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It's a new Quietus column! On jazz! Jamie Skey brings us birthday wishes and fond remembrances for jazz legends departed, along with great new albums by Magnus Ostrom, Joachim Kuhn, Blue Touch Paper, Sons of Kemet (pictured) plus a live review of Kentyah Presents: M1, Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band
Darran Anderson is the author of poetry collection Tesla’s Ghost, a forthcoming biography of Jack Kerouac, and Histoire de Melody Nelson, a book about Serge Gainsbourg and his most provocative album. He speaks to Christiana Spens about music, censorship and Lolita, and the relationship between poetry, pain, and pleasure
Using just guitar, effects and a loop pedal, Dustin Wong conjures up hypnotic and immersive instrumental psych-pop. He speaks with Tristan Bath about new album Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy, musical dualities and drawing inspiration from Tokyo
US noise kingpins Wolf Eyes recently released their new album, No Answer: Lower Floors. Ahead of their shows at Incubate, the group's John Olson - under the guise of INZANE JOHNNY - recounts a history of some of their wildest gigs, from accidental mace-related head injuries to Italian construction sites
No Bra's new album Candy is as witty and weird as ever, setting her customary deadpan humour and provocations to sparse instrumental backdrops. She speaks to Bryony Beynon about avoiding capitalist gender stereotypes and fantasising about "having sex with random construction workers in random suburbs of London"
In the second of our series of Factory Floor features, drummer Gabe Gurnsey tells us about the pleasures, pongs and musical potential of his English bulldog, Vince. Photos by Anna Stroe, classic album covers feat. Vince by Gurnsey