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Julian Hand & Demian Castellanos
Callanish Audio Visual Research
Julian Marszalek considers an eye-opening multi-media project of film, soundtrack and book which found its genesis in a 5,000-year-old stone circle in the Outer Hebrides
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for February Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Our electronic music columnist argues for the importance of trusting the curator and delivers new gear for the club, soundtracks for afters and other, weirder stuff
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Ishmael Ali
Burn the Plastic, Sell the Copper
Chicago cellist Ishmael Ali challenges the jazz format with a dense, multilayered debut
A Quietus Interview
Getting off the Bus: Loula Yorke Interviewed
During the last two years, Loula Yorke has released six albums and a mixtape and she's only just getting started. Joe Muggs talks to the modular synthesist about a background in raving and activism, and why it's time to start thinking of herself as an artist
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Unbeatable: Drum’s Not Dead by Liars, 20 Years On
Two decades on from the release of Liars third album, Luke Turner argues that its percussive invention shouldn't obscure a rich, emotional core. For our top tier Subscriber Plus supporters, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.
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“It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?” Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring at 40
Though eclipsed by what came in its wake, The Colour Of Spring, at the heart of Talk Talk’s catalogue, is no less astonishing. Forty years on, Wyndham Wallace commends the inaugural rebirth of Mark Hollis’ synthpop band. And for top tier subscribers there is a 'Quietus Essentials Playlist' guide to the music of Talk Talk
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Three Decades On: Sepultura’s Roots At 30
Three decades on from the release of Roots, Keith Kahn-Harris digs in to the legacy Sepultura's much vaunted sixth album. This feature was first published 15/02/21
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, Chuck D talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
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What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, author Keith Jopling looks at the curious phenomenon of the 'vanishing LP' – as well as the ones that didn't
