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

Tristan Bath summarises July’s best cassette releases by picking six ambitious tapes from the increasingly blurred boundaries of noise, folk, sound art, poetry, and improvisation

Anniversary

Another Summer: Revisiting Do The Right Thing 30 Years On

David Stubbs looks back three decades at Spike Lee's study of escalating racial tensions in an NYC neighbourhood and finds a film with a contemporary resonance

Books

Welcome To Dystopia: Dorian Lynskey’s 1984 Playlist

Dorian Lynskey's recent book The Ministry of Truth looks at the culture and context of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ahead of a talk about the book this coming Tuesday at Waterstones, Covent Garden, he picks out ten of the best examples of pop songs adhering to that nebulous genre, 'George Orwave'

Art

Fairism: Art Basel As Heterotopia

At this year’s Art Basel, Bárbara Borges de Campos ponders the uncertain nature of the art fair as ephemeral city or space station, mall or brothel

Books

A Revolution In Sound: Inside The Polish Radio Experimental Studio

In an exclusive extract from the new book, Ultra Sounds. The Sonic Art of Polish Radio Experimental Studio, David Crowley introduces the trailblazing electronic workshop’s place at the forefront of the Scientific-Technological Revolution

Reviews

Olympia
Flamingo

The second album by Australian singer-songwriter Olympia is a bright and pacey psychedelic pop album, but it loses something in the quest for maximum crossover appeal, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Live Reviews

Things Learned At Mad Cool Festival

Daniel Dylan Wray travels to Madrid to experience the festival that wants to be all things to all people and encounters The Cure, Iggy Pop and Johnny Marr along the way

Baker's Dozen

The Weirder The Better: Buzz Osborne Of Melvins’ 13 Favourite Records

Melvins founder King Buzzo takes tQ through a list of his thirteen favourite records, from Tom Waits to Butthole Surfers via PiL, Pixies and The Who

Live Reviews

Frozen Warnings: Maxine Peake As Nico And The Roots Of Oblivion

As Maxine Peake plays Nico in a new Manchester production, Fergal Kinney explores the difficult art and politics of ‘the Marble Index’ and finding that album’s sonic oblivion in the mainstream of 2019 pop

Reviews

School Of Language
45

On the new School of Language album, Field Music's David Brewis takes aim at the piss president. It's a funky affair with bags of melody – but sometimes the gags wear thin, finds Nick Roseblade

Album of the Week

That Which Cannot Be Said: Caligula By Lingua Ignota

CALIGULA, the new album by LINGUA IGNOTA plunges into the ocean with the visionary force of the 12th century mystic who inspired it

A Quietus Interview

Living With The Human Machines: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Ahead of her performance at Supersonic festival, experimental artist Sarah Angliss speaks to Matthew Neale about the cyborgs, dummies and ghosts that populate her expansive work

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For July Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores offers suggestions for selecting the next Prime Minister, writes about some psych and noise rock releases, and has a mild breakdown while listening to The Flaming Lips. Main portrait by George-Salisbury

Reviews

Babii
Hiide

Babii's debut on Death Waltz records is a smart record that bears repeated listening, finds Johny Lamb

A Quietus Interview

You Can Get Lost In Your Vision: Conny Prantera Interviewed

In the lead up to her ambitious new multimedia project World Zero, Adam Quarshie speaks to artist Conny Prantera, better known as The Seer, about her fascination with oracles, moon rituals and the end of the world

Live Reviews

Emotion And Power: Roskilde Festival 2019 Reviewed

At Denmark's biggest and best festival, Patrick Clarke and Richard Foster find an event that shows the possibilities of emotional expression

Reviews

Mega Bog
Dolphine

Dolphine by Mega Bog manages to be mystical but tough, finds Diva Harris

Rum Music

Faith, Discouragement & Imagination: Rum Music With Jennifer Lucy Allan

New Rum Music Editor Jennifer Lucy Allan hosts a roadside picnic of long notes and short (wave) records excavated from the future and the past, from Bamako to Stockholm; Yugoslavia to Japan

Black Sky Thinking

F***! Mr Agreeable Reviews Ed Sheeran’s Collaborations No 6 Project

After a pre-Brexit shortage of sherry gets his goat, Mr Agreeable is none too pleased to be forced to sit and listen to Ed Sheeran's record of collaborations with his famous mates

Reissue of the Week

Blown Out ’77: In The Studio With Suicide

Suicide's debut has been remastered and reissued as part of Mute/BMG's Art Of The Album series. In this extract from the sleevenotes, John Doran talks to Marty Rev and producer Craig Leon about the album's disorientating production

Reviews

Purple Mountains
Purple Mountains

Silver Jews' David Berman is back with his first new music for over a decade. Purple Mountains' eponymous debut is a fine and moving addition to his oeuvre, finds Noel Gardner

Anniversary

Give Up Your Enquiries: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Turns 20

Stanley Kubrick’s last film, is shrouded in dark and disturbing secrets. A more than fitting open end to his four-decade spanning mythology, says Aimee Armstrong. ****CONTAINS SPOILERS****

Art

Double Take: A Beginner’s Guide To The Chicago Imagists

Unfamiliar with the work of Ed Flood, Suellen Rocca, and Steve Albini's old art teacher, Ed Paschke? Fear not! John Quin visits a survey of Chicago Imagists at the De La Warr Pavilion

Books

Poisoned Pen: New Book By Lydia Lunch

In So Real It Hurts, the new book from Lydia Lunch, the no wave icon exorcises some demons

Film

Deadpan: Jim Jarmusch’s Political Take On The Zombie Film

Jim Jarmusch’s late entry into the zombie genre may first appear to be a restrained retreading of anti-consumerist tropes and fears of humanity’s auto-obliteration. But, Sean Kitching asks, if such warnings are obsolete, then why do we still fail to heed them?

Reviews

Pere Ubu
The Long Goodbye

In the dense, ‘techno-rock’ soundscapes of Pere Ubu’s new album, Sean Kitching finds the long-running cult band have found yet another angle from which to depict their ever evolving, yet always eternal ‘avant-garage’ ethos

A Quietus Interview

That’s Where I’m From: Idris Elba On Making The Yardie Mixtape

As Idris Elba releases a mixtape of music inspired by Yardie, he tells Joe Muggs about his life in music, style, and inspiration of UK hip hop

Reviews

Ondness
Not Really Now Not Any More

The new album by Lisbon electronic artist Ondness takes inspiration from the same graffiti that triggered Alan Garner's Red Shift, finds Antonio Poscic

Album of the Week

The Horror Of Folk: Bobby Krlic’s Midsommar Score

The music for Ari Aster's Midsommar, by the Haxan Cloak aka Bobby Krlic, reflects our changing perspectives of the horrors of humanity, finds Lara C Cory

A Quietus Interview

Black Punk, Feminism And LGBQT+ Values: Big Joanie Interviewed

From touring with Bikini Kill to conversing with the Raincoats, Big Joanie explore in depth their personal experiences between the nexus of black feminism and punk, says Laviea Thomas

Reviews

Various
Seven at 77 2019

The latest Seven at 77 collection offers up another set of musicians creating music without borders to help a meaningful cause, find Nick Roseblade

Baker's Dozen

Listening To The Messages: Oumou Sangaré’s Favourite Albums

Malian musician Oumou Sangaré speaks to David McKenna about her favourite music, being discovered by Ali Farka Touré, and collaborating with Alicia Keys and Tony Allen

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

Another Summer: Revisiting Do The Right Thing 30 Years On

Welcome To Dystopia: Dorian Lynskey’s 1984 Playlist

Fairism: Art Basel As Heterotopia

A Revolution In Sound: Inside The Polish Radio Experimental Studio

Olympia Flamingo

Things Learned At Mad Cool Festival

The Weirder The Better: Buzz Osborne Of Melvins’ 13 Favourite Records

Frozen Warnings: Maxine Peake As Nico And The Roots Of Oblivion

School Of Language 45

That Which Cannot Be Said: Caligula By Lingua Ignota

Living With The Human Machines: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For July Reviewed By JR Moores

Babii Hiide

You Can Get Lost In Your Vision: Conny Prantera Interviewed

Emotion And Power: Roskilde Festival 2019 Reviewed

Mega Bog Dolphine

Faith, Discouragement & Imagination: Rum Music With Jennifer Lucy Allan

F***! Mr Agreeable Reviews Ed Sheeran’s Collaborations No 6 Project

Blown Out ’77: In The Studio With Suicide

Purple Mountains Purple Mountains

Give Up Your Enquiries: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Turns 20

Double Take: A Beginner’s Guide To The Chicago Imagists

Poisoned Pen: New Book By Lydia Lunch

Deadpan: Jim Jarmusch’s Political Take On The Zombie Film

Pere Ubu The Long Goodbye

That’s Where I’m From: Idris Elba On Making The Yardie Mixtape

Ondness Not Really Now Not Any More

The Horror Of Folk: Bobby Krlic’s Midsommar Score

Black Punk, Feminism And LGBQT+ Values: Big Joanie Interviewed

Various Seven at 77 2019

Listening To The Messages: Oumou Sangaré’s Favourite Albums

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Remembering David Thomas of Pere Ubu, by Sean Kitching

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

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Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums

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Olympia
Flamingo

School Of Language
45

Babii
Hiide

Mega Bog
Dolphine

Purple Mountains
Purple Mountains

Pere Ubu
The Long Goodbye

Ondness
Not Really Now Not Any More

Various
Seven at 77 2019