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Alan Sparhawk

With Trampled By Turtles

The best songs on Alan Sparhawk’s second post-Low ‘solo’ album are unforgettable, triggering gut punches, says Bernie Brooks
Album of the Week

Next Level Electro-Shaabi: Rhlt Jdi by Elkotsh

Elkotsh’s debut LP is a mahraganat colossus with one foot in electro-shaabi's past and one in its future, says Bernie Brooks
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Gryphon Rue

I Keep My Diamond Necklace In A Pond Of Sparkling Water

Gryphon Rue’s new LP creaks and grumbles and hums with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical, says Bernie Brooks
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Laura Cannell

A Year Of Lore

Coming to an end this month, Laura Cannell's latest serialised project is a monumental achievement sure to captivate the latent folklorist in all of us, says Bernie Brooks
Album of the Week

Anatomy of a Fall: A Grand Stream by Smote

Smote's fourth LP is almost hallucinatory in its psychedelic repetition, practically drawing tracers across the stereo field, says Bernie Brooks
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M.Haiux

Summer Nights And Still Waters

M.Haiux’s transporting new album of finger-picked folk guitar instrumentals champions small moments while speaking fluently with its forebears, says Bernie Brooks
Album of the Week

Magic Carpet Ride: Žaltys by Raphael Rogiński is Our Album of the Week

The latest from the Polish improviser-composer-researcher sees folk music shedding its skin and carving out spaces of opposition to the tyranny of the present, finds Bernie Brooks
A Quietus Interview

CSI Birmingham: British Murder Boys Interviewed

Regis and Surgeon talk to Bernie Brooks and Kristen Gallerneaux about techno, big tent gigs, and BMB's unexpected and excellent debut LP
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Earth Ball

It's Yours

Earth Ball’s new salvo of heavyweight improvisation is both fully aggressive and fully life-affirming, says Bernie Brooks
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Arab Strap

I'm Totally Fine With It👍 Don't Give A Fuck Anymore👍

Arab Strap’s second post-retirement album, an exploration of aging and internet culture, will leave you blubbering and gutted, says Bernie Brooks
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Beans

ZWAARD

Beans latest solo LP, produced by Sasu Ripatti (aka Vladislav Delay), is a nightmare of frenetic beats and hyperkinetic verbiage, in a good way, says Bernie Brooks

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The Pheromoans

Wyrd Psearch

The time has come to crown The Pheromoans kings of the *sprechgesang* gang, says Bernie Brooks
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Persher

Sleep Well

The latest album from Blawan & Pariah’s Persher is full of gross music for people who delight in gross things, says Bernie Brooks
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Laura Cannell

Midwinter Processionals

Laura Cannell’s latest is an easy entry into the alternative holiday canon, but it deserves much more than that, says Bernie Brooks
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Universal Harmonies & Frequencies

Tune IN

Jamal Moss pairs up with fellow astral traveller Jerzy Maczyński for a bold and playful debut as Universal Harmonies & Frequencies, says Bernie Brooks
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Lost Girls

Selvutsletter

With their second LP as Lost Girls, Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden somehow distill the magic of their long-form excursions into indelible, avant-pop nuggets, says Bernie Brooks
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Årabrot

Of Darkness And Light

Årabrot’s tenth LP is the aural equivalent of biting into a big chocolate skull full of strawberry goo, says Bernie Brooks
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Colleen

Le jour et la nuit du réel

Cécile Schott’s latest Colleen LP is an instrumental Moog workout that delights as it surprises, says Bernie Brooks

Album of the Week

Knight On Earth: Blind At The Age Of Four By Gaunt

Jack Warne’s full-length debut as GAUNT is noisy – soaked in crackle and hiss, reverb and a chunky roomsound – but deeply comforting all the same, finds Bernie Brooks
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Blue Lake

Sun Arcs

On his latest outing as Blue Lake, Jason Dungan's pastoral instrumentals are boundless, shimmering like dappled sun on water, says Bernie Brooks
Album of the Week

Crisis Mode: Mesmerizer By Selvhenter

On Selvhenter's latest, the group moves like an off-kilter communal organism connected by energy, flowing freely from one idea to the next, says Bernie Brooks
A Quietus Interview

More Than Money: An Interview With Hey Colossus

As they announce their compact and killer new album In Blood and share first track 'My Name In Blood' exclusively with The Quietus, Hey Colossus speak to Bernie Brooks about folklore, community, and what it means to be in a band for 20 years
Album of the Week

Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

Latest album Recovery Position sees the Oslo-Brighton duo reborn, sounding like a whole new band, finds Bernie Brooks
Music Downloads

The End Is Nigh: An Interview With UKAEA

Dan Jones talks to Bernie Brooks about UKAEA's bracing and relentless Birds Catching Fire In The Sky, The Quietus' Spring Equinox release commissioned exclusively for Sound + Vision subscribers
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James Holden

Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities

James Holden's latest is a wild combination of memories, ideas, and influences, says Bernie Brooks
Reviews

Free Love

Inside

Free Love’s latest LP of exploratory tunes is dangerously nice, says Bernie Brooks
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Acid Arab

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Acid Arab drop an album of wall-to-wall heaters in the heart of winter, rousing a hibernating Bernie Brooks from his wintry den
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The Transcendence Orchestra

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents

Anthony Child and Daniel Bean conjure up the sound of monumental earthworks and unknowable seas in an attempt to reach beyond all of it, says Bernie Brooks

Album of the Week

Signature Tunes: Themes From Nyx Nótt

Aidan Moffat’s second outing as Nyx Nótt, an out-of-time set of faux themes, is as odd as it is compelling, says Bernie Brooks

Reviews

Ebe Oke

SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Ebe Oke centres the non-human other on a strange and compelling debut, says Bernie Brooks

A Quietus Interview

Long Weekend At Vinny’s: An Interview With Vinny Moonshine

Vinny Moonshine's Kevin McGorey talks to his friend and label boss Bernie Brooks about the eight year journey that brought him to his second album, Mass Extinction Fairy Tale, streaming in full ahead of release with tQ below
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Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann

An Eternal Reminder Of Not Today: Live At Moers

Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann come together like peanut butter and jelly for a nightmare soul revue, says Bernie Brooks
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