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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture 8: Why The For Carnation Should Not Stand In Slint’s Shadow
Slint’s Spiderland is regularly cited as one of the most important albums of the last 30 years, yet its shadowy twin The For Carnation remains defiantly under the radar. Joe Banks makes the case for its re-evaluation while pondering the evolution of post-rock
Black Sky Thinking
Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks
It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning
A Quietus Interview
Fire Fighting: Steve Albini Interviewed
When Neil Macdonald phoned Steve Albini for some quotes on the anniversary of Rapeman's Two Nuns And A Pack Mule, he got a lot more than he was expecting... The Big Black/Shellac frontman talks reformations, forest fires and poker tournaments
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Film
Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Toute Une Nuit’
One of Chantal Akerman's lesser known works feels singularly important during times of global isolation. Toute Une Nuit telegraphs the importance of human connection over one finite period of time and now plays like a foggy memory, finds Patrick Preziosi
Film
Call Of The Wild: Inside ‘Wolfwalkers’, The Game-Changing Irish Animation
Cartoon Saloon have been making groundbreaking animated films for years – and with Wolfwalkers, they might just break the studio chokehold on the Oscars. Ian Wang meets directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart to find out how
