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Function/Vatican Shadow

Games Have Rules

The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Crooner: Gary Wilson Interviewed

Cult hero Gary Wilson talks to Steven Viney about the odd trajectory of his career in lounge, avant garde & outsider music and 1977's You Think You Really Know Me

Getting The Grip: A Jazz Column For October

Stewart Smith takes over the reigns of our Complete Communion jazz column and interviews London-based group The Grip (who also give us an excellent mix), reviews new LPs by IIIn, Nicole Mitchell's Sonic Projections and Rodrigo Amado, and appraises reissues from Sun Ra and the Jone Takamäki Trio

To Lose The Spark Along The Way: U2’s The Unforgettable Fire

Thirty years on from its release – and with the band’s popularity in question more than ever – Wyndham Wallace returns to The Unforgettable Fire, U2’s incendiary denial of expectations and their first encounter with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois

Steve Gunn

Way Out Weather

Knifeworld

The Unravelling

Constant Vs. Variable: The Jesus Lizard Interviewed About Down

Nick Hutchings, who interviewed Jesus Lizard for us recently, loves their album Down. Trouble is, Duane Denison, Mac McNeilly and David Wm. Sims don't...

Underground Persistence: A Guide To Polish DIY Labels

Continuing our exploration of the Polish DIY underground, Lucia Udvardyova takes a look at some of the key labels and current releases

Out Of The Page Into The Sensual World: Jenny Hval Interviewed

Following the release of her excellent LP Meshes Of Voice in collaboration with Susanna this month, Adam Bychawski chats to Jenny Hval about sonic extremity, the violence of voyeurism and inhabiting bodies

Khun Narin

Khun Narin's Electric Phin Band

Thunder Thunder Lightning Ahead: Underworld On Dubnobasswithmyheadman

With a new tour announced and the reissue of their landmark album imminent, Joe Clay meets Karl Hyde and Rick Smith to discuss the record twenty years on and their upcoming Royal Festival Hall show

The Heads

Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (Reissue)

They Never Stood A Chance: The Go-Betweens Spring Hill Fair 30 Yrs On

The Go-Betweens were destined to never become stars, but Alfred Soto finds much to praise as he revisits their 1984 LP Spring Hill Fair, a "dense, terse minor masterpiece of literate quasi-pop"

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

Gary Suarez forms like Galvatron to bring you another round of hip hop album reviews from the likes of Busdriver, Mndsgn, Mono/Poly and Yung Lean

‘Getting Ready’: A Cuntata By May-Lan Tan & Elizabeth Mikesch

New writing this week is part of an on-going collaboration between authors Elizabeth Mikesch and May-Lan Tan, Planetette, the product of an aggressive approach, vandalising each other's sentences until it's no longer clear who has written what

Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Will Hermes’ Polaroid Of An Era

Elena Dolcini gets in to Will Hermes' study of a singular moment in the history of music - Love Goes to Buildings on Fire - a book that manages to be informative and near-objective without losing its soul

Tomorrow And Tomorrow: Tore Renberg Interviewed

Anita Sethi speaks to See You Tomorrow author Tore Renberg about the unlikely influence of Adrian Mole, reading Proust with Knausgård and the ever-present influence of music in his life and work

American Psychos: The Hollywood Male At Breaking Point

Stephen Lee Naish examines the portrayals of men on the edge in Mary Harron's American Psycho and Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break

Erasure

The Violet Flame

Still Echoing Round The Streets Of Tilburg: Incubate 2014 Reviewed

After returning to Blighty with suitcases full of ripped and bloody clothes, grit infested knees and an infected toe, John Doran, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta and Richard James Foster look back at a joyous week in Tilburg

A Certain Ratio

Sextet (Reissue)

Spools Out With Tristan Bath: Cassette Store Day Special

Tristan Bath celebrates international Cassette Store Day with the emphasis on the word "international"...

Must It Be Flickers: The Quietus Film Column? Really?

The Quietus film team return in force to check out Ida, Night Of The Comet and Honeymoon. This week with added music round. Please don't get your hopes up.

Take Your Body Off: Gazelle Twin Interviewed

Gazelle Twin's new album is a powerful, violent exploration of the teenage anxieties of electronic musician Elizabeth Bernholz. She discusses medical fascinations and physical self-loathing with Luke Turner

Caribou

Our Love

Martyr Privates

Martyr Privates

Ayahuasca Psychedelia: Al Lover Interviewed

Before he plays the Liverpool Psych Fest this weekend, the genre-melding producer tells us about his new album Sacred Drugs, the influence of San Francisco and why getting lost in his music is his ultimate goal for listeners

Future Sound Of London

Environment Five

13 Reasons Why I Can’t Pick My 13 Favourite Records, By Drew Daniel

When we asked Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth for his Baker's Dozen, he refused - and with good reasons. Thirteen of them, to be precise. Here Daniel presents them in an essay titled A Rant Against The Quantification Of Aesthetics. All photographs courtesy of Drew Daniel

Simian Mobile Disco

Whorl

Mike Doughty

Stellar Motel

A Sense Of Acceptance: An Interview With Jeff Tweedy

With Sukierae, the new album recorded with his son Spencer just released, the Wilco frontman talks to Laurie Tuffrey about lyrical processes and music as a means of consolation