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Reflections on ten tremendous years of Clay Pipe Music, with founder Frances Castle, through ten totemic releases
Arab Strap explore the darkness of human exploits on the wistful and polished As Days Get Dark, their first album since 2005
Stewart Gardiner highlights a baker’s dozen of 2020 records he missed then, but has fallen in love with now
These are the seventy-five albums of 2020 that have meant the most to us at Concrete Islands, alongside our archive releases of the year
Jim Becker tells Gareth Thompson about sharing compassion, putting the ego down and collaborating with Tibetan healer Lama Lobsang Palden
Tindersticks veteran David Boulter takes us behind the conceptual childhood seaside scenes of his debut solo album on Clay Pipe Music
Healing energies and mystic overtones unite on Jim Becker’s long player with Lama Lobsang Palden for Drag City
Andrew Wasylyk’s Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation is another visionary record with plenty room to dream
Ian Preece tells all on Listening to the Wind, his hefty yet accessible book profiling intrepid independent labels from across the globe
Belbury Poly’s The Gone Away reopens the town of Belbury with a musical journey through the eeriest Ghost Box hinterlands
Gareth Thompson visits Thurston Moore and co’s Ecstatic Peace Library pop-up to immerse himself in the John Fahey exhibition
We pay a sideways tribute to the late David Berman – of Silver Jews and Purple Mountains – by republishing this entertainingly off-centre 2002 interview
The omnipresent Oliver Cherer tells all on his sublime old-into-new solo album, I Feel Nothing Most Days, and his chameleonic career to date
This exclusive mix for Concrete Islands by synth and soundtrack master Steve Moore turns the energy up and leaves the cold behind
Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder gets the selected lyrics treatment from Faber and it manages to capture the spirit of Madchester on the page
Stewart Gardiner explores the delicate microcosmic worlds of Kama Aina in this archive feature from Plan B magazine
Stewart Gardiner praises the structurally audacious biography / autobiography of David Lynch
In this archival interview, Stewart Gardiner speaks with the director of the 2007 David Lynch documentary Lynch (One)
How a moment of darkness on a painter’s canvas led Lynch to film