A Quietus Interview

Rewire Your Brain: An Interview With Endless Boogie

New York's Endless Boogie couldn't be more aptly named, frying minds with sprawling, blues-tinted jams that seem to chug on forever. With career-best album Long Island just released, Stevie Chick speaks to the band's Paul Major about psychedelic experiences and intuition

Distorted & Contorted: An Interview With Samuel Kerridge

Berlin's Samuel Kerridge re-casts techno as a sensuous, murky throb, overwhelming the listener with waves of sub-bass and metallic ambience drawn from doom metal and post-punk. He speaks to Maya Kalev about his new EP for Regis' label and the importance of pushing against constraints

Extrasensory Perfection: An Interview With Matmos

Matmos' excellent new album The Marriage Of True Minds finds the duo delving gleefully into experiments in psychic projection and "very large green triangles". At its core, however, lies simple and tangible human connection, they tell Angus Finlayson

Behind The Curtain: An Interview With Team Ghost

Wyndham Wallace joins M83 co-founder Nicolas Fromageau and members of his new band, Team Ghost, in their Paris studio to discuss their debut album Rituals

Shock To Your System: Tegan Of Tegan & Sara Interviewed

As Tegan and Sara Quin release their latest LP, Erin Lyndal Martin speaks to Tegan about a new pop direction, Riot Grrrl, that open letter over Tyler The Creator, and involvement in queer politics

The Sun Also Sets: On The Road With Benjamin Schoos In Spain

Jeremy Allen hits the road in Spain with an ambitious Belgian crooner to judge how the collapse of the music industry is affecting other European countries

Of Course You Exist: An Interview With The Pictish Trail

The Pictish Trail is back with another album of dreamy and skewed pop, transmitted from his caravan on the remote Isle of Eigg. He speaks to Nicola Meighan about the gestation of Secret Soundz Vol. 2, touring with Josie Long, and writing 30-second songs

Rhyme Assassin: Mykki Blanco Discusses Her “Glam Hip Hop”

Mykki Blanco's Cosmic Angel was one of last year's most remarkable rap mixtapes. Following an incendiary London show last month, she speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about dropping out of art school, performing in drag, and why having no limits in art is important

Don't Be Scared Of Music: An Interview With Dobie

Dobie is one of London's best-kept secrets, a musician, producer and photographer who has worked with Tricky, London Posse, Soul II Soul and more. Now he's back with a second solo album, and speaks to Joe Clay about why his career has been all about pursuing enjoyment

Target Practice: David Thomas Of Pere Ubu Interviewed



Thirty-five years on from The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas talks to Stuart Huggett about new album Lady from Shanghai and how Ubu have always been a pop band

Of Flowers & Fruity Englishmen: The Asphodells' Andrew Weatherall

With his new duo The Asphodells, Andrew Weatherall has created an album that's equal parts pastoral electronic pop and naughty indoor pursuits. He speaks to Luke Turner about fruity Englishmen and the importance of setting yourself high standards

A Darkness In The West: Hacker Farm Interviewed

Hacker Farm repurpose old farming equipment, shortwave radios and busted electronics to transmit decrepit electronica for a country crumbling under ConDem rule. They speak to Ben Graham about self-sufficiency, the joys of circuit-bending and guerilla gigs outside cattle markets

Counting Down To Infinity: John Heckle Interviewed

With his raw and decidedly cosmic takes on house, Liverpool's John Heckle blasts off into deep space with only a cockpit's worth of hardware to keep him company. He speaks to Harry Sword about underage raving, missing records and his excellent new The Last Magic Maker mini-LP

Man Of God: Jim James Of My Morning Jacket Interviewed

Zarjaz Of Tronics & Freakapuss: Being A Real Person Is Overrated

Is Zarjaz, aka Ziro Baby, the UK's most underground cult star? Dale Shaw conducts the second ever interview with this most fantastical of characters

Altered Head Space: An Interview With Anthroprophh

Anthroprophh, the new project of Paul Allen of Bristol voyagers The Heads, blasts off into inner space via kosmische drone and acid-frazzled guitar workouts. He speaks to Joseph Burnett about how writing his debut album provided a creative shot in the arm

Willesden To Karpathos: Yannis Of Foals On The Geography Of Holy Fire

Foals' new Flood & Moulder-produced album Holy Fire is a work of supreme confidence and bold scope. Yannis Philippakis talks to Luke Turner about the places that shaped it

How Giallo Can You Go? Antoni Maiovvi Interviewed

Anton Maiof, the man behind the Antoni Maiovvi mask, reveals the dark secrets of his chilling mutant Italo disco to Wyndham Wallace

We Are Fucked & Going To Die: Everything Everything Interviewed

Everything Everything are back with a new album that explores depression and a new found seriousness. Laura Snapes is impressed

Strange Navigations: The Story Of Southern Records’ Latitudes Label

Alison Schnackenberg and Tony Sylvester talk John Doran through the history of Southern's Latitudes Sessions. Chelsea Wolfe in session pictured by Tony Sylvester.

Alternating Currents: An Interview With Mika Vainio

Using a stripped-back arsenal of hardware, former Pan Sonic man Mika Vainio opens up chasmic sound worlds that bridge noise, techno and the early electronic avant garde. In a rare interview, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about new album Kilo and the importance of emotion in music

Cut, Paste & Jam: An Interview With Gallops

John Freeman finds out how Gallops’ debut album Yours Sincerely, Dr Hardcore was inspired by both Vangelis and Sonic the Hedgehog and forged by Wrexham pride

Time To Get Illustrious: Vince Clarke And Martyn Ware Interviewed

Synth pop dream team The Clarke And Ware Experiment talk to John Doran about 15 years of sonic experimentation and 3D soundscaping

Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear: Neil Kulkarni Interviews Come

In the latest of his series on should-not-be-forgotten groups of the 90s, Neil Kulkarni speaks to Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek of Come

Wildly Addictive: An Interview With Dutch Uncles

John Freeman finds out that Dutch Uncles’ third album, Out Of Touch In The Wild, was fuelled by a thirst for creative freedom and anchored by the concept of addiction

Realities & Fictions: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Interviewed

John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats recently released their latest studio album Transcendental Youth. Erin Lyndal Martin sat with with Darnielle to discuss piano tuning, his pro-choice activism and the tensions between fiction and non-fiction in his work

Strap, Crackle & Pop: L. Pierre’s Aidan Moffat Interviewed

The decaying sample collages of Aidan Moffat's L. Pierre project are beautiful and unsettling in equal measure. He tells Luke Turner that marvelous new album The Island Come True is like a Choose Your Own Adventure story

We’re Only Gonna Die: Bad Religion And The End Of The World

Who better to spend the 21/12/12 Mayan Apocalypse with than Bad Religion frontman and evolutionary biologist Dr. Greg Graffin, PhD? Alex Burrows takes notes at the end of days

Promisers & Enforcers: The Pheromoans Interviewed

Following the release of this year's Does This Guy Stack Up? album, Steph Kretowicz sits down with Russell Walker to discuss his caustic lyrics, punk rock problems and Cool Britannia

It’s A Body Thing: An Interview With Holly Herndon

Holly Herndon's debut album Movement boldly explores the crumbling boundaries between the human body and digital technology. She speaks to Rory Gibb about disorienting her audience and amplifying human emotion

Infectious Virulence: An Interview With Divorce

Glasgow noise-rock quartet Divorce make a hellish, high-frequency no wave racket. With their self-titled debut recently released, they speak to Kevin Mccaighy about touring, spontaneity, and why noise for noise's sake isn't good enough

Universal Imagination: An Interview With Frisk Frugt

John Freeman spoke to Danish experimental pop artist Anders Lauge Meldgaard about how a trip to West Africa inspired his 'collage of sound' Frisk Frugt project