A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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Counterflow States: An Interview With Helena Celle
Glaswegian musical polymath Kay Logan has lit up early 2021 by releasing what might be her most extraordinary work to date – including, under the Helena Celle pseudonym, an hour-long piece for April’s lockdown edition of her home city’s experimental festival Counterflows. She waxes theoretical to Noel Gardner
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Real Drool Time: An Interview With Part Chimp
As Part Chimp announce their latest album Drool, due on June 4, the band's singer, guitarist and self-appointed nagger-in-chief Tim Cedar talks to JR Moores about invertebrates and Ringo Starr. Feature contains video for new track, 'Back From The Dead'
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Summoning The Ancestors: Muqata’a Interviewed
Following the release of his new album Kamil Manqus, Adam Quarshie spoke to Palestinian hip hop producer and electronic musician Muqata’a about growing up under military occupation and making music as a way to preserve collective memory. Home page photograph by ROOT
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Couple Goals: Toyah’s Lockdown
Toyah Willcox tells us about her and husband Robert Fripp's bonkers lockdown videos, why she sees herself as honouring Barbara Windsor, how they might influence King Crimson going forward, and how they've inspired a surge of interest in her kitchen cupboards. Plus, tQ's top seven lockdown home broadcasts!
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Labour Of Love: An Interview With Kìzis
Kìzis speaks to Patrick Clarke about the myriad forms of love that informed her epic new album Tidibàbide / Turn, which runs over three and a half hours and features over 50 collaborators including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Owen Pallett, and a Toronto cab driver
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Searching Questions: iLL BLU Interviewed
Denzil Bell asks James Grant and Darius Ellington-Forde their perspective on the use of stop and search targeting the black community, as well as the future of drill music, the funky house revival and their forthcoming debut album The BluPrint
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Something Of Substance: An Interview With Billy Nomates
As she releases the first track 'Heels' - which you can listen to below - from a new EP, Billy Nomates, aka Tor Maries, speaks to Patrick Clarke about class barriers, the fragility of DIY musicianship, and the government's 'sinister' disregard for an industry on the edge of collapse
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Rave Not Ritual: An Interview With UKAEA
Fresh from releasing one of the albums of the year, Dan Jones of UKAEA and a number of his collaborators speak to Patrick Clarke about how the project's post-apocalyptic aesthetics are a warning rather than a manual, the line between appropriation and influence, why their extraordinary holistic live performances are more rave than ritual, and more
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Sharing Interfaces: Mark Fell And Rian Treanor Interviewed
Father and son Mark Fell and Rian Treanor are both unique voices in electronic music and due to perform together at this year's Next Festival. Adam Quarshie speaks to the pair about what led them towards music and their new ideas for collaborative alternatives to streaming in the age of Covid
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An Audience With The King: Sharhabil Ahmed Interviewed
Sharhabil Ahmed, the pioneering Sudanese musician and subject of an essential new Habibi Funk compilation, speaks to Patrick Clarke about his long and storied career, from performing for Haile Selassie to being crowned The King of Sudanese Jazz. Photos courtesy of Habibi Funk
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