Roy Wilkinson

Monumental Achievement: East India Youth Interviewed

Culture Of Volume hasn't been off the Quietus stereo since we first heard it months ago. William Doyle explains the genesis of this astounding album to John Doran

Estates & Agency: Daniel Worden’s Neoliberal Nonfictions

Daniel Worden charts the rise of the "documentary aesthetic" via Joan Didion and Kendrick Lamar

The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2021

At the year's half-way mark, all of tQ's editorial staff, core writers and columnists have voted for their essential 2021 albums released between mid-December 2020 and mid-June

Requiem For Youth: An Interview With Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson is the author of poetry collection Tesla’s Ghost, a forthcoming biography of Jack Kerouac, and Histoire de Melody Nelson, a book about Serge Gainsbourg and his most provocative album. He speaks to Christiana Spens about music, censorship and Lolita, and the relationship between poetry, pain, and pleasure

Tom Araya Talks About Slayer’s 12th Album

Slayer name ideal producer for 12th album

Genius Of Lovers: Tom Tom Club’s Favourite Albums

The former Talking Heads and husband and wife duo Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth whittle their record collection down to 13 all-time favourites

Owen Marshall

The Naked Truth

Organic Intelligence XXXIV: Tromsø Techno

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Jeremy Allen takes us up to the far north of Norway and the emergence of the country’s techno scene

Girls Don’t Cry: Rumer’s Favourite Albums

Platinum-selling MOR singer Rumer is back with her third album, Into Colour. She tells Simon Price about her Baker's Dozen of inspirational LPs

Fuck You ’92: Why We Don’t Need An Early 90s Revival

DMs, Neds Atomic Dustbin, John Major . . . why oh why is 1992 being classed a glory year, asks Charles Ubaghs

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Arktika

The Centre Of Everything: John Frusciante’s Favourite Electronic Music

Electronic music isn't some casual fling for the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist. From synth-pop and ghetto house, to old-school UK rave and hardcore, it's long been a major preoccupation. As he prepares to release his thrilling, jungle-inspired new LP Maya, he guides Brian Coney through 13 indispensable titles from his collection

Hungry Ghosts: Mike Patton & Jean-Claude Vannier’s Corpse Flower

A collaboration between two titans provides plenty of revelations, finds Jeremy Allen

Yonkers Honk: Annie Bandez Interviewed

Val Siebert speaks to the multi-talented but too often overlooked singer, songwriter and artist about the anxiety of youth and the record label mafia

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For September

JR Moores surveys the latest psych-rock releases, and bravely nails his tie-dyed colours to the mast of not liking these newfangled Nazis we have around nowadays

40 Years On: Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Given that The Boss recorded Darkness between October 1977 and March 1978 you would think it would bear the influence of punk. And it does, says Michael Hann