With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Drahla, Angeltape
Their sophomore album sees the Leeds-based trio overcoming grief over instrumental flourishes that recall yesteryear while artfully resisting the lure of entering a time machine.
Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come
Shane Lavers captures the awe and unease of humanity’s impermanence on his debut album of dissociative dream pop.
Couch Slut, You Could Do It Tonight
Leaning into their lyrical strength of expressing life as we know it as a visceral horror story, the sludge-rockers’ fourth album is equally notable for its unexpected instrumental flourishes.
Paul Veracka
Chad Clark helms a reissue of his band’s earliest recordings, featuring some of the most left-field, catchy, and brilliant post-punk of the early aughts.
The songwriter discusses the importance of humor, collaboration, and exploration on his new album Heartmind.
Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner enter the playground of experimental rock as a unit for the first time and establish themselves as a uniquely powerful force.
The ambient stalwart and prolific guitarist combine forces to create sweeping odes to the natural world, friendship, and the things that make no sense at all.
With her maturity and creative flexibility, Yanya uses knife-like precision to sculpt a record from intimate heartache.