Beth Gibbons gives us the understanding of our mortality that we all need on her most revealing work, finds Puja Nandi https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/sets/beth-gibbons-life-outgrown?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing They say good things come in threes. Although not formally broken up, Portishead gifted...

JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection Mahti, photo by Aino Looking back on the peak of the CD-R era, it now seems like a golden age in the history of experimental music distribution. Dinosaurs (like me) claim that young people these days, who've grown up under...

Eamonn Forde argues that despite a recent report glowing with enthusiasm for the major record label bottom line, hubris, greed and fan exploitation suggest it is heading for another catastrophic fall Taylor Swift press photo by Beth Garrabrant History for the music industry repeats itself first as arrogant tragedy, second as arrogant farce. Investment...

The Brighton festival's opening showcase has subsequently been cancelled More than 100 acts have cancelled their scheduled appearances at this week's The Great Escape festival in Brighton as part of a Palestine-supporting campaign against event sponsor Barclays. Bands Boycott Barclays is a protest movement that alleges the bank Barclays has continued...

Gordan Gordan Balkan folk songs wrapped in howls of noise makes a beautiful coherence between tradition and modernity, finds Jeremy Allen Gordan by Gordan Svetlana Spajić has spent the last twenty-five years visiting villages in the Balkans, absorbing the words passed down from generation to generation, as well as the decasyllabic cadences of...

The British-Nigerian experimental classical composer speaks to Alex Rigotti about his new EP, 'Last Bloom', and how encounters with the music of ANOHNI, Young Fathers, Curtis Mayfield and more changed the trajectory of his life Photo by Jordan Woods If you use Ableton, you will be familiar with the soundtrack to the search for the perfect sound:...