A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
Hyper Realisation: An Interview With Ben Frost
Iceland-based electronic musician Ben Frost returns next month with his brutal, noise-scorched new album A U R O R A. Ahead of his London show this week and Sonar Barcelona in June, he speaks with Tristan Bath about the making of the new album, traveling to the DR Congo as part of Richard Mosse's The Enclave project, and composing by ear in an age of visual music
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A Sliver Of Hope: An Interview With Willy Vlautin
Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin talks to John Freeman about his new music project, The Delines, and why latest new novel The Free almost put him "in a sanitarium". We also have an exclusive stream of Colfax, the new Delines album
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“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem
On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else
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The Body Is Not Gender: Laura Jane Grace Of Against Me! Interviewed
Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace has penned an album of astonishingly intimate anthemic punk rock. Transgender Dysphoria Blues explores a perspective seldom seen in punk: that of a trans* woman. Here she talks to Petra Davis about creativity, femininity, and soul rebellion
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Spiritual Modernism: Rafał Iwański Of HATI & X-Navi:Et Interviewed
The mesmerising music of Rafał Iwański, both in his long-running duo HATI and solo as X-Navi:Et, channels his fascination with percussive and ritual instruments and trance states. Ahead of his performance at Unsound New York as half of Kapital, he speaks to Rory Gibb about resonance, improvisation and the sounds of the cosmos
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Test Dept On AV Festival & Remembering The Miners’ Strike
Next weekend, members of 80s clatterers Test Dept head to the AV Festival to carry out an installation commemorating the Miners' Strike. Here, Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy discuss the project, and state why, in the current political climate, remembering those events is so important
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Beautiful Noise: Rhys Chatham Interviewed
In this lost interview from 2009, Rhys Chatham talks to David Moats about doom metal, gentrification and drum & bass as a collaboration between him and Charlemagne Palestine comes to St. John's Church in Hackney on Thursday as part of William Basinski and Art Assembly's Arcadia series
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The Avalanche Of Rose: An Interview With Keel Her
Mixing surf pop, punk and electronics, the songs on Keel Her's debut album are just a sample of Rose Keeler-Schäffeler's prolific home-recorded output. With bandmate Andrew Barnes, she talks to Stuart Huggett about getting out of the bedroom
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