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Baker's Dozen
Rope Ladders From Heaven: William Doyle’s Favourite Records
Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail
Anniversary
Retro Instinct Versus Future Fetish: Emperor Tomato Ketchup 25 Years On
By 1995 Stereolab should have been at the peak of their powers, so why didn't it feel that way to Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier? Fergal Kinney examines the series of events that saw the band escape the dead end they'd ended up in culminating in the release of one of their most celebrated albums
Art
The City & The City: An Interview With John Smith
John Smith, the artist and film-maker whose landmark short The Girl Chewing Gum is amongst the jewels of the British avant-garde, has spent lockdown filming out of his bedroom window and downloading clips from YouTube. He talks to Nicholas Burman about his new films Citadel and Covid Messages
Black Sky Thinking
Unearthing A Pearl: Praising The Sexual Mysticism of Anita Lane
For years Anita Lane was overshadowed by her collaborator and ex-boyfriend Nick Cave. Eleanor Philpot argues that we instead need to see the singer as an artist whose exploration of female sexuality was way ahead of its time
The Quietus International
Anois Os Ard: Irish Underground Music For March Reviewed By Eoin Murray
In the eighth edition of our column on the sounds of Irish undergrowth, Eoin Murray finds feverish noise rock, “intelligent frog music”, fictional audio tours, field recordings, folk songs and much more
A Quietus Interview
Counterflow States: An Interview With Helena Celle
Glaswegian musical polymath Kay Logan has lit up early 2021 by releasing what might be her most extraordinary work to date – including, under the Helena Celle pseudonym, an hour-long piece for April’s lockdown edition of her home city’s experimental festival Counterflows. She waxes theoretical to Noel Gardner
