Draven – Abyssal Arcana
This review was commissioned through Ko-fi. However, it bears no weight on the score or decision. All reviews are written from an unbiased standpoint. Draven is the alias of Gr
Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby find queer utopian potential in the swamp with south florida sky
Enacting a queering of Swamp Thing as both science-fiction icon and adaptive model for exploring and challenging identity, artists Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby look to the peri
Fact Mix 856: Klein
London artist Klein features as one of four cover stars in the third edition of Fact’s print publication, captured in the singular vision of photographer Gabriel Moses and in
Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus pen a love letter to Odesa amidst planetary emergency with ‘, Throw’
Developed from a poem written in heat of the summer by Childs on visiting Odesa, Ukraine back in 2018. For the 2022 edition of Rewire Festival, writer and artist Holly Childs and c
Poison the Vicar – Affront
Poison the Vicar is the solo project of Brandon Gordon. Based in Shanghai, Gordon mixes industrial, EBM, darksynth, darkwave, and more into a cohesive slaughterhouse of hardened el
Caterina Barbieri shares transcendent visual for ‘Broken Melody’
A co-commission from 180 Studios and Fact. Caterina Barbieri has shared the second single from her forthcoming album, Spirit Exit. ‘Broken Melody’ arrives accompanied w
Safa explores percussive musical traditions and potential georealities with Ouda And The Strikers At Najd
Animator Sabine Saba pairs textural graphics with the dizzying metres of ‘Ouda And The Strikers At Najd’, a highlight from Ibtihalat, the debut album from musician, arc
Fact Mix 855: Gramrcy
An ode to blog house from one of Berlin’s most unpredictable DJs and producers. Since his debut in 2015 on Ancient Monarchy with a pair of chunky club tracks drawing on the s
Impulse Control Disorder – You Can Be That Somebody
What’s impressive from the start about Impulse Control Disorder’s brand-new single ‘You can be that somebody’ is his spoken word vocals. There’s a pro
Lyra Pramuk live at Volksbühne ft. Kianí del Valle and Nana
A special performance of Pramuk’s debut album Fountain, with insights from the trio on how they transformed it through dance and movement. Lyra Pramuk’s debut Fountain
Most Dismal Swamp slides into a mixed reality k-hole with MUSH
An extended and addled meditation on ‘gangcrafting,’ community-driven building projects within multiplayer online games, MUSH is equal parts film essay, cursed ASMR and
Testube – Backwater
This review was commissioned through Ko-fi. However, it bears no weight on the score or decision. All reviews are written from an unbiased standpoint. Can you believe that ther
Psy’Aviah – Bittersweet (Bonus Version)
This review was commissioned through Ko-fi. However, it bears no weight on the score or decision. All reviews are written from an unbiased standpoint. Twenty years. Twenty years
Fact Mix 854: Authentically Plastic
Authentically Plastic glides through disparate sounds with grace and purpose, exorcising restlessness in service of “free form femme fuckery”. Authentically Plastic des
Fact Residency: Theo Triantafyllidis
In his exploration of social technologies and the communities they enable us to create, Theo Triantafyllidis rarely seeks to provide any answers. Instead, his work allows him to co
Theo Triantafyllidis & Slugabed Present: Still Life With Platypus
Still Life With Platypus, a Fact original commission, sees Theo Triantafyllidis and producer and sound artist Slugabed navigating a series of increasingly complex and surreal vanit
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Anti-Gone
Theo Triantafyllidis adapts Connor Willumsen‘s graphic novel Anti-Gone into an experimental work of hybrid theatre, performed with one foot in the physical world and the othe
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Ork Haus
Theo Triantafyllidis presents a nightmarish vision of the metaverse that is part live simulation, part experimental theatre, drawing as much from The Sims as it does Lars Von Trier
Theo Triantafyllidis Presents: Radicalization Pipeline
Using surreal humour and an absurdist aesthetic sensibility inspired by high fantasy, classic science fiction, MMORPGs and niche online communities, Theo Triantafyllidis builds imm
Fact Mix 853: Jamz Supernova
A 3am club mix full of inspired blends from one of the UK’s favourite DJs and presenters. Over the past decade, Jamz Supernova has grown to become one of the UK’s most