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Daphne Oram & More In This Month’s Tape Reviews Column

This month Tristan Bath delves into the past with a review of a new cassette of undiscovered work by Daphne Oram, new music from former Medicine man Brad Laner, returning London psych group Lasers From Atlantis, footwork from DJ Fullton, strange Japanese synth project mus.hiba and electronics from Petrels

Various Artists

Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul

Various Artists

Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton

Something To Give Yourself To: An Interview With Piano Wire

After the curtain fell on The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's second act, that band's Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial began writing songs together. They tell Jeremy Allen about the innate weirdness of their brand of pop music and why Piano Wire are TEMBD's "spiritual heir"

The Fall

Sub-Lingual Tablet

The Body Poetic: An Interview With Luna Miguel

Emily Berry speaks to Spanish poet, editor and journalist Luna Miguel - via a translation by Electric Cereal editor Luis Silva - about the personal significance of mermaids and tattoos, life, death, community, why inspiration is like orgasm, and guts of both the metaphorical and literal sorts. (Photograph by Laura Rosal)

Goldsmith, Place & What Gringpo Means For Your Reading

Tim MacGabhann, Mariana Rodríguez and John Z. Komurki — Editors of Mexico City Lit — consider racial and gender exclusivity, cultural appropriation and erasure in the light of Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Body of Michael Brown', Vanessa Place's Mammy-toting twitter feed and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo

Short Fiction By: Richard Owain Roberts

Short fiction from Richard Owain Roberts' new, Parthian-published book — All The Places We Lived — provides this week's instalment of new writing on tQ

Cold Bathory: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Reviewed

Mat Colegate sinks his teeth into Ana Lily Amirpour's Iranian vampire western, but does it suck? Or can you 'Count' on it being great?

Potential Fulfilled: The Great Escape 2015 Reviewed

The Brighton festival celebrated ten years of service with an ace selection of newcomers, welcome returners and a few choice oldies. Stuart Huggett and Laurie Tuffrey round up the highlights from the three-dayer

Grasscut

Everyone Was A Bird

Cio D’Or

All In All

William Basinski

Cascade/The Deluge

Busby Berzerk-ly: Tokyo Tribe Reviewed

Cormac O'Brien takes a look at Sion Sono's bonkers sci-fi hip-hop musical, Tokyo Tribe (contains slight spoilers)

Peder Mannerfelt

The Swedish Congo Record

Full Clip: May’s Hip-Hop Albums Reviewed by Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez reviews all the hip-hop albums that are fit to hear and ponders a possible second act in the life of Snoop Dogg

The Pre New

The Male Eunuch

Blanck Mass

Dumb Flesh

Young Hearts, Run Free: On Camp & Australia’s Eurovision Entry

For a country forever stuck in the shadow of Crocodile Dundee but with an abiding love of ABBA, Australia's entry into the Eurovision spectacle allows it to lay bare its camp beating heart, says Alan Weedon

Winners’ Music: Daniel Patrick Quinn’s Favourite Albums

Island-dwelling outsider musician and One More Grain brain Daniel Patrick Quinn tells us about his 13 favourite albums from Suede to Fela Kuti, Nico to Robert Wyatt and Gamelan to ELO, plus the sound of a snipe drumming, and wonders whether he'd have sexual feelings for Jeff Lynne were he a woman.

Paradise Lost

The Plague Within

In Transit: An Interview With Danielle de Picciotto

The prolific musician, artist, film-maker, author and co-founder of the Berlin Love Parade has recently released her debut solo album, Tacoma. She tells Sand Avidar how the nomadic lifestyle she shares with husband Alexander Hacke and a return to her hometown shaped the record

From Nowhere To Everywhere: Ride Interviewed

As Ride prepare to headline The Quietus' main stage at Field Day 2015 they talk to Joe Clay about all that's transpired since they decided to reform

Róisín Murphy

Hairless Toys

Low Jack

Sewing Machine

A Fine Blend: The Quietus Writers’ Favourite DJ Mix Albums

Following yesterday's celebration of Coldcut's illustrious mix album 70 Minutes Of Madness, tQ writers have contributed a selection of their favourite DJ mixes, taking in sets from Surgeon, Carl Craig, Shackleton, Grouper, Perc and many more

Tal National

Zoy Zoy

Punch In The Corinthians: Why Simon Pegg Is Wrong About Geek Culture

Simon Pegg says that he wants to become a 'serious' actor and leave sci-fi behind. Mat Colegate takes him to task for parroting the tired old argument that geeks are infantile creature who refuse to leave their childhoods behind

Highly Radiogenic: Langham Research Centre Interviewed

A quartet of BBC radio producers and broadcasters have taken up the mantle of the Radiophonic Workshop and set about performing classic works of musique concrète. They tell Robert Barry how vintage equipment, Daphne Oram and an encounter with John Cage all played their role

New Colour: Coldcut’s Journeys By DJ – 70 Minutes of Madness

Joe Clay speaks to the members of Coldcut to discuss their landmark DJ mix album 70 Minutes Of Madness... or, as Jon More has it "It’s a drunken man’s stagger home"

It’s Noel’s Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

Noel Gardner's punk and hardcore reviews column returns with some thoughts on music's eternal obsession with youth and write-ups of new releases from Poison Idea, Terveet Kädet, YDI, Violent Reaction, Hard Left, Sheer Mag, Christi, The Coneheads and Foot Hair

Fuck The Police: A Musical Sentiment From NWA To Ferguson

With police violence against African Americans once more dominating the news, Paul Rekret goes back to NWA's 'Fuck The Police' for an analysis of rap's musical counter attack