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I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

Stewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic

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Max Stadtfeld
Fancy Future

Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig

Music Downloads

tQ Subscriber Release: Hitiloma & Nat Sharp

J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse

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Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for July by Daryl Worthington

Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes

A Quietus Interview

Switchblade Romance: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu Interviewed

22 years into their career the perennial outsiders of 21st century queer American art rock have announced a potentially game-changing album in the shape of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Words by Natalie Marlin. All pictures by Eva Luise Hoppe. Contains video arguably NSFW

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Gryphon Rue
4n_Objx

Alexander Calder’s great grandson bridges electronic and avant-garde in a series of deft and impish collages

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Senyawa
Vajranala

Indonesian duo find new kinds of heaviness

Albums of the Year so far

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: June 2024

Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers

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Kate Carr
Midsummer, London

South London sound artist travels across town, finding strange beauty in the everyday

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Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker
WEBO

A legendary live set from the summer of ‘91 is full of joy and fire, finds Vanessa Ague

Reissue of the Week

Various Artists – Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)

Daryl Worthington relishes tQ's Compilation Of The Week: an anthology of electronic and tape music made by Peruvian composers

Anniversary

An Altamont for Rock Music’s Imperial Period: June 1, 1974 Half A Century On

The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. Michael Bellis looks at a highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change

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Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance
Jinxed By Being

Deep bass rumble meets ritual folk on an album filled with post-apocalyptic dread

Album of the Week

A Music of Shadows: Sheida Gharachedaghi Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind

Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better

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Martha Skye Murphy
Um

A remarkably accomplished debut from the South London singer/songwriter

Baker's Dozen

Lie Down and Listen: Aaron Turner’s Favourite Albums

Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life

Anniversary

Winning It All: Prince’s Purple Rain Revisited

Ned Raggett remembers the audacity – the white heat – of a first encounter with the OST in 1984. This feature was first published on 25 June 2014

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Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band
Dancing On The Edge

Louisville artist takes on the big stuff in an album of long song, packed with ideas

The Quietus International

Rockfort! French Music for June, Reviewed by David McKenna

In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months.

A Quietus Interview

The Road from Seattle to Ireland: Lori Goldston Interviewed

Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth

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Mabe Fratti
Sentir que no sabes

Backed by loyal collaborators, Guatemalan-born Mexico City-based cellist Mabe Fratti delivers a confidently confusing knockout

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Manu Ekanayake On Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!)

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Books

SIGSALY: Cryptography, Turntables, and Muzak

In an exclusive extract from his new book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, Justin Patrick Moore takes us through the secret history of the links between wartime cryptography and electro-funk

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d’Eon
Leviathan

Montreal's Chris d'Eon returns with more rococo digital psychedelia for those who like their deconstructed IDM with a cool slice of Bach

Film

Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed

JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films

Reissue of the Week

Live Album of the Week: Lankum Live In Dublin

Innovation slowly becomes stifling orthodoxy in Irish music, says Darran Anderson, so welcome Lankum, the force that arrives once with every generation to revitalise the form

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Martyyna
Written in the Scars

Czech producer weaves trauma into fractured and futuristic post-techno

Album of the Week

Utopia of the Suburbs: Stífluhringurinn by Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

Major new work by the Icelandic composer and Slátur co-founder is inspired by an old hydro-electric dam that became a haven for birds and other wildlife

Folk

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases

Baker's Dozen

My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music

The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg

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µ-Ziq
Grush

After thirty years in the game, Mike Paradinas is clearly still having a heck of a time, finds Jon Buckland

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I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

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Max Stadtfeld
Fancy Future

Gryphon Rue
4n_Objx

Senyawa
Vajranala

Kate Carr
Midsummer, London

Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker
WEBO

Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance
Jinxed By Being

Martha Skye Murphy
Um

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band
Dancing On The Edge

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Sentir que no sabes

d’Eon
Leviathan

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Written in the Scars

µ-Ziq
Grush

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Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You

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Let The Dancers Inherit The Party