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Field Music

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Field Music offer immense charm and ideological strength once again on their 7th LP

Reach & Rootedness: Steve Reich’s Pulse/Quartet

The great 20th-century composer is also a great 21st-century composer, as we’re reminded on this remarkable new release.

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This January

The winter keep on wintering, and we need help. Enter: Aksak Maboul, Jonny Shitbag, Watain, Guy One and Cucina Povera.

“There Is Noise In Beauty”: Cornelius’ Favourite Albums

In the first Baker's Dozen of 2018, Cornelius guides us through 13 favourites that helped shaped his musical life, including the new-on-vinyl Mellow Waves

An Invitation To The Dance: Lewes Psychedelic Festival

Ben Graham trips out to the South Downs and finds psychedelia as alive and amorphous as ever.

Kaukolampi

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On his debut solo album, Timo Kaukolampi goes deep down and far out.

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain Hits For January

This month, we celebrate the nefarious goings-on of Paper Dollhouse, the wobbly non-linear Chow Mwng and the throbbing drone of NoCorner

This Nation’s Craven Face: The Bleak Brexit Foundations Of The Libertines’ Margate Hotel

What links the loss of Mark E Smith and the gain of a Libertines hotel? Plenty, says David Bennun, and none of it good for Britain or its musical subculture.

Congregations & Revelations: Salm Vol One

Salm - Gaelic Psalms From The Hebrides Of Scotland Volume One is the sound of a rapidly changing culture, its songs slipping away while our attention is elsewhere

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal For January

Starting the year as we mean to go on, with Lugubrum Trio, Corrosion Of Conformity and Agrimonia.

Total Control

Laughing At The System

A wonderful album of rage, laughter, hysteria, all kinds of eclectic noise.

Buisness Propositions: Babak Ganjei Talks Art, Ideas, And eBay

With a solo exhibition currently on display at South London's War Gallery, Craft/Work caught up with artist Babak Ganjei to learn how an online marketplace became a site of conceptual art practice

Bodies That Matter: On Ai Weiwei, Artur Żmijewski, L.A. Raeven And More

At the Migros Museum in Zurich, Barnaby Smith finds an argument for pluralism in Extra Bodies – The Use of the 'Other Body' in Contemporary Art

Cucina Povera

Hilja

An irresistible trip into minimalism and silence

Hip Priest: Mark E Smith As Conduit For The Fall

The Fall was always bigger than Mark E Smith, and he knew it even when we forgot. Luke Turner reflects on a great curator, interpreter and magician

“Nobody Messes With The Fall”: Remembering Mark E Smith

Niall O'Keeffe looks back at the four decade history of the world's greatest band, The Fall and its guardian, Mark E Smith

RIP Mark E. Smith. The Quietus’ 60 Favourite Fall Songs

Quietus writers and guests including Brett Anderson, Stewart Lee, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Adrian Sherwood, Pat Nevin and Krishnan Guru-Murthy select 60 favourites from The Fall's back catalogue.

Becks Induction Hour: Mark E Smith On The LP That Nearly Ended The Fall

This is the first in a series of Fall features leading up to the release of Our Future - Your Clutter on Domino this Spring. John Doran talks to his nibs about Hex... (republished 24th January 2018)

Messing Up The Paintwork: This Nation’s Saving Grace Revisited

‘Paintwork’, an album track from This Nation’s Saving Grace, is in some respects the key to the song-writing processes of The Fall. John Doran looks back to 1985 with some help from Mark E. Smith

Mark E Smith Of The Fall On Art & The Artist

The Fall and Mark E Smith As A Narrative Lyric Writer

We Only Have This Excerpt: Mark E Smith Of The Fall Interviewed

Mark E Smith has a drink with Kevin EG Perry and tells him about literary influences and Ersatz GB. Photograph by Valerio Berdini (Originally published 24th November 2011, republished 24th January 2018)

When Mark Met Nick and Shane: Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)

Junk Shop Classical On Stravinsky: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Stravinsky’s merciless Rite Of Spring from 1913 was the last hit piece he had, although he lived and worked prolifically until 1971. So how come we’re still talking about the Russian modernist as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century?

Why Office-Based Juice Raves Can’t Hide The Dark Truths Of Self-Employment

As the self-assessment tax return deadline looms, Kit Caless looks at the rise of co-working spaces and the increasingly blurred boundary between work and home

Sean Noonan

Man No Longer Me

Intense, daft, tricksy, virtuoso, addictive: an absolute trip from a “modern-day sonic griot”

Dommengang

Love Jail

The rocknroll chuggers move west to LA and find sunshine, warm breezes

Cindy Wilson

Change

Solo for the first time, the B-52’s co-founder experiments, collaborates and comes up good

After The Flood: An Interview With Hookworms

John Freeman chats to Leeds-based Hookworms about how their astounding new album Microshift, informed by a love of techno, helped them survive as a band in the aftermath of Storm Eva’s destructive floods

Slow Place Like Home

When I See You… Ice Cream!

From Northern Ireland, a singular mind creates a singular electronic album - a rich and idiosyncratic gem

Jim Ghedi

A Hymn For Ancient Land

Heartfelt 12-string guitar composition from the Sheffield trad folk player, who sometimes goes a bit too far with the bucolic bliss

Ooooh Betty! Nasty Gal By Betty Davis Revisited

Major label flop it may have been, but Betty Davis’ Nasty Gal, newly reissued by Light In The Attic, showcased an artist raging against the dying of the funk light, says Patrick Corcoran