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Trance Formers: I Is The New Album By Föllakzoid

On fourth album, I, Föllakzoid’s music swells and convulses with desert spectres and spirits, finds Cal Cashin

Start Making Sense: Supernormal 2019 Reviewed

Byline wizard Eden Tizard heads to Braziers Park in rural Oxfordshire for the best showcase of weird art and music, Supernormal Festival

A Quietus Interview

Clear Skies: An Interview With Crack Cloud

tQ tracks down extraordinary Canadian collective Crack Cloud to a suburban house in Denmark, who talk growth, philosophy, and reclaiming their own narrative

Reviews

Soft Walls
Not As Bad As It Seems

Lo-fi rock Re-Animator Dan Reeves remains a slave to the repetition on Soft Walls' third and best full-length, says Bernie Brooks

Black Sky Thinking

Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Cover Versions As Gateway Drugs

From Nina Simone via Muse to Jacques Brel via Scott Walker on multiple occasions, we asked our writers to tell us about the cover versions that acted as their gateway drugs to the work of the original artist

Baker's Dozen

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

The musician, label head and self-described record obsessive has eyes bigger than his stomach in his own Proustian boulangerie of jazz and fusion records. By Jennifer Lucy Allan.

A Quietus Interview

No Other Approach: HYPERSTITION DUO Interviewed

Regrouped in London, ex-members of Blood Sport Sam Parkin and Alex Keegan talk to Bernie Brooks about the ecstatic, anti-capitalist rhythms of their new project, HYPERSTITION DUO, the dissolution of their former band, and their new label POLYPHONIC ASSEMBLAGE

Cassettes

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

Tristan Bath picks out the best music released on cassette this August, with five tapes pointing the way forward for lo-fi pop, experimental dancehall, psychedelic collage, electronic pulse, and Egyptian rock

Reviews

Zamilska
Uncovered

Polish industrial artist Zamilska returns with her third album – and it's her best yet, finds Bob Cluness

Anniversary

40 Years On: Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall Revisited

The legacy of Michael Jackson looked to be assured when he died a decade ago, but further shocking allegations have left him in danger of being “cancelled”. Can all the King of Pop’s horses and all the King’s men put MJ back together again? And, asks Jeremy Allen, to what extent is his legacy worth saving anyway?

Reviews

Sarathy Korwar
More Arriving

Sarathy Korwar's new album, More Arriving, is a remarkable meeting of jazz, hip-hop, Indian classical music, and radical politics, finds Dustin Krcatovich

Books

Red Player One: Aaron Bastani’s Socialist Futures

Novara Media's Aaron Bastani discusses his new book Fully Automated Luxury Communism and why the future isn't coming fast enough

Film

Fisherman’s Friend: Mark Jenkin’s Bait

Bait, the new film by Mark Jenkin, is a story about ownership and boundaries shot in a coarse, fractured monochrome, finds Darren Hayman

Books

Across The Evening Sky: Bill Drummond On Mick Houghton

Six days ago, Bill Drummond interviewed Mick Houghton at an event in Walthamstow to promote Houghton's new book Fried & Justified. The following morning, Drummond felt a pang of regret…

Art

Windows Of The World: Lois Dodd At Modern Art, London

John Quin lowers the temperature at the first UK survey by one of the key players in New York's post-war art scene, spanning six decades of work

Reviews

Orphan Swords
Ascent

Ascent, by Orphan Swords, is a concept album about a mountain – and it's just as ambitious and as ridiculous as that sounds, finds Nick Roseblade

Reviews

Clairo
IMMUNITY

Two years after the break-out success of YouTube hit 'Pretty Girl', Clairo releases her debut full-length album with all her obvious gift for melody still wonderfully intact

Album of the Week

Memes To An End: Oli XL’s Anxious Electronica

Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer, the debut album by Stockholm’s Oli XL, routes despondency through relatable humour, finds Zac Cazes

Reviews

Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah
Al Hadaoui

Habibi Funk re-issue a 1973 album of Moroccan gwana music with dizzying effects, finds Clyde Macfarlane

New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain This August Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back again with Glaswegian synth prog punk, Heads spin off space rock, "Netto electrobass" and other transmissions from New Weird Britain

Live Reviews

15 Years Strong: Supersonic Festival Reviewed

JR Moores heads to Digbeth's hotbed of degenerate art where Sly & The Family Drone will nearly have your eye out and minds are blown by The Bug

Live Reviews

Cross Currents: Jazz Re:Fest 2019 Reviewed

The Jazz Re:Freshed crew celebrate another year of progress for their movement and their music with their seventh one-day festival in Brighton. Angus Batey goes coastal

A Quietus Interview

Sanctity Of Sisterhood: WIDT Interviewed

Ahead of their imminent performance at Supernormal 2019 Aimee Armstrong speaks to the Warsaw based sisters who make audio visual art

Reviews

Dean Hurley
Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond

David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley presents a compendium of sinister moments and discombobulated soundscapes, finds Kareem Ghezawi

Anniversary

Death Was Not The End: Gravediggaz’ 6 Feet Deep Revisited

Gravediggaz’ satirical, macabre and brilliantly funny debut, 6 Feet Deep, was an album out of time, lost in the rush of 1990s hip hop. David Bennun exhumes it to reveal its long-buried significance

Reviews

Félicia Atkinson
The Flower And The Vessel

Félicia Atkinson’s new double LP, The Flower And The Vessel, navigates the intimate, unruly liminal space between comfort and discomfort, quiet and disquiet, says Bernie Brooks

Books

A Marvellous Feminist Sisterhood: Lara Williams’ Supper Club

Wry understatement and unexpected poignancy abound in Lara Williams' debut novel, Supper Club

Books

Dis-Content Farm: An Interview With Vivien Goldman

David Chiu talks to the punk professor Vivien Goldman about her new book, Revenge of the She-Punks, a globe-trotting chronicle of women in punk rock

Film

“They’re Selling Hippie Wigs In Woolworths”: 1969 On Film

With the imminent release of Quentin Tarantino’s new end-of-the-sixties-set drama, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Georgina Guthrie surveys cinematic takes on the year the dream died

Live Reviews

Giant Leap: Bluedot Festival 2019 Reviewed

At Jodrell Bank Deep Space Observatory, Patrick Clarke finds Kraftwerk, Jarvis and more offering a beautiful mash-up of art and science

Reviews

Flaming Lips
King's Mouth

The fifteenth album by the Flaming Lips started life as an art installation, playing inside a giant metallic head. Should it have stayed there, wonders Zara Hedderman?

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This July

Once again, tQ's office team lines up to pick out some of our favourite albums, EPs and tracks from the month that was July

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Trance Formers: I Is The New Album By Föllakzoid

Start Making Sense: Supernormal 2019 Reviewed

Clear Skies: An Interview With Crack Cloud

Soft Walls Not As Bad As It Seems

Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Cover Versions As Gateway Drugs

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

No Other Approach: HYPERSTITION DUO Interviewed

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

Zamilska Uncovered

40 Years On: Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall Revisited

Sarathy Korwar More Arriving

Red Player One: Aaron Bastani’s Socialist Futures

Fisherman’s Friend: Mark Jenkin’s Bait

Across The Evening Sky: Bill Drummond On Mick Houghton

Windows Of The World: Lois Dodd At Modern Art, London

Orphan Swords Ascent

Clairo IMMUNITY

Memes To An End: Oli XL’s Anxious Electronica

Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah Al Hadaoui

New Weird Britain This August Reviewed By Noel Gardner

15 Years Strong: Supersonic Festival Reviewed

Cross Currents: Jazz Re:Fest 2019 Reviewed

Sanctity Of Sisterhood: WIDT Interviewed

Dean Hurley Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond

Death Was Not The End: Gravediggaz’ 6 Feet Deep Revisited

Félicia Atkinson The Flower And The Vessel

A Marvellous Feminist Sisterhood: Lara Williams’ Supper Club

Dis-Content Farm: An Interview With Vivien Goldman

“They’re Selling Hippie Wigs In Woolworths”: 1969 On Film

Giant Leap: Bluedot Festival 2019 Reviewed

Flaming Lips King's Mouth

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This July

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Like Starting Over: An Interview with Shack

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Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen

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Soft Walls
Not As Bad As It Seems

Zamilska
Uncovered

Sarathy Korwar
More Arriving

Orphan Swords
Ascent

Clairo
IMMUNITY

Attarazat Addahabia & Faradjallah
Al Hadaoui

Dean Hurley
Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond

Félicia Atkinson
The Flower And The Vessel

Flaming Lips
King's Mouth