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Floating Points

May 2024

  • Felicity Chadwick (top) and Jamiel Devernay-Laurence. at Ministry of Sound.

    Bangers and ballet: London’s Ministry of Sound embraces contemporary dance

    Big-name ballet dancers and rising choreographers have found a new home in the superclub where the after-party goes on until 5am

April 2024

  • Shabaka Hutchings 2314 - credit - atibaphoto

    Shabaka: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace review – an elegant rebirth

    British jazz star Shabaka Hutchings drops the sax for reeds and flutes on an album exploring fear, courage and the power of breathwork

February 2024

  • A scene at Cosmic Slop in Leeds.

    Club culture
    Disco, jazz and frogs doing techno: Cosmic Slop, the Leeds club night resisting gentrification

    Four Tet and Floating Points are among the star DJs obsessed with this west Yorkshire party which raises funds for local kids – and has kept the developers at bay

September 2023

  • Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders.

    ‘I imagine he’s in the cosmos, hearing music’: Floating Points on his landmark album with Pharoah Sanders

    The UK producer has never spoken about one of the century’s most acclaimed records, Promises, until now. He recalls bonding with the late jazz legend over okra curry – then making a masterpiece

September 2022

  • Pharaoh Sanders at the North Sea jazz festival in the Hague, Netherlands, 1985.

    Pharoah Sanders obituary

    US saxophonist who started his career with Sun Ra and John Coltrane and went on to find a more spiritual voice

April 2022

  • Sharon Stone’s performance in Basic Instinct defined the erotic thriller and made her a star

    The Guide newsletter
    The Guide #30: It’s time for Hollywood to bring back the erotic thriller

    In this week’s newsletter: the genre that brought us Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction is all but dead – surely it’s due a progressive, modern day comeback?

December 2021

  • Best albums of 2021 - No 1 Self Esteem.

    Best music of 2021
    The 50 best albums of 2021

    And finally – a deserving winner, whose second solo album is a truly relatable, pin-sharp pop classic. We reveal our No 1 album of 2021

September 2021

  • Arlo Parks at the 2021 Mercury prize ceremony.

    Mercury prize 2021: Arlo Parks wins for Collapsed in Sunbeams

    21-year-old singer-songwriter adds to Brit award win earlier in the year

July 2021

  • Berwyn, Arlo Parks and Floating Points, three of the first-time musicians to have an album nominated for the Mercury prize.

    Mercury prize 2021: first-time nominees dominate shortlist

    No 1 albums by Wolf Alice, Mogwai and Celeste are joined by leftfield artists such as Hannah Peel and Nubya Garcia in race for prestigious music award
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