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The Quietus International
New Weird Ukraine Part One: Bringing Home The Bacon
In the first of our reports from the Ukrainian underground, journalist Yaryna Denysyuk reports on punk and post-industrial scenes while drawing attention to feminist and LGTBQI issues as well as drawing some links between smoky bacon and gabber
A Quietus Interview
Get Up, Stand Up: An Interview With The Specials
In their very first interview about a new album of protest songs, The Specials' Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter speak to Patrick Clarke about how political music and the energy of Black Lives Matter lifted them from pandemic-enforced inertia
The Quietus International
Certified Gold: Joshua Minsoo Kim Reviews International Pop Music For August
Virginal Korean R&B from pH-1 & Jamie, a Jamaican paypig anthem from Konshens and Spice, hyperpop from Spain and Russia, and more of 2021’s vital international pop music thus far, according to new columnist Joshua Minsoo Kim
A Quietus Interview
Mourn The World: An Interview With Maria W Horn
Ahead of Rewire festival Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the Swedish artist, musician and composer about prison hauntings, being thrown out of bible study, collectivity in music making and the power of the drone to alter perceptions of time and place
Books
YAAAAAAAAS Jesus: An Interview With Brontez Purnell
‘Forgive Me, Philip’ from Brontez Purnell’s *White Boy Music* EP was one of our tracks of the year in 2020. Now this year Purnell has published two novels. Huda Awan chats with the multitalented Bay Area resident about grief, trash, and why rock’n’roll is so boring these days
Live Reviews
A Special Moment In Norwegian Music: Vriompeis 2021 Reviewed
Joost Heijhuijsen travels to Oslo for the 2021 edition of Vriompeis and reflects on how a unique musical scene can quickly recover from the effects of the pandemic... thanks to a radical DIY approach and some smart state spending
A Quietus Interview
Aide Memoire: The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost Interviewed
Billy Reeves of Theaudience had his life thrown upside down in 2001 by a terrible car accident, he tells Fergal Kinney, and now his new band, The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost, have released an album of old songs he can't even remember writing. N.B. readers who have been in traumatic traffic accidents may find some of the descriptions in this interview difficult to read
Low Culture Essay
Here Hair Here: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall And River Cottage
In this month's subscriber only Low Culture essay, Tom Howells reappraises the first three series of River Cottage and finds a Dorset of esoteric rites, ecstatic natural beauty, eldritch haunting, racist gentry and brutal rural pathos, plus a little bit of food
Anniversary
Innocence And Experience: Lisa Left Eye Lopes’ Supernova Turns 20
It was supposed to be the moment where the most misunderstood woman in pop got to explain herself and empower her audience: but the release was cancelled and within months she was dead. Angus Batey revisits Lisa Lopes's debut and rediscovers a forgotten treasure
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A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums
With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked
