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A Quietus Interview
Everything is Colour: Kristin Hersh on the Return Of Throwing Muses
Kristin Hersh offers Sean Kitching the exclusive first interview about Throwing Muses’ first new album in five years, her recording process, synaesthesia, the similarities between music and stand-up comedy, and turning difficult personal situations into art (not product) that celebrates the humanity of us all
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the week: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-1993 by Television Personalities
Television Personalities’ mainman Dan Treacy is often seen as a kind of troubled prankster. In truth, argues Jonathan Wright, he’s an intriguing, key figure in the UK's post punk and DIY indie underground. NB: The publication of this review was delayed due to the death of David Lynch
Books
Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf
As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
A Quietus Interview
Sleazy Does It: Decius Interviewed
As Lias Saoudi-fronted fruity techno troupe Decius prepare to release second album Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience), they speak to Luke Turner about dirt on the dancefloor and why their explicitly horny music is a safe space to unleash things that ought not be repressed
Black Sky Thinking
Hope Sings Eternal: Can Listening to Music Help you Cheat Death?
Tech whoppers the world over are obsessed with eternal life. But, argues Professor John Tregoning of Imperial College, scientific research increasingly suggests that the music we love can have a huge boost to our immune system and health
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XL: Naples in the Early-Mid 70s
In our fortieth antidote to the algorithm, David McKenna takes us back half a century to Naples, where the influence of a nautical culture and American military radio created a music scene as fertile and chaotic as the city itself
Anniversary
The Enduring Influence of John Fahey’s Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, 60 Years On
As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today
Music Downloads
tQ Subscriber Release: Ex-Easter Island Head
Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter Island Head, who speak to Patrick Clarke about a prolific year, their love of "good old fashioned showbiz", and the sublime live performance captured for this release
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Books
The Velvet Underground of English Letters: Simon Sellars Discusses J.G. Ballard
Extreme Metaphors having been in the public sphere for just over a week, the book's editor and Ballard aficionado Simon Sellars discusses the relevance of the collection and its subject to contemporary culture with Quietus literary editor Karl Smith
A Quietus Interview
Life Cycles: An Interview With caroline
New Rough Trade signings caroline speak to Patrick Clarke about how they went from roots in choral music, Appalachian folk and post-punk to creating extraordinarily atmospheric longform pieces. Plus, the premiere of a stunning live performance of 'Skydiving onto the library roof'
Baker's Dozen
Magical Experiences: James Holden’s Favourite Albums
Following last year's feral The Inheritors album, Border Community label head James Holden is about to take his newly developed live show on tour, including to Field Day and Sonar Barcelona. Rory Gibb catches up with him to discuss thirteen favourite and formative albums, improvisation and atheist spirituality
