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Seven Davis Jr.

Universes

Besombes/Rizet

Pôle (Reissue)

Smersh

Super Heavy Solid Waste (Reissue)

To Dance & Disappear: Lauren Martin On Moscow’s Outline Festival

Lauren Martin heads to the Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant for a weekend of raving that's far from the interchangeable line-ups commonly found at Europe's electronic festivals. Photos thanks to Kieran Behan

Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums

With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime

One Take: A New Grime Column By Tomas Fraser

The Quietus finally has a grime column! In the first instalment, Tomas Fraser witnesses an epic DJ set by Slackk at Peckham's Rye Wax and reviews new tracks from Dark0, the infernally young DeeCee and Ruff Sqwad stalwart Rapid. There's also a look at the imagery of Wot Do You Call It, who provided this photograph of Rapid

Clowwns

The Artful Execution Of Macho Bimbo

Ancient Ocean

Blood Moon

Screature

Four Columns

For Life: An Interview With Kali Uchis

The Colombia-via-Virginia singer's latest release, Por Vida, saw her refining her soul-inflected pop, coloured with the sounds of the past, to its finest iteration yet, aided by Snoop Dogg and a cast of other famous faces. With a debut album proper in the works, she talks to Mof Gimmers

Bardo Pond

Record Store Day Trilogy

For Those Who Rocked: AC/DC Live At Wembley

Julian Marszalek salutes a worthy performance by the veteran hard rock group. But will it be for the last time?

Richard Thompson

Still

FP-Oner

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Tape Adapter: July’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

The Quietus' resident hip-hop columnist gets to grips with Lil Wayne's The Free Weezy Album and the best (and worst) of this month's mixtapes, with offerings from the likes of Boogie and Mane Mane

Evil Acidhead

In The Name Of All That Is Unholy

Never Say Die: Bill Ward Interviewed

Julian Marszalek talks to Bill Ward about his achievements in and out of Black Sabbath. Photographs by Christopher Wagner

Sect Cymbals: Boredoms Live In London

Rahul Desai was 1/88th of the Boredoms' recent temporary cymbal orchestra for a special performance at the Barbican. Photographs courtesy of Mark Allan/Barbican

New Poetry By: Tim MacGabhann

A first on tQ, new writing this week — a poem by Mexico City Lit's Tim MacGabhann — comes in dual-language format: the original English-language version and a Spanish translation by fellow editor María Cristina Fernández Hall

Judas Was A Patsy: Giles Walker Interviewed

Daniel Fraser talks to The Mutoid Waste Co.'s Giles Walker about religious symbolism, confronting death with a sense of humour, and why rejected robots and bird skulls make for great art

EEK feat. Islam Chipsy

Kahraba

Civil Duty

Civil Duty

Various Artists

Better Late Than Never… The Reverb Worship Compilation

Bingo Bastards Break Out: Heads Down With Bad Guys

Ahead of supporting Ten Benson at the Lex on Saturday, Matt Ridout gets serious with East-London's premier metal pranksters

Stronger Than Me: Amy Reviewed

Nadia Attia reports back from a director's Q&A and screening of the new documentary on Amy Winehouse

Let’s Drift: John Maclean’s Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

As his debut feature Slow West hits the cinemas, John Maclean - former Beta Band member turned director - takes time out to reveal his 13 favourite films to The Quietus

Still Growing: Hans-Joachim Irmler And Jaki Liebezeit Interviewed

Ben Graham speaks to Hans-Joachim Irmler of Faust and Jaki Liebezeit of Can on their revivifying sonic partnership. Photographs by Agata Urbaniak

kIRk

III

Africa Endless: Letta Mbulu Interviewed

Clyde Macfarlane speaks to the doyenne of South African soul, Letta Mbulu about the reissue of In The Music The Village Never Ends

Container

LP

The Telescopes

Hidden Fields

Dark Angels: Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem Of SQÜRL Interviewed

Joshua Ford speaks to lauded director and musician Jarmusch, lute master Van Wissem and film producer Carter Logan about collaborative project SQÜRL. All photographs by the author