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Amphibians And Others: Between The Lines Of The Shape Of Water

Guillermo Del Toro's magical realist fantasy, The Shape Of Water, is a love letter to cinema – but its romance is not without its thorns

Books

“Settle For Nothing Less”: On Ann Quin By The Authors She Has Influenced

Contemporary authors Stewart Home, Isabel Waidner, Lee Rourke, Juliette Jacques, Stuart Evers, China Miéville, and Lara Pawson reflect on the work of English experimental novelist Ann Quin, whose collection The Unmapped Country has recently been published by And Other Stories

Art

A Current Under Sea: Margate Journeys With The Waste Land

Hannah Luxton journeys to the east coast to consider shows inspired by T.S. Eliot's epic poem at Turner Contemporary and The Pie Factory

Books

The Sound Of Defiance: Author Joe Thomas On Brazilian Music

With his new crime novel, Gringa, out this week, set in São Paulo, author Joe Thomas reflects on On politics, alegría, and saudades in Brazilian music

Film

Afrofuturist Sonic Dreamworlds: On Black Panther

On place, history, and identity in Ryan Coogler's Black Panther film

Reviews

The Orielles
Silver Dollar Moment

An idiosyncratic piece of perfect indie pop from Heavenly Recordings

Album of the Week

Lost In The Flood: Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet’s Landfall

David Bennun is beguiled by an uncanny meditation on disaster and loss

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The Boys Still Shout: A Young Fathers Interview

Ahead of the release of new album Cocoa Sugar, Derek Robertson meets the band at MENT Festival and finds their anger at social injustice and desire to provoke burning as bright as ever

Baker's Dozen

Fuller Pictures: Susanna On Her Favourite Albums

Susanna guides Eoin Murray through 13 favourite albums, from Joni Mitchell to Leonard Cohen, Janet Jackson to Bonnie Prince Billy and Bjork

Reviews

Ezra Furman
Transangelic Exodus

Ezra Furman steps into new territory, wobbles a bit, gets back on track.

A Quietus Interview

Arc Of Le Kovenant: Gwenno On Her Cornish Language Album

Gwenno Saunders talks to Jeremy Allen about her Cornish language album Le Kov

Black Sky Thinking

Nothing But A Good Time? In Defence Of… Glam Metal

Glam metal might be as fashionable as rickets but, argues Justin Quirk, it's outré style and bombastic sonics can be heard anywhere from EDM to modern pop

Strange World Of...

To The Future Or To The Past: The Strange World Of… The Rebel

Oliver Cookson sits down with Country Teasers frontman Ben Wallers to discuss ten points of entry into his extensive discography. They also talk "shit production", Kool Keith, Pink Floyd, fear of nuclear annihilation and his infamous 'Spakenkreuz' symbol

Reviews

Fire!
The Hands

Mats Gustafsson finds extra heft and ferocity on his sixth album with Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin

Reviews

Various // Soul Jazz
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3

From their dark days to ours, another luminous kosmische collection from Soul Jazz

Anniversary

Pop Versus Rock: Van Halen’s Debut Album 40 Years On

Rock or pop? Rock or pop? Rock or pop? Forget the false binary and worship the first band who were simultaneously both, says Michael Hann on the 30th anniversary of Van Halen's debut album

Reviews

Gnaw Their Tongues
Genocidal Majesty

A trip through the abyss, screaming, with Mories de Jong.

Reviews

Russell Haswell
Respondent

Haswell's latest mini-LP on Diagonal is properly idiosyncratic noise techno

The Quietus International

Rockfort: Your French Music Roundup For January & February

Love for France Gall, memories of Hallyday, and some ace new stuff from Halo Maud, Chicaloyoh, Vacarme et plus

Art

Loop > See Loop: Eddie Peake And Kool London At The White Cube

Artist Eddie Peake invites legendary London pirate station Kool London into his dwelling space at the White Cube, Bermondsey

Books

Ye Gods: The Twenty Greatest Prog Rock Record Sleeves

Jerry Ewing, editor of Prog magazine, shares with tQ his twenty favourite prog rock album sleeves along with an interview about his new book Wonderous Stories, followed by an exclusive extract from the book itself

Film

Domestic Fallout: The Innocent Apocalypse Of When The Wind Blows

As the BFI releases the film for the first time on Blu Ray, Adam Scovell finds in When the Wind Blows a nuclear disaster all the more harrowing for its deceptively child-like appearance

Art

Artist Run: Living Rooms And Parked Cars At The Other Places Art Fair

Perwana Nazif talks to key players in the Los Angeles alternative art space scene about why art is best viewed at dinner or in a car at the first Other Places art fair.

Books

The Apartheid After-Party: Matthew Collin On The South African Club Scene

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music, Matthew Collin dives into the club scene of South Africa, a country fast becoming the house nation

Film

Old Clothes, New Europe: Phantom Thread’s Hidden Histories

In Paul Thomas Anderson's latest, David Hering detects an uneasy dialectic of Anglo-European relations beneath the film's sumptuous exterior (contains SPOILERS)

Album of the Week

Insight Specific: Bas Jan’s Yes I Jan
Yes I Jan

Synths, violin, drums and a wonderful voice: day-to-day stories full of uncanny pop punk magic

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Reviews For February

The album format will never die, says JR Moores, not where psych rock is concerned. With Deep Hum, Bardo Pond, Death Pedals and more

Reviews

Franz Ferdinand
Always Ascending

Tender, debonair, fun - whoop! The best thing Kapranos and the gang have come up with in over a decade.

A Quietus Interview

Ire And Fury: An Interview With Field Music

David Brewis talks to John Freeman about Field Music’s sixth album – the brilliant Open Here - and how a post-Brexit, post-Trump world fueled some of the Brewis brother’s angriest songs to date

Reviews

Elizabete Balčus
Conarium

A piece of Latvian pop, full of drama and space and light.

Reviews

The Hanging Stars
Songs For Somewhere Else

Country Americana from north London, cosmic and authentic

Baker's Dozen

Prole Art Treat: East Man Selects 13 Visionary Releases

From Kate Bush and The Fall to Mobb Deep and Vybz Kartel, Anthoney Hart, the man behind Basic Rhythm, Imaginary Forces and most recently, East Man, selects the 13 albums that helped steer his art

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Amphibians And Others: Between The Lines Of The Shape Of Water

“Settle For Nothing Less”: On Ann Quin By The Authors She Has Influenced

A Current Under Sea: Margate Journeys With The Waste Land

The Sound Of Defiance: Author Joe Thomas On Brazilian Music

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Lost In The Flood: Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet’s Landfall

The Boys Still Shout: A Young Fathers Interview

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Fire! The Hands

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Rockfort: Your French Music Roundup For January & February

Loop > See Loop: Eddie Peake And Kool London At The White Cube

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The Orielles
Silver Dollar Moment

Ezra Furman
Transangelic Exodus

Fire!
The Hands

Various // Soul Jazz
Deutsche Elektronische Musik 3

Gnaw Their Tongues
Genocidal Majesty

Russell Haswell
Respondent

Insight Specific: Bas Jan’s Yes I Jan
Yes I Jan

Franz Ferdinand
Always Ascending

Elizabete Balčus
Conarium

The Hanging Stars
Songs For Somewhere Else