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I am an experienced freelance music writer with reviews, interviews and features in publications including The Guardian, Pitchfork, Noisey (Vice), Dazed, The Quietus, The Wire, FACT, Bandcamp Daily and Electronic Sound.
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Graphic designer Rick Banks and DJ historian Bill Brewster's new book Clubbed explores the way that dance music looks
As Ninja Tune founders and Coldcut men Matt Black and Jonathan More release a new Adrian Sherwood-produced new LP they talk Lottie Brazier through the records that sparked their lifetime of eclectic music-making
From falling into the 'massive abyss' of Alfred Schnittke, to the 'silly and lovely' Electric Light Orchestra, Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance delivers Lottie Brazier a guide to her thirteen favourite pieces of music
The fall of the Soviet Union and homecomputing changed the face of music in the eastern European country, which now is full of musicians looking to the past to build the future.
The Throbbing Gristle provocateur is being hymned as she nears the end of her life. But accusations of abuse, all denied, complicate her legacy
At the launch of the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Lottie Brazier asks what it means to exhibit Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics next to Shakespeare and the Gutenberg Bible
From DIY beginnings in McCarthy, to situationism, to establishing the influential Duophonic Records, to influencing future bands like Deerhunter, Lottie Brazier charts the remarkable voyage of one of France and Britain's most successful co-achievements besides the Channel Tunnel: Stereolab
Childhood nightmares and uncanny reminders seep into the flux of Elizabeth Bernholz's latest, an album of disarming vocal force, finds Lottie Brazier