A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
‘Let The Evil Blood Spill Out’: An Interview With kIRk
Polish trio kIRk create a post-industrial, improvisation-based "soundtrack for sleepwalking, hypnotism, undeath, and all liminal states of consciousness". They meet Pavel Godfrey to discuss last album Zła Krew, losing all their equipment and the evolution of the Polish music scene
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Through The Kaleidoscope: An Interview With Hyetal
With new album Modern Worship, Bristol's former dubstep experimenter Hyetal expands his vision into crystalline, colour-saturated forms of electronic pop. He speaks with Ammar Kalia about using music to visualise imaginary worlds and his storming new collaborative 12" with Kowton
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Do It Yourself (Get A Friend To Help): House Of Blondes Interviewed
After discovering that House Of Blondes claimed to have two debut albums, and falling in love with the second, Clean Cuts, Nick Southall was both confused and intrigued. He contacted John Blonde to solve this puzzle, and ended up discussing the magic of recorded sound
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Straight From The Subconscious: Melt Yourself Down Interviewed
With new project Melt Yourself Down, Pete Wareham of Acoustic Ladyland and his crew of merry travellers whip up a storm of frenzied rhythms and vibrant splashes of colour, inspired by the music of North Africa. Simon Jay Catling enters the hothouse
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Conditioned To Death: An Interview With Power Trip
Power Trip's Manifest Decimation has just landed in the Quietus' list of favourite albums of 2013 so far. Toby Cook catches up with the band to discuss DIY culture, touring injuries that'll put your teeth on edge and just what on earth the French existentialists have to do with thrash metal
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An Eternal Education: An Interview With The Heliocentrics
Jake Ferguson and Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics tell John Freeman how the band's second album and one of the Quietus favourites of the year so far, 13 Degrees Of Reality, was inspired by two legendary pioneers of jazz
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Ruff Around The Edges: Simian Mobile Disco Talk Live Performance
Simian Mobile Disco's second live album offers an oblique answer to a series of questions about live dance music. Chad Parkhill presses the duo of James Ford and Jas Shaw about their motives in releasing this document of their show
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‘A Long Piece About Nothing’: Wanda Group Interviewed
As Wanda Group, Louis Johnstone creates beautiful, decayed landscapes of tape crackle, hiss and distortion. Ahead of a live show in London this Friday, he tells Matthew Kent about "having no clue what I'm doing" and dedicating albums to his now-junked old red car
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Some Sort Of Magic: An Interview With James Holden
With enigmatic and exploratory new album The Inheritors, Border Community boss James Holden trips further beyond the walls of the club into wild, elemental territories. He speaks with Harry Sword about the importance of throwing off limitations of technology, mindset and genre
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Stockings And All: An Interview With Kirin J Callinan
Sexuality, masculinity, and childhood form an unholy thematic triumvirate in the work of Kirin J Callinan, who is about to release his debut album Embracism. Following a ferocious London show, he sat down with Josh Hall to discuss the split between his onstage and offstage personae
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The Lay Of The Land: An Interview With Hwyl Nofio
Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder
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There Are Other Worlds: Stellar OM Source Interviewed
With new album Joy One Mile, Christelle Gualdi turns the crystalline harmonies of her early synthesiser music towards gauzy, immersive club tracks. She speaks with Rory Gibb about a chance encounter with a TB-303, a love of synthesis and working with Kassem Mosse
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Astral Travel Agent: Not Waving Interviewed
For his new project, Alessio Natalizia of Walls draws inspiration from the theory of remote viewing to create "sound for places I have never been before". With his album Umwelt just released, he speaks with Joe Clay about pseudoscience and imaginary locations
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