Tristan Bath

Spool’s Out With Tristan Bath: Tape Reviews For January

Winter’s truly come, and it dominates the year’s first Spool’s Out with icy ambience, washed out synths, and saxophone abuse

Księżyc

Rabbit Eclipse

Spool’s Out with Tristan Bath: The Top 20 Tapes Of 2015

Tristan Bath rounds up his top 20 cassette tapes and favourite tape label of 2015 in his annual assessment of the state of music on tape. Illustration by Wedhar Riyadi

Closed Circuits

Breaker

All Truth, No Lies: Big | Brave Interviewed

The Montrealers talk to Tristan Bath about the pursuit of "good" feedback, dealing out honest live performances and how unexplainable feelings fed into their inward journey towards their triumphant second album, Au De La

FESTIVAL REPORT: Elevate 2015

Tristan Bath heads to Graz for the eleventh Elevate festival, and spends a weekend in at the frontlines of experimental music, political discourse, and Central Europe.

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For November By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back with the best music on tape for November including a charity project for those affected by the Nepal earthquake

FESTIVAL REPORT: Skaņu Mežs

Tristan Bath explores underexplored locations and microscopic whispers while attending a "sound forest" festival in Latvia's capital

Nicely Proposed, Coxy! Bradford Cox Of Deerhunter’s Favourite LPs

After we asked the Deerhunter and Atlas Sound man to pick his top LPs, Tristan Bath rang him in Atlanta and, over the course of a two-hour dog walk, had Bradford Cox talk through 13 albums of "accidents and starkness"

The Lead Review: Tristan Bath On Stara Rzeka’s Zamknęły się oczy ziemi

With the upcoming release of what looks to be the last ever Stara Rzeka album, Tristan Bath looks back through Kuba Ziołek's longterm interaction with the intricacies of the modern physical world

Spool’s Out: October’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath once again brings us every tape release that's fit for review

We Are All Space Junk: The Membranes Live in Tallinn

Tristan Bath travels to Tallinn Estonia, to witness the true exploratory nature of post punk still in action as The Membranes, the Sireen choir and a CERN scientist collide

Spool’s Out: September’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back with all of this month's cassette releases

Owiny Sigoma Band

Nyanza

Spool’s Out: August’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

As Mark Twain said - there are only two things certain in life: taxes and Necro Deathmort. Tristan Bath covers their new compilation cassette and the rest of this month's best tapes

Terminal Cheesecake

Cheese Brain Fondue: Live In Marseille

Spool’s Out: July’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath fires up his cassette decks to lead us through some of the most exciting music out there (that just happens to be released on tape)

Dawn Of MIDI

Dysnomia

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For June By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath gets to grips with all of this month's best cassette releases. Uncredited Umfang live photograph courtesy of WeirdMagic.biz

Trupa Trupa

Headache

Prurient

Frozen Niagara Falls

Spool’s Out, Slight Return: May’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath, Part II

In the second half of Tristan Bath's monthly cassettes round-up, he takes a tour through new releases of long-form Italian drone, Belgian black metal and clarinet-led experimentation from Chicago

Something Potty In The State Of Denmark: Elsinor’s Click Reviewed

Tristan Bath heads to the Danish city of Helsingør, home of Hamlet's dad's castle, to try and stay up for 24 hours and watch music from Rhys Chatham, CTM, Ellen Fullman, Keiji Haino, Bjørn Svin, Carl Emil Carlsen and Lee "Scratch" Perry

The Eccentronic Research Council

Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine... I'm Your Biggest Fan

Daphne Oram & More In This Month’s Tape Reviews Column

This month Tristan Bath delves into the past with a review of a new cassette of undiscovered work by Daphne Oram, new music from former Medicine man Brad Laner, returning London psych group Lasers From Atlantis, footwork from DJ Fullton, strange Japanese synth project mus.hiba and electronics from Petrels

Ariel Kalma & Robert Lowe

‎FRKWYS Vol. 12: We Know Each Other Somehow

Serendipitous Chance: Resonate Festival Reviewed

Tristan Bath divulges a plethora of learnings collated while visiting this year's edition of the Belgrade festival.

Spools Out: April’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back with a Spools Out special which investigates the confluence of spoken word and experimental music

Gnod

Infinity Machines

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For March By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath returns with Spools Out, The Quietus' regular tape review column. This month he covers Shit & Shine, Broshuda, Deathcount In Silicone Valley, Silver Waves, Dikeman, Roger Tellier-Craig, Félicia Atkinson, Eartheater, Nigel Wrench, Black Spirituals and Extnddntwrk

Wading In Deeper: Katzenjammer Interviewed

With their third album just released, Tristan Bath catches up with the Oslo quartet to talk about the inspiration behind Rockland, the troubles of having a giant balalaika in your instrument arsenal and the ascendant Norwegian scene