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Kwes
Kinds
A suite of delicately coloured ambient electronics offering an almost child-like sense of wonder
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: George Shaw’s Favourite Records
Adelle Stripe meets the artist George Shaw in Sheffield to discuss the 13 records that shaped his formative years, from Annette to Fred Wesley, ska to electro pop
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ELUCID & Sebb Bash
I Guess U Had To Be There
Elucid of Armand Hammer teams up with Switzerland-based producer Sebb Bash for an album of collage-like snapshots and deftly intricate rhymes
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Feedbacker: Rock Music for March by JR Moores
JR Moores emerges from the scented bath to widen his lens in the inaugural edition of our new rock column
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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March
From Norwegian hardcore royalty to one of the few flying the flag for the Alabama underground, via returning Dublin favourites and yet another essential demo from the relentless Shrewsbury scene, Noel Gardner returns once more with his guide to new punk rock
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
John Grindrod discovered his sexuality in the streets of Croydon, always looking up the tracks to London, and argues that no other artist articulate this tension between city, suburbia and LGBT+ lives quite so beautifully as did Messrs Tennant and Lowe. This BST comes with a Pet Shop Boys Suburbs vs City playlist exclusive to our Subscriber Plus supporters.
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Retro Instinct Versus Future Fetish: Emperor Tomato Ketchup 30 Years On
By the mid-90s Stereolab should have been at the peak of their powers, so why didn't it feel that way to Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier? Fergal Kinney examines the series of events that saw the band escape the dead end they'd ended up in culminating in the release of one of their most celebrated albums
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Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Feel What You Don’t Know: Mabe Fratti’s Favourite Albums
Following new album Sentir Que No Sabes and ahead of her guest curation at this year’s Le Guess Who?, Mabe Fratti takes Laura Snapes through thirteen favourite records spanning her Central American adolescence, cult dream pop and French post-punk Zeligs
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A Cave of Wonders: Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten on the Record Shop that Made Him
The Neubaten guitarist (later bassist) and collaborator with Phew, The Tiger Lillies and many more opens up about days wiled away in a seminal Berlin record shop, in an exclusive extract from his new book, Blast: Distorted Memories
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More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise, melody, and why the fertile ecosystem of Downtown NYC couldn't come about today
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