This Music Made Me
by musicOMH
King Creosote – aka Kenny Anderson – is co-founder of the Fife-based Fence Collective, a veteran of some 40 solo albums and, with the 2011…
Back in 2001, Sophie Ellis-Bextor told the world that the groove was far more important than murder. While Murder On The Dancefloor made her name,...
Laura Mvula‘s debut album Sing To The Moon, released back in 2013, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, won its maker a pair...
You – almost – need not hear a note to understand how wonderfully grandiose and pop-noirish the music of Catherine Anne Davis – aka The...
From the rolling opener Something Tamed Something Wild, via an intimate, hymnal tribute to the pioneering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to the stark, closing title track,...
Since 2004’s Ballads Of Living And Dying, Marissa Nadler has been steadily releasing albums, veering between sparse, spectral folk and ink-black country ballads, with her...
The Field, vehicle for the music of Sweden-via-Berlin producer, artist, DJ, soundsmith and enigmatic front man rolled into one that is Axel Willner, has been...
Five years on from second album Virtue, which widened the introspective indie-folk palette of her début to take in chiming pop, otherworldly orchestration and disco,...
Leftfield French electronic music gurus The Shoes have just put out their third, party-starting album Chemicals, a ludicrously eclectic genre-hop of a follow-up to 2011’s...
Down the years, Warp-signed, California-originated, NYC-dwelling, shape-throwing disco funksters !!! (Chk Chk Chk) have been responsible for some outright, undisputed bangers. Must Be The Moon. Me &...
David McAlmont‘s startling voice has, down the years, found its owner involved with a variety of collaborators. He’s worked with latter day Bond music maker...
Theo Hutchcraft guides us through the albums that have influenced him most.
Gus Gus lynchpin Biggi Veira mines his memory for the albums that have influenced him most
A minimalist master of the intricate and the intimate, Dustin O’Halloran, sometime founder of Devics, is a self-taught American pianist latterly based in Berlin who divides his...
Ahead of the release of her third album Working Girl, Victoria Hesketh guides us through the LPs that have influenced her most.
On the music that has influenced her most, in her own words.
David Gedge, founder of The Wedding Present and Cinerama, on the albums that have influenced him most.
Manchester’s Julie Campbell, aka LoneLady, recently released her second album Hinterland, the follow-up to her 2010 debut Nerve Up, through Warp. “It’s channelling Parliament/ Funkadelic, Stevie Wonder, Rufus, Prince,...
Tyondai Braxton, probably still best known as the former frontman of Battles, has been performing and composing music under his own name and collaboratively since...
Ahead of his new album Colours Of The Night, a rundown of the albums that influenced him most…
“The great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a large seabird, it is sometimes known by the name bonxie. The flight is direct and powerful. Due to...
J Mascis – Elastic Days
Kurt Vile @ Crossing, Birmingham
Interview: Bernard Butler
Muse – Simulation Theory
The Smashing Pumpkins – Shiny And So Bright, Vol 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.
Festival Review: Pitchfork Paris 2018
LSO / Roth @ Barbican Hall, London
Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Infinity
