A Quietus Interview
Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed
Ahead of an appearance at next month's Acid Horse festival, the industrial folk ensemble speak to Claire Biddles about power plant tourism, Home Counties gothic and why they embrace artistic violence (as long as it doesn't occur near the cellist). All photographs by Spela Cedilnik
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Like Starting Over: An Interview with Shack
Patrick Clarke meets Peter Wilkinson and brothers Michael and John Head in Liverpool to discuss the surprise return of their much-adored band Shack, processing the death of their drummer, newfound sobriety, and why they've never paid much mind to the misfortune that's plagued their career thus far
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Find a Note and Keep Going: An Interview with Dawn Terry
From the days of Bong to a host of collaborations; cranky lo fi Dungeon Synth to one of the most arresting and enveloping improvised solo drone projects around, Dawn Terry is a mainstay of the UK underground. Ahead of her performance at Acid Horse in May, she speaks to Harry Sword about Fighting Fantasy, Doom Yoga and Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy
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Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed
tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns'
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Northern Gothic: Rainy Miller Interviewed
In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation
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Quests in Time and Space: Jem Finer on The Pogues and his 1000-year Longplayer
Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues
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Do You Know What a Love Letter is? Mike Scott of The Waterboys Interviewed by John Higgs
Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus
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The Gold Standard: Imperial Triumphant Interviewed
Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void
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Someone Disappears / Someone Reappears: Jules Reidy Interviewed
You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit. Miloš Hroch talks to Jules Reidy about this statement fuelled by mysticism, ego death and the influence of shoegaze. Portraits by Camille Blake
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Discordant of Tunbridge Wells: Joeyfat Interviewed
With a reputation as bricks-and-mortar shorthand for Little England conservatism, you might be surprised to know that Tunbridge Wells has long had a thriving musical underground. Alexander Tucker speaks to scene stalwarts Joeyfat, currently being celebrated with a compilation and reissues on Wrong Speed Records
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Opposites Attract: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed
The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth record with "no MO," says James Dean Bradfield. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about how it's left him with a rare sense of freedom in a world where "reality resembles fiction"
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Everything is Colour: Kristin Hersh on the Return Of Throwing Muses
Kristin Hersh offers Sean Kitching the exclusive first interview about Throwing Muses’ first new album in five years, her recording process, synaesthesia, the similarities between music and stand-up comedy, and turning difficult personal situations into art (not product) that celebrates the humanity of us all
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Sleazy Does It: Decius Interviewed
As Lias Saoudi-fronted fruity techno troupe Decius prepare to release second album Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience), they speak to Luke Turner about dirt on the dancefloor and why their explicitly horny music is a safe space to unleash things that ought not be repressed
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The Moments of Rupture: Andy Abbott on Composing Music for Psychiatric Wards
Andy Abbott speaks to Kat Lister his new album as ADRA, born from his work as a creative practitioner on psychiatric wards, how working with service users challenged preconceptions about who experimental music is 'for', and how it's changed his own creative philosophy moving forward
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A Personal Exorcism: An Exclusive Heartworms Interview on Debut LP, Glutton For Punishment
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war
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A Disappearing Art: Exploring the Magic Postmodernism of MacGillivray
Ahead of a show at this year’s Sensoria Festival in Sheffield Kirsten Norrie, aka MacGillivray, talks to John Doran about her elemental multi-disciplinary practice drawing together folklore, poetry, music and film making. Main portrait by Zanne Chaudhry
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Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed
In summer 2023, death metallers Blood Incantation decamped to Berlin’s Hansa studios to record groundbreaking new album, Absolute Elsewhere. Isaac Faulk talks to Dan Franklin about how pushing at the boundaries of what a band can be and a near-disaster with an untied shoelace went into creating their most mind-expanding music yet
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