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A Demon The Colour Of Cosmic Energy: Oranssi Pazuzu Interviewed

John Doran speaks to Finnish band Oranssi Pazuzu about cosmic horror, grooving with the machine and what it means to be a black metal band (when you aren't)

Grid

Decomposing Force

An irrationally gnarly release from well-connected New Yorkers, Grid

A Thousand Words: Artists, Critics, & Curators Choose Books On Art

Artists, critics and curators talk about the art books that sustain and inspire them

Data, Driven: Wendy Liu’s Abolish Silicon Valley

Drawing on her own background in the open source software movement, Wendy Liu's new book Abolish Silicon Valley becomes a manifesto for a new software industry

Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Toute Une Nuit’

One of Chantal Akerman's lesser known works feels singularly important during times of global isolation. Toute Une Nuit telegraphs the importance of human connection over one finite period of time and now plays like a foggy memory, finds Patrick Preziosi

Einstürzende Neubauten

Alles in Allem

Elisabeth Elektra

Mercurial

Elisabeth Elektra's debut Mercurial offers up 40 minute of solid neon-streaked escapism, finds Nick roseblade

Everything Has An End: Aksak Maboul Sum Up With Figures

Synthesising the finer points of their three groundbreaking albums from the late 70s and early 80s, Rock In Opposition affiliates Aksak Maboul return with what could be their finest work to date, finds Sean Kitching

Low Culture 6: Tori Amos And The Pretty Good Career

Matthew Barton has some Really Deep Thoughts on the extravagantly talented Tori Amos… namely, why hasn't she always got the due she deserves?

Not Just Random Doof: Jas Shaw’s Favourite Music

Jas Shaw marks the release of the first album from his new project Shaw & Grossfeldt with a Quietus Baker's Dozen, featuring an Aphex Twin love story, why dance music isn't an albums game, and how a Resident Advisor podcast helped him through chemotherapy

Kate Carr

Where To Begin

With her newest piece, the London-based sound artist speaks to our current social distance, finds Dustin Krcatovich

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with more skull vaporising riffs and eyeball bursting blastbeats, not to mention reviews of Triptykon, Vader and Old Man Gloom

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath rounds up the best tape releases for May, taking some time out to focus on musicians already working with limitations and isolation

Good Omens: Elder, Mythology And The Modern Day

With Omens, a new album driven by despair at the world, Elder have inadvertently written one of the most uplifting records of the year

The Strange World Of… Sparks

Five decades down the line, art-rock icons Sparks are having one of their biggest years yet. But where do you even begin when navigating their past? Ron and Russell Mael talk Simon Price through ten routes into their singular world

Mark Lanegan

Straight Songs Of Sorrow

Hot on the heels of his autobiography, Mark Lanegan's new album lacks the interest of its author's own narrative, finds Julian Marszalek

My Name Is Prince: On Race, Identity & The End Of The Love Symbol

Twenty years after Prince abandoned the Love Symbol to reclaim his own name, Soma Ghosh explores what lay behind this subversion of gender and racial identity

Tamikrest

Tamotaït

Tamikrest take assouf desert blues into new territory on their new album Tamotaït, finds Richie Troughton

Genre Is Obsolete: Noise, Industrial & Drone etc. Reviewed By Adam Lehrer

In the fluid chaos and genre bastardization of noise, industrial, drone, no wave, and numerous forms of warped electronic music, Adam Lehrer finds an appropriate artistic embodiment of the condition of liquid modernity

Ruin Your Books: On The Warmth Of A Dog-Eared Paperback

Is your library a temple or a memory palace? Helen Rowland argues there is no shame in shelves full of dog-eared, annotated, tea stained tomes

Power & Pain, Love & Madness: Brett Anderson Curates The Collections of Art UK

The Suede frontman curates a selection of ten paintings from the UK's public collections, in a virtual exhibition prepared exclusively for the Quietus

India Dreaming: Paul Purgas On The Birth Of Indian Electronic Music

This Sunday, musician Paul Purgas presents a documentary on the extraordinary and overlooked electronic music produced by the students of India's National Institute Of Design in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about his discoveries

A New History: Mark Cousins On His 14-Hour Odyssey ‘Women Make Film’

With his gargantuan new film Women Make Film, Mark Cousins is shining a light on an entire history of women filmmakers, a vital archive to rewrite an unfair industry. Olivia Neilson meets Cousins to find out more

Blóm

Flower Violence

Blóm’s debut stakes out a singular presence, finds Noel Gardner

Jackie Lynn

Jacqueline

Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr pulls out all the bops on new album Jacqueline, finds Patrick Clarke

Blazing Saddles: Perfume Genius Sets Our Hearts On Fire Immediately

Slipping between almost industrial-like rhythms and carefree pop songs, Perfume Genius produces his finest body of work to date, Finds Zara Hedderman

Music Is A Memory Machine, By David Toop

Reflecting on artists and collaborators who have passed away since the start of the Coronavirus crisis, David Toop explores how the transmission of music between disparate cultures can be a tool against populism and prejudice

Low Culture 5: So Solid Crew’s They Don’t Know

The Low Culture series of essays written under lockdown continues with Ben Cardew taking a forensic look at So Solid Crew's debut album

Worlds To Walk Into: Darren Hayman’s Favourite Albums

As he releases a beautifully reflective album on the fall-out from a broken love, Darren Hayman takes us through 13 favourite albums, from Miles Davis collaborating with John Coltrane via Cliff Richard, the kids from Fame, Liz Phair, Nic Jones, ELO and The Damned.

Get Physical: Perfume Genius Interviewed

Perfume Genius' new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is his best yet. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about physicality, connection, and embodying the swagger of Elvis and Roy Orbison. Photos by Camille Vivier

Quelle Chris

Innocent Country 2

Following directly on from 2015's Innocent Country, Detroit's Quelle Chris delivers a life-affirming and soul-nourishing epic on sequel Innocent Country 2, finds Michael Appouh

Ian William Craig

Red Sun Through Smoke

Shorn of his usual effects wizardry, Ian William Craig's new album becomes a frank expression of grief and loss, finds Danijela Bočev