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Heron & Crane’s Firesides record is where dipped-in-acid Americana gets a strange makeover by retro-futurist British electronics and library music
Numero Group reissue Belgian cold wave trio Elisa Waut’s 1982 DIY debut, a thrilling under-half-an-hour blast of European post-punk dreams
Tomorrow Syndicate’s Citizen Input is a compact set of expansive, electronically-infused and psychedelically-charged, synthy and shoegazey kosmische cuts
The Golden Filter return with new LP Autonomy, a sparse, purposeful and powerful sonic declaration ready to destroy dancefloors and puncture souls
Listening Center’s latest LP for Polytechnic Youth is a set of warmly welcoming analogue synth compositions that carry the hopes and fears of tomorrow
Stewart Gardiner’s The Space Between column is intended to pull together reviews that almost never were, preventing them from falling through the cracks
Polypores and Field Lines Cartographer bring together choice connective cuts for the latest in Front & Follow’s collaborative cassette series
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
Near the start of his most prolific year to date, Martin Jensen gives some behind-the-scenes insight into The Home Current
Leafcutter John’s latest LP is a walking tour of the Norfolk coast rendered as mossy electronica seasoned with field recordings in a kosmische stew
Remastered and reissued by Chicago’s Numero Group, Rupa’s 1982 Balearic odyssey revels in esoteric disco breaks, cosmic synths and Indian prog-funk grooves
Andrew Mitchell and Raz Ullah channel The New Brutalism and JG Ballard with an EP of lost-future pop music buried under béton brut
Le SuperHomard’s French pop music may be a parallel universe St Etienne and Meadow Lane Park the soundtrack playing in Antoine Doinel’s head
French label ERR REC have commissioned another volume of library music to spark the imagination on programmes for schools tomorrow and yesterday
Panamint Manse talks to Stewart Gardiner about tumultuous empathy, hauntology in the desert and where jubilance meets desolation