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Reissue of the Week: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith
Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick
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Reissue of the Week: Angherr Shisspa (Revisited) by Kōenjihyakkei
Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins' lifelong love of Magma lead him to form the band Kōenjihyakkei. Warren Hatter reckons that their fourth album Angherr Shisspa is the point at which he created something that eclipsed the work of his inspiration
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Reissue of the week: Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out: Radio Sessions 1980-1993 by Television Personalities
Television Personalities’ mainman Dan Treacy is often seen as a kind of troubled prankster. In truth, argues Jonathan Wright, he’s an intriguing, key figure in the UK's post punk and DIY indie underground. NB: The publication of this review was delayed due to the death of David Lynch
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Reissue of the Week: Violent Femmes’ Hallowed Ground
Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years on
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Reissue of the Week: Squarepusher’s Ultravisitor
Squarepusher once said he has no recollection of making Ultravisitor, his “spectacle of beauty and of terror”. As the record is reissued as an expanded edition for its 20th anniversary, Siobhán Kane returns to the record’s ambiguous beauty
Anniversary
The Lonely Street: John Cale’s Island Trilogy, 50 Years On
50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on
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Compilation Of The Week – Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor In Ndola
Kampire is universally regarded as one of East Africa's best contemporary DJs, so this compilation of pan-African pop from the 80s – featuring music that often irritated her as a child – is something of a handbrake turn. However, as Martin Guttridge-Hewitt points out, it's a glorious affair that only goes to further cement her reputation as a selector, musicologist and sonic historian
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Prole Art Threat: Cynthia Cruz On The Melancholia Of Class
With her new book The Melancholia of Class just out from Repeater Books, author Cynthia Cruz talks to Enrico Monacelli about identity politics, class consciousness, and why Mark E. Smith was one of the great working class militants of the 20th Century
Baker's Dozen
No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums
In the wake of his debut solo album, the TV On The Radio vocalist looks back to his longstanding love of mixtapes for an eclectic Baker's Dozen – taking in 60s psychedelia, hip hop, krautrock, dub, IDM, and his eight-year-old daughter's love of Lightning Bolt
Anniversary
An Altamont for Rock Music’s Imperial Period: June 1, 1974 Half A Century On
The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. Michael Bellis looks at a highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change
Beyond The Hits
David Bowie: Fantastic Voyages From Beyond The Hits
You could release countless Bowie anthologies and never quite capture how special the Thin White Duke really is. Here, Chris Roberts, Nix Lowery, Joe Stannard, Frances Morgan, Petra Davis, Wyndham Wallace and John Doran reveal their favourite Bowie tunes which weren't smash-hit singles
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Follow The Pleasure: An Interview With Hanif Kureishi
In an extensive #longread interview, Lisa Jenkins talks to Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, about Trump, Brexit, David Bowie, and his new book The Nothing
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Electric Blue: Chris O’Leary On Bowie’s Sound And Vision
Ashes to Ashes is the second of two books by Chris O'Leary to cover the songs of David Bowie, song by song. This volume takes us from 1976 to the end. The Quietus spoke to O'Leary about the project. The interview is followed by an extract from the book, about 'Sound and Vision'
