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Hyper-Personal: Holly Herndon Interviewed

As Holly Herndon releases her second album proper, Platform, Christian Eede speaks to her about drawing on personal experiences and why collaboration is important to offering an optimistic alternative to cynicism. All photographs by Al Overdrive

Two Poems By: Sarah Jean Alexander

Two poems by Shabby Doll House co-editor and author of Big Lucks-published Wildlives, Sarah Jean Alexander, make up this week's edition of new writing on tQ

23 Skidoo

Beyond Time

Ceremony Of Gathering: Félicia Atkinson & Chicaloyoh Interviewed

David McKenna talks to two artists from the French label and publishing house, founder Félicia Atkinson and Alice Dourlen, aka Chicaloyoh, about their new releases, taking influence from Edgar Allan Poe and Georges Bataille and why they are "too weird for most people"

To Glimpse The Cleansing Flame: Mat Colegate On Magma Live

Broken by the General Election result, Mat Colegate went to see Magma at London's Cadogan Hall and finds his soul lifted by their "essential spark of lawless weirdness"

Skipping Fandango: Henry Blacker Interviewed

Before they support John Doran on his Jolly Lad book tour, the West Country noise merchants' guitarist Tim Farthing talks to Matt Ridout about PJ Harvey, ZZ Top and middle-aged misanthropy

Sing For Silenced Voices: Eurovision 2015 & The Armenian Genocide

On the centenary of the genocide that scattered them across the globe, members of the Armenian diaspora have united for the country's Eurovision Song Contest entry. With perpetrators Turkey refusing to accept responsibility (with the support of the UK and US), Alex Robert Ross argues that this political moment is timely

Various Artists

Jon Savage's Secret History Of Second Wave Psychedelia 1988-93

Thee Oh Sees

Mutilator Defeated At Last

Fotheringay

Nothing More: The Collected Fotheringay

Mbongwana Star

From Kinshasa

Cinematic Quality: Blanck Mass’ Favourite Albums

He's just released his second solo album, Dumb Flesh, and is set to play tQ's stage at The Great Escape on Friday. Before that, the Fuck Buttons man gives James Benge the rundown of his top 13 records

Bérangère Maximin

Dangerous Orbits

Ruffled Feather Music: PC Music & More In This Month’s Panpopticon

Amy Pettifer returns with her new pop column that this month takes a dizzying sprint from Years & Years to Will Young and Britney Spears and Ciara to Elle Exxe. And lock up your grumpy uncles! What's she got to say about the new PC Music compilation?

Raketkanon

RKTKN #2

Germane Ideas: The Pre New interviewed

Julian Marszalek sits down with true head Jim Fry to talk pop music, pop art and pop culture

Is Labour The Albatross Around The Neck Of Progressive Politics?

With the Labour party reeling from last week's General Election defeat, Joe Kennedy asks if the party rested on its post war laurels just as it kowtowed to neoliberalism, that force he argues is responsible for the 'shittification' of everything

Jim O’Rourke

Simple Songs

Tender Prey

Organ Calzone

Dumb Not Dumb: The Strange World Of Matt Loveridge &c.

Matt Loveridge's talent spills out of him and pours across many different projects. Matt Evans tries to find ten entry points into the back catalogue of this musical savant

Absolute Lee Hazlewood: Extract & Interview with Lee, Myself & I Author

Stephen Dalton talks to writer Wyndham Wallace about his ‘biography wrapped in a memoir' and his eight years spent as Lee Hazlewood's manager and friend - plus an exclusive extract

Two Poems By: Phoebe Power

New writing on The Quietus this week comes courtesy of two new poems by Phoebe Power

Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

We're back with some good ones

Things Learned At The 2015 Madeira Film Festival

Mat Colegate shares a few lessons learned at the fourth Madeira Film Festival. Photos by the author

Charles Cohen

Brother I Prove You Wrong

General Election 2015 & Why Parliament Deserves To Be Hung

If - or, more likely, when - today's vote reveals that no party has a majority, it won't be a reflection of voters being apathetic, rather the blasé attitude of those they're voting for. This, John Tatlock argues, doesn't necessarily have to be seen as a negative

Columnus Metallicus: Spring’s Best Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Toby Cook meditates on the symbolism as the one way stream as he reviews the latest in metal and pours HAIL upon new LPs by Death Karma, Lightning Bolt, Ghold, Acid King, Saturnalia Temple, Dødheimsgard, Pyramids, An Autumn For Crippled Children, Bad Guys and UFOMammut

The Odyssey

A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014

Varg

Ursviken

At His Modjesty’s Request: Paul Weller’s Favourite Albums

Paul Weller is releasing a new album, Saturns Pattern, so we sent tQ film editor Mat Colegate off to meet his mod hero and bask in the glory of his sartorial prowess. Ah, yes, and find out about his top 13 albums as well

Van Der Graaf Generator

After The Flood

A Place Outside Of Normal Life: An Interview With Keeley Forsyth

The actor and musician is soon to release new material, sounding, in the words of The Eccentronic Research Council, like it came out of "a 17th-century Lancastrian pagan folk cult". Daniel Dylan Wray talks to her before she supports tQ's John Doran on his book tour in Sheffield this Friday