In a world awash with bloated, lazy and unimaginative reissues, The state51 Conspiracy are rethinking the role of the record by focussing on craftsmanship, materials and extraordinary attention to detail. Patrick Clarke takes a trip to their atelier to find out more, and to explore their collaboration with The Quietus for our special subscribers’ releases
In a world awash with bloated, lazy and unimaginative reissues, The state51 Conspiracy are rethinking the role of the record by focussing on craftsmanship, materials and extraordinary attention to detail. Patrick Clarke takes a trip to their atelier to find out more, and to explore their collaboration with The Quietus for our special subscribers’ releases
On their ambitious second album HMLTD imagine an England swallowed by a giant medieval worm, populated by spineless feudal lords and chivalric counter-revolutionaries. Yet it is all, they tell Patrick Clarke, about the personal
On their ambitious second album HMLTD imagine an England swallowed by a giant medieval worm, populated by spineless feudal lords and chivalric counter-revolutionaries. Yet it is all, they tell Patrick Clarke, about the personal
In their first interview about their fourth album False Lankum, Ian and Daragh Lynch, Radie Peat and Cormac Mac Diarmada speak to Patrick Clarke about Lankum's ever-intensifying extremities, transcendence through music, and their relationship to folk tradition
In their first interview about their fourth album False Lankum, Ian and Daragh Lynch, Radie Peat and Cormac Mac Diarmada speak to Patrick Clarke about Lankum's ever-intensifying extremities, transcendence through music, and their relationship to folk tradition
Sarathy Korwar speaks to Patrick Clarke about how Indo-futurism, a colonialist critique of Thomas More’s Utopia, and the invention of his own new circular rhythm system have pushed his practise forwards on ambitious new album KALAK
Sarathy Korwar speaks to Patrick Clarke about how Indo-futurism, a colonialist critique of Thomas More’s Utopia, and the invention of his own new circular rhythm system have pushed his practise forwards on ambitious new album KALAK
Lentils as projectiles, a medieval answer to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, twin xylophone attack from Mexico City, a post-punk opera about the paranoid mind – Richard Foster and Patrick Clarke report back from another headspinning edition of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who?
Lentils as projectiles, a medieval answer to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, twin xylophone attack from Mexico City, a post-punk opera about the paranoid mind – Richard Foster and Patrick Clarke report back from another headspinning edition of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who?
Last week, Jack and Meg White revealed that The White Stripes had come to an end. Manish Agarwal, Barnaby Smith, Jeremy Allen, Luke Turner, Ben Hewitt, Tom Howard and Al Denney pick over some of their favourite lesser known gems by the Detroit duo...
Patrick Clarke meets Peter Wilkinson and brothers Michael and John Head in Liverpool to discuss the surprise return of their much-adored band Shack, processing the death of their drummer, newfound sobriety, and why they've never paid much mind to the misfortune that's plagued their career thus far