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Thou

Magus

Melodic textures underpin a ferocious sludge on Thou’s most satisfying metal outing yet. By Tom Coles

Suede

The Blue Hour

A record unlike any other, with some of the finest songs of their career

Blue Sky Thinking: Suede Interviewed

John Doran spends the afternoon with Brett Anderson, Neil Codling and Richard Oakes in order to get to the bottom of The Blue Hour - one of their strongest, wildest and most experimental albums to date

Mudhoney

Digital Garbage

Astute, relevant and raging

Columnus Metallicus: Your Metal Roundup For September

Pig Destroyer, you say? Anaal Nathrakh? Bliss Signal? Yes, we say. We have all this and more - scroll on, read, listen and wallow in the rich bleak horrors

Midnight Movies: Talking To John Cameron Mitchell About Parties

Daniel Theophanous talks to director John Cameron Mitchell about the "lo fi punky feel" of How To Talk To Girls At Parties, his latest film, out now on DVD

Big Booty: The Gurlitt ‘Hoard’ In Berlin

John Quin looks at a trove of Nazi loot at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Or is it?

Moviedrone: All The Month’s Finest Film Soundtracks

Charlie Brigden returns with his monthly round up of the best film soundtrack releases. This time he casts his expert eye over new soundtracks by Danny Elfman, Henry Jackman, James Edward Barker, and François de Roubaix

Mordancy, Misery And Misanthropy: Faith No More Book Reviewed

With references galore to Courtney Love, Josh Homme, and Teddy Adorno, Adrian Harte's new book on Faith No More, Small Victories, gives you "pretty much everything you could ever possibly hope to know" about the band, says Jeremy Allen

Low

Double Negative

A quarter of a century after they founded, Low are back with perhaps the best record of their career

Hyperglobal, Hyperlocal: Kode9 & Burial’s Fabriclive 100

Zooming across decades and continents, the south London producer and the Hyperdub label boss deliver a 75-minute treasure trove for the very last mix in the Fabriclive series

Chip

Ten10

Chip's Ten10 cements his role as the Darth Vader of grime, says Denzil Bell

How I Made A Record With 30,000-Year-Old Bone Flutes

Rupert Till, the man behind the Professor Chill album Dub Archaeology, provides the inside story on how some of the oldest musical instruments known to humanity ended up on a downtempo electronica recording.

Årabrot

Who Do You Love

Ghost Drummers & Cave Dubs: An Interview With HHY & The Macumbas

In the run-up to the release of their second album, Beheaded Totem, Adam Quarshie spoke to Jonathan Saldanha about growing up in Porto, Indian classical music, surveillance towers, the acoustics of tunnels and the power of marching bands

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain Roundup For September

Getting older, getting weirder, getting down with Ana Da Silva & Phew, Blood Claat Orange, Spike & Debbie, Graham Dunning and Family Buckets

A Need To Create: Dale Cornish Interviewed

Ahead of his set at this year's Tusk Festival in Newcastle, Dale Cornish talks to Luke Turner about his new album, 'fake foley' and the trouble with "avant-bumbag music"

“I’m Upfront About The Fact I’m A Fucking Nutter” – Guttersnipe Interviewed

The Quietus has long been of the opinion that Guttersnipe are one of the most exciting live acts in the UK underground, if not the entire world. Now with debut album My Mother The Vent due out next month on Upset The Rhythm, they have recorded material to match. Kevin McCaighy talks to Urocerus Gigas and Tipula Confusa about their incendiary sound. Garden and living room portraits by Abby Banks

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

King Of Cowards

A second and even richer dose of heaviosity from our favourite band of unwieldy name and hammering riffs

The Possibilities Of Poetry: On ‘Be With’ By Forrest Gander

Lotte L.S. on a collection of poems by American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator, Forrest Gander, with photograms by Michael Flomen

The Art Of Remembrance: Memory Palace At White Cube

Memory Palace, the White Cube's big summer group show, purports to be a show about traces and remembrance, but somewhere along the line it loses its grip…

Fracturing The Fragile Family: Two For Joy

Wyndham Hacket Pain on the feature debut by Tom Beard, a film about family dysfunction in the vein of Kes, This Is England, and The Selfish Giant

Small Town Boy: An Interview With Author Shaun Prescott

Shaun Prescott's debut novel, The Town, has been compared to Kafka, Italo Calvino, and Kōbō Abe. Robert Barry met up with him to talk ghost towns, erased pasts, and "strange / weird / beautiful / repugnant Australian music”

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

No2 / Ame Debout / Paix

A long overdue reissue of three albums packed with prog and cosmic ritualism, free jazz and European medieval traditions

Coming Clean: Art Made Inside

Jude Cowan Montague reports from an exhibition of art made in prisons

A French Film And Proud: Gaspar Noé Reaches Climax

The new new film by Gaspar Noé calls itself a "French film and proud". But what does that mean?

Obtuse Angles: Gazelle Twin’s Pastoral

On her latest extraordinary album, Elizabeth Bernholz serves the full English with extra discomfort, grotesquery and barely contained horror

Why The Sale Of UK Railway Arches Is A Disaster For Underground Music

In a move that has gone unnoticed by most, Network Rail has sold off its thousands of railway arches, many of them home to venues, clubs and studios that are vital for the health of independent culture. Ed Gillet explores this grievous threat to the UK. Images all from the Quietus 10th Birthday rave at Corsica Studios by Zbigniew Kotkiewicz

Far Away In My Memories: SØS Gunver Ryberg Interviewed

As a composer and sound artist the Danish iconoclast has taken electronic music into new and arcane territories. Ahead of her appearance at Semibreve festival in Portugal she sits down with Jamie Ryder to discuss artistic histories, gut reactions and using human skulls as recording equipment

The Absence Of Alice Coltrane – Reflections On Spiritual Eternal

In 1975, Alice Coltrane left the Impulse label and moved to less-jazzy more-rocky Warner Bros, where she made three studio albums in three years – Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and Transcendence – just remastered and reissued all together as Spiritual Eternal. They mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry – except Alice Coltrane never moved on from anything, she just kept on going and growing

Dizzee Rascal

Don't Gas Me EP

The veteran continues his rich run of recent form with a brilliant blend of bassline, garage and grime

Beak>

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Barrow, Fuller and Young with a third album of Beak> wrongness – sharper this time but just as uncanny