From Drake and Zayn to Kanye and James Blake, 2016 has been littered with albums marred by ridiculous run-times, each spanning over 17 tracks. Are artists getting more ambitious, or is there a ...

Birthed in Chicago’s blighted South Side in the early 2010s and popularized by artists like King Louie and Chief Keef, drill music – an aggressive descendent of trap – has all but faded from ...

How prehistoric biota inspired the SVBKVLT artist’s captivating new album, Holes of Sinian. This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2023 issue, which is available to buy here.

Digital album leaks have been happening for more than 20 years, but it’s been a long time since they were this prominent in the news. Leaks became a regular occurrence for the label around eight ...

Jigga historians, take note: he’s spelling his name with an umlaut again. On the website of Jay-fronted streaming menace Tidal, Jay Z has suddenly become Jaÿ-Z – and only a few years after he ...

The neo-psych figureheads’ 10th album is on the way. Animal Collective have officially wrapped their new album and follow-up to 2012’s Centipede Hz. The news came from EastWest Studios in Los ...

Primary Optics is a series that dives into the ideas and technology behind some of the world’s most innovative audiovisual shows and artists. Earlier this year, FACT travelled to Berlin to ...

“Dear Tommy will be a shitty pop album. I’m not there to feed him ideas. You will get garbage.” Italians Do It Better co-founder Mike Simonetti is still angry about the $13,000 he claims ...

FACT’s John Twells traveled to Latvian capital Riga to check out the second edition of Erica Synths’ Kontaktor festival, a community-focused celebration of techno and technology. When I arrive ...

The band’s four albums and two singles compilations will be given long overdue reissue treatment this September. Though many expected a brutally sad ending to the loved Warp mainstay Broadcast ...

Danny Brown’s fourth solo full-length, Atrocity Exhibition, finds the Detroit rapper in a narcotic haze of introspection. Influenced by Joy Division and J.G. Ballard and sounding more ...

The singer may have enlisted Roald Dahl’s beloved illustrator for his upcoming project. James Blake is gradually letting information slip about his highly anticipated new album, and today we may ...