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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
A Quietus Interview
Tears For Fears: A Conversation With Kris Rygg Of Ulver
Not afraid to challenge their audience, Ulver are currently indulging in a different kind of pop music. Dan Franklin speaks to founding member Kristoffer Rygg about danceable gothic songs, papal conclaves, potent imagery down the centuries, and “sucking on the tit of the wolf mother”. Main Ulver portraits by Ingrid Aas
Anniversary
It’s The Buzz, Cock! Spiral Scratch 40 Years On
The Buzzcocks' Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle plus manager Richard Boon speak to Patrick Clarke about the unintentional genius of their landmark debut (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)
A Quietus Interview
I Hate Finishing Things When I Don’t Have To: Pete Shelley Interviewed
Everybody's looking for something - but what does Taylor Parkes find when he spends the evening with Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks? (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)
