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Sherlock And The Adventure Of The Declining Standards

Season Four of Sherlock is a relentless fan disservice that holds its audience in contempt, says John Tatlock. WARNING: enormous spoilers throughout

The Sine That Celebrates Itself: On Electronic Shoegaze

Ben Cardew revisits the fertile but short-lived shoegaze/electronic music crossover that gave us Seefeel and (eventually) M83 and Ulrich Schnauss

Remembering Mark Fisher By David Stubbs

David Stubbs looks back over the life of theorist Mark Fisher. And below that, for those wanting to know more about Mark's work, we have a previously unpublished interview between him and Agata Pyzik conducted in 2010

Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On

In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present

Between The Human And The Animal: Gee Vaucher At Firstsite

Rebecca Binns reviews Gee Vaucher's exhibition, Introspective, at Firstsite, Colchester

A Crisis Of Faith: Robert Bright On Martin Scorsese’s Silence

Robert Bright takes an in-depth look at Scorsese's latest, Silence, examining its historical context as well as previous attempts to dramatise the suppresion of 17th century Japanese Christianity

Flesh Under Coercion: An Interview With Roger Hiorns

With a new show of his work on display at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery, Cathy Wade talks to artist Roger Hiorns about growing up in Birmingham and burying an aeroplane

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An Oral History Of Arthur Russell’s Tower of Meaning

Musicians from New York’s downtown scene remember their time with Russell ahead of the UK premiere of his 1983 orchestral masterpiece Tower of Meaning. Words by Emily Moore

Luke Turner On The xx’s I See You

In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ubiquity – a record more about treading old ground with heavy boots than the light touch their debut promised

Fourth Nation: Rabih Beaini At Novas Frequencias

After a week at Novas Frequencias festival in Rio, Tara Joshi considers cultural intersections and Lebanese artist Rabih Beaini

An Order Of Crisis: J.G. Biberkopf Interviewed

Taking in science fiction and science fact, Karl Smith speaks to the Lithuanian producer, one of SHAPE Platform's selected artists for 2017, about false distinctions between the digital and natural words and the cyclical homogenisation of art

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Lifting A Veil: Kurt Wagner Of Lambchop’s Favourite British LPs

Reflecting at length upon his intimate relationship with British music from his office in Nashville, Tennessee, the alt-country veteran at the heart of Lambchop discusses freedom, interpretation and the lasting effect on him of 1970s Sheffield with Luke Cartledge

Robocobra Quartet

Music For All Occasions

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Space Is The Place: An Interview With Yui Onodera

Yui Onodera’s music has the power to transform your listening space using insights the Tokyo-based composer gained from studying architectural design. With new pieces featured on the latest instalment in Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series, we discuss acoustics, ambient music and audio technology

40 Years On: David Bowie’s Low Revisited

Low - how deep can you go? asks William Doyle of one of Bowie's most revered albums as it turns 40

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

Sex Swing

Sex Swing

Mark Fisher On Kubrick, Tarkovsky & Nolan: An Extract From The Weird And The Eerie

Read an extract from Mark Fisher's new book The Weird And The Eerie, where he gets to grips with 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar

Cast Off Thy Smartphone & Be Healed: Debunking The Digital Detox

It's that time of year when all sorts of snake oil salespeople fill our lives with guilt and shame with diet plans, dry January and, most recently, the idea of a digital detox. David Bennun stares gleefully into a glowing screen to tell them what for

The Heart Of The Original: John Higgs On Alistair Fruish’s The Sentence

In Alistair Fruish's groundbreaking one-sentence novel, author John Higgs finds – rather than the cold work of a computerised neural network one might be expecting – a piece of work that is testament to, both, the future of artistic originality and the human element of those works

Blurred Boundaries, Toppled Monuments: The Hepworth Sculpture Prize

Craft/Work's Sam Gregory casts his vote for the People's Choice award at the Hepworth Sculpture Prize exhibition

Why The Problems With Philip Anschutz Go Beyond Coachella

Philip Anschutz, an ultra-conservative multi-billionaire, is making a fortune on counterculture via the tours and festivals he promotes. The profits indirectly benefit some grim causes - but what can we do against it, asks Joost Heijthuijsen

Before And After John Berger: Remembering The Great Storyteller

Recalling the great critic, painter, and poet John Berger, who died on 2 January

Visceral Matters: Director Richard Kelly On Donnie Darko

Following it's reissue from Arrow, the director of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, talks to Ian Schultz about 80s nostalgia, fan interpretation and whatever happened to Gretchen's mom.

CIGARETTES ON THE NHS, By Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond has got in touch with tQ to send over a new essay and two more 60 Second Films. He advises that The Neutrality Of This Article Is Disputed. Photograph by Tracey Moberly

Andrew Lindsay-Diaz On Brian Eno’s Reflection

In Brian Eno's latest foray into ambient music – a generative piece of, quite literally, endless possibility – Andrew Lindsay-Diaz finds an answer to cynical critics of the genre, and a piece of work very much right for the present moment

Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music Of 2016

Christian Eede looks back over 2016 in electronic music with a round-up of some of the releases and mixes that he missed the chance to feature previously, as well as a summary of the record labels that stood out most

The Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2016

For the final of our year-end lists, we round up the best tracks of 2016 with a Baker's Dozen selected by John Doran, Luke Turner, Karl Smith and Christian Eede, as well as lists from our contributors

Behold! December’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With best-of lists and new releases, it’s December’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & the Quietus comics team