Le Guess Who? has been redefining what a music festival can mean — not only through bold programming, but also through the way it thinks about programming itself. In a world where culture is increasingly shaped by market logic, this festival offers something different: empathy as a radical act.
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Author & Punisher is celebrating 21 years, and Tristan Shone – engineer, composer, and vocalist – has released the project’s heaviest and most organic record to date. On the new album Nocturnal Birding, instead of cold sequences we get grit, mistakes, and raw energy: all played live. We talk about what it means to be an “industrial uncle,” why birds can inspire just as much as synthesizers, what it was like collaborating with Arca, and how volunteering at the U.S./Mexico border shaped Tristan’s work. It’s a conversation about an artist growing older, who after two decades on stage still manages to surprise. Both himself and his audience. Continue Reading “Mistakes, messiness – no sequences. An interview with Author & Punisher”
Exclusively for UNDERTONE, Lord Spikeheart opened up about the music that means the most to him. Usually, we send artists a pool of topics, and they pick 3–5. Martin answered EVERY single one! That’s how you spot a total music nerd…
Meth.’s music is a masterful blend of sludge, metal, post-hardcore, and noisecore, but the band’s vocalist, Seb Alvarez, points out that their inspirations reach far beyond those genres. That’s why, exclusively for Undertone, he put together a list of his favorite non-metal albums – and some of his picks are sure to surprise you! Continue Reading “5 non-metal albums that I love. Seb Alvarez (meth.)”
For over a decade, Deafheaven have been skillfully pushing the boundaries of what metal music can be – captivating and irritating music fans across the entire spectrum of guitar-based music. This year’s Lonely People with Power is not only the next step in the band’s artistic evolution, but also a deeply personal and mature reflection on how our perspective on ourselves, our families, the past, and the future shifts over time. I spoke with George Clarke about how Lonely People with Power works in a live setting, about photography as a personal medium, his collaboration with Paul Banks, his childhood, sobriety, and the idea of destiny – which, as it turns out, might not be so fixed after all. Continue Reading “Change takes time. An interview with George Clarke from Deafheaven”
After 13 years on hiatus, Patrick Wolf is coming back with a brand new album, Crying The Neck. The album is the result of a long creative process, inspired by literature, travel, and… cinema. The British singer-songwriter told us about three films that had a significant impact on the writing of the album.
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The Dutch band DOOL continues to promote their latest album – The Shape Of Fluidity, and as part of this ongoing journey, the band members have decided to lift the veil and share the behind-the-scenes stories of how each track came to life. From riffs written during a vacation in Greece, to ideas born during soundchecks, to Raven’s most personal lyrics – here is the story of DOOL’s new album, told by the creators themselves.
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Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie ‘Prince Billy’, working also under monikers like ‘Palace Brothers’, is a character well known to all fans of raw, sometimes punky, often pessimistic and haunted Americana. As he himself admits in this interview, he doesn’t know where he is, when he’s playing music. This January he released his newest album – The Purple Bird – and he’ll be performing in Warsaw on 20 and 21 May [buy tickets here]. Listen to what he has to say about the act of creation, his music and misticism.
Nac/Hut Report is a self-contained being. Currently Kraków-based, Polish-Italian duo has some brushes with the familiar, taking influences from dream pop, industrial and even musique concrete, but always to bring the uncanny out of them. Nac/Hut Report forges their poetics album after album, relentlessly and reclusively, without any care for trends or scene connections. The latest emanation of this process, an album titled Blue Afternoon, has been released recently on enjoy life label, while Jadwiga and Luca agreed to answer a couple of my questions. Continue Reading “Dead music. An interview with Nac/Hut Report”
