IF YOU LOOK under the hood of Car Bomb’s Tiles Whisper Dreams EP, and you’re going to find a twisted metal landscape of tech-death complexity, heavy shoegaze subversion and engine-cracking djent-outs

CHARLES CECIL

Lauren was no art expert – but she knew what she liked

PERSONAL ADVENTURES IN GAMES

14 JANUARY

Suicide singer ALAN VEGA was a writer and performer like no other, willing to go to any extreme to force a reaction, whether wonder, hatred or horror. As his key early solo albums re-emerge, his balls, brilliance and bloody-mindedness still blow the mind. As bandmate Martin Rev attests, “Alan was the most totally dedicated artist I’ve ever met.”