The Guide #240: My new obsession is the mesmerising world of the Chipmunks at 16rpm

In this week’s newsletter: In an era preoccupied with overstimulation, a trio of cartoon rodents​’ slowed-down reinterpretations of pop classics offer an uncanny kind of calm • Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The best album I’ve heard so far this year isn’t from this year at all. It’s from 2015 (though its recordings were made decades before that), and is a collection of sludgy, doomy covers of late-70s punk, new wave and pop perennials: My Sharona, Call Me, Walk Lik...

By Gwilym Mumford