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“Due to digital, music now has a terrible sort of housewifely tidiness”: Brian Eno on sonic perfectionism, Bowie and his new collaborative double album
By Danny Turner published
We visit Brian Eno in the studio to find out more about Luminal and Lateral, a collaborative project with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe

Lifeguard on abstract noise and pop hooks – and the creative epiphanies behind their stellar debut
By Jonathan Horsley published
The Chicago trio's debut LP, Ripped And Torn, is a half-hour riot of post-punk urgency, freewheeling experimentalism and the sound of a band figuring out how to give their audience whiplash

How Lorde established herself as Bowie's creative heir with her weirdest and most brilliant single
By Andy Price published
Co-written with Jack Antonoff, the first taste of Lorde’s modern classic Melodrama was stacked with inspired choices

“It wasn’t just my decision to fire Ozzy”: Tony Iommi says Ozzy Osbourne had to go to make Black Sabbath great again
By Paul Elliott published
And he met the band's next singer through Ozzy's future wife Sharon!

“I immediately heard the melody in my head”: How Madonna created a dancefloor classic — with the sample from heaven
By Neil Crossley published
An intoxicating mash-up of ’70s disco, ’80s electropop and 2000s club music

“It creates a tone that you can't find in Guitar Center”: Disiniblud on the self-built instruments behind their debut LP
By Danny Turner published
Guitars merge seamlessly with modular sketches on Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith's beautifully realised debut. Danny Turner finds out more about their "wordless" collaboration

When Kurt Cobain deliberately sabotaged Nirvana’s Top of the Pops appearance
By Andy Price published
Cobain later said his mock-baritone vocal was an attempt at imitating Morrissey

“This is the new rock ’n’ roll Metallica. The riffs are greasier, bluesier, dirtier”: How Metallica changed on Load
By Paul Elliott published
"Nobody knew where this record was going to end up when we started it"

Reference tracks can be your secret weapon when mixing - but be mindful of replicating other artists' choices too much
By Andy Price published
Comparing your mix to another can nudge you into a safe technical zone, but remember to maintain your originality

“Ableton's more creatively fulfilling than Logic”: Maria Somerville on the DAWs, uilleann pipes and vintage gear behind Luster
By Danny Turner published
Danny Turner speaks to Maria Somerville about how collaboration and a longing for home shaped the dreamlike atmospheres of her sophomore full-length
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