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Your latest subscriber-exclusive music is a six-track collection of dizzying noise, punishing beats and crystalline electronics courtesy of Teeth Of The Sea's Mike Bourne, who tells Patrick Clarke about how he's stepping out on his own as Bruise Blood
Ray Aggs speaks to Zara Hedderman about the music created during their Samarbeta residency earlier this year, exploring their relationship with folk music as a person of colour, and released exclusively to tQ subscribers today. Plus, exclusive footage documenting its process, courtesy of Low Four
Steve Stapleton has been helming the surreal and riotous psychedelic industrial experimental unit NWW for 45 years now. John Doran and Russell Cuzner look at their new release available to only tQ subscribers today and examine what makes them special
We've done something a little different this month and asked William Doyle to accompany his fantastic stripped-down release of three of his own songs and three covers with an essay about how he makes touring work financially – this is free to read to non subscribers too.
With his searing live set at this year’s Acid Horse newly released to tQ subscribers, M.L. Deathman speaks to Irina Shtreis about ramping up the tempo, cinematic influences from Westerns to giallo, and providing an alternative to damp English dread
Elizabeth Aubrey takes a trek across Manchester with Gareth Smith, aka Vanishing, as he talks about the future of the city and his brand new album, Shelter Of The Opaque, released exclusively to our Sound & Vision subscribers. All Vanishing portraits by Der Fotoautomat, photographs of Manchester by Elizabeth Aubrey
Sex Swing speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their formidable new track ‘Wild Peacock’. An 18-minute epic, improvised during rehearsal and writing sessions for their next album, it’s available now exclusively for Quietus Sound + Vision subscribers.
Slow Tree, the Skye-based project of Sea Power's Abi Fry and Neil Wilkinson, tell Luke Turner how the remote landscape of their home island, collaborating with a local wren called Choco, the magic of sheep and ancient martial arts informed their 25-minute track recorded exclusively for Quietus subscribers
Wayne Adams, one half of extreme noise-pummellers Petbrick (with former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera) speaks to Kez Whelan about their behemoth of a new single recorded just for Quietus subscribers, and the joys of working with limited resources
Recorded exclusively for Quietus subscribers’ Autumn Equinox release, Wacław Zimpel’s new Train Spotter sees the Polish composer translate the sounds of Warsaw into a sprawling and intense album. He speaks to Julian Marszalek about the record’s creation
Anna Rahkonen speaks to Vanishing Twin's Valentina Magaletti and Cathy Lucas about their new track recorded exclusively for Quietus Sound + Vision subscribers, adapting an A.E. Housman poem into an expansive and magical 20 minute psychedelic epic
We're delighted that Siavash Amini, who we've been a fan of for some time, has composed a Singularity track for our Sound & Vision subscribers. Here he tells Patrick Clarke about two of his influences, the Comte de Lautréamont and Eugene Thacker
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