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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Joe McPhee
After providing Severance with the soundtrack to its "defiant jazz" scene, the endlessly explorative work of legendary multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee is enjoying a moment of rare mainstream crossover. With a new taster compilation coming this autumn, Stewart Smith provides 10 points of entry into his sprawling discography
Folk
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke
Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs
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Various Artists
Various Artists
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego
Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic
A Quietus Interview
The Model is You: An Interview with John Glacier
As she releases a new deluxe edition of Like A Ribbon, one of the year's finest albums, boundary-pushing East London rapper, producer and poet John Glacier speaks to Claire Biddles about childhood poems on the failure of humanity, the enduring influence of Hackney, disability, self-advocacy, grime and more
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Phew, Erika Kobayashi and Dieter Moebius’ Radium Girls
Originally released in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and centred on the story of real Japanese women who suffered radiation poisoning through their factory work, this newly-reissued collaboration should invite deep reflection when played today, says Jennifer Lucy Allan
A Quietus Interview
Shake Up the Space: An Interview with upsammy and Valentina Magaletti
Ahead of the North American premiere of their ongoing collaboration at this year’s MUTEK Festival, upsammy and Valentina Magaletti speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about architecture as an instrument, and striking a balance between turbulence and clarity
Books
Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
