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Spiritual Intensity: Idris Ackamoor Interviewed

Ahead of his appearance at Amsterdam's Dekmantel Festival in August, we speak to Idris Ackamoor about studying under Cecil Taylor, the history of The Pyramids and the group's legacy

What Kind Of Party Doesn’t Have A DJ? On Politics & Grime

Grime's enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn has been one of the oddest moments of an already strange general election campaign. But, argues Jeffrey Boakye, perhaps the two worlds of politics and the music of London's streets aren't so different after all

Three Decades On: One Thousand Years Of Trouble By Age Of Chance

Angus Batey revisits an unfairly overlooked album in the history of cut and paste music

House Of Cards Season 5 Reviewed By John Tatlock

House Of Cards Season 5, presents an oddly comforting vision of a White House with no bigger problems than a complete lack of morality, says John Tatlock. CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS

The Gallows Pole By Benjamin Myers: A Playlist

With his alternative history of the North out in shops now, author Ben Myers puts together a sonic accompaniment for the dark and sprawling wilderness he has conjured and reflected in The Gallows Pole

We Can Build You: The Handyman Aesthetic of Keef Winter

The Handyman aesthetic of Keef Winter marries sculpture to performance, environmental psychology to urbanism, architecture, and fine art

Here Time Becomes Space: From Jeremiah Day To John Latham

Jeremiah Day's performances draw on Hannar Arendt and the events of Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Arcade Gallery's show Even Dust Can Burst Into Flames puts Day alongside Anna Barham, Kit Craig, and John Latham

Mud And Flame: Penda’s Fen re-examined

In an piece exclusive to The Quietus, and continuing our series of articles examining the works of director Alan Clarke, Matthew Harle and James Machin examine one of Clarke's most eccentric works, the psychogeographical fantasia, Penda's Fen

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Impassable Fears

From Richard Dawson To Alice Coltrane: May’s Best New Music

As a year replete with glorious new LPs hurtles forth, here's the best music you may have missed in the last month

Turtle-y Tropical: The Red Turtle Reviewed

Matthew Conn reviews the first ever non-Japanese Studio Ghibli production, Michael Dudok De Witt's The Red Turtle

Saint Etienne

Home Counties

Danny Riley On Richard Dawson’s Peasant

In Peasant, the notoriously difficult eight album from Richard Dawson, Danny Riley finds a work reclaiming meaning of words like "folk" and "community," a complex parable and a force for unification in divisive times

Old Soul: XamVolo Interviewed

Patrick Clarke catches up with the formidable rising master of neo-soul to talk ambition, legitimacy and his mammoth new conceptual project - his debut LP.

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Pete Paphides On David Bowie’s Debut LP

Fifty years ago today, David Bowie released his debut album on the same day The Beatles gave the world Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pete Paphides reflects on their shared cultural history and canny grasp of the times

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No Shape

The Strange World Of… Momus

Taboo-shattering pop introvert Momus takes Ed Power on a guided tour of his unique and unpredictable adventures in music

Soul Soothers: Suzanne Ciani’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of her appearance at the environmentally sustainable electronic music festival Terraforma, Suzanne Ciani talks Jude Rogers through her favourite 13 albums, from Roxy Music to Pavarotti via Terry Riley and Eva Cassidy, Carole King and Penderecki

Why A Punk Fest Celebrating People Of Colour Is Needed In 2017

The history of punk is filled with genre-defying people of colour who have created new ways of approaching music, but they rarely get their fair due. This must change, argues Stephanie Phillips. Photo by Elise Rose

DJ Windows 98 Live: Arcade Fire’s Win Butler & Haiti

Arcade Fire's Win Butler promised Reflektor would sound like a mix of "Studio 54 and Haitian Vodou," prompting calls of cultural appropriation. Now, he co-owns a Haitian restaurant and fuses American pop and Haitian konpa as DJ Windows 98. Haitian music nerd David Henderson traces Butler's Haiti obsession back to its source

Full Clip: May’s Hip Hop Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Does the old school disdain for Lil Yachty really matter? Tara Joshi considers the Atlanta teen king’s debut, alongside the last two months of releases

Data Body Politic: Dot.Art At Vivid Projects

Craft/Work checks out works by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Heath Bunting, MTAA, Rafaël Rozendaal, Critical Art Ensemble, Lorna Mills, and Ryder Ripps at Vivid Projects' Dot.Art group show

The Eyes Have It: Katja Novitskova In Venice

Katja Novitskova takes over the Estonian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

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Rocket

Why Morrissey Is Dead To Me, By Gene’s Martin Rossiter

Morrissey was an inspiration to Martin Rossiter, whose band Gene share many fans with the former Smith. But after years of right wing blethering from Moz, Martin has had enough

Alice Coltrane

The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

Easelhead: David Lynch: The Art Life Reviewed

Nadia Attia reviews a biography of David Lynch as oblique and questioning as the work of the man himself

Fancy A Jump?: 30 Years Of Rita Sue And Bob Too!

Novelist Adelle Stripe re-appraises writer Andrea Dunbar and director Alan Clarke's masterpiece

Best Supporting Actor: Steve Van Zandt Interviewed By Michael Hann

He's Silvio in the Sopranos, Bruce Springsteen's righthand man, now Steve Van Zandt has put out his first solo album in 18 years. He talks to Michael Hann about taking gyms on tour, the Boss, and why musicians should be more grateful to major labels

“I Prefer Their Later Work”: 40 Brilliant Albums At The End Of Artists’ Careers

Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.

Radiophonic Workshop

Burials In Several Earths

Low End Frequencies: Parris Interviewed

Ahead of his first release with the Hemlock label, London-born producer Parris talks to Christian Eede about the power of low end bass frequencies, minimalism and his progression from formative nights spent at club night FWD>> eight years ago. Photo courtesy of Hemlock