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The Count Of 13: Ramsey Campbell’s Weird Selection

In a Baker's Dozen diversion, writer Ramsey Campbell guides Sean Kitching through 13 favourite pieces of weird culture, from film to opera and literature, via David Lynch, Arthur Machen and more

Reviews

Fra Fra
Funeral Songs

An album of ceremonial music from the north of Ghana sounds gloriously raw, finds Noel Gardner

A Quietus Interview

Scratch Acidic: Mark Lanegan Interviewed

Mark Lanegan has written one of the rawest, most talked about memoirs in years, and he has an album out that’s pretty great too. Jeremy Allen calls him in L.A. to find Silicon Valley and the machines conspiring against him in lockdown

Reviews

Phantom Posse
Forever Underground

Eric Littmann's Phantom Posse – feat. LA rapper iLoveMakonnen and Laetitia Tamko aka Vagabon – is a dreamy trip through the subterranean city, finds Mathew Horton

A Quietus Interview

Laugh In The Face Of Dystopia: An Interview With tētēma’s Anthony Pateras

Australian avant garde mainstay Anthony Pateras and Faith No More's Mike Patton release extraordinary music together as tētēma. The former speaks to Patrick Clarke about their zealous, raging, multifaceted new album.

Anniversary

Years Of Cocktail-Flash: The Fall In 1980

Forty years ago, the mighty Fall hit one of their most majestic strides and made a string of unimpeachably excellent records. Angus Batey harks back

Reviews

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present the Tears of Technology / Tea and Symphony
Various

Two new comps on Ace Records, The Tears of Technology and Tea & Symphony – The English Baroque Sound 1968 -1974 , show the deft curatorial hand of St Etienne's Pete and Bob

A Quietus Interview

Unsettling Horizon Lines: An Interview With Drew Daniel Of The Soft Pink Truth

Ahead of the release of his new record as The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel talks to Kristen Gallerneaux about the influences behind Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? and rethinking ambient music

Books

Hum And Rumble: Sound In The World Of COVID19

In an exclusive essay for the Quietus, philosopher and musicologist Lawrence Kramer, author of The Hum of the World (2019), meditates on music and listening on lockdown

Art

Farewell To The Flesh: Alina Szapocznikow’s Body Parts

Exhibited earlier this year at Hauser & Wirth, a show of Alina Szapocznikow's work entitled 'To Exalt the Ephemeral' offers long overdue recognition to the great Polish artist

Film

Dennis And Lois: The Oldest Living Indie Rockers Of Our Luminous Age

An affectionate documentary of two unsung heroes of the trans-Atlantic alternative underground, Dennis and Lois understands fandom like no other. Novelist Adelle Stripe pays homage.

Film

Road to Nowhere: How ‘Dancer In The Dark’ Spelled The End For Lars Von Trier

Twenty years ago, Lars von Trier made a turning point in his career with the Bjork-led Dancer in the Dark. But this is when the ego began to eclipse the art, finds Steve Erickson

Reviews

Jerskin Fendrix
Winterreise

Errant godfather to the Brixton Windmill scene, Jerskin Fendrix's debut offers a serpentine dance through different genres and personae, finds Patrick Clarke

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Albums/EPs On Bandcamp We’ve Loved In April 2020

With Bandcamp today (May 1) waiving its fees on all sales through the website, tQ's staffers come together to share some of their favourite music from the last month that you can buy

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 4: Death Stranding

This week's cultural essay by one of our locked down writers is Charlie Frame's ramble through Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding, seen through the prism of Coronavirus. All screenshots courtesy of Rezwan Chowdhury

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Album of the Week

Mass Effects: On The New Soft Pink Truth Album

Drew Daniel's latest LP as The Soft Pink Truth, Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase, is a stunner that revels in communitas while flirting with house music and ambient tropes, says Bernie Brooks

Reviews

The Four Owls
Nocturnal Instinct

With features from the likes of DJ Premier and Kool G Rap, the new Four Owls album brings us back to the glory days of 1990s hip hop, finds James Butterworth

Film

A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

On the fortieth anniversary of the death of Alfred Hitchcock and under Coronoavirus lockdown, Adam Scovell finds new meaning in the filmmaker's use of confinement and enclosed spaces

Baker's Dozen

Heal Your Soul: Fatoumata Diawara’s Favourite Music

Acclaimed Malian musician Fatoumata Diawara talks Adam Quarshie through her favourite records, explaining the influence of powerful female vocalists from both the United States and from Mali's Wassoulou region.

The Quietus International

Complete Communion: Jazz For April Reviewed By Peter Margasak

In his inaugural Complete Communion column, Peter Margasak has reviews of Shabaka And The Ancestors, Irreversible Entanglements and a collaboration between Alexander Hawkins & Tomeka Reid

A Quietus Interview

The War Is Never Over: Lydia Lunch Interviewed

On the publication of a new book and documentary, the no wave artist speaks to Kate Baudelaire about vaginas, pandemics and why she’s still angry

Reviews

Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal
A Quiet Corner in Time

A bewitching soundscape from Simon Fisher Turner and Edmund de Waal sanctifies the mundane, finds Kareem Ghezawi

A Quietus Interview

Know The Score: Benjamin John Power Of Blanck Mass Interviewed

Just before everything ground to a halt, Charlie Brigden caught up with Blanck Mass to discuss his approach to scoring a film that's right on the edge.

Reviews

Jasmine Infiniti
BXTCH SLÄP

Jasmine Infiniti's BXTCH SLÄP employs the dissident strains of ballroom, techno and gabba to elicit a feeling of radical placelessness, finds Kashif Sharma-Patel

Rum Music

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Soothing bedroom synths, Donald Judd harmonies, accumulation loops and brass played under a German bridge all feed into this month's Rum Music reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

The Quietus International

Rockfort! French Music For April Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna delves into concept albums and meditative music for troubled times, and hails Satan in this month’s Rockfort! Column – the best of the French underground. Portrait of Satan by Lam Son Nguyen

Film

Dream On: Could ‘9 To 5’ Still Exist, 40 Years Later?

The feelgood workplace comedy saw Dolly Parton team up with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin to take down their sexist, bigoted boss. But with so little having changed for women 40 years later, is it even worth imagining a future?

Reviews

MXLX
Serpent

The new MXLX album – their first in two years – matches anything they have previously released, finds Nick Roseblade

Art

Interior, With Laptop: On Art At Home When There’s Nowhere Else To Go

What happens to art works when our homes become galleries?

Books

Words As Resistance: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Newly translated into English by Jamie Chang, best-selling South Korean novel Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo is an act of resistance in itself, finds Hannah Clark

Film

Weapon Of Shame: Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus On ‘Moffie’

Tackling apartheid-era toxic white masculinity as a mixed race South African, filmmaker Oliver Hermanus rose to the challenge with his searing new feature Moffie, streaming on Curzon Home Cinema now. Olivia Neilson meets the director

Reviews

Mark Dicker
Carrier Waves

Formerly of Trencher and Palehorse, Mark Dicker's Carrier Waves project provides a soundtrack to the end of time, finds Adam Lehrer

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The Count Of 13: Ramsey Campbell’s Weird Selection

Fra Fra Funeral Songs

Scratch Acidic: Mark Lanegan Interviewed

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Years Of Cocktail-Flash: The Fall In 1980

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Unsettling Horizon Lines: An Interview With Drew Daniel Of The Soft Pink Truth

Hum And Rumble: Sound In The World Of COVID19

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Road to Nowhere: How ‘Dancer In The Dark’ Spelled The End For Lars Von Trier

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Music Of The Month: Albums/EPs On Bandcamp We’ve Loved In April 2020

Low Culture 4: Death Stranding

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The Four Owls Nocturnal Instinct

A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

Heal Your Soul: Fatoumata Diawara’s Favourite Music

Complete Communion: Jazz For April Reviewed By Peter Margasak

The War Is Never Over: Lydia Lunch Interviewed

Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal A Quiet Corner in Time

Know The Score: Benjamin John Power Of Blanck Mass Interviewed

Jasmine Infiniti BXTCH SLÄP

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Rockfort! French Music For April Reviewed By David McKenna

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Words As Resistance: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

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Fra Fra
Funeral Songs

Phantom Posse
Forever Underground

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present the Tears of Technology / Tea and Symphony
Various

Jerskin Fendrix
Winterreise

The Four Owls
Nocturnal Instinct

Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal
A Quiet Corner in Time

Jasmine Infiniti
BXTCH SLÄP

MXLX
Serpent

Mark Dicker
Carrier Waves