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The Wire Issue 496

1 week ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles |Emily Pothast |Daniel Spicer |Stewart Smith

June 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 496. Inside our brand new issue: Cosey Fanni Tutti: The industrial music icon has been to Hull and back with her new album 2t2. By Claire Biddles Quinton Barnes: The Montreal rapper and producer flips the script in a new project with free musicians. By Emily Pothast David Van Tieghem: The New York percussionist who has played with everyone on the Downtown scene receives a dedicated collection of his own work.
‘Chipmunks were obsessed with my mics’: the man who recorded a tree for a year

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Claire Biddles

What does a landscape sound like when it’s not being listened to? This philosophical question was a catalyst for film-maker and artist Joshua Bonnetta, who has distilled a year of recordings from a single tree in upstate New York – that’s 8,760 hours – into a four-hour album, The Pines. As Robert Macfarlane writes in his accompanying essay, The Pines is a reminder of the natural world’s “sheer, miraculous busyness”, its “froth of signals and noise”.
Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road's Favourite Albums

1 month ago | thequietus.com | Patrick Clarke |Claire Biddles

“It sounded like a really exciting opportunity, and then as soon as I got into it I kind of resented the process, because it’s so difficult,” says Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road, of narrowing down her favourite records to just 13 choices. She may be only 26, but she has already amalgamated several lifetimes’ worth of influences and taste diversions – from off-kilter 1970s singer-songwriters to millennial R&B.
“Vaster than empires”: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s Queer score reviewed - The Wire

2 months ago | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Queer OST Sony Soundtracks DL In William S Burroughs’s final diary entry, dated two days before his death in 1997, the surrealist iconoclast recalls a friend referring to him as the saddest man in the world. “How can a man who sees and feels be other than sad,” he writes.
Motionless in White review – gothically glam US metalcore will put a grin on your face

2 months ago | msn.com | Claire Biddles

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Motionless in White review - gothically glam US metalcore will put a grin on your face

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Claire Biddles

Motionless in White have the commendable quality of a stadium-headlining band playing a 2,000-capacity theatre. Formed almost 20 years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the metalcore five-piece lay it on thick from the off, with dancing girls, pyrotechnics and a wall of Blade Runner visuals to match the colossal riffs of recent single Meltdown. Lead vocalist Chris “Motionless” Cerulli is darkly handsome in a sleek black coat, incongruously low-key compared to his corpse paint-wearing bandmates.
Perc Life: Rattle Interviewed

2 months ago | thequietus.com | John Doran |Claire Biddles

It starts with a loop of three strikes on a floor tom – a drumbeat rich with connotations of mystical authority and ritual. A clear voice joins in, looping quotidian words in an unnerving sequence: “Doctor/ Doctor/ Doctor/ Doctor/ Hold your/ Hold your/ Hold your/ Hold your”. Then, as the linguistic spell unfurls, there’s a phrase on a cymbal and a ripple on a snare – a deft and thorough process of examination, as though every single element of a drum kit is being turned around and tested.
Invisible Jukebox mix: Lydia Lunch

Feb 5, 2025 | thewire.co.uk | Claire Biddles

February 2025 Listen to the music we played to Lydia Lunch during her Invisible Jukebox interview in The Wire 493 Each month in the magazine we play an artist or group a series of tracks which they are asked to comment on – with no prior knowledge of what they are about to hear. In The Wire 493 it is the turn of writer, vocalist, performer and broadcaster Lydia Lunch.
Hard Truths Captures the Anxieties of Modern Britain

Feb 1, 2025 | tribunemag.co.uk | Claire Biddles

The day I watched Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, there was a rare red weather alert where I live in central Scotland. The night before, I had gone to the supermarket and found an end-of-days scene that gave me flashbacks to March 2020. Lone shoppers lined the aisles in preparation for a Government-mandated 24-hour indoors, with several baskets piled with more food, booze and toilet rolls than any household could conceivably need during such a short time.
Pure Sensation: Eusexua by FKA twigs is our Album of the Week

Jan 23, 2025 | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Claire Biddles

FKA twigs has always found a home on the dancefloor. From the balletic intricacy of her early EPs, to the loosened-up dancehall of 2022’s mixtape Caprisongs, her music embodies the physicality and control one would expect from a long-time dancer. Even at their most sparse, her songs are intensely crafted, deftly choreographed – each sonic limb considered, much as a dancer considers her whole body in the dance.