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It's that time again. The month is over, things are beginning once more, and The Quietus is here to redress any imbalance it may have helped create. Bringing together the best music we reviewed in September, and the best of what we didn't, we present our 12-times yearly attempt at cosmic realignment
John Freeman meets up with Hannah Peel to find out why the five years it took to make her extraordinary new album, Awake But Always Dreaming, became a “life-changing experience” inspired by a desire to understand her grandmother’s dementia
John Freeman travels to Skelmersdale with The Magnetic North and a small dog, to find out why the new town - and UK centre of the Transcendental Meditation movement - inspired their beautiful new album, Prospect Of Skelmersdale