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Album of the Week
In Space No-One Can Hear You: Keiji Haino & SUMAC
*Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood to Pour Let Us Never*, the third collaboration between the Japanese artist and the trio of Aaron Turner, Brian Cook and Nick Yacyshyn, is another typically brutal outing, but it’s the subtleties and silences that make it for Daryl Worthington
Black Sky Thinking
The Beatles, Bond & A Culture War Over George Lazenby’s Hair
At the end of the 1960s, Bond was old hat as the hippies wafted their locks over culture. John Higgs, author of a new book on 007, the Beatles and British identity, explores the culture war that raged over follicular extravagance
A Quietus Interview
The Goyt Method: An Interview With The Orielles
As they prepare to release their ambitious third album Tableau, The Orielles speak to Fergal Kinney about how Greater Manchester’s underground culture, putting faith in a first-time producer, and cooking each other’s tea inspired a major creative leap forward
The Quietus International
Inner Ear: Czech Music For October Reviewed by Jakub Knera
In the fourth part of his report on the contemporary music of Eastern and Central Europe, Jakub Knera digs into the Czech Republic's experimental and avant garde music scene and finds a creative community alive with psychedelic sounds
A Quietus Interview
Art Power: An Interview With Khidja
Ahead of the carbon-negative Currents Festival held in a reactivated German power station, curators Khidja as well as the venue’s curator discuss the many lines they hope to draw with their artistically and environmentally ambitious first edition
Black Sky Thinking
Surfing The Lad Totale: Lias Saoudi On Supporting Liam At Knebworth
This summer, Fat White Family supported Liam Gallagher at his Knebworth enormagig. Writing for tQ, Lias Saoudi recalls the excesses of ego, self-debasement, see-through Spanx and sachets of butter required to face the bucket hat hordes.
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Recently discovered free jazz gems from Los Angeles and Berlin, orchestral free jazz spiked by West African grooves, folk-jazz tracing the history of indigenous North American Wabanaki people, and dynamic dice-and-splice free jazz assemblages from LA are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music.
Anniversary
Into The Pre-Gap: Forty Years Of The CD
40 years since the first album was released on CD, Daryl Worthington pays tribute to the unique experimental potential of the format, explores how it changed the parameters of the album itself, and wonders why it’s still not thought of as fondly as cassettes and LPs
