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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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A One-Man Malfunctioning Orchestra: Alexander Tucker Interviewed
As he releases his most electronic solo album to date, Alexander Tucker discusses sci-fi and horror influences, hating the guitar, and never being "folk" in the first place. Words by JR Moores. Portraits by Dom Garwood
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No Dramas: HTRK Interviewed
The dark electronic pop Australian duo HTRK, once described brilliantly as sounding like ‘Sade in prison’ return with their fourth album, Venus in Leo a slow, louche blur with chinks of warm sun peeking through the shadows. Ahead of their set at Atonal in Berlin this week, we caught up with the duo to talk about being drawn to toxic people, a new body oil for merch and moving away from drama.
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Never Generic: Flipper Interviewed
Currently spanning Europe on a 40th anniversary tour, Flipper are enjoying a well-earned renaissance. Steve DePace from the seminal San Francisco punks talks to Brian Coney about their current line-up featuring David Yow and Mike Watt, recording with Melvins and their rep as the ultimate forebears of grunge
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No Other Approach: HYPERSTITION DUO Interviewed
Regrouped in London, ex-members of Blood Sport Sam Parkin and Alex Keegan talk to Bernie Brooks about the ecstatic, anti-capitalist rhythms of their new project, HYPERSTITION DUO, the dissolution of their former band, and their new label POLYPHONIC ASSEMBLAGE
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A Long Term Effect: Tim Pope On Four Decades Of Work With The Cure
Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett chats with Pope about his forthcoming Cure concert film Anniversary as well as more unusual anecdotes about his many music videos for them than you can shake a stick at. Or is that a sock?
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Unquiet Spirits: Ifriqiyya Electrique Interviewed
With Laylet el Booree - one of tQ's albums of the year so far - Ifriqiyya Electrique have fused industrial post punk and techno with the traditional Banga music of the Tunisian desert to brilliant effect. But as instigator Francois Cambuzat tells Ben Graham, they still fear it could all be a dreadful mistake
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Horror Is Not Finely Shaded: An Interview with HARRGA
Pairing searing avant-garde electronics with multilingual meditations on the refugee crisis, HARRGA constitute a new, urgent kind of political project. In their first ever interview, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the duo about the roles of language, disorientation and terror in their debut album
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Emotional Science: Eartheater On Teaming Up With Semiconductor For Outlands
As Eartheater prepares to team up with Semiconductor for 'Fracture Patterns', the latest collaborative project commissioned by the always-excellent Outlands Network, she talks to Patrick Clarke about art, science and the relationship between the two
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Gorgeous Decay: Liz Harris On Her New Project Nivhek
Liz Harris went through extremes when she went to Murmansk for an artistic residency at the height of the Arctic summer. She talked with our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett about the resultant new album and project. Portrait by JJ Harris
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Calling Occupant Of Interplanetary Craft: Matias Aguayo Interviewed
Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music
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The Watch Is Ended: Game Of Thrones Doc Director Jeanie Finlay Interviewed
Jeanie Finlay captured the epic task of making the final series of Game of Thrones in documentary The Last Watch. Here, she tells Luke Turner about bumping into the Night King in Spar and finding the human stories among cast and crew. ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***
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Boom Boom Pow: Black Midi Interviewed
Ahead of their appearance at Sea Change Festival this weekend, John Doran speaks to Geordie Greep and Cameron Picton of Black Midi and asks, what exactly does it take for a challenging band to make a genuine go of it in 2019? Avatars created by Anthrox Studio. Band portrait by Dan Kendall. (Warning: the 'Crows Perch' video contains flashing images)
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The Fall And Rise: An Interview With Imperial Wax
After Mark E. Smith died in 2018, he left behind Dave Spurr, Keiron Melling and Pete Greenway, the last and longest-serving line-up The Fall ever had. Now, the trio have continued where they left off with Imperial Wax, with new frontman Sam Curran
