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Short wave transmissions meet jazz fusion aesthetics on the latest addition to Robin Rimbaud's fascinating and multi-faceted catalogue
Scanner & Neil Leonard - The Berklee Sessions
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Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality and Keith Flint talked to John Doran about the birth of rave, their first two albums and singles from 'Charly' to 'Poison'. Feature first published in 2008
Music For The Jilted Generation Turns 30: The Prodigy Talk Early Years
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'Order and chaos in perfect harmony, in the same way The Country Teasers added random splashes of colour to a sonic palette indicative of the indignance toward the darker aspects of the human condition'
NEBEL 3000 - Frankenstein Freakout
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'It’s apt that Anemones, her new record on Planet Mu, looks to the lithographs of early biologists to communicate its ideas. Those images contain both discovery and a sense of an ancient throughline'
Anemones By Xylitol Is tQ's Album of the Week
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As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records
I Need A Double Dozen: Chris Corsano’s Favourite Albums
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'With Double Nickels, the Minutemen showed, in the most generous terms, what punk could be as a model for art and living. As Boon says in ‘History Lesson part II’: “Our band could be your life”'
Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime at 40
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The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself
Eiko Ishibashi - Evil Does Not Exist
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Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig
Max Stadtfeld - Fancy Future
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As David Lynch prepares to release Cellophane Memories, his new collaborative album with Chrystabell, we dive into The Quietus archives to bring out some of our favourite writing on the director, musician and polymath
A DAVID LYNCH #ThePortal Special
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Exciting fashion news klaxon! Next week we're launching our first collaboration with 1 of 100 – this gorgeous limited edition t-shirt is based on one of the weird critters that populate our new site. Become a Quietus subscriber to get first dibs:
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J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release...
a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse
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Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for July
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'Delicious riffs, ostentatious solos, all done as the leader of a crack band plugged into his ‘assouf blues meets Billy Gibbons boogie’ vision'
Mdou Moctar - Funeral For Justice is at No 67 in tQ's Albums of the Year So Far
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22 years into their career the perennial outsiders of 21st century queer American art rock have announced a potentially game-changing album...
Switchblade Romance: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu Interviewed
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Alexander Calder’s grandson bridges electronic and avant-garde in a series of deft and impish collages
Gryphon Rue - 4n_Objx
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'Senyawa’s new album is a masterclass in tension-building. It’s a journey that leads to ritualistic experiences, with subtly constructed lyrical structures and rapturous, trance-like motifs'
Senyawa - Vajranala
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It's here! The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024
How many have you heard? What's at Number One?
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It's here! The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024
How many have you heard? What's at Number One?
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The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. A highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change...
June 1, 1974 Half A Century On
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Cursed at the time of its release, The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of the great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better
Sheida Gharachedaghi's Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind is tQ's Album of the Week
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'Tracks a period where new technologies opened new possibilities for sound, and those possibilities were explored with open-minds around the globe'
VA – TRÁNSITOS SÓNICOS: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)
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'Kate Carr’s new album is a ‘sonic transect’ across London. Her work is based around field recordings, which morph into electronic tracks'
Kate Carr - Midsummer, London
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'In June 1991, Gayle, Graves and Parker played two nights at a hole-in-the-wall Lower East Side venue called Webo. By all accounts, they were the shows of New York City legend'
Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker - WEBO
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Deep bass rumble meets ritual folk on an album filled with post-apocalyptic dread
Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance - Jinxed By Being
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'A [debut] record made by someone who sounds like she’s been making records for years and, in a roundabout kind of a way, she has (and not just with any ragtag and bobtail, either)'
Martha Skye Murphy - Um
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Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life
Lie Down and Listen: Aaron Turner’s Favourite Albums
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In an exclusive extract from his new book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, Justin Patrick Moore takes us through the secret history of the links between wartime cryptography and electro-funk
SIGSALY: Cryptography, Turntables, and Muzak
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'A series of seemingly uncomplicated but densely layered and vivid microcosms brought into existence on the strength of musical substance alone'
d'Eon - Leviathan
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'The Exorcism is commendable for trying to do something slightly different with this hackneyed format, even if this isn’t pushed far enough to avoid the usual clichés and predictability.'
Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed by
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Innovation slowly becomes stifling orthodoxy in Irish music, says Darran Anderson, so welcome Lankum, the force that arrives once with every generation to revitalise the form
Live Album Of The Week: Lankum Live In Dublin
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A very cinematic album - I don’t know if the goal is to find a catharsis or to heal the scars, but going through this process is significantly contemplative and engaging'.
Martyyna - Written in the Scars
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Major new work by the Icelandic composer and Slátur co-founder is inspired by an old hydro-electric dam that became a haven for birds and other wildlife
Stífluhringurinn by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson is tQ's Album of the Week
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Shovel Dance Collective – Live At Acid Horse 23
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In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column,
Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke
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'So infectiously JOYOUS you can’t help but get swept along by the dazzling melodic hooks, rampaging beats, thirty-year throwbacks, and glitched out breathy vox.'
µ-Ziq - Grush
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Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson
My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music
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We’re halfway up the mountain towards our target of 2000 subscribers. Join tQ with a huge discount to help us survive and thrive
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tQ's own John Doran is giving a lecture on heavy metal and modernism at Prague venue Meet Factory later this month
Details here:
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'The Battle Of Orgreave, 40 years ago today, was one of the worst instances of excessive police on civilian violence in UK history. Mark Fell examines the sounds of industry, industrial action and electronic protest music.'
The Battle Of Orgreave
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'Isolation and debilitating anxiety reverberate throughout the album, a soundscape akin to a space where nothing can grow, nothing can become.'
Richie Culver - Hostile Environments
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It’s four decades since Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their debut album, a record that found Cave attempting a new musical and lyrical language that could free him from his past and help him create his future
From Her To Eternity At 40
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Thor Harris from Swans, Penelope Isles’ Cubzoa and Matt Schulz from Holy Fuck join Malka Sppigel and Colin Newman’s ever-convivial Immersion project for a head-on collision of experimental technique and poppist euphoria
Immersion - Nanocluster Vol.2
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Noel Gardner brings us artificial birdsong, real birdsong, a metal nail hammered up a nostril, and a big set of technoise gloomsteppers in his latest re from British fringes
New Weird Britain in Review for June
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In the first podcast from Kiev's 20ft Radio, we're taken deep into the otherworldly folk sounds of the Ukrainian underground of the late 80s and early 90s.
New Voices Ukraine Podcast: 20ft Radio’s Guide to the Ukrainian Underground. Memory Leaks, Part I
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Anthony Galluzzo uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film to explore a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented
Zardoz and the Politics of Degrowth
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Did you know that one third of our readership lives in America?
We’re hoping that readers all over the world will consider taking out a, currently heavily discounted, subscription in order to help us survive and thrive.
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Join the One Percent!
We need 1% of our readers to take out a subscription so we can survive and thrive. Currently only 0.7% of our readers chip in… help us grow that figure
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The Bug and Joseph Kamaru find common ground and companionship in a stifling world on their album-length collaboration
KRM & KMRU - Disconnect
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Regis and Surgeon talk to Bernie Brooks and Kristen Gallerneaux about techno, big tent gigs, and BMB's unexpected and excellent debut LP
CSI Birmingham: British Murder Boys Interviewed
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The Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat
Your Guide To Revolution by Mary Ocher is tQ's Album of the Week
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