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Orbital Monsters Exist
Six years after Orbital’s last album, Wonky, and four years after they split (like, properly, forever), the Hartnoll brothers are... read more
Teleman Family Of Aliens
Four-piece Teleman are something of a strange proposition in 2018: an English art-pop band, formed in their early thirties, who have built... read more
IDLES Joy As An Act of Resistance
Bristol has surfaced as a post-punk/noise-rock Babylon in recent years, with Spectres, Lice and Idles all crafting strong, uncompromising records recently. Idles’ debut, last year’s Brutalism, was... read more
Mogwai Kin
Glasgow’s finest are getting to be old hands at soundtrack work. Across documentaries Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait and Atomic,... read more
latest film reviews
Mary And The Witch’s Flower
Like Studio Ghibli films Howl’s Moving Castle, Arrietty and When Marnie Was There, this animation from director Hiromasa ‘Maro’ Yonebayashi is another example of the way that Japanese animation has drawn from British children’s’ literature and remade it in its own magical manner. This is based on a 1971 book... read more
Redoubtable
Michel Hazanavicius has based a career around celebrating movies. His early films OSS 117: Cairo, Nest Of Spies and OSS 117: Lost In Rio were spy parodies, but his last film saw him up his game considerably: a paean to silent movies, The Artist won Best Director and Best Picture... read more
Mary Shelley
The previous film from Saudi born director Haifaa al-Mansour was Wadjda – a coming of age drama about a 10 year-old girl growing up in the suburbs of Riyadh. So initially she appears an interesting choice to take on a biopic about the life of the 19th century author of... read more
