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Pretty Hate Machine, then satiated fans with the scorching industrial EP Broken, but by the time 1994 rolled around, fans were more than ready to see what would be Trent Reznor's follow-up act. Surprisingly to some, it was not a crushing yet danceable Pretty Hate Machine II, but rather a harder edged, aggressive conceptual album called The Downward Spiral. As Reznor explained to Select Magazine, "The idea behind the album is of someone who sheds everything around them to a potential nothingness, but through career, religion, relationship, belief and so on. It's less muscle-flexing, though ...

On the face of things, Foals pursuing hedonism shouldn’t ever really be classed as a break with the norm; after all, this is the same band that told NME, as their live commitments for Total Life Forever were drawing to a close, that “we all have healthy drinking problems.” In an interview with Australian blog Moshcam in 2013, during promotion for Holy Fire, frontman Yannis Philippakis weighs up a drug-fuelled pool party at Benicassim against an afterparty-turned-skinny-dipping session in Byron Bay for the title of the “biggest night” they’d ever had on tour; guitarist Jimmy Smi...

“I’m from Singapore and there aren’t many Asian people working in audio in the UK,” says Caesar Edmunds. “I’m probably one of the few people from Singapore to win a Grammy. Hopefully, I can be an inspiration to young producers.” The recording engineer is reflecting on a milestone year, having been named the Music Producers Guild’s breakthrough engineer of the year in March, which is an accolade he added to the Grammy he picked up for contributing to St Vincent’s Masseduction in 2018. With a CV bursting with punchy records from PJ Harvey, Queens of th...