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Sampling and synthesizing sounds both uncannily familiar and eerily strange, Argentine artist Victoria Barca has made a sinuous ode to small things
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The Strange World of… Shane Parish
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Two decades on from the release of Liars third album, Luke Turner argues that its percussive invention shouldn't obscure a rich, emotional core. For our top tier Subscriber Plus supporters, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.
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Three Decades On: Sepultura’s Roots At 30
Three decades on from the release of Roots, Keith Kahn-Harris digs in to the legacy Sepultura's much vaunted sixth album. This feature was first published 15/02/21
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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, Chuck D talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
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What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, author Keith Jopling looks at the curious phenomenon of the 'vanishing LP' – as well as the ones that didn't
