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What Goes Around: Zimpel/Ziołek’s Zimpel/Ziołek Reviewed

Wacław Zimpel and Kuba Ziołek, two of Poland's finest underground musicians, create an extraordinary space where jazz and folk collide.

Reviews

Buttonhead
Never Or Forget

Peculiar, disarming and fiercely adroit - Buttonhead are back with a strange and excellent second album.

Reviews

German Oak
Down In The Bunker

A krautrock lost classic - once only available for loads of cash or on dodgy bootleg, now lovingly remastered and reissued.

Beyond The Hits

The Best Of The Blasphemous Worst: Slayer, Beyond The Hits

There’s more to thrash metal than hi-tops and skinny jeans, and there's more to Slayer than songs about the Holocaust and Satan, says Joel McIver

Baker's Dozen

Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 13 Favourite Albums

From Beethoven to The Beach Boys via King Kong: The Musical, these are the 13 pieces of music that shaped Yusuf/Cat Stevens as an artist

Strange World Of...

A Repertoire Of Mistakes: The Strange World Of… Nurse With Wound

For almost forty years Steven Stapleton and friends have been sculpting dramatic dream worlds for our exploration and delectation. On the eve of headlining this weekend’s Tusk Festival in Newcastle, UK, we take a quick ride through the stellar Stapleton system to skim the surface of ten of Nurse With World’s key releases

Reviews

Fatima Al Qadiri
Shaneera

Al Qadiri sticks to her political commitments, but this time she's having a lot more fun doing it

Reviews

Lost Harbours
Towers Of Silence

Lost Harbours return with another beautiful, sombre missive beamed out of the dark underworld of Southend-on-Sea (via Riga, Latvia).

A Quietus Interview

Power In Vulnerability: An Interview With Kelela

Following the release of her debut album last week, futuristic R&B artist Kelela talks to Tara Joshi about sex, vulnerability, and making music for queer black girls

Black Sky Thinking

Why The Mainstreaming Of The Far Right Since Brexit Should Concern Us

UKIP's support might have collapsed at the last election, but that's just because their dangerous ideas have been absorbed into the political mainstream, argues Dr Paul Stocker

Reviews

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF
Brand New Cage

Wild Billy Childish tries once again to recapture the spirit of 77 with CTMF, and succeeds for the fifth time in a row.

Strange World Of...

Total Body Control: The Strange World Of… D.A.F.

Krautrockin' Brit David Stubbs travels to Düsseldorf to speak to Gabi and Robert of Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft in order to find entry points into their large body of work

The Quietus International

1 Thing: September & October R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Twenty years after it was released, we are living, loving, singing and dancing in the afterglow of Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope. With: Kelela, Ty Dolla $ign, Syd, Ibeyi and plenty more.

Black Sky Thinking

Dancing In The Waves – 40 Years Inside The Radiophonic Workshop

Ahead of their performance at the British Library this week, the Radiophonic Workshop's Peter Howell reflects on four decades fathoming the complex creative relationship between the Workshop's humans and their machines

Art

Shagged Out: At Frieze 2017

Delighted by Magritte, stunned by Penone, Fisun Güner tells us what not to miss and what gets nul points at Frieze 2017 and Frieze Masters

Art

Working For The Organism: Claire Van Lubeek’s Baby Bar

Deborah Holman discusses Claire van Lubeek's Baby Bar project, on display at 1.1 project space, Basel, Switzerland

Reviews

St. Vincent
MASSEDUCTION

Annie Clark's extraordinary new album: thirteen songs of fractured identity that form a cohesive, compelling whole.

Film

‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Dennis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is in cinemas now, Mat Colegate takes a look for The Quietus

Film

Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

With Blade Runner 2049 in cinemas now, Robert Bright looks back at the interior and exterior worlds of Philip K. Dick

Reviews

Ninos Du Brasil
Vida Eterna

Vampires, batucada and a 303 - there is plenty to love on the new album from Ninos Du Brasil.

Reviews

Moses Sumney
Aromanticism

The Californian singer takes an ethereal journey into solitude

Album of the Week

The Performance Of A Lifetime: The Granite Shore’s Suspended Second

Who knew an album of global, personal and spiritual disappointment could sound so beautiful, so uplifting? By Mick Middles.

Reviews

Emmanuel
Rave Culture

Emmanuel Beddewela flies high and hits hard with an album of solid banging rave-loving techno tunes.

Baker's Dozen

Trying Everything On: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Baker’s Dozen

With her sixth full-length album set for imminent release, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith takes Christian Eede from influential minimalism by Steve Reich to new age ambience by Midori Takada over the course of her Baker's Dozen

Reviews

Jon Hassell
Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two)

A long-forgotten ambient treasure, reissued after 36 years. By Tom Bolton.

Reviews

Unsane
Sterilize

Oddly comforting bicycle-chain-being-fed-through-an-industrial-meat-grinder riffs, sinewy rhythm section and pained yowling from Unsane.

Reviews

David Grubbs
Creep Mission

Hardcore-punk-turned-psych-crusader-turned-academic David Grubbs invites us back into his playful, thoughtful world.

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Test Dept

Ahead of this weekend's Assembly Of Disturbance festival in London, Alexei Monroe speaks to the veteran industrial band Test Dept about their long and varied history of music, art and activism

The Quietus International

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: A New Pop Column With Anna Cafolla

Cardi B is on top, Kelela is industrial, Nadine Coyle is meme-able, and Anna Cafolla is here with her first, fabulous tQ pop column

Live Reviews

Transforming, Vibrating: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Reviewed

As the cult of Nick Cave gets bigger and bigger, so his material gets sparser and more intimate. Can Skeleton Tree really work in an arena? Lord yes, says Patrick Clarke

Reviews

Wand
Plum

Wand emerge from their rich psychedelic swamp with a new harmonic and lyrical articulacy.

Books

Return To The Dark Valley: Santiago Gamboa Interviewed

Internationally acclaimed Colombian novelist, philologist, journalist and former diplomat Santiago Gamboa talks to Sean Kitching about the paradox of evil, Michel Houellebecq and the question of the afterlife

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What Goes Around: Zimpel/Ziołek’s Zimpel/Ziołek Reviewed

Buttonhead Never Or Forget

German Oak Down In The Bunker

The Best Of The Blasphemous Worst: Slayer, Beyond The Hits

Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 13 Favourite Albums

A Repertoire Of Mistakes: The Strange World Of… Nurse With Wound

Fatima Al Qadiri Shaneera

Lost Harbours Towers Of Silence

Power In Vulnerability: An Interview With Kelela

Why The Mainstreaming Of The Far Right Since Brexit Should Concern Us

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF Brand New Cage

Total Body Control: The Strange World Of… D.A.F.

1 Thing: September & October R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Dancing In The Waves – 40 Years Inside The Radiophonic Workshop

Shagged Out: At Frieze 2017

Working For The Organism: Claire Van Lubeek’s Baby Bar

St. Vincent MASSEDUCTION

‘Ave A Go If You Think You’re Dekkard Enough: Blade Runner 2049 Reviewed

Once More With Feeling: Philip K Dick And Blade Runner

Ninos Du Brasil Vida Eterna

Moses Sumney Aromanticism

The Performance Of A Lifetime: The Granite Shore’s Suspended Second

Emmanuel Rave Culture

Trying Everything On: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Baker’s Dozen

Jon Hassell Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two)

Unsane Sterilize

David Grubbs Creep Mission

The Strange World Of… Test Dept

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: A New Pop Column With Anna Cafolla

Transforming, Vibrating: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Reviewed

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Return To The Dark Valley: Santiago Gamboa Interviewed

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Buttonhead
Never Or Forget

German Oak
Down In The Bunker

Fatima Al Qadiri
Shaneera

Lost Harbours
Towers Of Silence

Wild Billy Childish & CTMF
Brand New Cage

St. Vincent
MASSEDUCTION

Ninos Du Brasil
Vida Eterna

Moses Sumney
Aromanticism

Emmanuel
Rave Culture

Jon Hassell
Dream Theory In Malaya (Fourth World Volume Two)

Unsane
Sterilize

David Grubbs
Creep Mission

Wand
Plum

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we