Claire Biddles speaks to Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley ahead of the release of their hypnotic new album, Encircle. Portraits by Julie R. Kane Rattle by Julie R. Kane Encircle by Rattle It starts with a loop of three strikes on a floor tom – a drumbeat rich with connotations of mystical …
Mirrored Daughters Mirrored Daughters Dragging their instruments through Epping Forest, members of Firestations and The Leaf Library team up with Marlody and Hannah Reeves to evoke a troubled exurban environment Mirrored Daughters by Mirrored Daughters Alternating eerie ambient interludes and buco…
Barely recovered from The Jesus Lizard’s recent UK tour, JR Moores flings himself, in a zebra print G-string, at the latest psych and noise rock releases Splitterzelle Call me nutty but in early January I went to see The Jesus Lizard three nights in a row. This means 2025 has peaked bloody early an…
In this month's subscriber podcast John Doran and Luke Turner revisit Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film of racial tensions and police brutality in the French suburbs John and Luke discuss one of their favourite films, 1995 French masterpiece La Haine. Set over the course of a day and a night in a Pari…
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