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Copper Turns To Green: An Interview With Meatraffle

Patrick Clarke tracks down Zsa Zsa Sapien and Tingle Lungfish of South London outliers Meatraffle, to talk sci-fi socialism, their unconventional beginnings and the evils of patriotism

Live Reviews

Woolstock: Future Yard Festival Reviewed

In beautiful Birkenhead, the inaugural edition of Future Yard festival builds a bridge across the Mersey, with help from Bill Ryder-Jones, Anna Calvi and more

Reviews

Thugwidow
Automatic Rhythm

On Circadian Rhythms, Thugwidow's new EP takes jungle in new directions, finds Zac Cazes

Baker's Dozen

Thirteen Masks: Jarboe’s Favourite Music

Jarboe guides Spyros Stasis through 13 favourites in this week's Baker's Dozen, taking in the likes of Arvo Pärt, Kendrick Lamar, Janis Joplin and her relationship with Swans

Rum Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

In the cruelest month for releases, Jennifer Lucy Allan writes from a static caravan, on lost minimalism, childhood nostalgia and Mosquitoes

A Quietus Interview

The dark electronic pop Australian duo HTRK, once described brilliantly as sounding like ‘Sade in prison’ return with their fourth album, Venus in Leo a slow, louche blur with chinks of warm sun peeking through the shadows. Ahead of their set at Atonal in Berlin this week, we caught up with the duo to talk about being drawn to toxic people, a new body oil for merch and moving away from drama.

Black Sky Thinking

Why I’m Making A Film About Wire, By Graham Duff

Writer Graham Duff is a Wire obsessive currently crowdfunding a documentary on the band. Here in a celebration of their later work, he pays tribute to their lasting inventiveness

Punk

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC Reviews For August By Noel Gardner

Why is everyone in everyone else's bands, asks Noel Gardner as he presents another smorgasbord of punk, oi, industrial, noise rock, hardcore and D-beat mayhem. Gauche portrait courtesy of Jen Dessinger

Live Reviews

Trees Are Good Trees Are Good: Flow Festival Reviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray travels to Helsinki for Flow Festival and finds an experience that genuinely stands out in a packed field

Reviews

Pijn & Conjurer
Curse These Metal Hands

A collaboration between metal bands Pijn and Conjurer is less about wild sonic experimentation and more about the camaraderie of watching Peep Show together, finds Tom Coles

Reviews

Oh Sees
Face Stabber

Whether its Oh Sees, Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees, or Thee Oh Sees, John Dwyer's records can be an enjoyably discombobulating experience, finds Nick Roseblade

Books

Definitely Dusty: Lucy O’Brien’s Ten Essential Springfield Tracks

From BBC sessions to unreleased tracks, Lucy O'Brien, author of Dusty: The Classic Biography, dives deep into some of the lesser known corners of the Dusty Springfield back catalogue

Books

Songs Of Entropy: Lawrence Kramer, In Search Of The Audiable

In an exclusive extract from his new book, The Hum of the World, philosopher and musicologist Lawrence Kramer explores the ghosts of early recording technologies

Art

How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

The current show at Sprüth Magers, London, curated by British writer Michael Bracewell, explores the mutual fascination between the worlds of art and pop music in the 80s and 90s

Reviews

Jay Som
Anak Ko

The third album by performer-producer Jay Som is a sweep of touching intimacy and riotous energy, finds Jo Higgs

Film

The World Leaks In – Upstairs Planet: Cleaners From Venus & The Universe of Martin Newell

Lo-fi approaches define Martin Newell's oeuvre, so it only seems natural that the cinematic relic honouring him should follow suit, finds Neil Fox

Baker's Dozen

Films for Big Eyes: Charlemagne Palestine’s Baker’s Dozen

Former Film Editor David Moats is brought out of retirement for Charlemagne Palestine’s Film Bakers Dozen They discuss his Jewish heritage, lucky breaks and vomit vision.

Reviews

The Hold Steady
Thrashing Thru The Passion

Thrashing Thru The Passion may not stand up to their very best work, but The Hold Steady's new collection is still full of potency, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Album of the Week

Destructive Urges: Debby Friday’s Death Drive

Featuring collaborations with Lana Del Rabies and Chino Amobi, Debby Friday's latest tape for Deathbomb Arc is a visceral howl into the unknown, finds Yewande Adeniran

Reviews

Joel Oppenheimer / Hans Plomp / Piero Heliczer
On Occasion / Intrepid Traveller / The Autumn Feast

Three new tapes from the Netherlands' Counter Culture Chronicles, featuring the voices of poets Joel Oppenheimer, Hans Plomp, and Piero Heliczer, respectively, offer a set of intimate portraits, finds Nick Roseblade

Live Reviews

Beacons Of Light: Green Man 2019 Reviewed

In torrential rain and beautiful sun, Green Man once again stakes its claim as one of Europe's very finest festivals, and an event that continues to evolve into something even brighter each year

A Quietus Interview

Pipe Down: Tashi Wada Interviewed

Ahead of his appearance at Meakusma Festival, Tashi Wada talks to Tristan Bath about collaborating with his father, Yoshi and Julia Holter

Reviews

Blanck Mass
Animated Violence Mild

A new solo album by Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power is informed by grief, terror and frustration, finds Derek Robertson

Live Reviews

Fort Knocks: Things Learned At La Route Du Rock

Altın Gün provided plenty of Turkish delight, Stereolab’s entente cordiale is holding magnificently and Pond provided life while their Antipodean brethren brought tears of boredom to the eyes. This year’s LRDR reviewed by Jeremy Allen

Reviews

Haiku Salut
The General

The fourth album by Derbyshire's Haiku Salut offers up a melancholy soundtrack to Buster Keaton's most celebrated but least funny film

Art

Platform Shoes: Emerging Artists In Sheffield

Platform 2019 presents the working practices of five emerging artists across several galleries in Sheffield

Books

No Place Like Home: Ian Penman’s Curving Tracks

Newly published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, It Gets Me Home This Curving Track is a collection of essays by the legendary British music journalist, Ian Penman

Reviews

Sharky
Fruit

Sharky's Fruit EP is a day-glo pop adventure, finds Nick Roseblade

Album of the Week

Bodies That Matter: Sleater-Kinney’s Visceral New Pop

Sleater-Kinney return with their ninth studio album – and with St Vincent brought in on production duties, it's a glint of shiny pop in a fug of searing vitriol, finds Anna Cafolla

Film

“This Did Not Happen”: The Melancholy Of Leto’s Wish Fulfilment

Not a straight rock biopic nor a fully glitzy movie musical, the scrappy charm of Leto comes from its somewhat revisionist history, says Marina Vuotto

Reviews

Sadness
Circle Of Veins

Circle of Veins by Sadness is anthemic and hypnotic all at once, finds Tom Coles

Live Reviews

Battles Live At The Shacklewell Arms

Sean Kitching crams himself into the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston along with Battles and all of their big ideas, and rediscovers the excitement of first seeing them play live 14 years ago

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Copper Turns To Green: An Interview With Meatraffle

Woolstock: Future Yard Festival Reviewed

Thugwidow Automatic Rhythm

Thirteen Masks: Jarboe’s Favourite Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

No Dramas: HTRK Interviewed

Why I’m Making A Film About Wire, By Graham Duff

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC Reviews For August By Noel Gardner

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Pijn & Conjurer Curse These Metal Hands

Oh Sees Face Stabber

Definitely Dusty: Lucy O’Brien’s Ten Essential Springfield Tracks

Songs Of Entropy: Lawrence Kramer, In Search Of The Audiable

How Does It Feel? Michael Bracewell Show Explores Art & Pop, 1976–1995

Jay Som Anak Ko

The World Leaks In – Upstairs Planet: Cleaners From Venus & The Universe of Martin Newell

Films for Big Eyes: Charlemagne Palestine’s Baker’s Dozen

The Hold Steady Thrashing Thru The Passion

Destructive Urges: Debby Friday’s Death Drive

Joel Oppenheimer / Hans Plomp / Piero Heliczer On Occasion / Intrepid Traveller / The Autumn Feast

Beacons Of Light: Green Man 2019 Reviewed

Pipe Down: Tashi Wada Interviewed

Blanck Mass Animated Violence Mild

Fort Knocks: Things Learned At La Route Du Rock

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Platform Shoes: Emerging Artists In Sheffield

No Place Like Home: Ian Penman’s Curving Tracks

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