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She Sleeps, She Sleeps

Full Clip: January’s Hip Hop Albums & Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Combining his Tape Adapter mixtape round-up with his album roundup for the first time ever, Gary Suarez comes through with a supersized new column stuffed with highly caloric rap reviews

Dark Jester: The Strange World Of… Ulver

Cult experimental Norwegian rock band Ulver have just released the largely improvised live album ATGCLVLSSCAP. Josh Gray picks the brains of band leader Kristoffer Rygg in an attempt to trace their ever-changing and incomparable evolution

Cultural Capital: Can London Afford To Price Out Its Artists?

At the London Art Fair, a panel discussion between artist Emma Hart, curator Daniel Herrmann, gallerist Fabio Altamura, critic Ben Luka, and the GLA’s Kirsten Dunne asks how artists can afford to go on living in country’s capital

Your Letter Is Only The Start Of It: Jim’ll Paint It For You

Ever laughed at finely honed Paint images of Ian Botham battling Storm Troopers or Andrew Marr bursting, be-ribboned from a layer cake? You’ve probably encountered the work of Jim’ll Paint It, the artist for whom no commission is too strange

Roly Porter

Third Law

Rigour And Play: Laurie Anderson’s Favourite Films

On a recent visit to London the performance artist, director and musician took time out to talk about her 13 favourite films with Mat Colegate

Vague Terrains: Rockfort On In Paradisum & Françoise Hardy

David McKenna unpacks In Paradisum’s new ‘French Industrial’ series, the debut album from rapper KillASon and Françoise Hardy reissues

The Lead Review: Luke Turner On Suede’s Night Thoughts

"Everything is always going to be with a sense of drama." Brett Anderson's swapped crack for nappies, but the uncynical passion of years gone by is still present, argues Luke Turner. But is this the best Suede album yet?

Silence Is Easy: Fat White Family Interviewed

Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family talks to Anna Wood about monsters of the past, how to lower expectations, chances of a socialist future and learning to revel in misery

The Duke St Workshop

Tales Of H.P. Lovecraft

You Got Soul: Norman Jay’s Favourite Singles

After releasing his latest Good Times compilation last year, the DJ talks Yousif Nur through the early musical experiences that shaped his taste, from northern soul nights to crate-digging for 7"s, in picking his top 13 records

Reverse Engineering: Danny Hyde On Coil, Backwards & NIN

Two decades after Coil finally finished tinkering with tracks, Backwards has finally been release. Russell Cuzner talks to Danny Hyde, the band’s engineer, co-producer, co-writer and programmer about this 'lost' album and the Nine Inch Nails’ material, released last year as Recoiled. Contains NSFW video imagery

Dark Actors

Extraordinary Renditions EP

Now The Workers Have Struck For Fame – David Bowie As Political Figure

In the wake of David Bowie's death, some have rushed to 'expose' the 'problematic' nature of some of his political views and aesthetics. But, argues Agata Pyzik, the true picture was far more complex and nuanced

Where The Magic Happens: Baaba Maal Interviewed

Kevin E G Perry travels to Senegal to meet the man who is treated more like a prophet than a musician by his fellow countrymen. Festival pictures by Julian Hickman

End Days Intensity: The Comet Is Coming Interviewed

Groovy cosmic trio and one of the Quietus' favourite new bands The Comet Is Coming talk to Tristan Bath about recording their debut Prophecy EP, dancing as a form of worship and their crystal of cosmic power

Jeb Loy Nichols

Ya Smell Me?

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

Winter’s truly come, and it dominates the year’s first Spool’s Out with icy ambience, washed out synths, and saxophone abuse

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Charting the destruction of a family, an individual, a whole lot of rubbish and the moral fabric of society — Pete Redrup & co. bring you another month in comics

Pretty Messy, Fairly Trashed: Paul Hawkins Interviewed

London author Tony White interviews poet Paul Hawkins about PLACE WASTE DISSENT, his fascinating and visually striking new book of poetry collage documenting the squat culture and M11 protests of the early 1990s

Live Cinema: Guy Sherwin And Lynn Loo At The David Roberts Art Foundation

Agnieszka Gratza heads to Camden to discover the flickering, amber-lit world of artists Guy Sherwin and Lynn Loo

The Sound Of Breaking Glass: The Revenant Reviewed

Tim Cooke has a devastating encounter with Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant, which is out in cinemas today

Haikai No Ku

Temporary Infinity

The Lead Review: Lee Arizuno On Fat White Family’s Songs For Our Mothers

"There's a lot to be said for saying the wrong thing." With today's release of Songs For Our Mothers, the awaited follow up to Fat White Family's 2013 debut Champagne Holocaust, Lee Arizuno takes his tolerance to the limit

X.Y.R.

Mental Journey To B.C.

Simon Bookish

Red And Blue EP

Time May Change Me: David Bowie, Blackstar & Mortality, by Chris Roberts

He was born David Jones but he died David Bowie and by the end the transformation was complete. Chris Roberts reflects on heaven, hell and mortality in forty years of Bowie magick

Belfast Eurovision: An Interview With Girls Names

Ahead of their tour, John Freeman catches up with Belfast's Girls Names to find out how their recent career-high album, Arms Around A Vision, was honed in Northern Ireland and inspired by the romance of European cities

Deux Filles

Space & Time

Poetical Universe: Fernando Perales On The Argentine Avant-Garde

The prolific musician looks over his career with Robert Barry, moving from playing with arch-experimentalists Reynols to making solo noise improvisations, and sidestepping a lawsuit from Hollywood on the way

Gimme Your Hands: Musicians & tQ Writers Pay Tribute To Bowie

Quietus writers and musicians Stephen Morris, Gazelle Twin, Tim Burgess, Simon Fisher Turner, Graham Lewis and Jim Fry pay tribute to the late David Bowie in personal recollections of how he changed their lives