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A Quietus Interview
Songs At The End Of The World: An Interview With HMLTD
On their ambitious second album HMLTD imagine an England swallowed by a giant medieval worm, populated by spineless feudal lords and chivalric counter-revolutionaries. Yet it is all, they tell Patrick Clarke, about the personal
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Daryl Worthington
Among drone-folk trips and joyously messed up noise jazz, Daryl Worthington finds the cassette scene has taken a political turn, whether immersive electronics fighting for free time, nostalgia-busting collages, or colonialism attacking text-sound compositions
Books
Neither Reality Nor Memory: Aida Amoako On Black Artists’ Use Of Found Materials
With the publication of her new book *As We See It*, about the groundbreaking work of a new wave of Black artists, Aida Amoako takes a close look at three artists taking collage and appropriation in a whole new direction
Anniversary
Reissue Of The Week: Moss Icon’s Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly
You can call it post hardcore if you like or you can refer to it as an essential corner stone of first wave emo; Noel Gardner just wants to celebrate an essential underground album seeing the light of day for the first time in a quarter of a century
Reviews
Aksak Maboul
Aksak Maboul
Une Aventure de VV (Songspiel)
The reactivated Belgian avant-rock band follow 2020’s *Figures* with a fifteen-part, sixty-three-minute experimental audio play voiced by a host of collaborators, including Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Tuxedomoon’s Blaine L. Reininger and Alig (John Pearce) of Family Fodder
Baker's Dozen
Magical Cuts: Anthony ‘Surgeon’ Child’s Favourite Music
With the new Surgeon album one of the highlights of 2023 so far, Anthony Child guides Luke Turner through a psychedelic journey that takes in The Cure, King Tubby, Sylvester and Alice Coltrane, and John Taverner’s quest for the sonic divine
Black Sky Thinking
Green Issues: Music, Cannabis And You
Music and intoxication have gone hand in hand since prehistory, but the relationship of music and cannabis is particularly strong and complex, says Jono Podmore, a former habitual smoker, as he investigates a groundbreaking new study which may get us closer to understanding these links
Art
Curious Digressions: The Sensuous Sci-Fi Of Apparatus 22
In shows at Bucharest’s SUPRAINFINIT Gallery and an ongoing series of domestic interventions, Romanian collective Apparatus 22 offer a more intimate approach to the vexed question of art and artificial intelligence, finds Andra Amber Nikolayi
Low Culture Essay
Roy Wilkinson On Motörhead’s Bomber sleeve, Sea Power, Rock & War
In this month's Low Culture essay, Roy Wilkinson writes about the the sleeve for Motörhead's Bomber LP and how it became both an Airfix kit and a curious artefact that sat in the anti-militarism of his brothers' band, Sea Power
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