Richie Culver

The sonic work of the artist, who also works as a painter, photographer and performer, combines influences from unruly outsider music, shivering industrial drones, drifting ambient streaks and anxious power electronics. These meet the effect-driven modulations of hypnotic spoken word passages. The result, for example on the current album Hostile Environments, is a dark cosmos of sound that evokes an existential unease about Britain's class society: Scream if you don't exist is the title of one of Culver's pertinent tracks.