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In a double-edition of our regular roundup, tQ's staffers select the very finest new albums and tracks released so far this summer
Darran Anderson gets to grips with a long overdue repress of the cult 1969 LP by Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus and Brian Hodgson
In the second podcast from Kyiv's 20ft Radio, we look back into the Novaya Scena that thrived in Kharkiv as the USSR crumbled. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Council.
The latest from the Polish improviser-composer-researcher sees folk music shedding its skin and carving out spaces of opposition to the tyranny of the present, finds Bernie Brooks
From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more
On the release of a new Uniform single and video for 'Permanent Embrace', Michael Berdan writes about the harsh realities of bulimia nervosa. CW: some readers may find this article disturbing. Band portrait by Joshua Zucker-Pluda & Sean Stout
In the second podcast from Kyiv's 20ft Radio, we look back into the Novaya Scena that thrived in Kharkiv as the USSR crumbled. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Council.
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Wayne Gooderham explores the influence of Hubert Selby Jr's transgressive masterpiece on popular music; and on the gender sensibilities of The Smiths, Van Morrison and The Velvet Underground in particular. CW: Some may find the language quoted in this article that describes LGBTQI people & sex workers outmoded or offensive
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 PortalOur Quietus At Leisure series brings you Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble's guide to hillwalking - complete with solitude, serenity and flesh-eating midges. PLUS - see the video for his new single 'Roll Along', which is out now
Anthony Galluzzo's new book Against the Vortex uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring 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
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