Plan B
Issue 20

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ELECTRELANE: How Brighton’s wandering space-rock squad Electrelane reconvened in Berlin for a songwriting sabbatical and returned with a brave new album full of distance, hope and sparkle
MESSTHETICS: Between 1978 and 1983 hundreds of UK bands put out their own records and cassettes. Some were accomplished musicians. Some couldn’t play a note. EVERETT TRUE talks to Chuck Warner, the man behind Messthetics, an offshoot of US label Hyped To Death, dedicated to reclaiming British DIY post-punk history
THE HOLD STEADY: It’s non-stop for Craig Finn of literary pub-rockers The Hold Steady, as his band moves from beer-light to spotlight on their first European tour. We raise a glass to the kings of erudite AOR
COCOROSIE: Intrepid sister act CocoRosie return from strip-mining their collective subconscious, bearing further tales from a rainbow-hued dream syndicate
GOOD SHOES: Concise, precise and frustrated, Good Shoes make suburban punk-pop that’s fully in the here and now – and yeah, NEIL KULKARNI is old enough to say stuff like that

THE VOID
Infinite Livez, Robyn, Ceephax, The Apocalyptic Revenge Of…El-P, Personal Geography: Kristin Hersh, XBXRX, The Irrepressibles, Spinmaster Plantpot, Panther, In The Mix: Buraka Son Sistema, Remote Viewer: Chile, Low, Singles Club, When We Meet, including Duloks, Gallhammer, Gowns, Cadence Weapon, Read The Label: Bo’Weavil Record, Tour Diary: Blood Red Shoes, Annie Nightingale’s playlist, Barr, Titan, Why I Hate... Writing About Music, Why I Love... Playing Second Violin, Guided Tour: Roll Deep, Music That Time Forgot: Blue Oyster Cult’s Imaginos

LIVE
Black Lips, The Gossip, Panda Bear, Chinchilla Festival, Crystal Castles

ALBUMS
The Ex with Getatchew Mekuria, Michael Cashmore, Throbbing Gristle, The Aliens, Ciara, Roll Deep, Sidewalk Songs And City Stories: New Urban Folk, Arcade Fire, Euros Childs, Drakkar Sauna, Big Business, Cornelius, Fursaxa, Boris, Motor, Flower-Corsano Duo, Marnie Stern, Stars Of The Lid, Richard Swift, The Hidden Hand, Gudrun Gut

REISSUES Joe Meek, Sly & The Family Stone, Pentangle, Dexys Midnight Runners

MEDIA A rare interview with Albert Maysles; Performance, Things To Come, Without A Box: independent film distribution, Black Orpheus, Sunshine, The Host, Inside iCabin: both artspace and artwork