A Quietus Interview
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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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Blurred Lines: An Interview With Lou Doillon
Lou Doillon's debut album of enigmatic folk pop Places has been a surprise hit in her native France. In advance of a London show at Queen Elizabeth Hall this week, she speaks with Jeremy Allen about the pressures of growing up in a family of famous musicians
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Fran Healy Of Travis Interviewed
With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to buy dinner, quote Seamus Heaney and discuss why, despite so many people loving them, they provoke such fiercely negative reactions…
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The Sound Of Rain: Mark Fell And The Quietest Room In Europe
John Doran speaks to the renowned leftfield electronic music producer and sound installation creator about 64 Beautiful Phase Violations - an experiment in an anechoic chamber. With thanks to Rory Gibb and Kit Turner for essential moral and technical guidance. Features embedded short documentary. Mark Fell portrait by Connie Treanor
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For Love Of Charanjit Singh: Disco Ragas On The Road
Ahead of Charanjit Singh's performance on the BleeD stage at Field Day this Sunday, his manager and booking agent Rana Ghose explains why the recently rediscovered Indian producer's proto-acid music has taken over his life and work
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