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Clean On Your Bean: Man With The Magic Soap By Persher

The duo of Jamie Roberts (Blawan) and Arthur Cayzer (Pariah) leave behind the acid froth for some maggoty post-genre techsludge

Live Reviews

Dustbowl Delights: Houghton 2022 Reviewed

Following a raft of cancellations in recent years due to freak weather and the COVID-19 pandemic, Craig Richards' Houghton festival finally returned for its third edition last month, and it was well worth the wait, finds Christian Eede

The Quietus International

Rockfort! French Music For October Reviewed By David McKenna

Surveying more music from the French fringes, David McKenna looks forward to two shows at Cafe OTO this month and delivers your essential guide to an array of new rap, folk and experimental releases. Homepage photo, Erwan Keravec by Atelier Marge Design

Reviews

Arctic Monkeys
The Car

The latest from Alex Turner & co. finds the group stepping out in grand style with results amongst their very best, finds Fergal Kinney

A Quietus Interview

Two Parts Anarchy To One Part Erotica: Special Interest Interviewed

As they prepare for the release of their brutal, theatrical new album Endure, New Orleans punks Special Interest speak to Emma Garland about radicalism, resilience and transcendence

A Quietus Interview

The Conversation Within: An Interview With Mabe Fratti

Ahead of her third album Se Ve Desde Aquí, Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti speaks to Jasper Willems about the importance of friendship in creativity, achieving an unvarnished sound and challenging her own musical instincts

In Conversation

Peer Reviewed: Claire Rousay Interviews Circuit Des Yeux… And Vice Versa

Circuit Des Yeux and Claire Rousay interview each other about namedropping, social media stats, keeping safe and sane when touring solo, Justin Bieber, pyrotechnics, their least favourite instruments and more

Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's Rum Music returns for another trip around the zone, with new sounds from everyone's favourite pianist nun, traditional music of South London, and thresholds conjured and transgressed

Reviews

Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Another win for the resurgent cutup composer, this time mining a Finnish jazz label's back catalog for source material

Reviews

Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

There's more to Winter's latest than early 90s nostalgia, finds Aug Stone

Anniversary

There’s A Certain Satisfaction In A Little Bit Of Pain: Thirty Years of Madonna’s Erotica

30 years on, Matthew Barton explores how Erotica changed the game for mainstream pop stars, an album that traded Madonna’s imperial pop for deep bass, vinyl crackles, chilly house and spoken word

Books

Where The Bodies Are Buried: Ru Callender On Undertaking & Acid House

Undertaker-slash-author Ru Callender talks to Will Burns about dreams, ritual and MDMA

Art

Transformer: Carolee Schneemann’s Dissidence

John Quin sees the comprehensive retrospective Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics at the Barbican

Books

Body Metal: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford On The Trouble With Piercings At Airport Security

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Biblical, the Metal God discusses why metal is not just for listening to – it can also be worn, or inserted into your genitals

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Dexys’ Too-Rye-Ay, As It Should Have Sounded

As Kevin Rowland delivers a reworked version of Dexys Midnight Runners’ 1982 megahit Too-Rye-Ay, Siobhán Kane surveys a wonky pop masterpiece, and examines whether an album is ever truly ‘finished’

Reviews

The Umlauts
Another Fact

South London band's debut looks to the future – albeit a future caked in a hefty patina of dirt and grit, finds Shrey Kathuria

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Stephanie Phillips On Reeling With PJ Harvey

The 1994 documentary Reeling With PJ Harvey is not a household name outside of fan communities but to Stephanie Phillips, the Maria Mochnacz directed film remains a fitting example of an artist’s need to curate their image

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Reviews

Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Swedish prog revivalists explore the adventurous side of sobriety

Album of the Week

To Infinity And Beyond: ¡Ay! By Lucrecia Dalt Is A Stunning Sci-Fi Pop Opera

On her stunning new LP, Lucrecia Dalt makes a hard left turn both away from and toward the past, says Bernie Brooks

Baker's Dozen

Different Folks: Angeline Morrison’s Baker’s Dozen

Angeline Morrison speaks to Jude Rogers about her new album exploring folk songs of Black British experience, and takes her through an eclectic Baker's Dozen including Steeleye Span, Delia Derbyshire and Darondo

Reviews

Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Eno sings – and finally lays to rest any suggestions that the ambient godfather is 'not a musician', finds Jeremy Allen

Electronic

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For October Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel shares his thoughts on the ongoing debate regarding the divide between Central and Eastern European dance music and Western media, and reviews some jaw-dropping club goodies from Rhyw, Joy Overmono, Shanti Celeste, TRAKA, Naphta and more

Reviews

L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Folkish whimsy meets hip hop flow on the new album by London's L.A. Salami

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your buyer's guide to the best new punk and hardcore releases from around the world returns for October, with reviews of High Vis, Long Knife, Zero Again and more. Homepage photo: Balcanes by Sara Roca

A Quietus Interview

Always Be Scared: An Interview With Gilla Band

Upon the release of their new album Most Normal, Gilla band discuss curating Sonic City festival in Belgium, the importance of being uncomfortable when you make music, going bald, and the influence of country singer Ray Price

A Quietus Interview

False Idol: Park Jiha Interviewed

As the K-Music 2022 Festival begins in London, Alex Rigotti speaks with Park Jiha about the nuances of playing piri and the tension between nation and identity in her work

Live Reviews

I’m Scum And I’m Your Son: Robbie Williams Live In London

At Robbie Williams’ first date of a major new UK tour, Fergal Kinney explores what the entertainer’s Odyssean career to date tells us about the evolution of English masculinity

A Quietus Interview

On The Frontier: AGAAMA Interviewed

Maximalist experimental artist AGAAMA speaks to Joey Levenson about how everything from Tool to Bjork via digital mystics and Stevie Nicks informed her future-facing new EP ‘Wandering Worlds’

Reviews

Shit and Shine
New Confusion

Sonic shock and awe, auditory rapid domination, and roiling low frequencies with the fluid power of a ballista, Shit and Shine’s *New Confusion* is a mangled collection of heavy magic and strange genre digressions clotted with sheer brilliance. Will Ainsley explains why

Art

In The Laughing Lights: Max Ernst In Milan

Maybe a hard slog through a shopping centre is exactly the experience the great surrealist had in mind for the exhibition of his paintings? Who can say?

Books

Something A Bit More Modern: Adrian Mole At Forty

Four decades after the publication of the first Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sydeysider and lifelong fan Barnaby Smith recalls his bewilderment at giros, joss sticks and spotted dick

Books

Haunted Resonance: An Interview With Alan Moore

The wizard of Northampton talks magic, Englishness, and his new book of short stories Illuminations. Words by Miles Ellingham

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The Sun Also Rises: Marshall Allen And James Harrar Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to Arkestra veteran Marshall Allen and left field film maker James Harrar about the Cinema Soloriens project. Photographs courtesy of Ka

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Clean On Your Bean: Man With The Magic Soap By Persher

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The Umlauts Another Fact

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Hyperspecific: Dance Music For October Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

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Always Be Scared: An Interview With Gilla Band

False Idol: Park Jiha Interviewed

I’m Scum And I’m Your Son: Robbie Williams Live In London

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In The Laughing Lights: Max Ernst In Milan

Something A Bit More Modern: Adrian Mole At Forty

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Arctic Monkeys
The Car

Carl Stone
We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2

Winter
What Kind Of Blue Are You?

The Umlauts
Another Fact

Dungen
En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

Brian Eno
FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

L.A. Salami
Ottoline

Shit and Shine
New Confusion