Album review: AZD – Actress
The charismatic Actress returns with AZD, his fifth album apparently inspired by the material of chrome and obscure outsider art. But look past the lofty theorising, advises Piers Barber, and you’ll […]
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The Music Factory’s Favourite Albums of 2016
2016 saw the release of some of memorable new music, including important albums that challenged conventions, reinvigorated established styles and enshrined burgeoning reputations. Here, Phil Smith and Piers Barber present a run down of the Music […]
Live review: Spiritualized – Barbican, Tuesday 8th November 2016
Piers Barber is left dumbstruck by a rare in-full performance of Spiritualized’s vital cosmic masterpiece Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space at London’s Barbican. It’s a rare and personally unprecedented […]
Classic albums: Global Communication – 76:14
Following the release of Mark Pritchard’s mighty Under The Sun LP, Piers Barber invents a new feature in order to pen an ode to one of the pioneering producer’s finest moments to date: […]
Live review: Massive Attack – Hyde Park, 1st July 2016
Piers Barber watches an angry Massive Attack occasionally reach their thrilling best during a politically-infused headline slot at the first British Summer Time date of the summer. The opening show of this […]
Album Review: Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool
After five years of waiting, we finally have a new Radiohead album to enjoy. Here’s Buster Stonham on whether it was worth all the fuss. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool (XL) After five […]
Prince, the performer
Prince lived for the stage, and his live show will forever remain one of the most memorable to ever grace the world’s clubs, theatres and sports stadiums. In the days since […]
Album review: Kowton – Utility
Kowton’s debut full-length, the first by an individual artist on the pioneering Livity Sound label, is an unsurprisingly potent selection of pulsing techno rollers and expertly crafted DJ tools, writes […]
Album review: Fatima Al Qadiri – Brute
Piers Barber checks out Fatima Al Qadiri’s characteristic take on protest music and discovers a record often stunning in its relevance and condemnation of authoritarian state violence. Fatima Al Qadiri – […]
The Music Factory’s top 20 albums of 2014: Part one – 20-11
So then – that’s your lot for 2014. It’s been a year we’ll remember for James Rodriguez, Alex Salmond and completely futile iPhone launches, but it’s also been one that’s seen the seen […]
