Mathew Lyons

Get In The Zone: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh

Stalking the Atomic City, translated by Hanna Leliv & Reilly Costigan-Humes for Pushkin Press, is the memoir of a 'stalker' who spent months exploring the ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Books

Lives Lost In Mending Gaps: Wayward By Vashti Bunyan

Mathew Lyons reviews Vashti Bunyan's memoir, Wayward

Books

A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban

As Penguin issues his first eight novels under their Modern Classics imprint, Mathew Lyons looks back over the career of the writer M. John Harrison once called “a quiet, unalloyed delight”

Film

Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday At 30

It topped the Japanese box office in 1991, but Only Yesterday remained somewhat neglected overseas – despite being one of Studio Ghibli's most gentle and mature films, finds Mathew Lyons

Books

From Dusk Til Doom: Reading Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow

New book Monolithic Undertow promises "an outer stellar orbit of sounds underpinned by the drone”. Mathew Lyons follows the thread from the dawn of time to Sunn O))) and Sarah Davachi

Books

Hawkwind: Days of the Underground – Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia

Joe Banks' account of the 1970's premier rock wizards presents a group far more radical than they were ever given credit, finds Mathew Lyons

Books

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

The new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a journey into the music of the 60s that somehow manages to avoid excessses of nostalgia or sentiment, finds Mathew Lyons

Books

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

Mike Barnes' new book A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s explores the expansive possibilities of the progressive rock scene

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Fat White Family Sign To Domino

Band's next material will arrive via the label

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Mazzy Star Announce New Album

Listen to California from new LP Seasons Of The Day below

Baker's Dozen

Trying Everything on: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s Baker’s Dozen

With her sixth full-length album set for imminent release, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith takes Christian Eede from influential minimalism by Steve Reich to new age ambience by Midori Takada over the course of her Baker's Dozen

News

Dinos Chapman Set To Release Album

Artist releases debut LP Luftbobler, influenced by "the industrial pulse of T/G", next year

Black Sky Thinking

Metal Vicar Rachel Mann: Why Jesus Would Have Been A Pussy Riot Fan

As Pussy Riot begin their two year prison sentence, lady of both the cloth and the rock the Rev. Rachel Mann gives a Christian critique of the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church

News

FESTIVAL REPORT: LCMF

Leo Chadburn reports from the third edition of London Contemporary Music Festival, as it moves from an East London factory space to a colossal bunker underneath the University of Westminster

Live Reviews

Things The Quietus Learned At Turin's Club To Club Festival

Last week tQ's Rory Gibb flew to Turin, Italy, for the twelfth edition of the city's annual Club To Club festival, and encountered leather-clad bondage cherubs, high-powered gin cocktails and even higher powered dancefloors. He recounts some of the things he learned...

Album of the Week

Strings Theory: Galya Bisengalieva’s EP One

Violinist and composer Laura Cannell explores a trio of new string compositions from the leader of the London Contemporary Orchestra, previously a collaborator with Suzanne Ciani, Terry Riley, Thom Yorke and Frank Ocean, and a powerful force in new and primordial music

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Get In The Zone: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh

Get In The Zone: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh

Lives Lost In Mending Gaps: Wayward By Vashti Bunyan

Lives Lost In Mending Gaps: Wayward By Vashti Bunyan

A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban

A Place Where The Unwordable Happens: The Novels Of Russell Hoban

Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday At 30

Pure Imagination: Studio Ghibli’s Only Yesterday At 30

From Dusk Til Doom: Reading Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow

From Dusk Til Doom: Reading Harry Sword’s Monolithic Undertow

Hawkwind: Days of the Underground – Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia

Hawkwind: Days of the Underground – Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

A World That Won’t Exist: A New History Of UK Prog Reviewed

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Full Clip: Daveed Diggs’ Favourite Albums

Homecoming: Dev Hynes’ Favourite Albums

Imagine There’s no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture

Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

Maruja Pain to Power

Unearthly Delights: Lydia Lunch’s Favourite Albums

See It, Say It, Sorted: Antidepressants by Suede

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for September Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Gwenifer Raymond Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

“This is My Happening – and it Freaks Me Out!”: 10 of the All-Time Weirdest Rock’n’Roll Movies

Reissue of the Week: Autechre’s Quaristice

Peel the Layers: Nilüfer Yanya’s Favourite Albums

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Fat White Family Sign To Domino

Mazzy Star Announce New Album

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Dinos Chapman Set To Release Album

Metal Vicar Rachel Mann: Why Jesus Would Have Been A Pussy Riot Fan

FESTIVAL REPORT: LCMF

Things The Quietus Learned At Turin's Club To Club Festival

Strings Theory: Galya Bisengalieva’s EP One

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