Plan B
Issue 34

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SPARKS
Ron and Russell Mael are Sparks, art-pop conceptualists rooting in the undergarments of popular music and teasing what they find into minimalist symphonies that celebrate perversity and yearn for perfection. On the eve of new album Exotic Creatures Of The Deep, they bring their back catalogue to the stage in its entirety. Nostalgia will never be the same again.

SHEARWATER
As Shearwater, Jonathan Meiburg lets his imagination take flight, shaping music that evokes nature in all its precarious fragility.

EFFI BRIEST
Plan B go out on a limb with Effi Briest, Brooklyn punk seamstresses weaving art and craft, nature and friend ship into a hypnotic, shamanic energy.

FLYING LOTUS
Flying Lotus chills with apparitions and shape-shifts through personas, synthesising a dreamy, hypnotic hip-hop that shimmers with possibilities.

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE: RUDIMENTARY PENI
As part of Plan B's ongoing series on musical mavericks and forgotten visionaries, we meet Rudimentary Peni, enigmatic, reclusive anarcho punks documenting societies ruthless inequalities and exploring the furthest recesses of the mind.

PLUS: Thank You, Daedelus, Sally Shapiro, Late Of The Pier, Sebastian Tellier, Atlas Sound, Micachu, Evangelista, Fleet Foxes, Lykke Li, Cutting Pink With Knives, The Chap, Gay Beast, Ellie Allien.

LIVE: Laurie Anderson, Gonzales, Tryptich, Akron/Family, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Current 93, Björk, Old Time Relijun, Howlin' Rain, Jonathan Richman, Matt and Kim.

ALBUMS: Silver Jews, Ladytron, Horace Andy, Apparat, Kail, Cee-Rock, Onofron, Cassetteboy, Fleet Foxes, Matmos, Toumani Diabate, John and Jehn, Awesome Color, Death Cab For Cutie, Motorpsycho, My Morning Jacket, The Night Marchers, The Oh Sees, Steppa's Delight, The Ting Tings, 2562.

REISSUES: Orson Wells, Iron Maiden, 808 State, Dennis Wilson, Coil, Mission Of Burma.