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A Quietus Interview
Me, I Disconnect From YouTube: Mart Avi Interviewed
Ahead of his appearance at Liverpool Sound City on Sunday, Mart Avi talks to Lottie Brazier about music that dreams of the future, the internet as “the mother city”, John Peel’s escapades in Estonia and coming of age with an unusual larynx
Books
Philosophies Of History Are Rationalisations For Mass Murder: An Interview With John Gray
In advance of his new book, Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray discusses his work – and settles a few scores – with Michael Brooks, from the errors of Richard Dawkins to the pernicious bullshit of Steven Pinker
Anniversary
Soliloquy For Lilith: Nurse With Wound & The Vastness Of Possibility
Created 30 years ago through financial precarity, a new family and phantasmagorical feedback, Soliloquy For Lilith is too often labeled as simply ‘dark ambient’. But Nurse With Wound’s album of hallucinogenic, avant garde and intrepid spirit helped spawn a lineage that includes Aphex Twin, Sunn O))) and Klara Lewis
Black Sky Thinking
My Country Needs Me: on Sons Of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile
By celebrating great black women across history, by crowning Angela Davis, Harriet Tubman, Albertina Sisulu and Doreen Lawrence, Sons Of Kemet begin a new myth-making and bring afrofuturism down to earth with a beautiful bang. By Teju Adeleye
Anniversary
A Thousand Leaves: How Sonic Youth Chose The Wilderness
The alternative rock major label gold rush of the mid-90s didn't last long but it burned most of those involved, in one way or another. Stevie Chick examines how the New York mavericks managed to "quietly decouple" themselves from the mainstream and prepare for their final late period genius phase as he looks at A Thousand Leaves, which was released 20 years ago
