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Books
YAAAAAAAAS Jesus: An Interview With Brontez Purnell
‘Forgive Me, Philip’ from Brontez Purnell’s *White Boy Music* EP was one of our tracks of the year in 2020. Now this year Purnell has published two novels. Huda Awan chats with the multitalented Bay Area resident about grief, trash, and why rock’n’roll is so boring these days
Live Reviews
A Special Moment In Norwegian Music: Vriompeis 2021 Reviewed
Joost Heijhuijsen travels to Oslo for the 2021 edition of Vriompeis and reflects on how a unique musical scene can quickly recover from the effects of the pandemic... thanks to a radical DIY approach and some smart state spending
A Quietus Interview
Aide Memoire: The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost Interviewed
Billy Reeves of Theaudience had his life thrown upside down in 2001 by a terrible car accident, he tells Fergal Kinney, and now his new band, The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost, have released an album of old songs he can't even remember writing. N.B. readers who have been in traumatic traffic accidents may find some of the descriptions in this interview difficult to read
Low Culture Essay
Here Hair Here: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall And River Cottage
In this month's subscriber only Low Culture essay, Tom Howells reappraises the first three series of River Cottage and finds a Dorset of esoteric rites, ecstatic natural beauty, eldritch haunting, racist gentry and brutal rural pathos, plus a little bit of food
Anniversary
Innocence And Experience: Lisa Left Eye Lopes’ Supernova Turns 20
It was supposed to be the moment where the most misunderstood woman in pop got to explain herself and empower her audience: but the release was cancelled and within months she was dead. Angus Batey revisits Lisa Lopes's debut and rediscovers a forgotten treasure
A Quietus Interview
Open Minded: Koreless Interviewed
Eight years ago, everyone wanted to know what producer Lewis Roberts' next move would be but then he 'disappeared' into obsessive work on his singular debut album Agor, which has finally surfaced. Luke Turner talks to him about the apocalyptic nature of Cafe del Mar, the alterity of the coast and FKA Twigs
A Quietus Interview
The Greatness Beyond: How Chaos Rising Are Breaking Metal’s Boundaries
Formed in 2019, the "international all-female metal collective" Chaos Rising have been slowly building up an impressive catalogue of unique collaborative works. Keith Kahn-Harris meets some of the people behind the project and argues that the model it provides has the potential to overturn some of metal’s most enduring institutions
