, Thom Yorke and Frank Ocean, and a powerful force in new and primordial music
Lead singer of Fat White Family, Lias Saoudi, self-pens a Baker’s Dozen of thirteen musical choices that map his early life to the present day, from Ireland to Scotland, Cambodia to Algeria, via dark country and the howling void. With thanks to Adelle Stripe
On the release of her debut solo album, former Lush member Emma Anderson takes Jude Rogers through her favourite albums, from a teenage years soundtracked by Simple Minds and The Durutti Column to her affinity with later 4AD labelmates
In this week's Baker's Dozen, Nadine Shah guides Jeremy Allen through favourite albums from Mariah Carey to Fat White Family, along the way discussing her friendship with Amy Winehouse and why Richard Dawson is the only man who should be allowed acoustic guitars at parties
From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today
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