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Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, from watery worldbuilding hip-pop to isolationist, field recording-embellished ambient dub sessions
Valentina Magaletti, Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead – aka Moin – tell Tony Inglis about deconstructing genre and putting things back together piece by piece, and the enticing new avenues they're exploring on third album You Never End
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war
A quarter century since Black On Both Sides, Stevie Chick dives deep into a savage display of talent from a young artist ready to take it all on, and reflects on the dispersed promise of what was actually to follow
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaIt's back nearly a quarter century in this month's antidote to the algorithm as Luke Turner revisits the heady Monday nights at Trash, where the arch and exotic rhythms and deadpan chat of electroclash soundtracked cheap booze and rent of early 21st century London
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A quarter century since Black On Both Sides, Stevie Chick dives deep into a savage display of talent from a young artist ready to take it all on, and reflects on the dispersed promise of what was actually to follow
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
Explore The PortalIn 1995, Polly Harvey reinvented herself as a pink catsuit-wearing vamp peddling an album of stormy gothic American blues. But was it really such a surprise? Ben Hewitt argues the transformation only put up in lights what Harvey had already shown: she was an actor as much as a singer
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