A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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Requiem For A Lost Industry: An Interview With Jóhann Jóhannsson
With his score for The Theory Of Everything recently nominated for a BAFTA, the Icelandic composer talks to Karl Smith about his approach to creating music for the screen and reflects on The Miners' Hymns, the film tracing the decline of the north-east's mining communities, following its tour of the country last year
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The Homecoming King: An Interview With BC Camplight
On the release of his third album, How To Die In The North, BC Camplight's Brian Christinzio tells John Freeman how an encounter with a fan on Facebook resulted in a plane ticket to Manchester and saved him from a life of "self-sabotage"
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Sludge Maelstrom: An Interview With Prizehog
Following the release of last year's Re-Unvent The Whool album, the metal trio of face-melters-cum-Simpsons aficionados talk to Toby Cook about the record, how relocating Portland has liberated their sound and why Saved By The Bell's Mr. Belding was an unlikely kindred spirit
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Interiority Complex: Exploring Manchester’s Hinterlands With Lonelady
Wandering star Julie Campbell takes John Doran for a walk around the canal towpaths, vacant lots, Victorian mills and red light districts of Greater Manchester in order to explain the genesis of her new album, Hinterland
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Practising Heaviness: Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth Interviewed
Tad Doyle, veteran of the 90s Seattle scene with his former band TAD, releases his first album with his powerfully-monikered new doom trio later this month. Before that, he tells Harry Sword about exploring the sludgier end of the spectrum and drawing a line under the past
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And Desire Will Come By Itself: Songhoy Blues Interviewed
The Malian four-piece formed after fleeing from the north of the country when it was taken over by Islamist militants in 2012. Three years on, they tell Richie Troughton about combining blues with their native Songhai music on debut album, Music In Exile
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Staying Untuned: Zamilska Interviewed
Her debut album of hard-edged, techno-shaded rattlers was one of our favourites of last year. Before she heads to CTM, Natalia Zamilska talks to Luke Turner about meshing together African music and Emily Brontë, the political aspects of her work and seeking diversity in Poland's music scene
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Rejoin The Tribe: Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss Interviewed
This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire
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Irreality Check: Disappears Interviewed
The Chicago post-punk band released their new album, Irreal, this week. Before they come to the UK next month, Robert McCallum talks to their frontman Brian Case about the record, reinterpreting Bowie and the importance of maintaining forward momentum
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Fragments Of Fragments: An Interview With Laura Cannell
Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project
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At The Extremities: Barney Greenway Of Napalm Death Interviewed
This month sees the release of Napalm Death's 16th album, Apex Predator - Easy Meat. Dan Franklin sits down with lead singer Mark 'Barney' Greenway to pick over the remains of late capitalism, chew on the band's "queasy" new sound and explore the outlying regions of extremity
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Pure Original: The Sexual Objects Release Only One Copy Of New LP
The Sexual Objects - a rock band formed by Davy Henderson of the Fire Engines, Nectarine No. 9 and Win - are releasing their second album this week. Here's the thing though - they're only pressing up one copy and selling it on eBay to the highest bidder. Neil Cooper - one of the few people to hear it - reports
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Time Travel: Joe Dilworth Of Th’ Faith Healers Interviewed
Greg Neate revisits a 1994 interview he conducted with Joe Dilworth to shed light on the life of this former musician with Th' Faith Healers, Stereolab, Add N to (X) and Spiritualized as well as highly regarded photographer and current member of Cavern Of Anti-Matter
