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B.S. Johnson & The Amniotic Fluid Of Words

In a second piece to mark the 80th anniversary of the celebrated author's birth - and fortieth of his death - Daniel Fraser considers the relationship between writer and reader and the tyranny of reason in Johnson's work

Editors’ Picks: Our Favourite Albums And Tracks

John Doran, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Laurie Tuffrey sift through 2013's releases to bring you a guide to their favourite albums and tracks

Gem’ll Crucifix It: Byzantium Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan sinks her teeth (sorry, sorry...) into Neil Jordan's latest take on the vampire myth

Jon Hopkins

Immunity

Colleen

The Weighing Of The Heart

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Columnus Metallicus For May

Toby Cook dissects this month's metal releases and ponders which go best with a weed-free lifestyle

Original Fusey Boys: Depeche Mode Live At The O2

Depeche Mode bring their Delta Machine tour to London, and Luke Turner witnesses a band whose charm is still very much in their cheek. Photographs thanks to Carsten Windhorst

Samba Touré

Albala

These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds, Track-By-Track Preview

Nick Southall listens through TNP's excellent third album ahead of its release next month

The Terror Of Stagnation: Gaahl Of Wardruna Interviewed

Dayal Patterson speaks to the enigmatic and iconoclastic Gaahl about the Runes, the difficulties of creativity and why he actually likes open-mindedness

Field Day 2013: The Quietus Review

The Quietus once again trekked to Victoria Park for perhaps the best Field Day yet - glorious sun, a really pleasant, up-for-it crowd, and of course one of the best bills you'll find in 2013. Angus Finlayson, Rory Gibb, Maya Kalev, Glen McLeod, Laurie Tuffrey and Luke Turner report. All photos by Valerio Berdini aside from Chris Watson shot by Neil Thomson

The Pastels

Slow Summits

Cristal

Homegoing

Technology At The Bleeding Edge: Reflections On F.C. Judd

Public Information recently invited a host of contemporary artists to reinterpret the work of electronics pioneer F.C. Judd. With the resulting compilation just released, Maya Kalev speaks with Holly Herndon, Perc, Ekoplekz, Karen Gwyer and more to discuss their visions of his approach and the enduring appeal of his work

Pet Shop Boys’ New LP Electric, Track-By-Track Preview

Electric, Pet Shop Boys' first LP on their own record label, sees Stuart Price aiding Messrs Tennant and Lowe in a hugely enjoyable record aimed at the dancefloor. Luke Turner does gives a track-by-track preview, plus listen to new track exclusively here

Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Fran Healy Of Travis Interviewed

With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to buy dinner, quote Seamus Heaney and discuss why, despite so many people loving them, they provoke such fiercely negative reactions…

The Sound Of Rain: Mark Fell And The Quietest Room In Europe

John Doran speaks to the renowned leftfield electronic music producer and sound installation creator about 64 Beautiful Phase Violations - an experiment in an anechoic chamber. With thanks to Rory Gibb and Kit Turner for essential moral and technical guidance. Features embedded short documentary. Mark Fell portrait by Connie Treanor

String Theory: A Little Orchestra Interviewed

London's A Little Orchestra combine classical composition with an indie-pop guestlist. Ahead of the release of their debut album, Stuart Huggett speaks to founder Bobby Barry and violinist Natalie Hudson

Daft Punk

Random Access Memories

Boards Of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, Track-By-Track

Warp's shadowy duo Boards Of Canada return in June with their first album in six years. Joe Clay attended the album's first playback, and gives us a run through of his initial impressions

All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Stuart Evers considers, and discusses with the much underrated American author, the apparent succeses and failings of his latest novel, All That Is, and why, only now, he has made it to the mainstream

Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Maya Osborne examines the contrasting roles of the pastoral and contributions of Microsoft Word in the American poet's newest collection

Goldblade

The Terror Of Modern Life

Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

The National

Trouble Will Find Me

Vår

No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers

Films For Music: The Pet Shop Boys’ It Couldn’t Happen Here Revisited

Anthony Nield takes an overdue look at The Pet Shops Boys' cinematic collaboration with Jack Bond, It Couldn't Happen Here

For Love Of Charanjit Singh: Disco Ragas On The Road

Ahead of Charanjit Singh's performance on the BleeD stage at Field Day this Sunday, his manager and booking agent Rana Ghose explains why the recently rediscovered Indian producer's proto-acid music has taken over his life and work

Time Capsule: An Interview With Christopher Owens

As the ex-Girls frontman embarks on his solo career, Christopher Owens tells John Freeman about debut album Lysandre and life after the demise of his former band

The Memory Band

On The Chalk (Our Navigation Of The Line Of The Downs)

For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Chad Parkill revisits one of his earliest musical memories: listening to Sade on a hippy commune in the Australian bush in a piece looking at Stronger Than Pride 30 years after its release

The Focus Group

The Elektrik Karousel