Luke Turner

Pet Shop Boys

Please & Actually & Introspective: reissues

Spectacular, defiant, joyous: the first three albums of pop majesty from Pet Shop Boys, reissued with some excellent extras.

A Blast From The Past: Defying Brexit With The Ancient Horns Of Europe

A pan-European research project is revealing how the ancient instruments played by our ancestors point towards musical sophistication and co-operation across ethnic boundaries. Luke Turner investigates.

Hip Priest: Mark E Smith As Conduit For The Fall

The Fall was always bigger than Mark E Smith, and he knew it even when we forgot. Luke Turner reflects on a great curator, interpreter and magician

Mark E Smith Of The Fall On Art & The Artist

Richard Skelton

Towards A Frontier

From the landscapes of east Iceland, Richard Skelton's multidisciplinary response to shifting seasons, global frailty and environmental destruction.

Daniel Quinn Launches Book Kickstarter

Plus there's a new video online

LISTEN: Sleeping States

Bristol-based musician returns for a short run of live dates and a new old song

Leyland Kirby

We, So Tired Of All The Darkness In Our Lives

"It's not free because I place no value on this work. It's free because I mean it," says Leyland Kirby of his beautiful, generous new album.

LISTEN: New Richard Skelton

Hear an excerpt of a new installation on the Isle Of Skye via our Soundcloud. Photos by Richard Skelton.

Cosey Fanni Tutti Reissues Time To Tell

Cassette release to finally appear on vinyl

LISTEN: Andrew Liles VS Sisters Of Mercy

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Prime Bush Tucker: Luke Turner On Liars’ TFCF

Angus Andrew retreated to the remote Australian bush to make the first Liars album featuring himself as the sole member. Here's what he concocted.

An Existential Namaste: ADULT. Interviewed

For their most recent album Adult.'s Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus invited the likes of Douglas McCarthy and Shannon Furness into their Detroit home for a uniquely intimate recording process. Ahead of their UK tour this week, they discuss the pre-session hoovering with Luke Turner. Scroll down for an exclusive look at their new video below.

Alan Vega

IT

Luke Turner On Public Service Broadcasting’s Every Valley

The nostalgia merchants remember the miners with turgid, insipid, bizarrely misjudged pap. Luke Turner is righteously appalled.

WATCH: Morrissey Biopic Trailer

Footage from forthcoming film online

A New Generation, Rise: Travelling From Cynicism To Hope With Algiers

As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.

Europe, Endless? On Watching Kraftwerk Live, A Year After Brexit

Almost exactly a year after the UK voted to leave the EU Luke Turner finds the experience of watching Kraftwerk play live has acquired an unexpected melancholy aspect. Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?

A Love Like That: Vince & Andy Of Erasure On Vince & Andy Of Erasure

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde this weekend and next year's mammoth UK tour, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell open up to Luke Turner about the history of the wonderful synth duo... and each other.

PREVIEW: Longplayer Day

We preview Longplayer Day, this week's London-based solstice arts festival, with Adam Scovell writing a piece on his Robert Macfarlane collaboration, Holloway

The Quietus’ Readers On Their General Election Fears & Hopes

Ahead of next week's General Election, we asked you our readers to tell us your hopes and fears for the state of the country after seven years of Tory government. Here's the bleak assessment

Buildings Are Transient Things: Einstürzende Neubauten Live

Newcastle's Boiler Shop was the birthplace of the industrial revolution. Now a new music venue, it was the perfect setting in which to witness the graceful evolution of Einstürzende Neubauten. Photos by Jay Dawson / Boiler Shop

Repeating, Shouting, Pointing: Fixmer/McCarthy Interviewed

As Terence Fixmer and Douglas McCarthy ex of Nitzer Ebb prepare to bring their full-throttling collaboration Fixmer/McCarthy to the UK this weekend, Luke Turner dropped them a line to find out their dirty little secrets

I Was Struck By Teenage Lightning: On Milo’s Downfall & The Abuse Of Boys

In the wake of Milo Yiannopoulos' career-ending comments on the sexualisation of young boys, Luke Turner writes that this might be an opportunity to bring the little-discussed subject of male sexual abuse out into the open

LISTEN: New Ride

Erol Alkan-produced new track streaming here!

Einsturzende Neubauten To Play Historic Newcastle Venue

Greatest hits show to happen "in the crucible of the industrial revolution"

While His Synth Gently Beeps: Benge’s Favourite Electronic LPs

We know you all love a bit of synth porn so here's Benge's Baker's Dozen - a sort of synth erotica reading, if you will, as he guides you through 13 electronic favourites from Morton Subotnick to Else Marie Pade and George Harrison's Moog explorations to Air and Autechre. Benge photo by Ed Fielding

COUM Transmissions Exhibition Details

Hull City Of Culture retrospective begins at the new Humber Street Gallery tomorrow

Dan Quinn: Free Music Bonanza!

The cult musician is offering free copies of his new compilation album to anyone who emails him

Luke Turner On The xx’s I See You

In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ubiquity – a record more about treading old ground with heavy boots than the light touch their debut promised

Perc To Play COUM Cosey Club In Hull

Full details on the final Hull City Of Culture COUM event

A Reader’s Digest: The Best Of The Quietus In 2016

All that time off skiving from work reading tQ is going to send you insane, isn't it? Handily, we've compiled some of our favourite writing from the site in 2016 to stop you becoming addicted to Boggle and sniffing turkey farts