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Toast Of The Town: For Breakfast Interviewed

As they premiere new video 'Heavy Horse Museum' exclusively with tQ, London seven-piece For Breakfast speak to Patrick Clarke about the mix of ambition and anxiety that goes into their maximalist, multi-genre music

Reviews

Carmen Villain
Only Love From Now On

Carmen Villain continues a run of near-perfect releases by refining what came before and offering the listener a measure of hope, says Bernie Brooks

Anniversary

Stars Of The Lid: The Ballasted Orchestra 25 Years On

This week sees the 25th anniversary of the Texan ambient masterpiece. Daryl Worthington tries to locate its stately drones in spatial, temporal and cultural terms

Books

Tearing Along Viciously: Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body

Orit Gat unpicks the vicissitudes of agency and abuse in a recent memoir by the model Emily Ratajkowski

Art

Making Bank: Art Galleries Get Their Home Work Marked

An exhibition at Berlin’s Neu Galerie explores the notorious ‘Fax-Baks’ of British collective, BANK

Film

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

Reviews

Stromae
Multitude

Eight years after Racine Carrée, Stromae returns with an album even more beguiling than its predecessor

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Broadcast – Microtronics, MITMW & BBC Sessions

Hayley Scott casts her eyes of a trio of timely Broadcast reissues, Microtronics, Mother Is The Milky Way and BBC Maida Vale Sessions

Album of the Week

Looking Inward: Majestic Noise Made In Beautiful Rotten Iran By Sote

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote finds the artist taking a more personal route to the expression of his musical identity, finds Kamyar Salavati

Reviews

Adela Mede
Szabadság

A brilliant debut from Slovakian producer Adela Mede hums with a haunting sense of displacement, finds Miloš Hroc

The Quietus International

Showing Solidarity With The Ukrainian Underground

Ukrainian writer Alex Bondarenko writes about 14 "new weird" bands you can discover in Eastern and Southern Ukraine, and Kyiv's underground, plus a resource of humanitarian organisations and charities directly helping those most affected by the conflict

Reviews

Melt Yourself Down
Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In

The new Melt Yourself Down might not be as wild and crazy as it think it is, but it's still a heck of a ride, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Baker's Dozen

Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

The Mayor of Greater Manchester takes Fergal Kinney through 13 records that shaped him, via his days as a Hacienda regular and his children introducing him to Big Thief

Reviews

Spiritualized
Everything Was Beautiful

The rudiments of *Everything Was Beautiful* were originally intended as the second half of a 2018 double album, but the new Spiritualized album is far from an assemblage of outtakes and demos, finds Mick Middles

A Quietus Interview

After The Crash: Oneida’s John Colpitts Interviewed

When Oneida, Boredoms and Spiritualized drummer John Colpitts was involved in a serious road collision in 2018, he initially thought his ability to make music had been taken from him. He tells Stevie Chick about the long road to recovery and his new album, Music From The Accident

Reviews

Holodrum
s/t

Holodrum's debut LP is a vehicle of abandon and sincerity that manages to capture the gut-punch feeling of the live experience, says Bernie Brooks

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence VI: Iranian Pop On Caltex Records

In our subscriber only series, Mariam Rezaei revisits her childhood introduction to the glorious world of Iranian pop via Caltex Records

Subscribers

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For February Reviewed By JR Moores

In his inaugural column of 2022, JR Moores tries to disentangle himself from a web of lies and get on with reviewing some cracking avant rock. Home page portrait: Wovenhand

Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: February 2022

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

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Books

Radical Speculation: Science Fiction As Revolution

Joe Banks speaks to Iain McIntyre, co-editor of illustrated essay collection *Dangerous Visions And New Worlds – Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985*

Art

Artist-Run: Inside Peckham’s Rising Sun Collective

Housed in a former pub, the Rising Sun is an artist collective and housing co-op in one. Poppy Richler talks to collective members Chloe Curry, Scott Bowley and Ally Andrews about the power of sharing and taking money out of the equation

Film

Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Jane Arden's experimental work about schizophrenia was the only British feature directed by a woman in the 1970s, and remains furiously relevant in its depiction of mental illness, finds Andrew Key

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of February 2022

From Sea Power to Saba, Huerco S. to Herbert Powell, Charli XCX to caroline, and Kill Alters to Congotronics, here are tQ’s favourite albums and tracks of February 2022

Music Downloads

Death To Perfume Music: Matmos On Creating A Singularity Track

Every month, the Quietus commissions an artist or band to produce a track for our Singularity section, which is free to low culture subscribers. This month we're thrilled to include Matmos. Interview by Adam Quarshie

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Toast Of The Town: For Breakfast Interviewed

Carmen Villain Only Love From Now On

Stars Of The Lid: The Ballasted Orchestra 25 Years On

Tearing Along Viciously: Emily Ratajkowski’s My Body

Making Bank: Art Galleries Get Their Home Work Marked

Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Stromae Multitude

Reissue Of The Week: Broadcast – Microtronics, MITMW & BBC Sessions

Looking Inward: Majestic Noise Made In Beautiful Rotten Iran By Sote

Adela Mede Szabadság

Showing Solidarity With The Ukrainian Underground

Melt Yourself Down Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In

Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

Spiritualized Everything Was Beautiful

After The Crash: Oneida’s John Colpitts Interviewed

Holodrum s/t

Organic Intelligence VI: Iranian Pop On Caltex Records

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For February Reviewed By JR Moores

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: February 2022

Radical Speculation: Science Fiction As Revolution

Artist-Run: Inside Peckham’s Rising Sun Collective

Girl Interrupted: Revisiting Jane Arden’s The Other Side Of The Underneath

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of February 2022

Death To Perfume Music: Matmos On Creating A Singularity Track

Keeley Forsyth Limbs

Reissue Of The Week: Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker Live!

Linien II 1948–49 Various

Deep Breaths: Caroline’s Debut Album

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For February Reviewed By Kez Whelan

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Who I Turn To: Keeley Forsyth’s Baker’s Dozen

Against The Tides: 60 Years Of Kobayashi’s Brutal Harakiri

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50 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Everything is Permitted: Alamut by Laibach

Reissue of the Week: Butthole Surfers Live At The Leather Fly

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

Like Choosing A Lover: Viv Albertine’s Favourite Albums

Thicker Than Water: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Films

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Mclusky The world is still here and so are we

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Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats

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Carmen Villain
Only Love From Now On

Stromae
Multitude

Adela Mede
Szabadság

Melt Yourself Down
Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In

Spiritualized
Everything Was Beautiful

Holodrum
s/t

Keeley Forsyth
Limbs

Linien II 1948–49
Various

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SPECTRA. VOL. 1

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we