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Spools Out: The Best Of November’s Tapes Reviewed
It’s the penultimate Spool’s Out of a tumultuous year, and the cassette tape underground shows no signs of slowing down. Belgian Stoner Rock, imaginary SNES and Czech TV soundtracks, techno noise from Poland, and droney modular synths from none other than Surgeon himself keep our master of tapes Tristan Bath in a good mood. Anthony Child photographed by Cathrin Queins
Album of the Week
Jeremy Allen On Justice’s Woman
In the French electronic duo's third album, Jeremy Allen finds not only a a work that sets right any misstep that may have occurred between 2007's † and the present day, but also a potent commingling of their anachronistic mechanical workings with a touch of the human hand, reaching out
Baker's Dozen
Thirsty For Song: James Johnston Of Gallon Drunk’s Favourite LPs
As well as being the lynchpin of suited rock howlers Gallon Drunk, James Johnston has played with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey - but we're not going to hold the fact that he's picked both of them for his Baker's Dozen against him. Portrait by Steve Gullick.
A Quietus Interview
No Note Wasted: Tyler Damon And Tashi Dorji Interviewed
Following the release of their new LP Both Will Escape, Tyler Damon and Tashi Dorji talk with Elizabeth Newton about contemporary currents of free improvisation, resistance to dogma, and finding inspiration in unexpected places
Black Sky Thinking
Leonard Cohen Was Right: Songs & Years Of Wisdom Examined
Quietus writers Tom Hawking, Kate Hennessy, Julian Marszalek, Erin Lyndal Martin, Akira The Don, Chris Roberts, Cian Traynor and Luke Turner examine the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, and the truths both universal and personal that they carry. Thanks to Chris Carter for permission to use the image of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in his Leonard Cohen jacket. First published in 2014
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