A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
One Minute I’m On, Next Minute I’m Gone: Galcher Lustwerk Interviewed
The exquisite, atmospheric and subtly lysergic house music of Brooklyn's Galcher Lustwerk tells stories with few words and fewer sonic gestures. Ahead of his set at White Material's label showcase at Unsound, he speaks to Josh Hall about storytelling, noise and the New York electronic scene
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In A Birmingham Tongue: An Interview With Regis
Ahead of his Necklace Of Bites shows at Blackest Ever Black and Unsound this coming week, Filip Kalinowski speaks to the Downwards boss and UK techno figurehead about ritual, sound pressure, DIY as necessity and being half of "Britain's best-loved absurdist space rock duo"
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Roll With It: Sir Bradley Wiggins On His Life In Music
Luke Turner was unable to convince Sir Bradley Wiggins that Kraftwerk were synth-wielding mods, but here the Tour De France and Olympic cycling champion talks about his love of music, and how Liam Gallagher inspired him in his youth
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Trance Induction: An Interview With Tal National
Nigerien ensemble Tal National create joyful, extended, hypnotic grooves that draw from their home country's varied musical traditions. With their first internationally distributed album just released, founder Hamadal Moumine speaks with Richie Troughton about selling his own group's CDs at roundabouts and taking their sound to the wider world
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Music For Dark Rooms: An Interview With Daniel Avery
Daniel Avery's debut album Drone Logic finds the London-based DJ and producer tripping out into expansive, lysergic techno territory. He speaks with Rory Gibb about the enduring appeal of DJing and a love for tracks that blindside you on a dancefloor
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‘The Music, The Trip & The Beyond’: 11Paranoias Interviewed
Toby Cook raises a claw to the magisterially heavy 11 Paranoias, formed from the embers of the dearly departed Ramesses, and speaks with the band's Adam Richardson about "being paranoid in all planes, spheres and dimensions simultaneously"
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Songs As Meditations: An Interview With Body/Head
On their debut album Coming Apart, the seething guitar noise of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head project possesses a strikingly raw emotional force. Petra Davis speaks to the duo about the meditative improvisational processes that went into its making
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Are These The Drones You’re Looking For? Schneider TM Interviewed
Once known for pioneering 'indietronica', Schneider TM is now disappearing into a vortex of beautiful, irresistible noise. Wyndham Wallace talks to him about his new album, Guitar Sounds, working with Pan Sonic and Damo Suzuki, and why "whatever makes sound can be music"
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Bl’ast From The Past: Grohl & More Talk Hardcore Innovators
This month, cult California hardcore pioneers Bl'ast release an album of long-lost recordings, remastered with the help of Dave Grohl. The band, Grohl and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson tell Jamie Thomson about the band's history and how a chance discovery led to their resurrection
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Breaking Apart The Sky: Dustin Wong Interviewed
Using just guitar, effects and a loop pedal, Dustin Wong conjures up hypnotic and immersive instrumental psych-pop. He speaks with Tristan Bath about new album Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy, musical dualities and drawing inspiration from Tokyo
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Escaping The Candy Store: No Bra Interviewed
No Bra's new album Candy is as witty and weird as ever, setting her customary deadpan humour and provocations to sparse instrumental backdrops. She speaks to Bryony Beynon about avoiding capitalist gender stereotypes and fantasising about "having sex with random construction workers in random suburbs of London"
