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Album of the Week
Luke Turner On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Skeleton Tree
In the sixteenth full-length recording from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Luke Turner finds perhaps their most perfect musical expression of horror, its realism and sense of inevitability overpowering usual tendencies toward the baroque, and a powerful lesson in empathy
Baker's Dozen
Sharp Dressed Fan: Billy Gibbons Of ZZ Top’s Favourite Albums
As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in favour of recent favourites
A Quietus Interview
A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea
Laniakea’s debut album, a collaboration between Grumbling Fur’s Daniel O’Sullivan and Zu’s Massimo Pupillo, is devoted to the artist Ian Johnstone, whose untimely passing also saw the end of the London refuge where the LP was recorded. They tell Russell Cuzner how the life and location the record laments created an ascendant work at once both elegiac and joyous
A Quietus Interview
Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed
Before electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani and fellow Buchla synth enthusiast Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith release their new LP, they tell Danny Riley about nature, synaesthesia and the sensory qualities of Sean Connery's voice
Black Sky Thinking
Underground Tehran: Techno & Experimental Electronic Music In Iran
Mollie Zhang speaks to Ash Koosha, Sote, Hadi Bastani and Siavash Amini about the electronic underground in the Iranian capital, how scenes can be nurtured in a difficult environment, brain raves, and the similarities and differences between Tehran and London
Live Reviews
Liberation Music: Terrie Ex & Thurston Moore Live At Incubate
The spirit of punk rock is not to be found in obscure band T-shirts, screaming distortion, authentic sounding lyrics or pedal boards, argues John Doran. The real fireworks are created by nakedness and a true philosophy of liberation
Music of the Month
The Best New Music You Missed In August, Chosen By The Quietus
In baring our faults for the world to see, we give ourselves a chance to fix them. In that vein, we've collected together the best new music you might have missed in August - and the best of what somehow managed to pass us by
Album of the Week
Richie Troughton On Noura Mint Seymali’s Arbina And Interview
In the Mauritanian artist's latest offering, Richie Troughton finds a record set to question our perceptions from the outset, moulding psychedelia into a tradition of folk music, and takes the opportunity to put some of those questions to the artist herself
Black Sky Thinking
Fabric’s Closure & The Rise Of A New British Puritanism
The news that London nightclub Fabric is to close has stunned the music community. Here, Luke Turner argues that this is another battle lost on Britain's rightwards shift towards a bland, corporate new puritanism of the strange post-Brexit landscape. Photo thanks to the Islington Tribune
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A Quietus Interview
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich On Cocaine, Oasis, Megadeth And That Quietus Incident
In the first of an occasional Quietus series, Lars Ulrich puts himself through the Rumour Mill and answers Joel McIver's questions on cocaine, whether 'St. Anger' was bobbins, and that little reviews hoo ha a few months back.
