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Reissue Of The Week: Cameroon Garage Funk Reviewed

Through the 1970s there was a church in Cameroon where funk bands would go to record music into a single, exquisitely placed microphone. Noel Gardner studies the results on Analog Africa's latest

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Grief Is Living: The Ultra Vivid Lament by Manic Street Preachers

The Manics' piano-driven fourteenth album is a thing of glacial beauty but clouded by existential doubt, says Simon Price

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The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis

In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory

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The Berlin-based artist's first LP in 11 years is an electronic pop treatise on the nature of evil, finds Hayley C Scott

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The singer-songwriter offers up layered and lyrical takes on a youth not yet passed, writes Cat Caie

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: August 2021

For tQ subscribers, here's all the ace new music we've covered on the site this August, compiled into one handy mega-playlist!

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The Strange World Of… France, La Nòvia & Friends

David McKenna goes deep with hurdy-gurdy powered drone giants France and the La Nòvia collective which has, for over a decade, been responsible for breathing new life into French folk music

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Ren Schofield's new grot-coated offering is the sound of him tilting back to a rock sensibility, writes Noel Gardner

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Strung Figures

The Michigan artist has created a time-warping sonic collage with a beat you can dance to, finds Dustin Krcatovich

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Inside Zohra, Afghanistan’s First All-Female Orchestra

Musician turned filmmaker Dan Blackwell shines a light on Zohra, Afghanistan's first female-led orchestra, in new film Sisters. Nilgin Yusuf meets the director

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Kit Mackintosh’s Neon Screams Playlist

The writer of a righteous new Repeater Books title kicks back against claims of retro-stasis

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Bringing The Noise: Yuri Suzuki’s Sonic Bloom

The Margate-based sound artist is trying to disrupt London's newfound silence, writes Aida Amoaka

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Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of August 2021

Here are the very best tracks and albums of August 2021, as selected by tQ staffers, from Bulbils to The Bug via Joy Orbison, Liars and more

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Fleece
Stunning & Atrocious

Montreal's queer quartet return with an aural comfort blanket, writes Zara Hedderman

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Reissue Of The Week: Daniel Patrick Quinn & One More Grain

Two odds and sods compilations offer to reveal the singular brilliance of Daniel Quinn, says Richard Foster, despite the stubborn artist not making this revelation easy on anyone, let alone himself

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Let The Wrecking Ball Loose: ‘Fire’ By The Bug

Kevin Martin has embraced his inner Hulk for The Bug's first abum in seven years, writes JR Moores

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The Atoms That Made Us: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed

Nicky Wire tells Patrick Clarke how insecurity, glitzy 70s pop and the loss of his parents influenced Manic Street Preachers' new album The Ultra-Vivid Lament

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Red Velvet
Queendom

The K-pop group mellow out but their singalong lyrics and catchy hooks remain, finds Verónica A. Bastardo

Electronic

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For August Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel discusses the current trend of “abstract futurism” in the realm of (digital) artworks, while also reviewing releases from TSHA, Joy Orbison, Jana Rush, LMajor and more

Baker's Dozen

Teen Beat: Miki Berenyi’s Favourite Albums

From her teenage adoration of Julian Cope to days spent trawling through the record collection of the local library, Miki Berenyi guides Stephanie Phillips through the 13 albums that made her

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is here to see off Summer with all that is unholy and rotten in the multiple worlds of heavy metal

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Lorde
Solar Power

Lorde's third album is a deceptively sun-kissed record underpinned by a hint of menace, finds Ed Power

Live Reviews

Moving Mountains: Green Man Festival 2021 Reviewed

Long one of the UK's finest festivals, even by its own lofty standards Green Man's triumphant 2021 return is an edition for the ages, find Patrick Clarke and Julian Marszalek

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For August Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores takes a look at the latest psychedelic offerings, after a bit of on-brand '90s nostalgia. Home page photograph: Paper Birch

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TJO
Dispatches From the Drift

A series of fragile driftworks from the LA-based multi-instrumentalist

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Deafheaven
Infinite Granite

Don't be fooled by the subtler shifts in the band's fifth album - they are still capable of reaching intense heights, says Rob Hakiman

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Dawn Of Thrash: Metallica, The Early Days

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Metallica: The $24.95 Book, Ben Apatoff describe the tortuous early days of the world's biggest metal band

Art

Messthetics: An Interview With Karla Black

With a show of sculptures currently on view at the newly re-opened Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, Karla Black talks to John Quin about Actionism, quantum physics, and the future

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Reissue Of The Week: Kling Klang’s The Esthetik Of Destruction

Darran Anderson explores the chaos and misadventure of Kling Klang and their newly reissued The Esthetik Of Destruction, music that sounds like it could have been made yesterday or tomorrow

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The Arctic Flow
Lost You Long Ago

Lost You Long Ago finds South Carolina's The Arctic Flow in a lovelorn, wistful mood, finds Simon Heavisides

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