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Books
Southern Ohio Gothic: An Interview With Donald Ray Pollock
Speaking to the author of The Heavenly Table about empathy with darkness, dead presidents and grotesquery, Sean Kitching finds a writer in possession of both a confident, unique - even defiant - sense of voice and serial doubts about his own success.
Music of the Month
The Best New Music You Missed In September, Chosen By The Quietus
It's that time again. The month is over, things are beginning once more, and The Quietus is here to redress any imbalance it may have helped create. Bringing together the best music we reviewed in September, and the best of what we didn't, we present our 12-times yearly attempt at cosmic realignment
Album of the Week
Ben Cardew On DVA [Hi:Emotions]’ NOTU_URONLINEU
In the latest incarnation of DVA, a veritable Janus of culture, Ben Cardew finds a record out on its own, confounding as it is rewarding, weaving a complex sonic atmosphere framed by anxiety — at odds with categorisation but very much in line with reality
Rum Music
Out With The Old Withholds The New: Rum Music By Russell Cuzner
Russell Cuzner surrenders to the vast repository of all sound, where he finds artists using old doors to arrive in new worlds. Follow him on a journey that takes in Thomas Brinkmann’s genetically-modified piano, Æthenor’s automatic odyssey, Delphine Dora’s avant-occultism, Lustmord’s deep space devotion and diverse other encounters in Rum sounds from outwith
A Quietus Interview
“Mostly Naked People Dancing & Having Sex” Eddy De Clercq Interviewed
Legendary label owner, publisher, club owner and organiser of louche parties, Eddy de Clercq talks to the Quietus about his book and his new tape release, De Koer 1981... and about a life spent shaping Europe and Amsterdam’s club scene
