The Voice Of Unreason

Even in the slightly more mental health enlightened times of now, the idea that grief is the most non-linear of processes seems to be one that isn’t acknowledged anywhere near frequently enough. Adrian Thaws last album as Tricky was 2020’s Fall To Pie...

If unlikely associations make the world go round, then Animal Collective‘s Panda Bear (AKA Noah Lennox) and Sonic Boom (AKA Pete Kember, once of the legendary noise rockers Spacemen 3) have it spinning. ...

There’s no such thing as an album that’s a perfect 10 – but there those that are one notch below. The 9’s is an occasional series which explores some of those records.

Released: 2004

Between 2003’s Decoration Day and The Dirty South the Drive-By Truckers had gained a new bass player in Shonna Tucker, the then wife of Jason Isbell...

Jack White the enigma? The artist? The man proudly sticking two fingers up at the American establishment? The answer is all of these and none. Despite having a cupboard full of Grammy Awards, millions of shifted units and a reputation as a man who rarely wastes his time on industry chutzpah, the real Jack White most of the time remains off to the left and in the shadows, will...

There’s no such thing as an album that’s a perfect 10 – but there those that are one notch below. The 9’s is an occasional series which explores some of those records.

Released: 2026

Written by a magicked Simon Reynolds, the notes which accompanied Inferno briefly mention the idea of surface noise, a concept also expounded by the legendar...