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Reviews 6

Full Clip: The Best Hip Hop From March & April Reviewed

The Panpopticon With Amy Pettifer: This Month In Pop

Desperately Seeking Awesomeness: Kanye West Live At Wireless

Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Articles 14

Film

High Alert: Romain Gavras On Greek Tragedy Athena

With Athena, music video director Romain Gavras has made the most explosive statement of his career yet – Sam Moore finds out how he did it

Books

Punched Through The Digital Wall: Sam Byers’ Perfidious Albion Playlist

Author Sam Byers, whose new novel Perfidious Albion is published by Faber on Thursday, shares the songs that accompanied its creation

Tracks of the Year

The Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2016

For the final of our year-end lists, we round up the best tracks of 2016 with a Baker's Dozen selected by John Doran, Luke Turner, Karl Smith and Christian Eede, as well as lists from our contributors

Black Sky Thinking

A Dead Dog’s Arse Of A F***ing Year: Mr Agreeable Reviews 2016

2016 was so unpleasant that even Mr Agreeable couldn't find much to love. The deranged old sot has sent in a green ink missive featuring his views on Trump, Brexit, Corbyn, Rag N'Bone Man, Kanye West and James Corden

Black Sky Thinking

Without A Sail: The Complicated Legacy Of Pastor T. L. Barrett

The music of TL Barrett has been acclaimed by Radiohead, reissued by Light In The Attic, and even sampled by Kanye West earlier this year. But, asks Daniel Hornsby, what are we supposed to make of transcendent religious art when it is made by a thieving conman?

Strange World Of...

Monolith And Mandala: The Strange World Of Kanye West

Brilliant curator, average rapper, master of ideas foiled by their execution — Karl Smith takes a walk through the strange world of Kanye West, the closest thing music has to an Ai Weiwei

Black Sky Thinking

With All Duet Respect: On Snobbery, Kanye & McCartney

Turns out plenty of Kanye fans don't know who Paul McCartney is. So what? It's not the ignorance of youth that bothers Ned Raggett, it's the faux outrage and the smug lols that greet it

A Quietus Interview

Steady Flexin’: An Interview With Lunice

Ahead of his set at Field Day this weekend, Ed Ledsham catches up with the Montreal producer to discuss the evolution of his sound, taking tips from Kanye and his explosive TNGHT project with Hudson Mohawke

Black Sky Thinking

Wreath Lectures 2013: Celebrating A Great Year For Men In Music!

It's been a great year for men in music. Jude Rogers looks at the runners and riders in one of 2013's biggest races...

Tracks of the Year

We’re All In It Together: Quietus Writers’ Tracks Of 2013

Our staff and writers distil 2013's tracks down into handy top tens for our year-end hit parade

Books

Blown Horizonz: The Birth & Death Of Auto-Tune

In an extract from his new book, Blown Horizonz, David Z Morris connects the dots between economics, Auto-Tune and the Enlightenment

Black Sky Thinking

Everything Louder Than Everything Else – Dynamic Range Mastering In 2011

Nick Southall examines the state of play in the loudness wars in 2011 with regards to Kanye West, PJ Harvey and These New Puritans. Main photo by the author

Black Sky Thinking

Cutting the Beef: Rappers unite as 50’s marketing ploy fails

As 50 Cent vainly attempts to flog another album on his label with a tired round of beefing, Adam Narkiewicz looks at how a new generation of rappers are re-introducing a spirit of community and collaboration to the genre.

Black Sky Thinking

Kanye West, Sensitive Soul

Quietus Editor John Doran gets drunk, falls over, destroys phone, makes noise like "broken panther" and has Proustian recall of two run ins with the "resolutely mediocre" Kanye West

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 5

Baker's Dozen

Sonic Debris: Tony Njoku’s Favourite Music

The British-Nigerian experimental classical composer speaks to Alex Rigotti about his new EP, 'Last Bloom', and how encounters with the music of ANOHNI, Young Fathers, Curtis Mayfield and more changed the trajectory of his life

Baker's Dozen

Ultimate Sad Boys: Fred Macpherson’s Baker’s Dozen

Spector's Fred Macpherson takes Patrick Clarke on a rollercoaster Baker's Dozen, taking in the similarities between Frank Sinatra and Drake, a love-hate relationship with Nick Cave, his friendship with David Tibet and more

Baker's Dozen

Relentless Education: Krust’s 13 Favourite Albums

Drum & bass pioneer Krust takes Neil Kulkarni through the records that shaped him, from the lessons learnt from Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan and Yellow Magic Orchestra to the "revelation" of Flying Lotus, via The Beatles, Michael Jackson and more

Baker's Dozen

Rare Essences: Andy Gill Of Gang Of Four’s Favourite Records

Five years ago, following the release of their eighth album, What Happens Next, Andy Gill of Gang Of Four talked Bryan Brussee through the picks of his record collection, both albums and individual tracks

Baker's Dozen

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never