After four weeks of our New Canon series, the regular We Have A Technical podcast is back! This week we're discussing Sinner Get Ready, the new album from Lingua Ignota. Its rural mood and shift towards acoustic/folk instrumentation while maintaining the harrowing tones and themes for which Kristen Hayter's work has gained acclaim are just some of the topics we're discussing. Also, we try to catch up with a full month's worth of news bites.

This month's We Have A Commentary takes up the third LP from Vancouver's chameleonic Moev. Yeah Whatever brought together elements of synthpop, post-punk, funk, nascent alt-rock, goth, and body music, all under the aegis of then-new vocalist Dean Russell's exploration of deeply spiritual and personal issues. The Senior Staff discuss it in relation to Moev's broader history (as well as that of Nettwerk Records)

On the last episode of We Have A Technical before our special podcast series The New Canon takes over the month of August, we're talking about the classic mid-90s fusion of industrial programming and guitar of Steril's Egoism and the timeless and intimate sound design of Octavius' Laws. Some Ashbury Heights and Front 242 chat rounds out this week's episode.

The sometimes strained and sometimes incredibly powerful crossover between industrial and hip-hop is the subject of this week's We Have A Technical. From both genres' shared roots in sampling to thorny questions of MCing to current forms of hip-hop which create noise ex nihilo, we're aiming for a relatively subjective discussion of this unique intersection rather than an authoritative history thereof. We're also touching upon a recent article detailing connections between noise/power electronics artists like Dom Fernow and the far right.

The return of the listener-favourite Pick Five format has us considering records we like to listen to whilst traveling on airplanes. Being stuck in a tightly compacted space hurtling through the sky for lengthy periods of time can be stressful, monotonous, and wonderful, and from IDM to shoegaze, choosing the right soundtrack can lessen anxiety and offer much-needed focus.

After a few weeks of holidays, medical leave, and 10th anniversary celebrations we're back to our usual schedule here at the site, including a classic two albums format episode of the podcast. This week we're discussing the 1994 crossover success of Delerium's Semantic Spaces, wherein an ambient/industrial side-project primed itself to become a mainstream phenomenon hybridizing trance, trip-hop, and "world" music, and the final missive from Ipswich experimentalists Nagamatzu, whose 1991 record Igniting The Corpse pushed sampling and neo-classical sketching ahead of their post-punk and minimal synth roots.