A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
A Quietus Interview
Late Night Vocal Science: An Interview With Jessy Lanza
Jessy Lanza is the mind and voice behind the sensuous and haunting R&B and electronic pop of Pull My Hair Back, released through Hyperdub next month. She speaks with Petra Davis about accidental vocal science and how her songs are like self-assembled collages
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When Life Gives You Lemons: Matthew Herbert Interviewed
From sampling a tank rolling over a Nigella Lawson dinner to creating an album detailing the life of a pig from birth to plate (2011’s One Pig), Matthew Herbert has long been one of Britain’s most remarkable musicians. Here he talks to Ben Cardew
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Return To Orbit: The Long, Strange Trip Of Terminal Cheesecake
London's clown princes of synapse-shredding noise rock and psychedelia Terminal Cheesecake have just reunited with help from Gnod, and are preparing to lay waste to Supernormal Festival. Jimmy Martin caught up with the band's members to talk onstage drug experiences and their strange and addled history
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Twilight Zone: Jørgen Munkeby Of Shining Interviewed
Norwegian jazz/metal firebrands Shining recently released their latest album, One One One. Dayal Patterson catches up with band leader Jørgen Munkeby to discuss the spiritual connections between jazz and metal, and being led by the heart rather than the head
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Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed
Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
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Mysterious Handsome Men: An Interview With Girl Band
Dublin's Girl Band tore through Quietus HQ earlier this year with their unhinged and brilliant cover of Blawan's 'Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage'. Paul Tucker met them to discuss the quirks of self-recording and why they're infuriated by Nirvana comparisons
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Sweet Narcotic Reverie: An Interview With The Lucid Dream
On their newly released debut album Carlisle's neo-psych trainwreckers The Lucid Dream inject their music with equal parts pop-suss and blistering noise. The band's Mark Emmerson speaks with Ben Graham about avoiding psychedelia's stereotypical trappings and working in isolation
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Dazzle-Camo: An Interview With Zebra Katz
With his recent DRKLNG mixtape, New York rapper Zebra Katz followed up last year's freakily infectious 'Ima Read' in similarly sinister, sub-loaded style. Laura Snoad met up with him to discuss investigations of language and the eternal appeal of bass
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Thirsty, Pummelling Noise: An Interview With Wölfbait
Self-described 'kraut violence' crew Wolfbait stormed the Quietus office earlier this year with their self-titled debut album, which hit with all the unstoppable momentum of a wrecking ball. We assigned Toby Cook to find out more about this mysterious gang of demolition artistes
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It’s A Kind Of Magick: Grumbling Fur Interviewed
Grumbling Fur's Glynnaestra, released next week, is one of the Quietus' favourite albums we've heard for quite some time. Ahead of its release next week, the duo tell Luke Turner how the complexity of nature, Blade Runner and a UFO sighting came together to inspire the record
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Love Is The Message: An Interview With Robert Hood
Robert Hood's new album under the Floorplan alias sees the minimal techno pioneer infuse his sound with gospel, disco and funk, all the while retaining his customary astonishing, hypnotic precision. He speaks with Harry Sword about growing up in '70s Detroit, the importance of intent, and how his strong Christian faith informs his attitude towards club music
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‘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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