Collected features and reviews from the pages of Electronic Sound magazine..

Reviews (Issue 116)
Thoughts on work by Witchboard, Drew Mulholland and Garden Gate, Megalithic Transport Network and Clevelode

Orbury Common and Sylvan Chute (Issue 115)
“The room is dark, and I’m just seeing a shadow. But it’s definitely a humanoid figure…”

Paddy Kingsland, Fourth Dimension and Reg (Issue 115)
“The album was called Fourth Dimension because the BBC thought it was all about space, but that wasn’t really the case…”

Reviews (Issue 115)
Thoughts on work by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman, Nicholas Langley, The British Stereo Collective, Shropshire Number Stations, The All Golden, Dandelion Adventure and Jodie Nicholson

Keeley Forsyth and The Hollow (Issue 114)
“Rather than being in that mineshaft, I was trying to become it…”

Reviews (Issue 114)
Thoughts on work by Blancmange, Hifi Sean and David McAlmont, Orbury Common, Ben Underwood, Tymon Dogg and the Dacoits, Ron Geesin and Dimitri

Ride, Interplay and Cheesy Wotsits (Issue 113)
“We’re a connoisseur’s choice… something that you can’t readily get. Like Nik Naks”

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan and Your Community Hub (Issue 113)
“I’m not sure if I’m still classed as hauntology – or even what hauntology is…”

Under The Influence: Jonny Trunk (Issue 113)
“Late night telly, after your mum and dad had gone to bed on a Saturday, was like a weird sexual awakening…”

Reviews (Issue 113)
Thoughts on work by Keeley Forsyth, Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan, The Balloonist, Penny Arcade, Synthetic Villains, Plant Vox and Robyn Errico

Dorothy Moskowitz, The Afterlife and Sesame Street (Issue 112)
“Maybe I’m the Grandma Moses of hauntology!”

Reviews (Issue 112)
Thoughts on work by Dorothy Moskowitz and Retep Folo, Ride, The Twelve Hour Foundation, The Night Monitor, L Series #6 and The Ivan The Tolerable Trio

Kim Gordon and The Collective (Issue 111)
“Who’s your favourite Peanuts character?”

Woo and Mark and Clive Ives (Issue 111)
“I’d been bashing saucepans and kitchen utensils while Mark was playing the guitar…”

Reviews (Issue 111)
Thoughts on work by Saint Saviour, Rupert Lally, The British Stereo Collective, Woo, Cate Brooks, Kitchen Cynics & Grey Malkin and Garden Gate

Drew Mulholland and Elizabethan Tape Loops (Issue 110)
“I heard a yelp, and Paul had spilt PG Tips all over his crotch…”

Trevor Deeble and Office for Personal Development (Issue 110)
“When the song starts you have to rush across the room, shake hands with someone and tell them what your goals are for the next quarter…”

Reviews (Issue 110)
Thoughts on work by Epic45, Office For Personal Development, Tapir!, Aurora Engine and Clota

Landmarks: Through A Glass Darkly by Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (Issue 109)
“There were twelve fire doors between the Radiophonic Workshop studios and Studio Four, and they were always closed…”

Reviews (Issue 109)
Thoughts on work by Cult Of Wedge, Alexander R Cargill Esq, Stellarays, The Home Current and Cat Tyson Hughes

Elizabeth Parker, Future Perfect and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
(Issue 108)
“I was thinking of nuns in a deserted abbey…”

Reviews (Issue 108)
Thoughts on work by Suzy Mangion, Bas Jan, Pennycross Coven, The Eyes and the Mistoids, Linoleum Department and Burial Grid

Emma Anderson, Pearlies and The Stone Tape (Issue 107)
“Fawlty Towers is about a dysfunctional man having a mid-life crisis. And that’s what we grew up with…”

Reviews (Issue 107)
Thoughts on work by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire, Vic Mars, Large Plants, Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra, Amor Muere and Hidden Britain Tapes

The Radiophonic Workshop – Adventures In Time And Space
(Issue 106)
“It was regarded as a bit of ‘Loony Bin’ by a lot of people in Broadcasting House…”

Delia Derbyshire and Inventions For Radio (Issue 106)
“I think these pieces spoke to her…”

Time Machine: Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies (Issue 106)
“Why didn’t I see something? I was obsessed with science fiction, I was a massive Doctor Who fan…”

Reviews (Issue 106)
Thoughts on work by Junkboy, Ivan The Tolerable, Emma Anderson, Leo Robinson, Field Lines Cartographer and Howard Jones

Belbury Poly, Ghost Box Records and The Path (Issue 105)
“I think it might be necessary for someone to explain to Jesse what One Man And His Dog is…”

Reviews (Issue 105)
Thoughts on work by Pale Blue Eyes, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Revbjelde, Howlround, Fogroom, Mike Dickinson, Penelope Antena and Debris Discs

Jim Noir, Leonore Wheatley and Co-Pilot (Issue 104)
“We got sued by someone who got in touch with my management and said ‘You’ve broken my finger with a gnome’.” 

Reviews (Issue 104)
Thoughts on work by Belbury Poly, MeLostMe, Chela, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band and Firestations

Craven Faults, Standers and Leeds Polytechnic (Issue 103)
“I like the rusty bits of metal you find attached to walls. There’s one not far from here…”

Under The Influence: Peter Strickland (Issue 103)
“I used to work in Thresher’s off licence in Reading, and I’d play Martin Denny in there. My boss couldn’t stand it…”

Reviews (Issue 103)
Thoughts on work by Co-Pilot, Ardala, Pulselovers, Violet Mist, Perkins & Federwisch, Tiny Leaves and Zyggurat

Dick Mills, Peter Howell and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
(Issue 102)
“The ‘Ooo-we-ooo’ machine was a Wobbulator that Delia managed to play like this…”

Reviews (Issue 102)
Thoughts on work by Craven Faults, Tarotplane, Sparks, The Metamorph, Benefits and Foster Neville

Oliver Cherer, Gilroy Mere and Gilden Gate (Issue 101)
“The bones of those monks have been regularly exposed over the last couple of hundred years…”

Sparks and The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (Issue 101)
“The women all perfectly in lockstep, their hair all done uniformly, and Kim Jong Un, in essence, taking on the role of the DJ…”

Reviews (Issue 101)
Thoughts on work by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Andy Bell & Masal, UNE, Cate Brooks, Synthetic Villains, Cate Brooks, The All Golden and Henge

Tracks Of Tomorrow (Issue 100)
For their 100th issue, Electronic Sound asked their writers to compile tracks that had, in some way, attempted to anticipate the future. These were my contributions…

Reviews (Issue 100)
Thoughts on work by Josephine Foster, The Night Monitor, Survey Channel, Chik White, Mombi Yuleman and Jonathan Sharp

Hifi Sean, David McAlmont and Happy Ending (Issue 99)
“Prince was the one that really knocked me for six. He was a fan of The Soup Dragons, which was insane…”

Mark Jenkin and the Enys Men Soundtrack (Issue 99)
“You’re making discordant ambient music in support of a film. You’re not going to get on Top of the Pops…”

Reviews (Issue 99)
Thoughts on work by Buried Treasure, Doug McKechnie, Fingerpop, Bhajan Bhoy, Gilroy Mere, Evan Lindorff-Ellery and EPIC45

Polypores, Field Lines Cartographer and Margoid Huntingdon
(Issue 98)
“As I’m falling asleep, these weird phrases drift into my head. And sometimes I say them out loud. I’ve recorded them, with my phone at the side of the bed… ”

Reviews (Issue 98)
Thoughts on work by The Go! Team, Thomas Truax with Budgie and Mother Superior, Polypores, Flexagon, Earstone, Burial Grid and Ryan Shirlow

d’Voxx, 1984 and Stevie Wonder’s Tea (Issue 97)
“Brexit, Trump and Putin happened, and we didn’t feel like making a happy album…”

Alan Gubby and The Delaware Road (Issue 97)
“Sparkly sonic seeds were planted in our minds…”

Reviews (Issue 97)
Thoughts on work by Belbury Poly, The Focus Group, The Home Current and Peter Wix, Suzy Mangion, Leland Whitty and Fingerwolf

Ron Geesin, Brass Knuckledusters and Sunday Bloody Sunday
(Issue 96)
“I realised, after surviving the Great Toilet Incident as a teenager, that humour was essential to human existence…”

Landmarks: Farmer’s Angle by Belbury Poly (Issue 96)
“What really stuck in my mind was the theme from One Man And His Dog! I honestly think that’s the template for Belbury Poly…”

Reviews (Issue 96)
Thoughts on work by Andrew Wasylyk, Maja Lena, The Balloonist, The Overload, Anton Witter and Repeated Viewing

Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Gordon Chapman-Fox and Chock-A-Block (Issue 95)
“Skelmersdale New Town… these places seemed exotic, but also quite alien and distant.  Futuristic, but artificial. Like the Moonbase from Space 1999…”

A Year In The Country: Cathode Ray And Celluloid Hinterlands
(Issue 95)
“Often, rural areas are shown as being isolated, otherly places. And that isolation allows them to create a world unto themselves, free from the influence of the outside world…”

Reviews (Issue 95)
Thoughts on work by Modified Toy Orchestra, The Leaf Library, Infinity Room, Shabason and Krgovich, Boerd, Burd Ellen, Kayla Painter and Dilettante

Cate Brooks, The Advisory Circle and Ghost Box Records (Issue 94)
“To be honest, I thought I’d given up doing interviews…”

Under The Influence: Clare Grogan (Issue 94)
“I was the crazy lady running down an empty street bellowing Station To Station…”

Reviews (Issue 94)
Thoughts on work by Warrrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Johanna Warren, Ron Geesin, MJ Hibbett, The Heartwood Institute, Aircooled, The Hologram People, Monochrome Echo and Nina Kohout

Neil Arthur, Blancmange and Private View (Issue 93)
“I suddenly realised I didn’t know where the stage was! It was literally Synth Tap…”

Buried Treasure: Zero Zero by Mike Batt (Issue 93)
“Long long ago, far into the distant future and after the Seventh War, there is a civilisation called System 605…”

Reviews (Issue 93)
Thoughts on work by Blancmange, The Advisory Circle, Frogman, Badge Epoque Ensemble, Altered Images, The Rowan Amber Mill, Mike Dickinson and Andy Fosberry

Reviews (Issue 92)
Thoughts on work by Tim Bowness, Sedna Chronicles, Regal Worm, Polypores, Kid Moxie, Naomi Alligator and Band Of Cloud

Alison Cotton and The Portrait You Painted of Me (Issue 91)
“A distant relative of mine, Helen Hughes, was a world famous spiritualist…”

Reviews (Issue 91)
Thoughts on work by Working Men’s Club, The Hardy Tree, Fresh Pepper, Warren ‘Kaninen’ Rasmussen, Field Glass, Floodlights and Ian Daniel Kehoe

Dean Honer, Kevin Pearce and The Sound of Science (Issue 90)
“Stars get a bit boring… although globular clusters can be really good”

Reviews (Issue 90)
Thoughts on work by Field Lines Cartographer, Mount Maxwell, Craig Fortnam, Hawksmoor, The New Electric Frontier, Alison Cotton and Meadowsilver

Adam Cresswell, Rodney Cromwell and Happy Robots (Issue 89)
“You can’t dress like Peter and Jane and say you’re not twee…”

Reviews (Issue 89)
Thoughts on work by Ghost Power, Andy Fosberry, Oksana Linde, In The Nursery, OCH, Audio Obscura vs Black Sonar, Elin and Myths and Monsters

Reviews (Issue 88)
Thoughts on work by Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra, Monochrome Echo, Pictish Trail, Mood Taeg, Luminous Foundation, Large Plants and Aux Luna

Keith Seatman, The Gnome Zone and Sad Old Tatty Bunting (Issue 87)
“He’s got robes and a big old beard, and every curtain in the street is going absolutely barmy…”

Reviews (Issue 87)
Thoughts on work by Modern Aviation (Look To Imber), Tony Price, The Night Monitor and Houseplants

Jesse Chandler, Pneumatic Tubes and Ghost Box Records (Issue 86)
“You want to feel, as an adult, the same way you did when you were a kid. But you never can…”

Reviews (Issue 86)
Thoughts on work by Hawksmoor, Roman Angelos, Kuma and Josephine Foster

Leah Kardos, Tony Visconti and Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra (Issue 85)
“I am an early Stylophone nerd! I went out and bought one immediately, and so did David…”

Reviews (Issue 85)
Thoughts on work by The British Stereo Collective, Library Of The Occult, Field Lines Cartographer, The Loved One, Mike Dickinson and Anticipating Nowhere

Reviews (Issue 84)
Thoughts on work by Kingston University Stylophone Orchestra, UNE, Polypores, Mordant Music, One Key Magic, Santa Sprees, Martyn Stonehouse and Near Stoic

Mark Radcliffe, Paul Langley, UNE and Spomenik (Issue 83)
“They’re like altars to some strange cult that’s died out… they had concrete stools placed around them where children were herded to hear lectures about how great the future was going to be”

Reviews (Issue 83)
Thoughts on work by Trunk Records, Isvisible Isinvisible, Stellarays, Ryan James Mawbey and Mimsy

Jonny Trunk, Trunk Records and Do What You Love (Issue 82)
“I was doing a Rubik’s Cube the other night. And there was a weird moment when the blue and the orange segments came together…”

Reviews (Issue 82)
Thoughts on work by King Champion Sounds, Missionary Work, Luke Requena, The Home Current and Dechmont Woods

Janet Beat – Pioneering Knob Twiddler (Issue 81)
“I heard it crash through the roof, and I was told later in life it was an incendiary bomb, so we wouldn’t have survived. The heat generated just sears the lungs…”

Under The Influence: Lauren Mayberry (Issue 81)
“When she sang vibrato, I’d think ‘Even Whitney’s tongue is beautiful!’” 

Reviews (Issue 81)
Thoughts on work by Alice Hubble, A Year In The Country, Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Glen Fallows & Mark Treffel, Jane and Barton, Pharagonesia, Heron & Crane and Faithful Johannes

Paul Hartnoll, Murray Lachlan Young, Orbital and The Virus Diaries (Issue 80)
“I was in the less violent year, below Paul. Still a very violent year, but Paul was in an ultra-violent year…”

Reviews (Issue 80)
Thoughts on work by ToiToiToi, Ben Winter, Bredbeddle, Lore City, Clocolan and Synthetic Villains

Reviews (Issue 79)
Thoughts on work by The Go! Team, David Boulter, The Unseen, Polypores, Repeated Viewing, Quiet Clapping and VA (Front & Follow)

Hattie Cooke, Bliss Land and Logan’s Run (Issue 78)
“Either I’m going to be successful with a decent career, or I’m going to go back to being a drunken loon. At the moment, I’m sitting between those two places…”

Reviews (Issue 78)
Thoughts on work by Meurig Elis Huws, Dohnavur, Salvatore Mercatante, Hawksmoor, Moth Effect and Mabe Fratti

Gruff Rhys, Mount Paektu and Seeking New Gods (Issue 77)
“There should be massive Brutalist sculpture or something there. Fifty foot, and made of concrete…”

Reviews (Issue 77)
Thoughts on work by Hattie Cooke, Dream Division, Everyday Dust, Soiled, Simon Klee, Drew Mulholland

Martin Gore, Depeche Mode, and The Third Chimpanzee (Issue 76)
“Any time I’m up in the Toronto area, I can go and meet Pockets and his friends”. Martin Gore discusses his new solo EP… and Depeche Mode performing with chickens in 1982.

Under The Influence: Rusty Egan (Issue 76)
“People looked like they were in a film noir, but there’d be Jean-Michel Jarre playing in the background…”

Landmarks: ‘The Crunch’ by The RAH Band (Issue 76)
“I got a call saying it was Number Six in the charts, and that it was predicted to be Number One the following week. And I thought ‘Blimey, this is amazing – are you sure?’ But then…”

Reviews (Issue 76)
Thoughts on work by The Home Current, Camp Of Wolves, Concretism, Letters From Mouse, Ivan The Tolerable, Head Cleaner

Hannah Peel, Fir Wave, Brian Eno and Delia Derbyshire (Issue 75)
“Surely if anybody heard the inside of a tree bubbling, they’d say it sounded like a synthesizer…”

Reviews (Issue 75)
Thoughts on work by The Hardy Tree, Michael Tanner and Kerrie Robinson, Lo Five, Dogs Versus Shadows, VA (Undercurrents), Winged Ma’at, TEARS|OV, Personal Bandana, The Heartwood Institute and Hawksmoor, Pulselovers

Frances Castle, Clay Pipe Music, The Hardy Tree and Thalassing (Issue 74)
“Monday is yellow, Tuesday is turquoise, Wednesday is green, Thursday is orange and Friday is a kind of burnt ochre…”

Reviews (Issue 74)
Thoughts on work by Isvisible Isinvisible, Polypores, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Dogs Versus Shadows, Rupert Lally, Firefay, The Soulless Party and Quiet Clapping

Beautify Junkyards, João Branco Kyron and Ghost Box Records (Issue 73)
“The voice had a Portuguese accent. It was someone who was going with their father to the beach, but was afraid of the water. It was a really weird experience! We were in the room recording. There was no-one there…”

Under The Influence: Stephen James Buckley (Issue 73)
“I liked Gollum, and fungus is the Gollum of the plant world…”

Buried Treasure: Intolerance by Tik and Tok (Issue 73)
“Older brothers had punk rock, but we had Vince Clarke, Pac-Man and Richard Stilgoe presenting Finders Keepers…”

Reviews (Issue 73)
Thoughts on work by Hattie Cooke, Yves Malone, The Heartwood Institute, Apta, CUB\CUB, Torpa, 2p Soldiers

Reviews (Issue 72)
Thoughts on work by The Twelve Hour Foundation, Monochrome Echo, Heinrich Dressel, VA (Scarred For Life 2), Field Lines Cartographer and The Green Child

Reviews (Issue 71)
Thoughts on work by Concretism, Andy Fosberry, Dream Division, VA (The Burning Trestle), Polypores, Her Majesty’s Coroner For Wirral and The Home Current

Reviews (Issue 70)
Thoughts on work by Polypores, A Year In The Country, Floodlights, Tim Koh, Hawksmoor and Rupert Lally

Jim Jupp, Belbury Poly and Annie Hates Cordial (Issue 69)
“If I’d said the album was about ghosts, people would have said ‘OK, that’s interesting’…”

Reviews (Issue 69)
Thoughts on work by Correlations, David Boulter, Portland Vows, Gavino Morretti, VA (Woodford Halse – Undulating Waters 5), Saint Saviour and Andy Fosberry…

Castles In Space, Colin Morrison and the Loch Ness Monster (Issue 68)
 “My dad dug out an old tape from when I was about three years old. It was him saying ‘Testing, testing, 1-2-3… what do you want for Christmas?’ And I said ‘I want a record player!’”

Buried Treasure: The Peter Pan Effect by Robert Marlow (Issue 68)
“How did Robert Marlow not become famous, a staple of early 80s Top of the Pops and a regular customer of the Saturday Superstore?

Reviews (Issue 68)
Thoughts on work by Belbury Poly, Nevergrand, Bernard Grancher, VA (Woodford Halse) and Ben Winter

Reviews (Issue 67)
Thoughts on work by Polypores, Proto Droids and Second Language Music

Reviews (Issue 66)
Thoughts on work by Ghost Box Records, Textile Ranch, Patch Bae Records, Zyklus, Jon Brooks and Bobby Barry

Nikmis, Jawbone, Cat-Faced Bread and the Wendigo (Issue 65)
“Yeah, there’s a picture of cat-bread. Like bread, with a cat-face on it. I do use that, yeah…”

Reviews (Issue 65)
Thoughts on work by Dalham, Plone and Drew Mulholland

Reviews (Issue 64)
Thoughts on work by Nikmis, Andy Fosberry, Magic Sword, Maserati, The Heartwood Institute & Panamint Manse, Capac & Tom Harding and Rupert Lally

Buried Treasure: Dreamies by Bill Holt (Issue 63)
“There are two types of Beatles fan in the world. Those who, when committing their White Album vinyl to cassette, pressed pause to omit the jarring, unsettling sound collage of ‘Revolution 9’. And then…”

Reviews (Issue 63)
Thoughts on work by Rory Mohon, Hunter Complex, The Relations, Jon Brooks, Ali Wade, Roman Angelos

Kl(aüs), Castles In Space and Umlaut Etiquette (Issue 62)
“Together, Stewart Lawler and Jonathan Elliott are Kl(aüs)… and they have something important to say about umlauts…”

Buried Treasure: Electrosound by Ron Geesin (Issue 62)
“Anyone who grew up during this halcyon era will recognise the sound of ‘the future’… a future that consisted of bacofoil and bubblewrap…”

Reviews (Issue 62)
Thoughts on work by Keith Seatman, Revbjelde, VA (Par Avion), Kid Moxie, Mabe Fratti

The Home Current, Martin Jensen and the Candy Jungle (Issue 61)
“A rich tapestry of precocious 1980s clubland adventures, near-misses in the mainstream pop world, and some pretty hardcore birdwatching…”

Reviews (Issue 61)
Thoughts on work by The Soulless Party, Rupert Lally, Flexagon, The Home Current, Jangly Mark

no-man, Tim Bowness and Love You To Bits (Issue 60)
“Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson are back with the first no-man album since 2008, soundtracking a tale of tragic, fractured romance…”

Reviews (Issue 60)
Thoughts on work by VA (Scarred For Life), The Home Current, Neil Scrivin, Paul K, Repeated Viewing

Buried Treasure: Dark Circles by The Devils (Issue 59)
“Somewhere, out there in the infinite multiverse, is a parallel reality version of Duran Duran…”

Reviews (Issue 59)
Thoughts on work by Antoni Maiovvi’s Time Precinct, Hattie Cooke, VA (The Quietened Journey), Drew Mulholland

Reviews (Issue 58)
Thoughts on work by Pulselovers, Jan Borré, Heron & Crane, VA (Cold War On The Rocks), Fariña