Available on: Young God LP
Just two years ago, we were applauding Michael Gira and Swans for returning from a twelve-year slumber with actual music, rather than the shaken begging tin of so man [...]
The 5 EPs
Available on: One Little Indian 2xLP
What if you invented the future and nobody heard?
Disco Inferno began life as a four-piece intertwined with fellow Essex experimentalists Bark Psychosis, [...]
Holy Other: Held
Available on: Tri Angle Records
Witnessing the development of an artist is a tense moment for all interested parties, and is especially true where albums are concerned. When working as a produc [...]
R. Stevie Moore: Lo-Fi High Fives
Available on: O Genesis LP
This month's Wire cover star, for some years now R. Stevie Moore has been pimped around the egg-head scene as a master conceptualist. Not least by Ariel Pink, Moore's [...]
Nina Sky: Nicole & Natalie
Available on: free download
Nicole and Natalie Albino, the Queen's, NY twin sisters who comprise Nina Sky, haven't released an official album since their eponymous 2004 debut. But they've m [...]
Micachu & The Shapes: Never
Available on: Rough Trade LP
Skiffle-grime? skree-pop? Beefheart meets The Raincoats via Jurassic Park? No catch-all descriptor was adequate when it came to categorising Micachu And The Shapes' [...]
Frank Ocean: Channel Orange
Available on: Def Jam LP
So he likes a little Richard with his Judy. Big woop. In the "shit that really matters" periodic table it's down there with “Did Han Solo or that green thing shoot fi [...]
Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel…
Available on: Epic LP
Reading the press response to Fiona Apple's fourth studio album, her first in seven years, one would be forgiven for imagining the singer to be on the edge of a breakdow [...]
Beak>: >>
Available on: Invada LP
Though electronic krautrock is no longer modern, as in contemporary, it'll forever be the sound of modernity; synonymous with progress, utopian cities and Europe's rites [...]
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FACT Mix 387: DJ Koze
The Pampa heartbreaker surveys the best tunes of 2013 so far
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FACT mix 386: Young Echo
The shady Bristol collective come through with a mix of scratchy ambient, hip-hop and more.
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FACT mix 385: Prosumer
One of Europe's best goes off piste on his sunblushed Under a Pine Tree mix.