At what point does a song stop being a song? Strip away the beat, harmony and narrative; leave behind a voice, a melody, a few repeated words, the hiss of a phone recording. Merryn Jeann’s Fear Of The ...

Boards Of Canada’s 1996 EP Hi Scores is being reissued by Warp Records. The 30th anniversary release will mark the first time that the Scottish duo’s full catalogue has been widely available on vinyl ...

Filip Kalinowski pays tribute to the indefatigable, make it fast, make it slow Ghanaian funk innovator who died this month.

Their fourth album asks why so much Black music born from pain makes people dance. The band needed the answer for practical reasons ...

Music journalists love to declare the influences that must have gone into a new album, but a lot of the time the artists responsible themselves are left baffled by such comparisons. We thought, why ...

Tariq Goddard attends the first event of its kind and wonders what (if anything) the many speakers have learned from the auteur it was named for ...

Ahead of a comprehensive box set of live recordings, Richard Foster considers the 'other' Joy Division – one that barely gets mentioned.

Manchester post-punks return to the scene of two classic albums from 1982 and 1986 with new mixes, new tracklistings and a few surprises ...

As Soul Jazz launch a deluxe reissue to mark 50 years of this Count Ossie classic, Neil Kulkarni explores an imaginative, forward-thinking and post-modern fusion of the ancient and modern ...

With his new book shortly to be published by Fitzcarraldo, Ian Penman talks Fassbinder, 'negative dandyism' and image addiction with Jeremy Allen Newly published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, It Gets Me ...

Angus Batey casts his mind back two decades to Food & Liquor and realises that Lupe Fiasco was the last of his kind.

The English novelist, author of Doloriad and The Vivisectors talks campus novels, Coil's 'Fire of the Mind' and her surprise ...