There is a dread that never rests – a lament which lies deep in the barren rock valleys and moorlands of the Wicklow Mountains. Lost in the dark, in unrelenting wind and rain. Ian Nyquist is a Dublin based composer and producer whose work is distinctly …

…..it’s time to give Every Which Way, the proper recognition it deserves, and the amount of respect for Brian’s legacy that Esoteric has unleashed three years ago during those tricky times when the world shut down due to the pandemic.

Jeff Wagner from San Francisco noir-rockers The Tunnel was kind enough to list three releases that have influenced him and The Tunnel a lot…

BORIS, Blood Ceremony, King Buffalo… Chris Keith-Wright previews Desertfest London’s finale and finds a bunch of bands with a B in their name merit A+++

Desertfest is back and that slow doomy beat from The Black Heart can be felt all over Camden. Chris Keith-Wright gives us his Friday Top Ten…

Something great is going down in London, this Saturday, and it’s not at Westminster Abbey. It’s Day Two of Desertfest and Camden is heating up. Chris Ball navigates the clouds and the craft beer to give us his ten top-picks.

Exclusive two-part premiere. A fantastical fusion of surrealist scenes and soundscapes from three of Spain’s greatest ambient artists and their forthcoming album, Bordando el manto terrestre.

Elephant Rifle vocalist Brad Bynum talks to Echoes and Dust about three releases that have influenced him and the band a lot musically.

Paris Hurley’s poetic punk and post-rock ritual, a cri de coeur for freedom taken from her forthcoming album, HERETIC, via Lost Future Records.

Dan Cooley from epic death metal band Foretoken talks to us about the core myths and folklore tales that inspired their new album Triumphs.

On the eve of a perfromance at the Roadburn Festival, Rachel Davies from Esben and the Witch chooses three records that have greatly influenced the band’s new album, Hold Sacred.

In October 1978 I went to see Hawklords at Leicester De Montfort Hall, I was blown away…central to it was Robert Calvert, the most charismatic and convincing frontman I have ever seen. It maybe possible, through tracking reoccurring themes and interviews, to get a clearer idea of the writer’s views.

While the album was released in 1971, it remains one of the true unsung gems in the history of free-jazz.

Prolific producer King Yosef releases his new full-length album ‘An Underlying Hum’ soon. We asked him about three records that have influenced him a lot.

To Ray, thank you for the memories. You will always be working all day, coming across the Charaton Bridge, and having a two week holiday in Spain while living in a glass house and being so sincere with Proclamation.

This month Rocket Recordings turn 25 years old, which they celebrate at Roadburn Festival. We asked a bunch of Echoes and Dust crew and psych scene stalwarts to pick their favourite Rocket album.

Looking Suite is the solo vehicle of Chris Holland, formerly of Math Pop legends Tribal Fighters. With this project, he switches his focus to lush, drifting ambient soundscapes punctuated by twinkling guitars but also retains his ear for a quirky, catc …

Ahead of Sermon’s new album release through Prosthetic Records, we asked frontman Him to put together 3 releases that have influenced him a lot during his musical career. 

Multi-instrumentalist, compulsive creator, and unrepentant volume addict Timo Ellis from Netherlands talks to us about 3 releases that have influenced him a lot.

The post-rock dreamgaze duo’s Marc Byrd choses the three records that have proved the greatest influence on their new album, Lost in the Void.

The rising London post-rockers pick four albums that have proved more than an influence on their new album, Less.