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Martyn

The Air Between Words

Paid Attention: Johnny Dean Of Menswear’s Favourite Albums

With a new single from the rejuvenated Menswear recently released, frontman Johnny Dean talks about sax appeal, music as maths and why pop is as much about what you see as what you hear

OutKast and Southernplaya- listicadillacmuzik Revisited

Often dismissed by Andre and Big themselves as a misstep, Angus Batey looks for (and finds) much worth in the OutKast debut

“Spacing The Fuck Out Is A Major Pastime”: Jennifer Herrema Interviewed

Jennifer Herrema on Black Bananas, Royal Trux and keeping on rocking. Interview by Nick Hutchings. All photographs by Cat Stevens

Short Fiction By: Chris Killen

New writing returns - in rude health after a two week spell of rest for 'exhaustion' - with a short story on the nature of love and equestrianism, courtesy of novelist Chris Killen

Wrote Through Ghosts To Get Here: Ghosts Of My Life & Cultural Paralysis

Exploring - and taking as a yardstick - Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Paul Wolinski considers the apparent paralysis of contemporary culture and the slow cancellation of the future through the lens of the success and failures of advances in electronic music production

The Return of Alan Moore’s Miracleman

Joe Banks takes a look at 'The Original Writer's legendary 'lost' series

Stars In Battledress

In Droplet Form

Alex G

DSU

Dirty Movies: An Interview With Matt Johnson

Nadia Attia talks to to Matt Johnson, director of the school shooting-inspired buddy movie, The Dirties

Pleasurable Delirium: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2014

Last week, the Quietus relocated to Barcelona for Sónar Festival, one of the year's major electronic music summits. Angus Finlayson, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Ben Cardew report back on some of the life lessons they took home with them

Why Metallica Headlining Is Exactly What Glastonbury Needs

Fourth horseman Dan Franklin rides the lightning to Metallica's defence and compiles a top ten of songs he'd like to see them perform in order to level a crowd of millennials smashed on miaow miaow and entitlement

The Strange World Of… Tori Amos

With her fourteenth album recently released, the prolific singer-songwriter and composer sat down with Alex Macpherson to reflect on some of the more overlooked moments in her back catalogue

Anathema

Distant Satellites

Glass Animals

Zaba

At One With Chaos & Abandonment: The Irrepressibles Interviewed

Joseph Burnett meets The Irrepressibles' bandleader Jamie McDermott to discuss their Nude album and EP sequence, his extraordinary singing voice, and exploring gender and sexuality through song

Francisco López

Hyper-Rainforest/Yanayacu

‘Noise Is Japanese Blues’: An Interview With Boris

With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback

Flip Your Wig: Bob Mould’s Favourite Albums

With his new, eleventh solo album Beauty & Ruin just released, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar man gives Nick Hutchings his top 13 records

Siinai

Supermarket

Drcarlsonalbion

Gold

Monty Python

Total Rubbish

High NRG Dancefloor Mayhem: An Interview With Blacknecks

Harry Sword meets the not-so-shadowy duo behind the belting Italo-gabber-techno of Blacknecks, responsible for some of the Quietus' favourite club bangers of the year so far, to chat boogie nights, tape loops and cereal boxes

Bremen

Second Launch

The High Cost Of Being In A Band, By Palehorse

Ben Dawson is the drummer in the heavy-as-fuck group Palehorse and he has had enough of the whinging about the price of gig tickets, merchandise and records that punk bands charge. Here he explains why people should cough up and shut up

CUZ

Tamatebako

Bob Mould

Beauty & Ruin

Kora! Kora! Kora! Toumani And Sidiki Diabaté Interviewed

Representing the 71st and 72nd generations in a griot family, master kora players Toumani And Sidiki Diabaté are interviewed by Richie Troughton about Mali, tradition and hip hop

Kenny Loggins In Dub: An Interview With Seahawks

With their latest album Paradise Freaks just released, Ben Graham catches up with Pete Fowler and Jon Tye to discuss how Seahawks emerged from refracting the duo's love of 70s AOR through a filter of weird noise, psychedelia and dub

Neil Cowley Trio

Touch And Flee

Todd Terje

It's Album Time

Amen Dunes

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