Glenn Branca - The Ascension

Available for 28 days

Stuart's featured album is Glenn Branca's 1981 debut album The Ascension - a no-wave classic and landmark in experimental guitar music, based around layering electric guitars in alternate tunings. Also in this week's roundup of adventurous and avant-garde music, some Donegal art-rock, Brightonian folk-noir, a bonus segment from Stuart's interview with The Pet Shop Boys, and Stuart reads your correspondence.