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House Of Gucci: The Camp Pleasures Of Sir Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott has a long-running love affair with extravagant, theatrical and delectably trashy cinema – making House of Gucci nothing more than a logic next step, finds Brian Quinn

Anniversary

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: An Oral History Of Soft Cell’s Debut Album

As Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret turns 40, Patrick Clarke speaks to Marc Almond, Dave Ball, and a number of the other key players who crafted Soft Cell's seedy, sleazy, superlative debut album

Reviews

Pye Corner Audio
Entangled Routes

Pye Corner Audio's layering of electronic sounds and ecological criticism is much more than just music for smart alecs, finds Ronnie Angel Pope

Electronic

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For November Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel shares his impressions from the recent Volta x Boiler Room event in Zagreb, and reviews some of the best music released in November, by the likes of Blawan, Ploy, Batu and Akiko Haruna

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence III: Wonky Techno

The Low Culture Organic Intelligence playlist is back, this time with dance controller Joe Muggs repping hard for the Brighton sound or wonky techno

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Reviews

Lionel Marchetti & Vanessa Rossetto
The Tower (The City)

Networks of sound objects collide and interact across a seventy-minute span in a new album from Erstwhile Records

Album of the Week

Rock Botany: Henki By Richard Dawson & Circle

On new album *Henki*, Richard Dawson and Circle bring prog rock bombast dowon to a human scale, still utterly triumphant, finds Daryl Worthington

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For November Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Freewheelin', skullcrushin', topbuzzin' Kez Whelan returns with a burlap sack o'erflowing with all that is right and good in the world of heavy metal

Baker's Dozen

Moments In The Sun: Nite Jewel’s Favourite Albums

Nite Jewel takes us through the albums that inspired her latest record No Sun, from Miles Davis to Cluster, via digressions on the importance of bad karaoke and Nietzschean philosophy

Reviews

Liyv
Matriarch

Portland, Oregon's Liyv shines amidst the simplicity of murmuring percussion and stained-glass glitches, finds Austin Nguyen

Books

Too Dark To See: The Sisters Of Mercy’s Black October

Mark Andrews looks back to Summer 1984 when the Sisters attempted to record their debut album but sessions came to an abrupt halt when Andrew Eldritch collapsed, throwing the future of the band into jeopardy

A Quietus Interview

Out Of Their Tree: Kevin Martin & Jason Williamson On Collaborating

The Bug and Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods have just released a single called 'Treetop' together, and Daniel Dylan Wray was on hand to speak to them about it

A Quietus Interview

Heavy Plant Crossing: Circle & Richard Dawson Interviewed

One of our favourite hypno rock groups and one of our favourite musicians have collaborated to produce one of the albums of the year, Henki. Jennifer Lucy Allan met them to get the full story

Reviews

Hedvig Mollestad
Tempest Revisited

Hedvig Mollestad's third release in a year and a half proves an inspiring and beautiful suite of music, finds Sean Kitching

Reviews

Snoop Dogg Presents… Algorithm
Various Artists

Snoop's first job as executive creative consultant at Def Jam Records falls strangely flat, finds Paul Rekret

The Quietus International

Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak

As 2021 stumbles towards the finishing line, Peter Margasak is back with more jazz and improvised music, not the least of which is Jeff Parker's lockdown LP

Books

A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban

As Penguin issues his first eight novels under their Modern Classics imprint, Mathew Lyons looks back over the career of the writer M. John Harrison once called “a quiet, unalloyed delight”

Books

Home Is Where The Horror Is: The Uncanny Tales Of Adam Nevill

Sean Kitching explores the unhomely powers of horror novelist Adam Nevill, whose novel No One Gets Out Alive has recently been adapted by Netflix

Art

Big Pictures: At The Biennale De L’Image En Mouvement

At Geneva's 21st Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Will Jennings encounters work by Hannah Black, Simon Fujiwara, Camille Henrot, Juliana Huxtable, and Grau, curated by DIS and Andrea Bellini for the Centre D'Art Contemporain

Film

Bande Du Film: Céline Sciamma’s Music Of The Future

French auteur Céline Sciamma uses music sparingly in her films – but it's always vital to unlock a richer world, finds Rory Doherty

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

Charles Mingus’ masterpiece is a seething mass of contradiction. Will Ainsley tentatively teases out one of jazz’s most elusive albums

Reviews

Body/Dilloway/Head
s/t

Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, and Aaron Dilloway team up to mangle voices and guitars alike to thrilling effect, finds Daryl Worthington

A Quietus Interview

Use The Force: An Interview With Hard Feelings

Hot Chip's Joe Goddard and powerhouse New York singer-songwriter Amy Douglas speak to Patrick Clarke about their bombastic new collaboration Hard Feelings, the power of house and disco, and finding the antidote to global gestalt

Album of the Week

Rhythm Nation: Ben LaMar Gay’s Open Arms To Open Us

The new album by Chicago's Ben LaMar Gay is a wild ride through idioms and styles, from hip hop and pop to free jazz and bossa nova

Reviews

CL
ALPHA

A fresh new beginning for ex-2NE1 singer, with a Korean noise-music flavour mixed with western pop and hip hop sounds

Baker's Dozen

Curiosity, Community, Cacophony: Helm’s Baker’s Dozen

Helm, aka Luke Younger, takes us through the 13 records that shaped his prolific career, from a teenage love of Manic Street Preachers and Therapy? to chance encounters with Bob Tilton and John Luther Adams

The Quietus International

Rockfort! French Music For November Reviewed By David McKenna

In the final look at the French scene in 2021, David McKenna reviews releases from L’Ocelle Mare, Aquaserge and the new star of French drill Ziak, and rounds up a few overlooked gems. Home page photograph: Soporific

Reviews

Max Syedtollan & Plus-Minus Ensemble
Four Assignments

Tom Bolton is delightfully baffled by a new release from artist-composer, Max Syedtollan

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For November

Back once again like a renegade Manfred Mann, Noel Gardner spends his time "squelching in the batshit shitpit" just so he can back epistles from the punk rock front line. Home page photo: Shooting Daggers

A Quietus Interview

A Wing And A Prayer: Jaimie Branch Of Fly Or Die Interviewed

Ahead of Fly Or Die's EFG London Jazz Festival gig, Stewart Smith speaks to jaimie branch about her various projects and the significance of avian imagery in her work

Reviews

Mira Calix
absent origin

A multi-faceted record from the Warp artist and occasional Royal Shakespeare Company composer

A Quietus Interview

Peer Reviewed: Dave Okumu Interviews Joan As Police Woman… And Vice Versa

Following the release of their collaborative album with the late Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu take part in an exclusive two-way interview that covers the former's love of New York, the latter's impeccable sense of style, obsessions from Grace Jones to Julian Barratt, artistic process, dream collaborations and much, much more...

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Bande Du Film: Céline Sciamma’s Music Of The Future

Reissue Of The Week: Charles Mingus’ The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady

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Use The Force: An Interview With Hard Feelings

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Pye Corner Audio
Entangled Routes

Lionel Marchetti & Vanessa Rossetto
The Tower (The City)

Liyv
Matriarch

Hedvig Mollestad
Tempest Revisited

Snoop Dogg Presents… Algorithm
Various Artists

Body/Dilloway/Head
s/t

CL
ALPHA

Max Syedtollan & Plus-Minus Ensemble
Four Assignments

Mira Calix
absent origin