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Dommengang
Love Jail

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

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Cindy Wilson
Change

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

A Quietus Interview

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

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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

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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

Anniversary

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

A Quietus Interview

Sensory Occupation Tank: V Ä L V Ē’s Chlöe Herington Interviewed

Chlöe Herington talks to Eoin Murray about the olfactory potential of psychedelic gigs and the power of recurring dreams

Anniversary

40 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance Revisited

Can the birth of post-punk be traced back to a recording studio in the Cleveland woods? Brian Coney makes the case for Pere Ubu’s debut LP being the genre's genesis point

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Soho Rezanejad
Six Archetypes

A powerful lysergic pop debut from the Danish solo artist

Art

Gentlemen Take Polaroids: Wim Wenders’ Instant Stories

An exhibition of Polaroid pictures offers insights into the film-making processes of German director Wim Wenders, finds Adam Scovell at the Photographers' Gallery

Art

Will The Real Rodney Graham Please Stand Up: That’s Not Me At IMMA

At the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, John Quin faces multiple Rodney Grahams through which the Canadian artist reveals his obsessions with time and dead media

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Porches
The House

The move from indie rock to synth pop is complete, and this is Porches’ best record yet

Black Sky Thinking

Get The Lawyers In! Experts On The Del Rey vs Radiohead vs Hollies Case

Music copyright experts Guy Osborn (Professor of Law at the University of Westminster) and Simon Anderson (musician and music publisher) of Lost In Music cast their expert eye over the current plagiarism farrago and ask, are musicians doomed to be forever on repeat?

A Quietus Interview

Having Some Power Troubles: Emma Ruth Rundle Interviewed

In the final week of her gruelling twelve-week tour, rock musician and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle speaks to Emma Madden about alcoholism, the next record and fans who cross the line

Reviews

Dubi Dolczek
Dubi in Space Part 1: The Emerald Gauntlet

This cosmic crooning is a trip - we’d like it to go further

A Quietus Interview

The Abyss Stares Back… Smiling: Amenra Interviewed

As Amenra bring their grace-giving gloom to CTM Festival in 2018, Colin H. van Eeckhout discusses how he found light in the dark.

Reissue of the Week

The Moral Is: Gary Numan’s Dance Revisited

Dance is often seen as the point where it all started to go wrong for Gary Numan. It is however, says Ned Raggett, one of the most interesting albums he ever released...

Reviews

NSRD
The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

From 1980s Latvia, a wonky, lovely agitpop gem

Anniversary

The Bends? Grant Gee On The Day Thom Yorke Nearly Drowned For Art

Twenty years on from the release of the No Surprises video and classic music documentary Meeting People Is Easy, Grant Gee talks to Adam Scovell about how he convinced Radiohead's Thom Yorke to risk drowning in a fishtank

A Quietus Interview

Fire, Prayer & Curses: Lingua Ignota Interviewed

The power electronics composer and classically trained singer talks to Aimee Armstrong about immolation, self-weaponisation and the divine inspiration of Hildegard von Bingen.

Reviews

Shame
Songs Of Praise

Boys in the band, but (hopefully) not those kind of boys in the band. By Cady Siregar.

Art

The Artist Is Not Present: Marina Abramovic On Gino De Dominicis

At a recent panel discussion at London's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, Marina Abramovic spoke of the influence of Italian artist Gino De Domenicis

Art

A Highly Magnified World: Ryoichi Kurokawa’s Adventures In The Nanosphere

Tristan Bath travels to Braga, Portugal, to explore Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa's adventures in nanotech, nanostructures, and nanoscience

Black Sky Thinking

Why The Rehabilitation Of Plagiarist Johann Hari Is Irresponsible & Dangerous

Despite repeated incidents of journalistic plagiarism, Johann Hari is back. Joe Muggs argues that we should be wary of his celebrity-endorsed new book about mental health rammed with dubious 'facts'

Live Reviews

Paranoia Springs Eternal: The Twilight Zone at The Almeida

Decades before Black Mirror, Rod Serling was exploring the uneasy side of western civilisation in his hokey-but-endearing morality tales, says Sean Kitching

Black Sky Thinking

Remembering Mark Fisher With The Caretaker’s “Take Care. It’s A Desert Out There…”

A year after Mark Fisher’s untimely death, Adam Scovell reflects on Leyland Kirby’s memorial album, Take Care. It’s A Desert Out There...

Album of the Week

These Hymns Of Decimation: Watain’s Trident Wolf Eclipse

Swedish black metal wolfpack Watain don’t want you to like their sixth album, but as sheep led to slaughter, we’re helpless, says Louise Brown

A Quietus Interview

“Refreshing, Interesting, Nice & Quick”: NPVR Interviewed

Following the release of NPVR’s debut album, 33 33, Mollie Zhang speaks to Nik Void and Peter Rehberg about safety nets, listening and decision-making. Photo by Magdalena Blaszczuk

Black Sky Thinking

Young: Dumb & Full Of Cum – How Toby Shot His Wad, And Liberalism Won

Toby Young's enemies are tribally driven combatants in a ferocious culture war. They are also absolutely right about Toby Young.

Beyond The Hits

David Bowie: Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits

You could release countless Bowie anthologies and never quite capture how special the Thin White Duke really is. Here, Chris Roberts, Nix Lowery, Joe Stannard, Frances Morgan, Petra Davis, Wyndham Wallace and John Doran reveal their favourite Bowie tunes which weren't smash-hit singles

Books

Talking Drummers: Patty Schemel & Barrett Martin Books Reviewed

Ned Raggett reads and compares the autobiographies of two grunge era drummers from the bands Hole and Screaming Trees

A Quietus Interview

Chaotic Good: Lower Slaughter Interviewed

Sinead and Barney from high-octane UK choogle unit Lower Slaughter talk to Mat Colegate about their debut album and the roll of the D20...

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Dommengang Love Jail

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Porches The House

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The Moral Is: Gary Numan’s Dance Revisited

NSRD The Workshop For The Restoration Of Unfelt Feelings

The Bends? Grant Gee On The Day Thom Yorke Nearly Drowned For Art

Fire, Prayer & Curses: Lingua Ignota Interviewed

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A Highly Magnified World: Ryoichi Kurokawa’s Adventures In The Nanosphere

Why The Rehabilitation Of Plagiarist Johann Hari Is Irresponsible & Dangerous

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These Hymns Of Decimation: Watain’s Trident Wolf Eclipse

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Young: Dumb & Full Of Cum – How Toby Shot His Wad, And Liberalism Won

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Love Jail

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Change

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When I See You… Ice Cream!

Jim Ghedi
A Hymn For Ancient Land

Soho Rezanejad
Six Archetypes

Porches
The House

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Dubi in Space Part 1: The Emerald Gauntlet

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