Ethel Cain: Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Ethel Cain, the Southern Gothic alter ego of Hayden Silas Anhedönia, inspired devotion like no other artist in 2022. But with the first chapter of her sprawling epic ending in tragedy, where does the cult of Cain go from here?

Arooj Aftab is reimagining the music of centuries past, and making history as she goes

Composer, vocalist, Grammy-award winner, storyteller. Arooj Aftab is the cover star of Issue 132

Salamanda create imagined worlds that feel both familiar and strange

We meet the South Korean ambient duo, Sala and Manda, for Issue 128

How William Basinski’s masterpiece, The Disintegration Loops, captured a world crumbling around us in slow motion

Over 15 years after its original release, we take a look at how the ambient recordings confronted ideas of death and cyclical change

Perera Elsewhere

Aïsha Devi