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Anniversary
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 subscribers, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.
Anniversary
“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
Books
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
A Quietus Interview
Direct Action Gets the Goods: An Interview with Leather.head
Off the back of an incendiary debut record that was one of 2025’s best rock albums, Leather.head speak to Cal Cashin about the importance of keeping things political, uncompromising collaborations with poet Zia Ahmed, the reclamation of emo and more
Books
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
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