Alex Denney
Dazed
United Kingdom
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Dry Cleaning on doughnuts, meal deals, and the terror of everyday life
The London post-punk antipoets speak to Alex Denney about capitalism, charity shops, and the delirium that inspired their new album, Stumpwork → Read More
Sorry break down the songs on their debut album, 925
The downer London band share the inspirations behind five songs on their killer debut → Read More
How alternative pop is embracing the surreal
From Cate Le Bon to Weyes Blood, a clutch of female musicians are ‘trawling the secrets of the psyche’ to create some of the year’s best albums → Read More
Euronoize unites punks and weirdos to send up Europe’s shift to the right
The alternative Eurovision party, taking place at London’s Scala tonight, is a loud spin on Europe’s flag-waving obsession → Read More
How Weyes Blood raised the Titanic for her new record
The LA musician’s most ambitious album to date is a lush meditation on love and looming climate catastrophe → Read More
Faye Webster is the alt-country ATLien perfecting the accidental love song
The Atlanta songwriter, photographer, and Awful Records associate tells us about her new album, Atlanta Millionaires’ Club → Read More
The story behind the bold and bizarre street style of The Warriors
Costume designer Bobbie Mannix talks us through the film that changed the face of NYC on screen, 40 years on from its release → Read More
These New Puritans: paradise lost
Jack and George Barnett on the brutal, cosmic paradise that is their new album, Inside the Rose → Read More
Dazed Mix: These New Puritans
The Essex band share a mixtape about a mythical England-not-England, featuring Depeche Mode and drum’n’bass-era Bowie → Read More
Remembering the incomparably vivid movie scores of Jóhann Jóhannsson
A year on from his death, we speak to those close to the Icelandic composer about his innovative soundtracks for films like Arrival, mother!, and Mandy → Read More
A new photo book offers a portrait of a changing and troubled Britain
Invisible Britain profiles the marginalised, misrepresented, and ignored people living in various cities around the UK → Read More
The Studio Ghibli disciple who became an anime master
As his new film Mirai screens at London Film Festival, here’s a brief guide to the work of Miyazaki student Mamoru Hosoda → Read More
Cola Boyy is a disco crooner, songwriter, and Marxist organiser
Oxnard’s Matthew Arango writes pop songs with a radical beat – listen to his new EP, Black Boogie Neon → Read More
Massive Attack’s Mezzanine and the death of the multicultural dream
Following its 20th anniversary and with a new book about the Bristol band on its way, we look back on their fraught third album → Read More
Revenge is the French, feminist Kill Bill-style thriller you need to see
Director Coralie Forgeat on rejecting ‘good’ feminism, and why France's response to the #MeToo movement sucks → Read More
Mark E Smith speaks to Can’s Irmin Schmidt in one of his final interviews
In one of his final interviews, the late Fall frontman talks to Irmin Schmidt about the greatest gig that never was → Read More
Cult cartoonist Jesse Jacobs selects his favourite frames
Guiding us through some of his favourite work, the artist unpicks the secrets of his psychedelia → Read More
We asked Daphne & Celeste to review a bunch of hit songs from the year 2000
The Y2K teen boppers look back on tracks (and their favourite behind-the-scenes memories) from Steps, Sisqo, and more → Read More
The weird science behind must-see alien thriller Annihilation
Alex Garland’s genre-splicing sci-fi is a riot of the uncanny, but Jeff VanderMeer – author of the book it’s based on – says its roots lie in plain sight → Read More
Exploring anime legend Satoshi Kon’s last unfinished film
We speak to the man tasked with completing the late filmmaker’s Dreaming Machine, but was the magical movie just never meant to be? → Read More