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Album of the Week

Rhythms Is Gonna Get You: Nkisi’s 7 Directions

Out today on Lee Gamble’s UIQ label, the debut album from Nkisi, Congolese Londoner and cofounder of the NON Worldwide collective, is polyrhythmic cosmic gabber of the highest and richest order

A Quietus Interview

Sonic Homes For Queer Content: Planningtorock Interviewed

Their new album Powerhouse is a celebration of family, of queerness, and of “radical vulnerability”. Here Planningtorock, aka Jam Rostron, traces the path from 90s Bolton to Berlin and back again

Album of the Week

Realist Of A Larger Reality: Todd Barton’s Multum In Parvo

On the Blue Tapes label, an endlessly rich new composition from the Buchla artist and Ursula K Le Guin collaborator

Black Sky Thinking

The Absence Of Alice Coltrane – Reflections On Spiritual Eternal

In 1975, Alice Coltrane left the Impulse label and moved to less-jazzy more-rocky Warner Bros, where she made three studio albums in three years – Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and Transcendence – just remastered and reissued all together as Spiritual Eternal. They mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry – except Alice Coltrane never moved on from anything, she just kept on going and growing
Live Reviews

Things Learned At: Wysing Festival

Moor Mother heads an extraordinary 12 hours of music and dance, with an ace lineup including Laraaji, DJ Haram and Yatta
Album of the Week

Baby Wants To Ride: Gabe Gurnsey’s Physical

Gabe Gurnsey, one half of Factory Floor, has moved up North and made a rave album. It is filthy and brilliant, immaculate and unsettling

News

LIVE REPORT: International Teachers Of Pop & Róisín Murphy

On the weekend of Trump’s UK visit, we self-medicate with a double dose of demented pop and a blast of beloved Róisín Murphy

Album of the Week

Dream Story: Jenny Hval’s The Long Sleep

Vast and delicate, cosmic and prosaic, full of reprises and repetitions, this four-track EP is a gorgeous exploration of unknowns

News

WATCH: New Short Film For Ursula Le Guin

To coincide with the release of Vanessa Renwick’s short film for Ursula Le Guin, we spoke to Le Guin’s Kesh collaborator Todd Barton

A Quietus Interview

We Are The Meat: ILL Interviewed

Their first album is out today, but ILL have been making a glorious filthy racket for six years. Here, Anna Wood talks to them about massive dildos, women’s jam and the network of trust that helps keep skint bands alive around the UK

A Quietus Interview

Interested In The Magic: Audiobooks Interviewed

We’ve already reported on their astonishing live shows. Today their first EP is out and so is their first interview, right here.

Album of the Week

Tales Of The City: Goat Girl’s Goat Girl

The excellent debut album from Goat Girl is a sticky smudged love letter to south London

News

LIVE REPORT: Audiobooks at The Social

Audiobooks - London duo Evangeline Ling and David Wrench - played their third-ever gig last week at The Social. It was ace
Album of the Week

Homecoming: Ursula K Le Guin & Todd Barton’s The Music And Poetry Of The Kesh

Strange and familiar folk songs, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin’s own 1985 book, reissued by Freedom To Spend
Album of the Week

Uneasy Does It: Insecure Men Reviewed

Can Saul Adamczewski and his new band create beautiful pop songs from paedophilia, premature death and racist imperialism? Why yes, they can. All it takes is faith in humanity and a little bit of genius

Album of the Week

Insight Specific: Bas Jan’s Yes I Jan

Yes I Jan

Synths, violin, drums and a wonderful voice: day-to-day stories full of uncanny pop punk magic

Black Sky Thinking

Believe In Joy: The Pleasure & Politics Of George Michael

A year after his death, Anna Wood takes a personal, political and adoring look at a few of George Michael’s finest songs.

Black Sky Thinking

Double Dare Ya: On Rapey Men, Missing Voices & The Glorious Unknown Future

New year’s resolution for cocky shitty white men: sit down and be quiet. New year’s resolution for everyone else: do what you like.

Live Reviews

Here Is Bliss: The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

At London Jazz Festival, members of the Sai Anantam Ashram sing the extraordinary bhajans of Turiya Alice Coltrane.

Album of the Week

Communion: James Holden & The Animal Spirits’ The Animal Spirits

James Holden has very accurately described his new record as “something like a spiritual jazz band playing folk trance music”. It is also quite ravey, and brilliant.

Album of the Week

Let’s Leave This Ordinary World Now: The Horrors’ V

Magnificent, lumbering, majestic, and with one of the greatest singles we've heard in ages. And yet. By Anna Wood.
News

Things Learned At: Pop-Kultur In Berlin

This year, at Berlin's Kulturbrauerei, Pop-Kultur festival teaches us a few things about ethics, earthquakes and the Harlem shake.

Album of the Week

Anna Wood on Madonnatron’s Madonnatron

The debut album from four south Londoners who are funny, louche and know how to make a proper filthy racket.
Track-by-Track

Arcade Fire’s Everything Now Reviewed Track By Track

Anna Wood delves into Arcade Fire's fifth long player in order to bring us a track by track breakdown. But is Everything Now something or nothing

Reviews

Chastity Belt

I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone

Chastity Belt's third album - still disappointed, still stoned, still brilliant
News

LIVE REPORT: The Horrors

At a small gig at Omeara, tracks from the new album from The Horrors nestle perfectly amid a greatest hits set. Photo by Shot2bits.net
A Quietus Interview

Whatever It Is, We Can Get Through It: An Interview With JD Samson

Disco will save us, heaven is other people, and we will survive. Ahead of her appearance at MIA's Meltdown, queer hero and renaissance woman JD Samson talks to Anna Wood
A Quietus Interview

Something Really Beautiful: An Interview With M.I.A.

Ahead of her Meltdown festival, M.I.A. talks to Anna Wood about misfits, British identity and staying wide awake in the music industry
News

LIVE REPORT: The Moonlandingz

Anna Wood heads to Oslo, Hackney to catch the final night of The Moonlandingz' short and magnificent Ultimate Realism tour. All photos courtesy of Holly Whitaker
Live Reviews

Capital Offences: Fat White Family Versus Zombie Urbanism

After Fat White Family's whopping homecoming gig at Brixton Academy on Saturday, Anna Wood considers sex, rage and zombie urbanism
Live Reviews

Gender Is (A) Drag: Grace Jones Live At Øya Festival

Anna Wood on womanliness, performance and having fun, with Christine & the Queens and Grace Jones at Øya festival
A Quietus Interview

Silence Is Easy: Fat White Family Interviewed

Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family talks to Anna Wood about monsters of the past, how to lower expectations, chances of a socialist future and learning to revel in misery
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