LoneLady, AKA Julie Campbell is a self-styled writer, vocalist and super-tight guitarist. Recorded in a ramshackle studio in one of Manchester’s crumbling mills, her debut album ‘Nerve Up’ invokes the ghosts of Joy Division, Wire and The Fall. Though her inspirations are dark and dour, her post-punk tunes are positively popping.

‘Nerve Up’ is out on 22nd February on Warp Records.

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At 13, Charlotte Gainsbourg made her musical debut with her father, Serge, on a record intriguingly titled, ‘Lemon Incest’. 24 years later comes a moving, and rather magical, album, ‘IRM’, made with Beck.  Tellingly, the title is the French abbreviation for MRI, and explores the after effects of the cerebral hemorrhage that Gainsbourg experienced after a water-skiing accident in 2007. But far from being dour, the resulting album is an evocative mix of industrial clank, beating electronica and ethereal Gallic pop. We’re enchanted.

‘IRM’ is released today on Because Records.

www.charlottegainsbourg.com

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Twin’s cultural connoisseur in Paris, actor and DJ Joana Preiss shares her top ten tracks with us…

1/ Harry Crews : Naked In Garden Hills
2/ Lizzy Mercier Descloux : Torso Corso / Fire
3/ Joan La Barbara : Three Voices (Morton Feldman) / The Wonderful Widow (John Cage )
4/ Teenage Jesus and the Jerks : Everything
5/ Anna Karina : Ma Ligne De Chance (Pierrot Le Fou)
6/ Diamanda Galas : Gloomy Sunday
7/ Gina X : Nice Mover
8/ Lydia Lunch (and Rowland S.Howard) : Some Velvet Morning
9/ Millie Small : My Boy Lollipop
10/ Laurie Anderson : Born, Never Asked / O Superman (live version with David Bowie)

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