'If mesmerising droney harmonies and hallucinatory overtones in the vein of trailblazers like Éliane Radigue and Pauline Oliveros are your thing, this a no brainer'

Carme López – Quintela - Electronic Music For April

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'parkervs’ beats tend towards the inescapable-swarm-of-angry-synth-bees style, every inch of the canvas painted a few times over.'

parkervs – 'youngl0rd' - The Strange World Of South African Drill

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'Their music is edgy and theatrical – the dynamics constantly change: at times, the band perform calm and lyrical ballads; at others, they’re harsh and psychedelic.'

Reissue Of The Week: Cukor Bila Smert’s Recordings 1990–1993

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'Trip hop didn’t just happen, it’s rooted in Bristol’s radicalism, its DIY ethic and in the pervasive influence of the city’s 1980s music scene'

Organic Intelligence XXXI: The Pre-Trip Hop Bristol Underground

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'The album thrives in its dark nostalgic tonality. ‘We All Need’ and ‘God Knows’ similarly echo a yearning for a world devoid of socio-political oppression.'

A Certain Ratio - IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

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Ahead of this year's Open Ear Festival on Sherkin Island, Cork, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to David Donohoe and Kate Carr about their durational composition inspired by and using the sounds and history of the place

David Donohoe & Kate Carr Interviewed

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'The title track is a cinematic affair worthy of the Dune 2 soundtrack, with massive polyrhythms, horn staccatos and ominous vocal chops'

Less-O – Cri Du Cœur - Electronic Music For April

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'I’ve always been quite in your face. After 23 years of always being the weirdo at the corner of the playground that nobody else wanted to play with, I became acceptable.'

An interview with Silverfish

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Keith Kahn-Harris

'As much a play as it is a work of cinema, the narrative of Michael Gambon’s gangster Albert Spica’s gluttonous and tasteless pretentions and fascistic violence has a claustrophobic intensity...'

Podcast: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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'There’re a lot of things I want to do. We've got more recordings we're doing already. I'm working on my own work and I still enjoy doing concerts. But beekeeping is cool. My friend has bees. It's brilliant.”

Apartment House interviewed

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While one wave of South African drill uses its tight loops to fill every breathable inch, Iceb0y works when the concentric circles start to feel like portals into outer space

Iceb0y feat. Babylowsk1 – x em out - The Strange World Of South African Drill

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'Mixes up the West African folk traditions of urban griot Kaito Winse with the avant-punk of Belgian guitarist Nico Gitto and French drummer/producer Benjamin Chaval'

Avalanche Kaito - TALITAKUM

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“It’s quite a fun side effect to freak people out with their own traditional culture and be like, ‘Actually, this has been here for your whole life, you just weren’t paying attention''

Goblin Band Interviewed

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It All Comes Down To This is bitter-sweet: not a victory lap, but another gruelling fight in the ring. “I plan to die at the very last minute”, plots Jez Kerr as he re-sharpens his sword in the last verse on the album

A Certain Ratio -I T ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

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'Maximum Joy’s final single calls to mind the funky twitchiness of A Certain Ratio yet seems to be aiming for pop’s mainstream'

Maximum Joy – ‘Why Can’t We Live Together’ - Organic Intelligence XXXI: The Pre-Trip Hop Bristol Underground

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'Maybe we were more like what was happening in the States or something; more like Jesus Lizard or Fugazi and that kind of thing rather than what was happening in Britain.'

An interview with Silverfish

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Keith Kahn-Harris

'With intricately arranged, ever-evolving grooves backed by melancholy dub-wise pads and shimmering sonic flourishes, these tracks come across as some of his best so far.'

Skee Mask – ISS010 - Electronic Music For April

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ILIAN TAPE

'Scumie rides the line between what you might expect from drill and trap, but a track that hits as hard as the first half of 'JIT/SRT' surely qualifies.'

Scumie – 'JIT/SRT' - The Strange World Of South African Drill

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The flute was supposedly mankind’s first instrument, a premise explored last year on Matthew Herbert’s The Horse, where he crafted bone flutes from the carcass of a dead nag

SHABAKA's Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace - tQ's Album of the Week

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At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power! T-shirts

Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?

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