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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Patrick McKemey on the Musical Architecture of SimCity
In this month's subscriber essay, Patrick McKemey eulogises the genre-melding soundtracks to the SimCity universe of games, sonic portals between the London suburbs and digital utopias built in his teenage bedroom
A Quietus Interview
Opposites Attract: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed
The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth record with "no MO," says James Dean Bradfield. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about how it's left him with a rare sense of freedom in a world where "reality resembles fiction"
Anniversary
Music, Magic and Mystery: 25 Years of D’Angelo’s Voodoo
A quarter of a century ago, a constellation of stellar artists performed a kind of musical alchemy in a fabled New York studio. Voodoo has lost none of its allure and retains all of its impact 25 years on. How did they do this, a still dumbfounded Angus Batey asks
Black Sky Thinking
TikTokin’ in the Freed World: Social Media’s New Payola Scandal
The scandal of artists paying DJs for radio plays might seem a relic of the past but, says music biz expert Eamonn Forde, news that influencers might demand a percentage of artist royalties in return for exposure gives this corruption a grim contemporary twist
Baker's Dozen
Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space
As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community
A Quietus Interview
Everything is Colour: Kristin Hersh on the Return Of Throwing Muses
Kristin Hersh offers Sean Kitching the exclusive first interview about Throwing Muses’ first new album in five years, her recording process, synaesthesia, the similarities between music and stand-up comedy, and turning difficult personal situations into art (not product) that celebrates the humanity of us all
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the week: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-1993 by Television Personalities
Television Personalities’ mainman Dan Treacy is often seen as a kind of troubled prankster. In truth, argues Jonathan Wright, he’s an intriguing, key figure in the UK's post punk and DIY indie underground. NB: The publication of this review was delayed due to the death of David Lynch
Books
Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf
As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
A Quietus Interview
Sleazy Does It: Decius Interviewed
As Lias Saoudi-fronted fruity techno troupe Decius prepare to release second album Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience), they speak to Luke Turner about dirt on the dancefloor and why their explicitly horny music is a safe space to unleash things that ought not be repressed
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