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The rising star of the electronic scene lifts the lid on her alluring new album for Castles in Space and plenty more besides
A diverse gathering of sounds from Rob St John, Colleen, Cheval Sombre, The Chills and Juliana Hatfield goes through some evaluating ears
A bumper load of releases from Polytechnic Youth, Woodford Halse, Castles in Space and Werra Foxma get pulled from the review pile
The polymathic Stephen Coates accounts for the belated full return and phased retirement of The Real Tuesday Weld
Another dig into the fertile synth scene soil, with more sonic blooming from Polypores, The Central Office of Information and Everyday Dust
The regenerated Andy Bell explains the backstory to his recent solo work as well as adding insights into his parallel Ride and GLOK lives
Eleventh Dream Day co-founders Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean tell virtually all on the band’s superb new double-sized album
Two divergent takes on loner explorations from The All Golden and Dean McPhee go under the review microscope
Gloria, Jane Weaver and Loner Deluxe kit out fresh goods in a variety of colourful and charismatic art-pop threads
A mix of wares from The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor, The Eccentronic Research Council, Polypores & Gareth E. Rees and The Home Current
Reflections on ten tremendous years of Clay Pipe Music, with founder Frances Castle, through ten totemic releases
New albums from Cheval Sombre, Plankton Wat and Isnaj Dui shift through several shades and shapes of self-seclusion
Another electronic scene side round-up, featuring Kieran Mahon, The Heartwood Institute, The Home Current, Personal Bandana and Pulselovers
Another choice compilation from Second Language and a fifth album from Songs of Green Pheasant shine soothing light into our winter gloom
Border hopping European exports from Augenwasser, Cyril Cyril and Rats on Rafts arrive with some bracing sonic cross-blending
The ever-resourceful and chameleonic Chris Brokaw returns satisfyingly with his first songs-based solo long player since 2012
New wares from Polypores, The Home Current & Peter Wix, Transient Visitor and Apta usher in another busy year for home-workaholics
A bundle of eccentric wares from the hyper-productive homes of Castles in Space and Woodford Halse finish off a busy year for both labels
New albums from Snow Palms, Angèle David-Guillou and Faten Kanaan, pushing post-classical envelopes and more, fall under the review spotlight
Diverse new albums from Memory Drawings, Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs and Andy Bell leave the review pile for an accumulated assessment
Tindersticks veteran David Boulter takes us behind the conceptual childhood seaside scenes of his debut solo album on Clay Pipe Music
Plugged-in produce from Gabe Knox, Polytechnic Sound Archive, Concretism, Hawksmoor and Polypores goes under the critiquing eye
Goods from Sam Prekop, Sally Anne Morgan, Throwing Muses, Tobin Sprout, Floodlights and Field Lines Cartographer usher in a new CI column
Ian Preece tells all on Listening to the Wind, his hefty yet accessible book profiling intrepid independent labels from across the globe
A set of late summer wares from the Second Language family, Sea Glass, Correlations, Tomorrow Syndicate, The Home Current and more
Modern Aviation carries on a prodigious piecemeal run of releases with the densely packed yet compellingly cohesive debut album from Ben Winter
An assembly of alternative summertime soundtracks from bdrmm, Gilroy Mere, Bernard Grancher and more undergo some sun-lit scrutiny