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Baker's Dozen
The Build Up: Flora Yin-Wong’s Favourite Records
As the London experimentalist reveals a new EP and prepares for a DJ set at Semibreve, she takes Alastair Shuttleworth through some of the records which have shaped her life and career. Featuring Queens Of The Stone Age, Mya, and some ‘super trashy’ chart pop favourites.
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The Strange World Of… The Cramps
As Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye open up The Cramps’ vaults for a sonic overhaul and a consolidation of the band’s business affairs, Julian Marszalek takes a deep dive into their back catalogue to offer 10 points of entry for novices and converts alike. Portrait by David Godlis
Baker's Dozen
Foundational Texts: Martyn Ware’s Favourite Albums
The prolific Human League, Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation co-founder Martyn Ware takes Siobhan Kane through 13 favourite records, from Northern Soul and glam to encounters with Tina Turner and the still-unreleased track he was sent by Prince
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Low Culture Essay
Illuminating treasured cultural artefacts
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Low Culture Essay: Robert Barry on the Sea Organ at Zadar
Robert Barry travels to the Croatian coast, where the Adriatic Sea plays the pipes of an installation that gives lie to the idea that sound art is "difficult"
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Mary Chiney on Stanley Okorie’s Nollywood Soundtracks
Stanley Okorie’s thousands of songs defined the Nollywood film industry, becoming “the vocalisation of the collective id” of a fast-changing Nigeria. Words and Subscriber Plus exclusive playlist by Mary Chiney
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: James Bailey on The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
In this month's subscriber essay, Spark biographer James Bailey explores her bleak masterpiece of a life's descent into an "anguished shriek of bloody despair", making comparisons with "giallo horror at its grisliest".
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Mary Chiney on Stanley Okorie’s Nollywood Soundtracks
Stanley Okorie’s thousands of songs defined the Nollywood film industry, becoming “the vocalisation of the collective id” of a fast-changing Nigeria. Words and Subscriber Plus exclusive playlist by Mary Chiney
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: James Bailey on The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark
In this month's subscriber essay, Spark biographer James Bailey explores her bleak masterpiece of a life's descent into an "anguished shriek of bloody despair", making comparisons with "giallo horror at its grisliest".
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Our editors John & Luke bring their insight to an essential album, book, film, etc.
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Low Culture Podcast: The Ploughman’s Lunch
In this month’s pod Luke Turner and John Doran tuck into a meal of humble origins that is now, tragically, under threat
Organic Intelligence
Head further into the musical margins
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence LVIII: Fluxus on Vinyl
In the latest antidote to the algorithm, Robert Barry looks at the vinyl releases of the pivotal Fluxus movement – records that often resulted from the destruction of their peers
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence LVII: New York Sublime – The State of Abstract Hip Hop Now
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Auden Alsop praises the rappers and producers drilling into the essence of contemporary New York
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Organic Intelligence LVI: The US West Coast Early 00s Underground
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Chris Pugmire takes us to the radical, experimental, queer racket of the USA’s Pacific seaboard – including Erase Errata (pictured), Tracy & The Plastics, Get Hustle and more
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence LVI: The US West Coast Early 00s Underground
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Chris Pugmire takes us to the radical, experimental, queer racket of the USA’s Pacific seaboard – including Erase Errata (pictured), Tracy & The Plastics, Get Hustle and more
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