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Anniversary
Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths’ Strangeways Here We Come Revisited
The Smiths’ last studio album was their most ambitious, adventurous and experimental, too. Thirty years on, Ben Hewitt looks back on the forward-thinking record that could have been the start of a new chapter, rather than a full-stop
Art
The Power Of The Pathetic: Ragnar Kjartansson And Margrét Bjarnadóttir
Ahead of their collaborative ballet for eight guitar-wielding dancers, artists Ragnar Kjartansson and Margrét Bjarnadóttir talk to Craft/Work about music in space, dancing guitars, and making art in the shadow of Donald Trump
A Quietus Interview
This Saxophone Kills Fascists: Arrington de Dionyso Interviewed
After becoming a target of online trolls from the alt-right's most lunatic fringes, the prolific master of noise and free jazz, Arrington de Dionyso, discusses his response: his visceral, confrontational new project, This Saxophone Kills Fascists
Books
Fracture: How Post-Rock Stopped Dancing
In the early and mid 1990s, says author Jeanette Leech, the language of dance and electronic music was an intrinsic part of post-rock. So why, by the end of that decade, did post-rock lose its groove? Also we have an extract from Jeanette's recent book, Fearless, regarding the bands Tortoise, Bastro and Gastr Del Sol
A Quietus Interview
Ephemeral Now: An Interview With Ipek Gorgun
Ipek Gorgun's solo works are like choreographed chemical reactions on a micro scale or a terraforming planet on a macro scale. Here she reveals how silence, ontology and the physicality of sound influence her rich fusions of ambient and noise. Portrait by Nazli Erdemirel
