STUMM11 Comes to Life (Or So It Seems)
Duet Emmo is actually the trio of Daniel Miller, Graham Lewis, and Bruce Gilbert. In October 2026, they took to the stage together for the first time. Read our review.
Duet Emmo is actually the trio of Daniel Miller, Graham Lewis, and Bruce Gilbert. In October 2026, they took to the stage together for the first time. Read our review.
The dreampop of Immersion on What Is Lost Will Return combines the faded seaside glamour of England’s south coast with a European sensibility. The new album from Malka Spigel (Minimal…
Shine On: Bruce Gilbert Bruce Gilbert approaches music as material. A guitar can provide structure, but so can a tape loop, a repeated word, a contact microphone or the sound…
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
The Read & Burn era of Wire gave birth to an unusual song that ran for almost ten minutes. For a band that was prepared to stop a piece as…
“Alreet?” The familiar Tyneside greeting is the question posed by Edvard Graham Lewis on his new album. Best known as a member of Wire, Lewis has carved many trails in…
Karin Park returned this year with an album reimagining some of her previous compositions. Reaching back across two decades, the songs retooled on Private Collection were her own favourites; but…
Ripping off Wire is how a whole generation of indie bands came to be. From their first three albums for Harvest/EMI to their later psychedelic material, the masters of pith…
When people say that they are inspired by Wire, the first question is, which one? The one that hoisted the pink flag for post-punk? The one that lost its drummer…