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News / 26.06.23

PC Music will not release any new music after 2023

The record label, founded by A.G. Cook, has announced it will no longer release new music after this year. 2023 marks the 10th year of PC Music which was founded…

Long Reads / 15.12.23

Thy Slaughter on medieval fantasy, Soft Rock and PC Music

Album Reviews / 09.06.15

PC Music Volume 1 Album Review

…tongue in cheek way of acknowledging that attempting to critically dig below the pristine gloss of the label’s surface means getting hopelessly caught up in PC Music’s high-flown and contradictory…

News / 09.06.15

PC Music respond to GFOTY controversy

PC Music have publicly responded to the backlash to comments made by GFOTY in her Field Day Festival review for Noisey. The producer/ vocalist described Malian father and son duo…

Feature Lists / 10.12.18

The Top 50 Albums of 2018

It’s time for Crack Magazine’s Annual Report, our chance to take stock of the year in music. From glossy sounds to shapeshifting oddities and artists finding purpose in uncertain times,…

Feature Lists / 04.12.17

The Top 100 Albums of 2017

Here are the top 50-1 LPs of 2017, according to Crack Magazine. Check out 100-51 here. Visit 2017.crackmagazine.net for more end of year coverage over the coming weeks….

Feature Lists / 11.12.18

The Albums of 2018: Honourable Mentions

It’s time for Crack Magazine’s Annual Report, our chance to take stock of the year in music. Yesterday, we posted our Top 50 albums of 2018. Obviously, any attempt to…

What Just Happened / 11.11.19

The top 100 albums of the decade

Ruminations on death, loneliness, identity and hyperreality. The album didn’t die in the 2010s, it just got really, really weird

Albums of the year 2019
Annual Report 2019 / 09.12.19

The Top 50 Albums of the Year

From the rise of UK drill to AI-augmented music, to post-genre explorations via pirate radio stations, here are the 50 albums that captured the many faces of 2019

End of Year Lists / 16.12.15

Videos of the Year 2015

Welcome to our first ever annual rundown of music videos The internet rages on. It consumes every aspect of the very reality we have come to know and understand. We…

rewire 2020
Long Reads / 10.05.18

Meet Renata Raksha, the NY-based photographer behind the SOPHIE cover

New York-based photographer and filmmaker Renata Raksha is the photographer behind our Issue 88 cover story with the inimitable, and radical, popstar SOPHIE. In the cover shoot, the PC Music

Sophie © Renata Raksha
Long Reads / 01.05.18

SOPHIE: Earthly Pleasures

If 21st century life could be pinned down to a single feeling, maybe it’s the one where you’re just overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all. Confronted by every…

Extremely Online
Long Reads / 19.12.19

What does it mean to be an Extremely Online musician in 2019?

The recent tide in music culture might be characterised by the industry’s seismic shift towards being fully online. From the radical, Marxist notion of artists seizing the means of production…

Long Reads / 19.12.23

2023: The Year in Mixes

100 Gecs
Long Reads / 16.07.20

100 Gecs – Divide and conquer

On first listen, you might mistake 100 Gecs’ music for a joke. A jumble of internet humour, absurd lyrics and deliberately over-the-top stylistic clashes, the pair’s sound is challenging to…

Profiles / 04.02.21

Remembering SOPHIE, the architect

Discover / 12.12.16

ERSATZ is our new favourite trance deconstructionist

“I think it’s a weakness in music to explicitly discuss politics, as opposed to reacting abstractly and poetically. PC Music or Arca, let’s say, are both political but in a…

Sophie © Renata Raksha
News / 30.01.21

SOPHIE has died aged 34

…with the PC Music collective. In 2014, the producer teamed up with A. G. Cook and Hayden Frances Dunham to launch the project QT. The collaboration was marked by the…

Long Reads / 08.09.15

The Warm Physicality of Rough Music

“It’s just mud; it’s only mud.” The intrusion of the digital into art, and of art into the digital realm, is neither a problem nor news. Internet art is a…

News / 26.04.21

A.G. Cook pens moving tribute to SOPHIE

…yesterday (25 April), the PC Music boss wrote, “I’m still processing Sophie’s life…Spent a lot of time these last few months reflecting on her uniqueness, our time together, and the…

News / 01.10.20

Watch the Hannah Diamond-directed video for Sundara Karma’s new single ‘Kill Me’

…for the track which is co-directed by PC Music’s Hannah Diamond. Hannah has also worked on the artwork for the single. Kill Me is produced by London producer and artist…

12.12.14

Tracks of the year 2014

There’s the theory that the album format is dead, that the industry has moved on, that the kids these days just aren’t interested in lengthy, cohesive collections of songs anymore….

FKA twigs © Justin French
Profiles / 05.12.19

FKA twigs: A divine invention

News / 19.08.16

Watch Danny L Harle’s and Carly Rae Jepsen’s Super Natural video now

The Canadian pop star linked up with the London-based PC Music producer for a pop banger called Super Natural In what Danny L Harle has called “A huge landmark for…

top 25 tracks
Annual Report 2019 / 10.12.19

The Top 25 Tracks of the Year

From Megan’s Hot Girl Summer to rave-inflected jazz via some of the UK’s sharpest bars, here are the 25 tracks that defined 2019…

Profiles / 18.11.21

Charli XCX: The endgame

Profiles / 03.11.21

Namasenda: All guns blazing

Pussy Riot © Teddy Fitzhugh
Long Reads / 11.07.18

Pussy Riot are just getting started

“You can clearly see an anarchist discourse,” says Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova. She’s speaking of My Sex, her collaboration with Brooke Candy, and she’s audibly pleased with how receptive the…

1000 Gecs
Long Reads / 10.07.20

Inside the remixed chaos of 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues

100 Gecs specialise in smashing together styles of music that, on paper, have no business co-existing. Last year, Laura Les and Dylan Brady brought together their greatest musicals loves –…

News / 17.11.23

Thy Slaughter announce debut album, Soft Rock, and share SOPHIE co-written single, Lost Everything

The PC Music project comprised of A.G. Cook and EASYFUN are set to release their debut album on 1 December. Thy Slaughter have announce details of their debut full-length release…