Green unpleasant land? As the UK braces for election week, it might be time to abandon the myth of Englishness

‘It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.’ Aren’t so many of us feeling like that these days?

From The Wicker Man to Ari Aster’s latest film, joyful sounds can reveal the darkest worlds

In 2006, the theorist of ‘hauntology’ and sound-artist walked across the Suffolk coastline – Adam Harper follows in their footsteps, sifting through encrusted layers of history

Experimental producer Matthew Herbert’s enigmatic album trawls a nation’s fault-lines and finds its messy symbolism

The demise of HMV can be mourned as the decline of owning tangible media – but something greater is at stake

Ahead of its South London Gallery performance, how Tom Phillips’s Irma – a work that questions the genre of opera itself – is being staged

From Stravinsky in a car park to concerts in living rooms, how is classical music culture changing?