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Black Sky Thinking
Right Out Of Hand: The Joy & Shambles of Bananarama
Punk, pop and politics: Bananarama did it all, with great songs and a load of pisstaking fun. Their five key albums have just been reissued – on coloured vinyl and with limited-edition coloured cassettes, as is only right and proper – so here we celebrate a little of what made them wonderful
Columns of the Year
Hyperspecific: 2018’s Best Electronic Music
Christian Eede's final Hyperspecific column of 2018 sees him offer up an unordered, non-exhaustive round up some of the year's best electronic music, featuring rave music from Eris Drew (pictured), kick drum-less techno from Barker and dancehall mutations from Simo Cell and Low Jack
Columns of the Year
The Beginning Of The End: The Return Of Rum Music
A temporal burp uploads a historical research dossier from the far future into The Quietus’ content management system. Portending the end of music, it gives a quick introduction to Rum Music, our newly returned column that tries to map new territories in the ever-shifting auditory dimension, along with a mix featuring the ‘best’ Rum Music of 2018
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Big Hitters Of 2018
Do you like to soften your nihilism with hard-boogie geetar? Is queer tech-grind your go-to antidote for global socio-political meltdown? Do you rail against the mindless barbarism of austerity with help from mind-walloping noisepunk? Then this, dear friend, is the end-of-year list for you
Books
Leaky Jars & Millennial Malaise: New Fiction By Geraldine Snell
Geraldine Snell's "non-fiction novella", overlove, is "concerned with love, boundaries, leaky jars and the female gaze in today's context of digital communication, millennial malaise and searching online for something 'more'." Read an exclusive extract below
Books
Hair And Angels: A Christmas Story By Marcel Theroux
Still looking for that last minute stocking filler? Marcel Theroux's An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories is one of the latest batch of small pamphlets from Rough Trade Books. Enjoy an exclusive extract below, entitled 'Hair and Angels"
Columns of the Year
Noel’s Foul House: 20 Hottest Hits of New Weird Britain 2018
It’s been a terrible year, in many ways, but either the absolute bullshit of our political discourse actually feeds the beautiful triffids that are flourishing across the musical landscape of New Weird Britain, or else they simply cannot be destroyed. Either way, time to enjoy the finest foulest releases of 2018, from Aman!!!’s Greek rebetiko to Night Thoughts’ coldwave goth to an unnerving Whigfield rethink/remix by Rian Treanor
A Quietus Interview
Life Beyond Paradise – Richard Youngs Of AMOR Interviewed
Following two sublime singles, the debut album from Glasgow-based dance music collective Amor captures timeless dancefloor melancholy and Paradise Garage-referencing rhythm, amid twenty-four channels of anaogue bliss. Founding member and acclaimed experimental musician Richard Youngs catches up with John Thorp, and tries not to overthink the groove
