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What Real Looks Like: They Hate Change Interviewed

Tampa Bay duo They Hate Change are just about to release the most dazzling hip hop LP of the year so far. Stevie Chick talks to Vonne and Dre about their magpie reach

Reviews

Wilma Vritra
Grotto

Wilma Archer and Odd Future's Vritra go deeper underground

Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Daryl Worthington

A haunting folk relic from Japan, a mafia themed concept album, drum virtuoso hyper pop, and an occult radio play. Daryl Worthington finds there’s a host of fascinating stories in the tape world this month

Reviews

Tarkamt
1100 dB

Cairo's Tarkamt threatens to create a black hole big enough to engulf the universe with a set of Merzbowian electronics

Books

Trapped In The Overground: The Sickness Of The Music Industrialist

Keith Kahn-Harris argues that Ian Winwood’s startling memoire *Bodies: Life and Death in Music* inadvertently makes the case for the superiority of underground music scenes

Art

Against The Current: Surrealism Takes Over The World

There is a contradiction at the heart of the Tate Modern's big Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition, finds Poppy Richler

Film

Let Go: Franz Rogowski On Great Freedom

As Great Freedom arrives on MUBI, Caitlin Quinlan interviews leading man Franz Rogowski about choreography, collaboration and his chameleonic craft

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Richard Thompson’s Grizzly Man Soundtrack

On the reissue of weatherbeaten and exquisite music from Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, Darran Anderson revisits Richard Thompson's soundtrack, and the film's lessons on man and nature

Reviews

Arcade Fire
We

JR Moores considers self-immolation listening to the new Arcade Fire record…

Reviews

Noon Garden
Beulah Spa

Flamingods' Charles Prest balances psychedelic wimsy with a hint of the dark stuff, finds Ed Power

Album of the Week

The Out Sound From Way In: Kemper Norton’s Estrenyon

The new Kemper Norton conjures the uncanny feeling of seeing something inexplicable – and of its aftermath, finds Vanessa Ague

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Stoned To Death Records

Miloš Hroch looks back at a decade of Stoned To Death Records, the label responsible for a tape renaissance in Czechia and for breathing new life into the country’s thriving DIY weird rock scene

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast 21: Edward George On Whitney Houston

This month for Low Culture subscribers John Doran speaks to Edward George about the tyranny of Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'

Subscribers

Black Sky Thinking

Women Of Their Word: The Reality Of Being A Female Music Writer

There is more extraordinary music writing by women than ever before, yet female writers are still facing a host of barriers that their male counterparts are not. From online abuse to tokenism from editors, Jude Rogers recounts the realities of her life in journalism, and her hopes for the future of the industry

Reviews

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
Ghosted

A collaboration between guitarist Oren Ambarchi, drummer Andreas Werliin, and bassist Johan Berthling proves mind-expanding for Daryl Worthington

Electronic

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For May Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel shares his observations on the positive post-COVID changes on local electronic scenes, and reviews his favourite club gems and deep listening releases of the month, including BFTT, Siete Catorce and Ben Bondy

A Quietus Interview

Hidden Histories, Alternate Timelines: An Interview With Safa

Ahead of the release of his debut album Ibtihalat, Adam Quarshie caught up with music producer, researcher and architect Mhamad Safa to discuss polyrhythms, machine learning and the forgotten histories of the Middle East and North Africa

Reviews

Congotronics International
Where's The One?

The cooperation between Deerhoof, Kasai Allstars, Konono no 1, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Juana Molina and Matt Mehlan of Skeletons shows their potential to create danceable and pulsating melodies as Congotronics International

Reviews

Dana Gavanski
When It Comes

A reversed retrospective, joining the dots between the present and past. When It Comes is the second album by the London-based songwriter Dana Gavanski

Low Culture Essay

Will Your Anchor Hold? 75 Dollar Bill Interviewed

As 75 Dollar Bill release the latest in our Singularity series of tracks, exclusive to our Sound & Vision subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan asks them about defying genre and pattern building

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Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 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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What Real Looks Like: They Hate Change Interviewed

Wilma Vritra Grotto

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Daryl Worthington

Tarkamt 1100 dB

Trapped In The Overground: The Sickness Of The Music Industrialist

Against The Current: Surrealism Takes Over The World

Let Go: Franz Rogowski On Great Freedom

Reissue Of The Week: Richard Thompson’s Grizzly Man Soundtrack

Arcade Fire We

Noon Garden Beulah Spa

The Out Sound From Way In: Kemper Norton’s Estrenyon

The Strange World Of… Stoned To Death Records

Low Culture Podcast 21: Edward George On Whitney Houston

Women Of Their Word: The Reality Of Being A Female Music Writer

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin Ghosted

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For May Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Hidden Histories, Alternate Timelines: An Interview With Safa

Congotronics International Where's The One?

Dana Gavanski When It Comes

Will Your Anchor Hold? 75 Dollar Bill Interviewed

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

A Handful Of Dust: An Interview With Katie Paterson

A Man Awake: On Georges Perec’s A Man Asleep

Real Lies Lad Ash

Let’s Not Rush: A Love Letter To Trains On Screen

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

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Reissue Of The Week: Albert Ayler’s Revelations

Fuck Fame: Charli XCX, A-ha And Destructive Fandom

Feeling Sinister: LP.8 By Kelly Lee Owens

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

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Wilma Vritra
Grotto

Tarkamt
1100 dB

Arcade Fire
We

Noon Garden
Beulah Spa

Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
Ghosted

Congotronics International
Where's The One?

Dana Gavanski
When It Comes

Real Lies
Lad Ash

Mall Girl
Superstar

Vox Populi!
Psyko Tropix

AVTT/PTTN
AVTT/PTTN

Oneohtrix Point Never
Tranquilizer

Claire Rousay
A Little Death