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Reviews 4

If You Go Down To The Woods: Things Learned At Dekmantel

Dance Dance Dance: Things Learned At Sonar Festival 2013

Field Day 2013: The Quietus Review

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Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This November

Our final round-up of the month's best music for 2019 features albums from Moor Mother, Giant Swan, FKA twigs, William Doyle and plenty more

Black Sky Thinking

Burn Up The Floor: Pop & Politics In 2013 Dance Music

At the end of an exhausting year in club music, Rory Gibb reflects back upon 2013 on and off the dancefloor, and considers some of the political, social and technological issues facing the dance music community in the near future

News 16

Blawan And Pariah Reveal Debut Album As Persher, ‘Sleep Well’

The duo, otherwise known as Karenn, will release their first full-length effort through Thrill Jockey in February

Blawan And Pariah Reveal New Karenn EP, ‘Everything Is Curly’

The four-track release is due out on their own Voam label

Fabric Confirms First Names For Inaugural EXODUS Festival

Karenn, Ricardo Villalobos and more will play the July event

Blawan And Pariah Debut New Alias, Persher

The Karenn members' first release under the new moniker, 'Man With The Magic Soap', will be released through Thrill Jockey

Lunchmeat Festival Reveals First Wave Of Acts For 2022 Edition

Karenn, µ-Ziq and more will play the Prague event this year

London Gets New Day Festival, Waterworks

The event's debut edition was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Karenn Line Up New 12″, ‘Music Sounds Better With Shoe’

The A-side is based on a track that the duo performed live in a 2014 Boiler Room set

LISTEN + Q&A: Karenn Share New Track, ‘Strawbs’

The speedy cut is one highlight of many on the duo's upcoming debut album which they discuss further below

Karenn Detail Debut Album, ‘Grapefruit Regret’

Blawan and Pariah's first LP was "written and recorded during an intense studio session"

Blawan & Pariah Confirm New Karenn 12″

Blawan and Pariah's first record together as Karenn since 2014 is due out next month

Sonar Festival 2013: A Quietus Preview

With the Quietus preparing to jet across to Barcelona later this week for this year's edition of Sonar Festival, Rory Gibb and Luke Turner take you through some of our most anticipated acts

The Quietus’ Hour-By-Hour Field Day Preview

Save yourself the bother of working out what to see and when tomorrow with the Quietus' handy guide to what we recommend throughout the day, from nature recordings to serious OOF. By John Doran, Rory Gibb, Laurie Tuffrey and Luke Turner

Flow: Kendrick Lamar, Kraftwerk & More

Finland's Flow Festival adds rapper to mightily impressive bill already boasting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Knife, Karenn and more

VOTE: Quietus’ Cult Star Award On 6 Music

Vote below to decide who will be Tomorrow's Cult Star Today

WATCH: Karenn Live At Boiler Room

Fierce and furious set from Blawan and Pariah

Blawan & Pariah: New Karenn EP

More grubby techno from London

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Film

Shyamalan’s The Village: An Old Haven From The Modern World

In the wake of M. Night Shyamalan's new existential horror film Old, the filmmaker's 2004 period thriller The Village has only become more potent in its striking grasp on generational regret, finds Tony Black

Film

Jersey Shore: Branchage Film Festival 2011

The Quietus once again ventures to the secluded island of Jersey for a weekend of films, live soundtracks, installations, parties and amphibious vehicles.

Art

No Longer An Allegory Of War: A Personal Reflection On Images & Conflict

Photographs of the dead in places of conflict are becoming increasingly more common as mobile phones can capture and share in an instant. But what is it like to know someone in such an image? London writer and poet Chimène Suleyman remembers growing up knowing her grandfather only through a photo taken after his death in Cyprus

Film

24 Carax Gold? Holy Motors Reviewed

French auteur Leos Carax makes an overdue return to our cinema screens on Friday with this surreal saga of parallel lives and limousines, starring Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes and Kylie Minogue. Your driver is Jeremy Allen

Film

The Extinction Of Reality: The Counselor Reassessed

Jasun Horsley looks back at The Counselor, and finds new depths in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's unlikely collaboration

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Reviews 4

If You Go Down To The Woods: Things Learned At Dekmantel

Dance Dance Dance: Things Learned At Sonar Festival 2013

Field Day 2013: The Quietus Review

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Articles 2

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This November

Burn Up The Floor: Pop & Politics In 2013 Dance Music

News 16

Blawan And Pariah Reveal Debut Album As Persher, ‘Sleep Well’

Blawan And Pariah Reveal New Karenn EP, ‘Everything Is Curly’

Fabric Confirms First Names For Inaugural EXODUS Festival

Blawan And Pariah Debut New Alias, Persher

Lunchmeat Festival Reveals First Wave Of Acts For 2022 Edition

London Gets New Day Festival, Waterworks

Karenn Line Up New 12″, ‘Music Sounds Better With Shoe’

LISTEN + Q&A: Karenn Share New Track, ‘Strawbs’

Karenn Detail Debut Album, ‘Grapefruit Regret’

Blawan & Pariah Confirm New Karenn 12″

Sonar Festival 2013: A Quietus Preview

The Quietus’ Hour-By-Hour Field Day Preview

Flow: Kendrick Lamar, Kraftwerk & More

VOTE: Quietus’ Cult Star Award On 6 Music

WATCH: Karenn Live At Boiler Room

Blawan & Pariah: New Karenn EP

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