A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
Loving The Alien: Einstürzende Neubauten Interviewed
When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their most coherent yet varied body of work so far. Frontman Blixa Bargeld tells Wesley Doyle how biological determinism, public improvisation and feather boas all fed into its creation
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Sound Bath Loud: An Interview With Big Brave
Having reached a peak of heavy music on last year’s Nature Morte, Montreal’s Big Brave speak to Patrick Clarke about embracing the intensity of quietness on new album A Chaos Of Flowers, and how taking lyrical influence from long-dead poets provided deep political resonance
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No Fucks Left To Give? Arab Strap Interviewed
“The internet is literally Thatcher’s Dream: an entire society of strangers out there working for themselves.” Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back and – despite their protestations, says Elizabeth Aubrey – they patently care now more than ever
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Dignity & Labour: Fat White Family Interviewed
Arrests in Algeria, family blood feuds, unreleasable drone music, permanently broken friendships, magic mushroom vomit... Fat White Family may be poised to release a brilliant new album Forgiveness Is Yours, but as he reveals to Daniel Dylan Wray, the stress of keeping the show on the road is becoming too much for Lias Saoudi. All portraits by Louise Mason
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Love In the Present: Julia Holter Interviewed
The sixth record from Julia Holter is a layered and heartfelt exploration of the sublime everyday. Ahead of her performance at Rewire Festival next month, she talks to Skye Butchard about its difficult creation, parallel soundtrack projects, and the attention economy in the streaming era
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Even Later: Dali De Saint Paul & Maxwell Sterling Interviewed
A year after their gloriously nightmarish session for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, the two improvisers are finally sharing the recordings that didn’t make the airwaves... and taking their blistering show on the road. They speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about birdsong, fear, and their new audio-visual shows backed by the Outlands Network
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Guestlist For The Armageddon: An Interview With Lynks
Lynks takes Bella Spratley through his journey from a Bristol basement party dressed in binbags and rubber gloves to next month’s dizzying debut album Abomination, and talks fluidity, anger, representation and more. Photos by Mars Washington
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Embrace The Worm: An Interview With One Leg One Eye
Lankum’s Ian Lynch speaks to Patrick Clarke about his solo project One Leg One Eye, how debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me helped him through a period of personal turmoil, why Lankum’s Mercury nomination made him feel “dirty”, and his return to Supersonic Festival this summer
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Epic Proportions: An Interview With PoiL Ueda
A collaboration between psychedelic French band PoiL and Japanese traditional musician Junko Ueda, inspired by a 12th century sea battle and its aftermath, resulted in not one, but two of the best albums of last year. Ahead of a performance at Tremor Festival next month, they speak to David McKenna
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Angel Children: Alison Cotton Interviewed
The experimental drone folk artist talks to Alex Rigotti about her new album Engelchen which tells the incredible story of Ida and Louise Cook who used their love of opera to save the lives of Jewish people endangered by German Nazis during the 1930s. Home page portrait by William Lacalmontie
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Sadness & Hope: The Harrowing Journey Of Mohammad Syfkhan
John Doran talks to bouzouki player, folk singer and Syrian emigrant Mohammad Syfkhan about his astounding album, I Am Kurdish, and considers what it means to be an Irish musician. With thanks to Willie Stewart and Cormac MacDiarmada. CW: contains biographical details that may cause distress
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Maybe It’s Because He’s A Londoner? Danny Brown Interviewed
Jesse Bernard spots Detroit rapper Danny Brown at an Arsenal match, sees him play live in Shoreditch, and then interviews him about just how deep his love for grime goes (and his recent experiences in and out of rehab and one of last year's finest albums, Quaranta). All photographs by Peter Beste
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Chasing Energy: An Interview With James Brandon Lewis
Ahead of a show as part of EFG London Jazz Festival this month, saxophonist, composer and improviser James Brandon Lewis speaks to Stewart Smith about honouring the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, his unique compositional system Molecular Systematic Music and more
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Despite Everything, We’re Still Here: An Interview With Slauson Malone 1
Ahead of a performance at Le Guess Who?, where he also serves as guest curator, Slauson Malone 1 speaks to Patrick Clarke about his new record Excelsior, blending the scientific and the fantastical, and why one’s musical taste should never be trusted
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Accordion Laments: An Interview With Yara Asmar
Christina Hazboun meets Lebanese multi-disciplinary artist Yara Asmar, to discuss her deeply personal new record inspired by the journey of her grandmother’s accordion, her grandfather’s reel to reel recordings of birds, the necessity of disconnection and more
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Unacceptable Ideas: An Interview With Bill Orcutt
Ahead of his performance at Le Guess Who? next month, Vanessa Ague speaks to Bill Orcutt, who charts the series of serendipities and chance encounters that led to one of the most boundary-pushing and varied careers in experimental guitar playing
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There’s Nowt So Weird As Folk: John Francis Flynn interviewed
John Francis Flynn is just about to release one of the year's finest albums, Look Over The Wall, See The Sky. Here he talks to John Doran about the violence and otherworldliness of traditional music and the radical symbol of the mole. Scroll down feature for the premiere of the Willie Crotty video
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