Jennifer Lucy Allan is a writer and researcher, specialising in experimental and underground music. Previously, she was online editor at The Wire, and now contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Wire and The Quietus. She is currently working on a social and cultural history of the foghorn, and leads the Hackney Citizen’s music writing course in London and the Sonic Acts Critical Writing Workshop. She is co-founder of the reissues record label Arc Light Editions, and is a core member of Laura Cannell’s Modern Ritual collective.