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Jennifer Lucy Allan is driven by a hunger to hear something she hasn’t heard before. This hunger has led to curious places, not least making her a doctor of foghorns. Chasing an obsession with this massive coastal sound, she has written a PhD on the subject at UAL, which she is now turning into a book for a UK publisher. When she’s not doing this she is getting stuck in elsewhere, usually writing about music, but also singing with Laura Cannell; teaching workshops on music writing, hosting talks, curating events, occasionally DJing, and now, presenting Late Junction.

She has mainly been a music writer for over a decade, writing almost exclusively about underground, experimental and avant-garde sounds. She spent some years as the The Wire’s Online Editor, and is a regular freelancer for various publications. Resulting excesses of lost and found music also led to her starting a record label with James Ginzburg (Multiverse) in 2013, to make important records available again, with a catalogue that includes Finnish jazz, extended vocal technique, and early electronic music. She’s now also started a second, Good Energy, with Kevin McCarvel (Nyali Recordings) to release missives from the Scottish underground.

Whether she’s flicking through crates in record shops, excavating the forgotten corners of the internet, or scouring vast archives for traces of sound, she’s always listening for lost voices to bring back into the light.