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Listening & Playing Alone: The Strange World Of Grouper

As Liz Harris releases her astonishing new Grouper album Ruins, she guides us through her musical life from the ghosts of her early years via echoing former industrial spaces in the Pacific Northwest to risk-taking and sleep deprivation. Portrait by Jason Bokros

“The Real World Is What Excites Me The Most”: Mike Leigh On Mr. Turner

Jason Ward meets the veteran British director to talk about his new biopic of J.M.W. Turner

Short Fiction: ‘The Face Of Any Other’ By Michael J Seidlinger

This week's new writing comes in the form of an extracted piece from Michael J. Seidlinger's forthcoming novel, The Face of Any Other, forthcoming 27/11/2014 from Lazy Fascist

Cult Of Memory: Simon Critchley Interviewed

Daniel Fraser speaks to Simon Critchley about the architecture of memory and a move toward its obliteration, the culture of stigma surrounding death in our current civilisation (as well as his distaste for that term) and his recent genre-bending philosophical treatise-cum-novel Memory Theatre

Consumer Electronics

Estuary English

The Twilight Sad

Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave

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

He's got juice like a president. He's making rappers hesitant. Invite him to your home and he'll be chilling like a resident. Gary Suarez is back in your domicile with trigger warning-worthy reviews of current hip hop albums...

Saw Losers: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Revisited

James Ubaghs revs himself up to revisit the horror classic

Long Live The New Flesh: A Halloween Guide To Transgressive Horror

With Halloween upon us, Sean Kitching sets fire to his white sheet with eye-holes cut in it and compiles a list of horror movies that go that bit further for their scares (NSFW)

Sense Of Emergency: Gwenno Interviewed

With her new album Y Dydd Olaf out this week, Aug Stone chats to the Welsh avant-pop singer about revolution, culture and "electro-pop feminism"

Beautiful Colours Everywhere: Dan Snaith Of Caribou’s Favourite LPs

Deep in the middle of a worldwide tour to promote his new album Our Love, Dan Snaith takes some time to pore over his favourite albums and tells Joe Clay about "the music that I grew up with"

An Endlessly Evolving Parable: Daevid Allen Of Gong Interviewed

Emily Bick talks to counter-cultural hero Daevid Allen of Gong about parables of inner and outer space, Australia and keeping it in the family

Points Of Sonic Identity: Daniel Lanois Interviewed

The frequent production associate of stadium-fillers discusses his new solo LP Flesh And Machine, ambient experimentation with Brian Eno and why instrumental music can transcend linguistic barriers with John Doran

Allow No Distractions: Marshstepper Interviewed

Marshstepper live in Arizona's badlands and like making an unholy racket without wearing many clothes. With European dates and a new record on Downwards imminent, they tell Luke Turner about their mysterious practice

Siouxsie And The Banshees

Through The Looking Glass / Peepshow / Superstition / The Rapture (Reissues)

Museum Of Love

Museum Of Love

Adam X

Irreformable

John Coltrane

Offering

Flying Lotus Live & The Tibetan Audiobook of The Dead

Gary Suarez was inspired to read Burroughs by Flying Lotus, so he went to see the producer's two recent dates in New York and asks why philosophical questions on death itself so infrequently appears as subject matter in hip-hop

A Sucker For Melody: Martin Carr’s Favourite Songs

With an excellent new solo album, The Breaks, just released, and a London gig tonight, the former Boo Radleys and bravecaptain man has a trawl through the finest 7"s in his record collection with Joe Clay

Zarjaz! Paul Goodwin Talks Future Shock: The Story Of 2000AD

With a new documentary about The Galaxy's Greatest Comic showing tonight as part of the BFI's Sci-Fi: Days Of Fear And Wonder season, Mat Colegate sits down with the film's director Paul Goodwin.

Dream Baby Dream: Unsound Festival Reviewed

Luke Turner and Rory Gibb head to Krakow for a week at Poland's Unsound Festival, the theme of which is The Dream... the likes of The Bug, Cyclobe, Zamilska, Ksiezyc, Powell and Russell Haswell send them into a heady, other place... Photos by Anna Spysz and Camille Blake

Would You Still Be Singing If Hitler Bought Your Football Club?

How much should being a football fan allow you to sideline your own ethics, wonders Tariq Goddard

Lola Colt

Away From The Water

Inviolability: John Cale’s Fear Revisited

Mat Colegate celebrates the 40th birthday of a lopsided, odd and brilliant album

Short Fiction: ‘The Old Country Speaks’ By Julie Reverb

This week's new - and excellently bleak - writing comes via short fiction from London-based writer Julie Reverb

Post-Wounded: On Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams

Daisy Lafarge examines the ideas of empathy, accountability and the reality of immateriality as they present themselves in the contemporary experience of, both, women and men via Leslie Jamison's collection of essays, exploring - bodily and textually, physically and metaphorically - the concept of the wound, The Empathy Exams. (Image: Doris Salcedo)

Behold! October’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

We're back with some of our favourite comics from the year thus far

Poetic Realism: Marcel Carné’s Le Jour Se lève revisited

Paul Risker talks to Ginette Vincendeau, King's College professor of film studies, about the enduring influence of Marcel Carné's masterpiece Le Jour Se lève

Cut Hands

Festival Of The Dead

Ritual Mess

Vile Art

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

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