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Baker's Dozen
No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums
In the wake of his debut solo album, the TV On The Radio vocalist looks back to his longstanding love of mixtapes for an eclectic Baker's Dozen – taking in 60s psychedelia, hip hop, krautrock, dub, IDM, and his eight-year-old daughter's love of Lightning Bolt
A Quietus Interview
Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed
Ahead of an appearance at next month's Acid Horse festival, the industrial folk ensemble speak to Claire Biddles about power plant tourism, Home Counties gothic and why they embrace artistic violence (as long as it doesn't occur near the cellist). All photographs by Spela Cedilnik
A Quietus Interview
Like Starting Over: An Interview with Shack
Patrick Clarke meets Peter Wilkinson and brothers Michael and John Head in Liverpool to discuss the surprise return of their much-adored band Shack, processing the death of their drummer, newfound sobriety, and why they've never paid much mind to the misfortune that's plagued their career thus far
Things I Have Learned
Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies on the Joys of Doomscrolling
People say doomscrolling is tearing apart the social fabric – and they're probably right – but, says Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies, it's a problem he's learning to like. Here, he tells us what it's taught him about life and people
Anniversary
I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across A Crowded Room at 40
40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)
Anniversary
In Through the Out Door: Prince’s Around The World In A Day at 40
Four decades since its release, Toby Manning revisits how Prince's oft-overlooked seventh album dared to draw on 60s psychedelia at the height of 80s hippyphobia – producing the most countercultural sounding work of his career
Black Sky Thinking
The City Surreal: How Underground Rap in the 2010s Located Truth in the Bizarre
Liam Inscoe-Jones explores the psychedelia inherent in the music of Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and others, arguing that it reflects the increasingly surreal reality of working class life far more effectively than rock’s outdated cliches
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