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Bespoke sound system creators Friendly Pressure and Stone Island are teaming up for Milan Design Week

2 weeks ago | crackmagazine.net | Alice Nicolov

07.04.25 Words by: Alice Nicolov Photography: Frederick Paxton As he gears up for a Milan Design Week collaboration with Stone Island, Friendly Pressure founder Shivas Howard Brown talks formative sound system experiences and being part of a lineage of Black British music. In a sun-flooded East London studio, Friendly Pressure founder Shivas Howard Brown pads across a thick cocoa-coloured rug to the record player flanked by two chest-high speakers.
Cover story: Purelink – Expanding Universe

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Nina Posner

03.04.25 Words by: Nina Posner Photography: Raphaël Gaultier Photography Assistant: George Goldberg After the surprise success of their debut, Signs, Purelink found themselves at the forefront of a tidal shift in electronic music.
Nabeel (نبيل) is seeking harmony between Iraqi culture and Virginia’s indie music scene

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Zoya Raza-Sheikh

25.03.25 Words by: Zoya Raza-Sheikh Photography: Chez Goodspeed Merging college-rock influences with allusions to Iraqi heritage and musical traditions, Nabeel(نبيل)’s music is driven by both the preservation of culture and creating a new sound. “I’ve always been obsessed with pop music.” Yasir Razak, founder of Iraqi-American indie band Nabeel (نبيل) is recalling the antics of his younger self over Zoom.
Maria Somerville’s 'Luster' is a love letter to people and place

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Dean Van Nguyen

01.04.25 Words by: Dean Van Nguyen Photography: Louis O’Sullivan Makeup: Maggie O’Shea Photography Assistant: Cameron Crossen Inspired by her return to Connemara, a region rich in Irish history and myth, Maria Somerville’s second album is shaped its spirit, spacious landscape and seasonal pace. The weather in Dublin this late January is mild, nothing like the images of Storm Éowyn being beamed from the rest of Ireland.
Future Shock: AI versus the Dancefloor

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Declan McGlynn

AI’s champions promise democratisation, while its denouncers fear a devaluation of art as we know it. With electronic music scenes braced for impact, what exactly will the future sound like? For the past three years, generative AI’s existential threat has dominated discourse in the creative industries.
Circuit des Yeux

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Emma Madden

17.03.25 Finding freedom in the perverse once again, Haley Fohr, a.k.a. Circuit des Yeux, revels in primal, animalistic abandon to create a record that will stalk your nightmares. Most musicians simply make albums, Haley Fohr, a.k.a. Circuit des Yeux, makes emergencies. Since releasing her debut, Symphone, in 2008, Fohr has made music that works on a molecular level, her howling, bleating, four-octave voice shaking the listener out of complacent passivity and into a state of alarm.
Conducting chaos: Rewire 2025 in 7 sounds

1 month ago | crackmagazine.net | Duncan Harrison

The mind-expanding festival returned for its 14th edition with performances from Laurie Anderson, YHWN Nailgun, Kali Malone and more. Trying to find a throughline at a festival like Rewire isn’t easy. When a programme is put together by fans as passionate and knowledgeable as the minds behind this festival, you can find yourself a little without focus.
Ichiko Aoba's 'Luminescent Creatures' honours the interconnectedness of humankind and the natural world

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Gemma Samways

27.02.25 Words by: Gemma Samways Photography: Anastassia Tretiakova Inspired by the unique, isolated beauty of Japan’s southernmost islands and their luminescent waters, the latest chamber-folk opus from singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba explores the innate connections humans have with both our surroundings and one another. Radiating out from the southern tip of Kyūshū, Japan’s sprawling Ryukyu archipelago plays host to hundreds to thousands of humpback whales every winter. Seeking the warmth of...
How Hannah Peel and Christopher Andrews found the spectral sound of 'Bring Them Down'

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Francis Blagburn

The MUBI film’s award-winning creator Christopher Andrews and composer Hannah Peel on tying sonic textures to physical environment, and finding inspiration in Steve Reich’sDrumming. Christopher Andrews is the writer and director of Bring Them Down, a terse, brooding revenge thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. The film tells the story of two warring farming families in rural west Ireland as their grievances spill over into violent recriminations.
"It's about construction" – How Daniel Blumberg built the monumental score for 'The Brutalist'

2 months ago | crackmagazine.net | Iana Murray

07.02.25 Words by: Iana Murray Photography: Lol Crawley Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is a film that is big in every way, grappling with post-war trauma and the realities of the American Dream. To match its sweeping narrative, composer Daniel Blumberg has assembled a score that is both monumental and rich in scene-setting detail. Here he strips his creative process down to its foundations. You hear The Brutalist before you see it.