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A Quietus Interview
The Best Songs Are Like Bad Dreams: Tropical Fuck Storm Interviewed
In their first interview about their chaotic new album Deep States, Tropical Fuck Storm’s Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin speak to Patrick Clarke about their ideal apocalypses, their disdain for hackneyed rock & roll tropes, and why their music has more heart and soul than you might think
The Quietus International
Rockfort! French Music For July Reviewed By David McKenna
In his latest French music column, David McKenna gets reacquainted with nouvelle nouvelle chanson singer Mathieu Boogaerts, visits producer NSDOS’s Micro Club and finds energy in the young French jazz scene to rival that in the UK. Home page photograph: Edredon Sensible
A Quietus Interview
Before Language There Was Sound: Nene H Interviewed
Following a family tragedy, Berlin-based producer Nene H combined modular synthesis with the instruments of her native Turkey to produce her debut album, a powerful sonic document of healing. She talks to Adam Quarshie about balancing conflicting identities and the confines of classical music
A Quietus Interview
The Good Doctor: An Interview With Eugene Chadbourne
Eugene Chadbourne, one of the most absurdly prolific left-field musicians of all time, takes Patrick Clarke through his storied career - from his time as an acerbic gig reviewer in Canada while fleeing the Vietnam War draft, to his typically freewheeling new record with Jim McHugh, Bad Scene
Low Culture Essay
Do Ya Wanna Funk? Paul Flynn On Hi-NRG
In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author
Art
Blow Up: Art As Inflatable
With their new show Hot Air opening this weekend at Manor Place Warehouse in South London, curator Anna Choutova plus artists from the show – including Bruce Asbestos, Kalman Pool, Lucy Gregory, and Sasha Frovola – discuss the pleasures and peculiarities of inflatable art works
Books
Love Letter To A Vanishing City: Willy Vlautin On The Night Always Comes
Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon
Black Sky Thinking
A New England: Gareth Southgate, Cultural Revolutionary
"30 years of hurt" has often felt like it applied to the bombastic jingoism related to England, but all that is changing with Gareth Southgate's diverse, intelligent team and their rise to the finals of the Euros, argues Tim Burrows. Image: Catherine Ivill/Getty
Baker's Dozen
Down The Rabbit Hole: Will Sergeant’s Favourite Albums
Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant takes Richard Foster through thirteen favourite albums from The Residents to Love, recalls making records with his dad’s electric shaver and a stringless guitar, explains why it’s time to stop bashing prog rock, and much, much more
