Daryl Worthington

“I think the label is about friendships, building a scene,” says Joel White who, along with Gordon Bruce, founded Glasgow headquartered GLARC (an acronym of Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council) in 2016. “I think the sound of GLARC is the sound of: how the hell do we maintain a DIY project in the midst of rampaging urban capitalism in a city like Glasgow?

June 2026 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 508. Inside our brand new issue: On the cover: Seefeel: The pioneering post-rockers push their sound both in detail and depth on their first new full length album in 15 years. By Abi Bliss Ibrahim Alfa Jnr: The Brighton based techno pioneer takes stock after a brush with mortality. By Steph Kretowicz Asher Gamedze; The South African percussionist shuffles the vocabulary of jazz drumming.

“This system will take your ancestral traditions and twist ’em indigenous”, raps billy woods on “Make No Mistake” from Golliwog. Raising questions about where the boundaries of tradition are drawn, that line seems to get longer through repeat listens. Time doesn’t move sequentially on Golliwog. The record opens with a back-spinning sample, swiftly followed by an incessant tick-tock.