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The Quietus Essay
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The Quietus Essay
Proper Job! What National Minority Status Means To The Cornish
In 1550, Sir Humphrey Arundell and three other Cornish insurgents were hanged, drawn and ...
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Is Record Store Day In Crisis? A Quietus Investigation
Has Record Store Day become too big? That's been the criticism in the run-up to 2014's ev...
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We Are All Religious Now: Holy Music In A Secular World
If there's one aspect of life vicars know a lot about, it's death. While many people drea...
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Hunks Punch Lunks: The Fascist Sex Cult Of The Professionals
I once lived above a shop in Archway. You reached the flats through a door from the stree...
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A Place To Dream: Arcadia, The Kitchen & The History Of NY Lofts
William Basinski in Arcadia "Since the high renaissance, society has always found a place ...
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Having A Bawl: Why Does Music Make People Cry?
I still remember it quite clearly. Standing in the middle of Virgin Megastores on Western...
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I For One Welcome Our New Robot Vocal Cords: Radical Computer Music
Can the machine speak? we might once have asked. Can it sing? The question is an old one;...
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Welcome To The New Age: 2014 & The New Utopian Pop
The curtain opens on an opaque wasteland filled with smoke wisps and gas clouds, the afte...
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In Another Way: My Bloody Valentine's Rhythmic Invention
When rumours surfaced in the mid-90s that My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields had got hea...
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Love's Secret Ascension: Coil, Coltrane & The 70th Birthday Of LSD
You have to be patient. It can take a while to settle in. You grit your teeth a bit. At f...
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