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Karl Smith On Algiers’ The Underside Of Power

In a record both timely and timeless, Franklin Fisher, Ryan Mahan, Lee Tesche and Matt Tong have tapped into something both immediate and primal. Their most politically-drenched record to-date, The Underside of Power, Karl Smith argues, is also proof of their quality as musicians

The Fabulous, Most Groovy: Director Edgar Wright’s Favourite Albums

With 'Baby Driver' all set to be one of the Summer's biggest hits, director Edgar Wright sits down with the Quietus to choose his 13 favourite albums

Look Blue Go Purple

Still Bewitched

Europe, Endless? On Watching Kraftwerk Live, A Year After Brexit

Almost exactly a year after the UK voted to leave the EU Luke Turner finds the experience of watching Kraftwerk play live has acquired an unexpected melancholy aspect. Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?

Your Guides To Realising Your Purpose On The Planet: The Black Angels Interviewed

The Black Angels take a long, dark trip on their new album Death Song. Guitarist Christian Bland tells Julian Marszalek why psychedelics might help change things for the better, and about being the parents of psychedelia's live revival

Complete Communion: Stewart Smith Reviews Jazz For June

Stewart Smith brings you reviews of all of this month's best jazz releases including LPs by William Parker Quartets, Lol Coxhill, Tomeka Reid and Here In Now

Mighty Mighty Boosh Tones: Julian Barratt’s Favourite LPs

As Julian Barratt releases 'You Can't Handcuff The Wind', a single by alter-ego Richard Thorncroft, he guides Adrian Lobb through 13 favourite albums, from Miles Davis to Zappa, Fela Kuti and the soundtracks of the Wicker Man and more

Perennial Quest: Chuck Schuldiner’s Genius & Death’s Scream Bloody Gore

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin celebrates the 30th anniversary of Scream Bloody Gore and the astounding legacy of Chuck Schuldiner and Death

A Love Like That: Vince & Andy Of Erasure On Vince & Andy Of Erasure

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde this weekend and next year's mammoth UK tour, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell open up to Luke Turner about the history of the wonderful synth duo... and each other.

Faith No More’s Angel Dust & The Art Of Following Up A Phenomenon

Jeremy Allen looks back 25 years to Faith No More's Angel Dust and finds a band devising strategies to deal with their phenomenal and unexpected success

Bow Selector: The Full Story Of Factory Classical

Ahead of Manchester International Festival's Tony Wilson and Factory Records remembrance event on July 10, Stuart Huggett takes a retrospective look at every album released by Factory Records’ classical music imprint, including new interviews with key players in its story

Spiritualized: From Serene Restraint To Deranged Maximalism In Five Years

In the five years from the release of Lazer Guided Melodies in 1992, Spiritualized journeyed to the outer limits with Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space. David Bennun traces their journey

1 Thing: June’s R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

In her latest R&B column, Tara Joshi considers the refreshing candour of SZA’s long-awaited debut album as well as the last two months of releases

Radicalism Comes From Content: Steven Parrino In Dallas

In an abandoned warehouse in Dallas, Adam Lehrer re-examines the legacy of punk rock artist Steven Parrino

Jamaica Is A Visceral Place: An Interview With Ivar Wigan

Miguel Cullen talks to photographer Ivar Wigan about streetlife in Jamaica and pool parties with Elephant Man

Behold! A Comics Round Up For June

With an immensely strong line up of British and North American releases, it’s June’s round up of comics from Pete Redrup & Jenny Robins

Walking To Nowhere: Alan Clarke’s Christine

In the final piece of our tour through the works of Alan Clarke, David Hering looks back at the director's unflinching and hypnotic junkie odyssey Christine

A Macabre Release: An Interview With SPQR

With an exclusive premiere of their new single 'Suffer', Patrick Clarke meets with rising Liverpool three-piece SPQR to talk rehearsing in a vet's, cutting up dead bodies for a living, and channeling the macabre on stage

Karl Smith On Siavash Amini’s TAR

Having taken the slightest of left turns, adding bleak and sheering noise to familiar ambient fields, Siavash Amini's latest record is a timely exploration of our self-inflicted wounds as a species – and their failure to heal

Screaming Hedges: An Interview With Snapped Ankles

Ahead of their set as part of a stellar Supersonic line-up this weekend, we catch up with East London's finest woodfolk to talk Star Trek, frightening people, and being 'hung like the election'

Royal Trux

Platinum Tips + Ice Cream

Vieux Farka Touré

Samba

Youthful Urgency: Lanark Artefax Interviewed

With a new record just released via Nic Tasker's unstoppable Whities label, Lanark Artefax talks sneaking into Glasgow clubs underage, 'IDM' and why he prefers making music outside of traditional electronic music structures

Junk Shop Classical On Schubert: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record

For his second column on a single classical record bought for a quid in a charity shop, Phil Hebblethwaite unpicks a devastating twofer – the Alban Berg Quartett playing a pair of late Schubert pieces in which this most cultish of composers dares to contemplate his sentence of death by sexually transmitted disease

As Simple As Fun: Beth Ditto’s Baker’s Dozen

As she releases new solo album Fake Sugar, Beth Ditto swears & enthuses about 13 favourite records to Louise Brown, taking in the filth of Lil' Kim to David Bowie and the queer punk of Buzzcocks via Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill

Graphic Adventures Of The Epic & Banal Kind: An Interview With Steve Tillotson

After the publication of his first full length graphic novel with Avery Hill, Steve Tillotson talks to Jenny Robins, and reflects on the journey of a creative through collaboration, disillusionment, perseverance and lashings of deadpan surreal humour

Chilled Out: An Interview With Alt-J

John Freeman meets the band tQ once described as “laughably vanilla” to discuss their excellent third album Relaxer, find out why they turned down a chance to work with Gary Lineker and to reveal the mysterious condition of 'tour toes'

Ride

Weather Diaries

Warped Bliss: The Quietus At Field Day 2017

Heralding the start of the UK's 2017 festival season - and what a promising start it was too with the sun shining for most of the day - Thomas Hobbs, Patrick Clarke, Aurora Mitchell, Tara Joshi, Anna Wood and Christian Eede report back on what this year's edition of the festival had to offer. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini unless stated)

Witch Hunts, Resurgence and Defiance: Heavy Metal In The Middle East

Twenty years on from the arrests of 100 Egyptian metal fans, across a series of interviews across the Middle East Patrick Clarke speaks to metal musicians about their defiance to keep the genre thriving, despite risks of imprisonment, torture, and in some cases, execution.

Diasporic Fuzz: An Interview With Here Lies Man

With the debut LP a woozy wall of Afrobeat inspired fuzzbox riff worship and pounding circular rhythmic power, Here Lies Man connect the stoner rock underground straight to downtown Lagos. Harry Sword talks 1970’s New York Latin radio, punk rock and the glory of Fela Kuti with Marcos Garcia

Paper Tigers: Art, Politics, And The Pamphlet

Cathy Wade gets a politically-charged haircut at Radar Projects' For and Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet in Loughborough