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Art
The Pataphysics Of Connecting: Alex Farrar Gets Physical
With a major solo show currently on view at Bloc Projects, Sheffield, and another opening this weekend at SE8 Gallery, London, Alex Farrar talks to Allan Gardner about precarity, anxiety and making art inspired by sweat and fingernail clippings
The Quietus International
Rockfort! French Music For September Reviewed By David McKenna
With more focus on the revolutionary French sounds of the late 60s than ever before thanks to a revitalised Magma and interest in 'rock choucroute' via the Nurse With Wound list, David McKenna casts his ears around for today's far out sounds
Black Sky Thinking
Happy Birthday Abbey Road, The Best Beatles LP… This Week At Least
The boomers celebrated Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest Beatles LP; the Britpoppers backed Revolver; but it seems like millennials are more smitten with Abbey Road. The changing consensus probably says more about generational shift than it does about the Fab Four, according to Michael Hann
A Quietus Interview
A Thing Of Beauty, A Crime Scene: Matana Roberts Interviewed
Ahead of her performance as part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest’s People’s Forest season, Adam Quarshie spoke to visionary US jazz musician and storyteller Matana Roberts about the role of nature in shaping her creativity
Live Reviews
Glorious Absurdity: Field Maneuvers Reviewed
Taking place at a secret location just an hour outside of London, Christian Eede finds that Field Maneuvers is a festival that taps into a special kind of community spirit befitting of its modest capacity, and checks out sets from Giant Swan, Avalon Emerson and more along the way
A Quietus Interview
Bachwerk: An Interview With Jonny Greenwood
As he launches a new label dedicated to contemporary classical music, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead talks to Patrick Clarke about his passion for classical, why Bach is like Kraftwerk, and the 'gruesome' intersection of prog rock and Rachmaninoff.
A Quietus Interview
Collision Course: Karl D’Silva Interviewed
Ahead of his Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur), Michael Brooks talks to multi-instrumentalist/composer Karl D’Silva about his new solo work, his formative musical experiences, and what it was like performing with the likes of Thurston Moore and GNOD
Anniversary
20 Years On: How Everything But The Girl’s Temperamental Helped Me Live Again
Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt’s final album together is a collection of songs “about going out” with a troubled mind at their core. When he recovered from a traumatising illness, Michael White fell hard for its blend of beats and brooding
Live Reviews
LINGUA IGNOTA Channels The Spirit Of Kathy Acker Live
On her new album CALIGULA and the performances behind it, the Providence-based extreme musician LINGUA IGNOTA shares more than a passing similarity with the late transgressive fiction writer Kathy Acker, says Adam Lehrer, reporting from Brooklyn
