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Your last-minute Christmas book buying guide

Gifts for the music lover in your life

Dec 23, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #21 – more great records from 2025

They might have missed the AOTY cut, but they deserve recognition all the same

Dec 19, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Tonight: AOTY Listening Club session 🎧

Come listen to Yazz Ahmed's A Paradise In The Hold

Dec 18, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

[Bonus video] Revisiting my AOTY winners, 2016–2025

Plus: details for the next Listening Club session

Dec 12, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

The 20 Best Records of 2025

From psychedelic Arabic jazz to glassy electronic techno – oh, what a year!

Dec 7, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

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In My Ears #20 – Oneohtrix Point Never, Town Portal & an Eno classic at 50

Plus: Long live 'From The Basement'

Nov 28, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

My perplexing two-week conversation with Bogdan Raczynski

One of IDM's most playful artists delights in dodging, contradicting, and keeping me guessing.

Nov 25, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #19 – FKA twigs, Clark & Tortoise

Plus: Winning the war against ticket touts

Nov 21, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Tonight: first deep cuts listening club session 🎧

Come listen to Coltrane and Fishmans

Nov 20, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Recommendations

Footnotes and Tangents

Footnotes and Tangents

Simon Haisell

That Final Scene

That Final Scene

Sophie

Every Tom Waits Song

Every Tom Waits Song

Ray Padgett

Loud And Quiet

Stuart Stubbs

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Interviews

My perplexing two-week conversation with Bogdan Raczynski

One of IDM's most playful artists delights in dodging, contradicting, and keeping me guessing.

Nov 25, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

1,200 number ones later: inside one man’s quest to understand pop music

If you listened to every Billboard Hot 100 number one song since 1958, what would it reveal?

Oct 28, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Inside the most vulnerable metal record in years

An autism diagnosis became the through-line of Conjurer’s new LP – and a lifeline for one of its members

Oct 21, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Singing for your all-time favourite band: Mike Vennart on joining Cardiacs

Our conversation covered LSD – the mythic new Cardiacs record – and the 20th anniversary of Oceansize's Everyone Into Position.

Aug 26, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

“If I hear AI music and I like it? Shoot me”

Discussing all things streaming with Qobuz boss, Dan Mactka

Jul 22, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising / a deep cuts essential

Sinking civilisation never sounded this beautiful

Nov 18, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #18 – Rosalía, Danny Brown & Nujabes

Plus: Getting my head down on the AOTY list

Nov 14, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

On the slate for the rest of 2025

Another deep cuts essential, an interview with an electronic legend, and a multi-part jazz exploration

Nov 11, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #17 – Daniel Avery, Springsteen & Lily Allen

Plus: Retroactively changing records is editing our cultural memory

Nov 7, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Join the deep cuts listening club 🎧

Starting November 20th!

Nov 5, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

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Q&A – October 2025

Answering questions from deep cuts' paid subscribers

Oct 31, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

1,200 number ones later: inside one man’s quest to understand pop music

If you listened to every Billboard Hot 100 number one song since 1958, what would it reveal?

Oct 28, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #16 – Tame Impala, Sudan Archives & Algernon Cadwallader

Plus: Announcing the deep cuts listening club – a monthly listening party for paid subscribers 🎧

Oct 24, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

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