Vera sola

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

LAST YEAR, IN the middle of a solo on stage, Ally Venable had a revelation. “I was playing so many shows that it started to become kind of a monotonous blur,” she says. “I noticed I was playing to my

SEPTEMBER 2025 TAKE 342

Manchester quartet hit heavy and soft with radiant prog sound.

Rather gear collection of punky outsider artists’ BBC work recorded between 1978 and 1980.

Desire On Ice ORG MUSIC 8/10