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Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

New year, new releases – with offerings from the usual publishing suspects and beyond – it’s January’s round-up of the best new comics on the market from Pete Redrup & co.

Irma Vep

No Handshake Blues

Joseph Burnett On Emptyset’s Borders

In James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas' latest musical outing as Emptyset – an unsettling, dark and unrelenting piece of work – Joseph Burnett finds cause to question whether metal has ceded some of its traditional ground to electronic music

Getting The Mask On: The Black Madonna Interviewed

In the often apolitical world of house and techno, stellar DJ/producer/booker The Black Madonna is fearless when it comes to voicing her beliefs. Manu Ekanayake sat down with her to talk race, gender, disco and house, Trump and the Ghost Ship fire

Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche

Pas Pire Pop (I ♥︎ You So Much)

Killing It In America: An Interview With Uniform

With their second album of industrial noise punk metal fury out now, Noel Gardner talks downward spirals, overloaded drum machines and pulp fiction with NYC duo Uniform

Understand The Feeling: Fenriz Of Darkthrone’s Favourite House Records

As well as being the core of black metal masters Darkthrone, Fenriz is a massive house head and regular DJ. Here, he guides us through the 13 records that are never out of his crate

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Iris

Hyper Edited Fragments: Jan Nemeček interviewed

Tristan Bath meets multifaceted Serbian electronic musician Jan Nemeček at Elevate Festival to talk about techno, minimalism, Yugoslavian acid rock, and the ongoing transformations of Belgrade’s music scene

The Rise Of Fear & The Strange Death Of The UFO

UFOs were once at the heart of popular culture and science fiction, with even an American president claiming he'd had a strange encounter. Jeremy Allen looks at the strange decline of the little green men, asking if it's a symptom of our troubled age

An Ommadawn Chorus: Mike Oldfield’s Favourite Albums

As Mike Oldfield releases new album Return To Ommadawn he guides Gary Kaill through 13 albums that he listened to before he began making music - after which he never listened to much music at all

The System Drives You: An Interview With Emptyset

Having made music using entire buildings and the ionosphere, Emptyset speak to Tristan Bath about going back to basics and inserting themselves back into their music on new album Borders

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For January

Tristan Bath returns to sift through the month’s best cassette releases, including a new solo EP by Samara Lubelski, some banging techno from Budapest and the latest stellar release from Anji Cheung

‘We Have To Invent The Future’: An Unseen Interview With Mark Fisher

Tim Burrows sat down with Mark Fisher and the poet Sam Berkson in 2012, to talk celebrity culture, transport, the uses of boredom and the future of public space

Self-Portrait With Skull: Inside Andy Warhol’s Artist Rooms

Anthony d’Offay's roving exhibition of Artist Rooms comes to Manchester's Whitworth, with a show dedicated to pop artist Andy Warhol

First Cut Is The Deepest: Thelma Schoonmaker Talks Scorsese And Silence

With Scorsese's Silence out in cinema's now, Ian Schultz interviews Thelma Schoonmaker, the great director's long-term editor and collaborator

Artist Run: Peeking Into The Arrow Factory

An interview with Wei Wang and Rania Ho about their tiny store-front gallery space in the heart of Beijing's labyrinth of narrow alleys and walkways

Kafka For President: 80 Years of The Trial

On the 80th anniversary of its first English translation, Brian Coney examines the parallels between Kafka’s essential work of philosophical fiction and the continued rise of global despotism. (Photograph by David Fenton)

Silvia Kastel

Bibula Harena

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Feed The Rats

Omar Rodríguez-López

Ipecac 7 – 12

Jeremy Allen On Mick Harvey’s Intoxicated Women

In the fourth (and supposedly final) instalment of Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums, Jeremy Allen finds a fitting culmination to an unprecedented 22 years of dedication to the deceased French icon – not just a satisfying end, but a promising jumping off point, too

‘Snake Hits: Frank Carter’s Favourite Albums

Frank Carter of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes is one of the nicest men in all rock - here he sits down with Patrick Clarke to discuss the music that has shaped his life

A Cut Above: Linder Sterling On Art & Ludus

Richard Foster conducts an extensive interview on collage, carpets, punk, feminism, ballet and the insidiousness of The Great British Bake Off, with Linder Sterling: the groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist and founder member of legendary post-punks, Ludus. ****Some of the imagery in this article may be considered NSFW****

Hip To Be²: Talking To Hull’s Electronica Collective SquareWaves

Since 2014, Hull’s SquareWaves collective have been producing some of the city’s most exciting electronic music. This spring, they join Surgeon, Kiran Sande, and Factory Floor’ Nik Void to laud the legacy of Coum Transmissions at Hull’s City of Culture celebrations

Free Salamander Exhibit

Undestroyed

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