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A Quietus Interview
Rewire Your Brain: An Interview With Endless Boogie
New York's Endless Boogie couldn't be more aptly named, frying minds with sprawling, blues-tinted jams that seem to chug on forever. With career-best album Long Island just released, Stevie Chick speaks to the band's Paul Major about psychedelic experiences and intuition
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Distorted & Contorted: An Interview With Samuel Kerridge
Berlin's Samuel Kerridge re-casts techno as a sensuous, murky throb, overwhelming the listener with waves of sub-bass and metallic ambience drawn from doom metal and post-punk. He speaks to Maya Kalev about his new EP for Regis' label and the importance of pushing against constraints
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Extrasensory Perfection: An Interview With Matmos
Matmos' excellent new album The Marriage Of True Minds finds the duo delving gleefully into experiments in psychic projection and "very large green triangles". At its core, however, lies simple and tangible human connection, they tell Angus Finlayson
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Of Course You Exist: An Interview With The Pictish Trail
The Pictish Trail is back with another album of dreamy and skewed pop, transmitted from his caravan on the remote Isle of Eigg. He speaks to Nicola Meighan about the gestation of Secret Soundz Vol. 2, touring with Josie Long, and writing 30-second songs
Electronic
The Month’s Electronic Music: Frayed Nerves & Fried Circuits
In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb delves into fathomless darkness, paranoid sub-bass and circuitry gone haywire, from Cold War techno and alien mandibles to abstract grime and new forms of dark UK sound system music
Black Sky Thinking
Digital Indigestion: Serving A Shoe Pie To Instagramming Food
Pavel Godfrey righteously slams the new decadents who Instagram their meals: "Unless you are a restaurant critic, the contents of your plate are as interesting as the contents of your chamber pot." Cheese photographing editors John and Luke hang their heads in shame
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Rhyme Assassin: Mykki Blanco Discusses Her “Glam Hip Hop”
Mykki Blanco's Cosmic Angel was one of last year's most remarkable rap mixtapes. Following an incendiary London show last month, she speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about dropping out of art school, performing in drag, and why having no limits in art is important
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Don't Be Scared Of Music: An Interview With Dobie
Dobie is one of London's best-kept secrets, a musician, producer and photographer who has worked with Tricky, London Posse, Soul II Soul and more. Now he's back with a second solo album, and speaks to Joe Clay about why his career has been all about pursuing enjoyment
Remember Them…
Desmond Simmons Remembered By Colin Newman Of Wire
Every time the Quietus has interviewed Wire's Colin Newman he's talked with fondness about his friend Desmond Simmons, a teenage musical ally and inspiration. Sadly, Simmons passed away last month, and here Newman pays tribute to his late friend. Pictures courtesy Colin Newman, main shot was "Taken in a photo booth in London just after having bought Metallic KO by Iggy & The Stooges - must be 1976"
Beyond The Hits
Fleetwood Mac: Searching For Gems Beyond The Hits
Following a flurry of Fleetwood Mac activity this year, Quietus writers Colm McAuliffe, Jonny Mugwump, Joseph Burnett, Chad Parkhill, Taylor Parkes, Matthew Lindsay and Craig Terlino seek out their finest tracks that were never hit singles
