“Gloriously original, its power to intrigue, disturb and seduce remains undiminished three decades on”: This 1995 album contains hip hop, dub, soul, industrial and ambient music. And it’s very, very prog
Its creator had already done groundbreaking trip hop work before discovering a teenage vocalist who gave form to deeply personal reflections on the tensions of the time

Julian Marszalek is the former Reviews Editor of The Blues Magazine. He has written about music for Music365, Yahoo! Music, The Quietus, The Guardian, NME and Shindig! among many others. As the Deputy Online News Editor at Xfm he revealed exclusively that Nick Cave’s second novel was on the way. During his two-decade career, he’s interviewed the likes of Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne, and has been ranted at by John Lydon. He’s also in the select group of music journalists to have actually got on with Lou Reed. Marszalek taught music journalism at Middlesex University and co-ran the genre-fluid Stow Festival in Walthamstow for six years.
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