A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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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
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On The Wing: Trent Reznor On Creativity & How To Destroy Angels
With Nine Inch Nails currently on hiatus, Trent Reznor is currently hard at work on new project How To Destroy Angels, whose An Omen_ EP is out now. He speaks to Ned Raggett about exploring new avenues and the challenges of creativity
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Music For Mallet Musicians: Ex-Easter Island Head Interviewed
Using mallets and guitars, Liverpool's Ex-Easter Island Head whip up tropical storm clouds of rhythm and natural reverberation. Simon Jay Catling speaks to the band's Benjamin Duvall about minimalism and making hypnotic music for £5 worth of bamboo
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Destination – Void: An Interview With Roly Porter
Since his steel-plated dubstep duo Vex'd disbanded, Roly Porter has been exploring post-human wastelands, folk forms and sensual electronics. In advance of a London show next week, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about last year's debut album Aftertime and working in solitude
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Escaping An Uncertain Fate: Mission Of Burma Interviewed
The reunited post-punk luminaries are currently touring Europe, fresh off the back of a set at Shellac's ATP and a new best of, Learn How. James Ubaghs spoke to singer/guitarist Roger Miller about their enduring power, the internet's capacity to stifle emergent music scenes and how to avoid the perils of tinnitus
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Xerox Techno: An Interview With Lee Gamble
With a pair of new releases on PAN, Lee Gamble has used his background in experimental computer music to create exquisite deconstructions of jungle & techno. In advance of his London show this weekend, he speaks to Angus Finlayson about eluding dancefloor fashions and youthful mystique
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Little Deaths & Anxieties: An Interview With Fairhorns
Matt Loveridge, formerly Team Brick and a member of Bristol trio Beak>, has recently animated a new solo project: the dark and stormy motorik of Fairhorns. He tells Ben Graham that it's simply another continuation of the pathways he's been exploring throughout his musical career
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Keep Music Evil?: Cathal Coughlan Interviewed
From 1980 through to the mid-90s, Cathal Coughlan was the driving force behind Microdisney and Fatima Mansions, two brilliant, if overlooked, bands. Now he's presenting an alternative version of British history with Luke Haines and Andrew Mueller as North Sea Scrolls. Colm McAuliffe met up with him to cast an eye over his career
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Pink Sky Thinking: An Interview With Nathan Fake
This summer's Steam Days album found Norfork's Nathan Fake continuing to sink deeper into his own idiosyncratic and woozy take on techno and electronica. In advance of a tour with Orbital next month, he speaks to Jim Keoghan about folk ethics and working solo
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Supremely Demolished Beats: An Interview With Pete Swanson
From the rhythm-driven noise of last year's Man With Potential to a new album with Sarin Smoke, Pete Swanson has traveled along remarkable paths since his former duo Yellow Swans disbanded. He tells Joseph Burnett that beats have always been crucial to his music
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A Line In The Sand: Untold & Hemlock Discuss UK Dance Music
Hemlock is one of the most enduring labels to have emerged from the shadows of the dubstep scene. With a new compilation just released, Angus Finlayson meets label bosses Untold & Andy Spencer and signee Randomer to talk UK dance music's past, present & future
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Primal Evidence: The Strange World Of COUM Transmissions
In COUM Transmissions the future members of Throbbing Gristle would intensely interrogate the nature of art and performance, along with testing their own experiential limits, across almost a decade of unique 'actions'. Join us on a journey through their strange world where their compulsion to find a pure and honest form of expression saw them tearing up taboos, severely unsettling the establishment on the way. Images thanks to the Tate Archive / Cabinet Gallery. WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW
Live Reviews
Sex & Trainers In Berlin: Xaver Von Treyer’s The Torino Scale
Kevin E.G. Perry travels to Berlin to see a showcase performance of Xaver Von Treyer's new audiovisual project in the slightly bizarre setting of an Adidas shop, and takes the opportunity to further explore the city's relationship with music
