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Noga Erez
KIDS

Tel Aviv's Noga Erez boasts razor sharp beats and a heart of pure pop, finds Neil Kulkarni

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan digs a big hole and flits around new releases that take in short locked grooves and extended multiphonic drones in this month’s letter from The Zone

Books

Empire Of Dirt: Sam Byers On His New Novel, Come Join Our Disease

Sam Byers' new novel imagines a shit-stained temporary autonomous zone in E10. The author of Idiopathy and Perfidious Albion talks to Robert Barry about writing, radicalism and rot

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

Art

Hyperunionisation: Cultural Workers Fighting Precarity

Throughout Europe, government bailouts for the arts have tended to save institutions at the expense of their employees, but some cultural workers have been fighting back, as Nicholas Burman investigates

Film

Beware Of Rainer Werner: The Bitter Tears Of Fassbinder’s Fans

Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some of the most vivid portrayals of women and LGBTQ+ lives in cinema history. He was also, as a new biopic makes clear, an abusive bully. Fassbinder fan Rachel Pronger unpicks a complicated legacy

Reviews

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises

A collaboration between the octogenarian saxophonist and the Mancunian electronic producer proves a revelation for Chiara Wilkinson

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of March 2021

Here's your buyer's guide to the very best albums and tracks released this month, compiled by tQ's office staff

Black Sky Thinking

Hot Stew & Literary Gentrification: Sex Workers Respond

Fiona Mozley’s Hot Stew has been praised for its exploration of a changing Soho , but Victoria Holt argues that the novel erases the reality of sex worker life, becoming a form of the gentrification it seeks to condemn. Photos thanks to Juno Mac

Album of the Week

The Mark Of Infinity: Tomaga’s Intimate Immensity

The final album by the duo of Valentina Magaletti and the late Tom Relleen deftly sums up what made their live shows so thrilling, finds Antonio Poscic

Reviews

Bernardo Devlin
Proxima B

The press release for Bernardo Devlin's latest album evokes Brel, Cohen, Scott Walker… But for once, the comparison is not spurious, finds Johny Lamb

A Quietus Interview

Honour The Darkness: An Interview With NYX

NYX drone choir founder Sian O’Gorman speaks to Harry Sword about the Deep England project, Gazelle Twin and their hypnotic, transcendent choral reimagining of Pastoral

Reviews

serpentwithfeet
DEACON

Josiah Wise finds joy in the making of his second serpentwithfeet album. Amanda Farah, in the listening, likewise

A Quietus Interview

Thrilling Me Softly: Serpentwithfeet Interviewed

Back with an album celebrating Black, queer love, the Baltimore-born singer-songwriter talks to Gemma Samways about allyship, Afrofuturism and the validity of joy in pop. Portraits by Braylen Dion

The Quietus International

Complete Communion: Jazz For March Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Complete Communion is back with more jazz releases new and archival from Peter Margasak

Baker's Dozen

Screaming The Street Down: Niven Govinden’s Favourite LPs

It's all bangers as writer Niven Govinden speaks to Paul Flynn about favourite records from Pet Shop Boys, Aretha, Solange, Madonna, Daft Punk and much more in this week's Baker's Dozen. Photo by Dan Lepard

A Quietus Interview

Anarchist Spice Girls: An Interview With Joy

The hypnotising industrial punk trio Joy speak to Stephanie Phillips about their hometown of New Orleans, being an anti-capitalist feminist punk band, and why they see themselves in the Spice Girls

A Quietus Interview

Playing More Music: Consolidated Interviewed

The American activist band Consolidated are back. Stevie Chick talks to Adam Sherburne about why it was time for new messages of militant tolerance and diatribes against capitalism

Reviews

Only Now & Beneath The Ruins
Anamnesis

A collaboration between two disparate California musicians sometimes feels like just that, but it's not without high points of heavy, quasi-cinematic action

Music Downloads

TQ Sound + Vision Subscribers Get Debut VÄLVĒ LP Geography

The Vernal Equinox is here and we're marking it with the release of the sumptuous, beautiful, resonant debut LP by VÄLVĒ for tQ Sound + Vision subscribers

Subscribers

Reviews

Elegiac
Elegiac

A collaboration between Blurt's Ted Milton and Wire's Graham Lewis proves a bracing but welcome relief for Julian Marszalek

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

There is more to life than down tuned drug death, says Kez Whelan in the latest of his metal review columns

A Quietus Interview

Maximum Intensity: An Interview With The Armed

Patrick Clarke speaks to a member of notorious Detroit hardcore collective The Armed to discuss the band's cult-like following, how they underwent gruelling bodybuilding diet plans for the sake of art, and how they hope to re-draw the boundaries of hardcore music with new album ULTRAPOP

Books

Feedback Loops: How The Who Turned Pop Into Self-Destructive Art

In an exclusive extract from his new book, *A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk*, Peter Stanfield explores the web of connections between Pete Townshend and the cybernetic art of Gustav Metzger and Roy Ascott

Art

Irreal Deal: Anthony Mannix & The Trouble With ‘Outsider Art’

Anthony Mannix has been called 'Australia's greatest outsider artist' but the term has proved a double-edged sword, finds Barnaby Smith

Books

Liquid Lunch: Milk Fed By Melissa Broder

Melissa Broder's follow-up to 2018's *The Pisces* spins body dysmorphia and Orthodox Judaism into a compelling read, finds Lucy Dunn

Film

The Realm Of The Senses: Blow Out And Cutter’s Way At 40

Two films released in 1981 unveil an American system that's irredeemably corrupt: Blow Out and Cutter's Way – one an unabashed thriller, the other a languorous character study, finds Patrick Preziosi

Reviews

Gazelle Twin & Nyx
Deep England

Gazelle Twin collaborates with electronic drone choir NYX to dig up the bones of England's restless dead

A Quietus Interview

Stranded: Four Artists On The Isolation Of Coronavirus

From abandoned tours to life-threatening health issues, tQ spoke to different UK-based artists about how the coronavirus pandemic has left them stranded

Album of the Week

Anime Mundi: Meemo Comma’s Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²

For her latest release on Planet Mu, Meemo Comma weaves together science fiction and Jewish mysticism with luminous results, finds Hannah Pezzack

Reviews

Altın Gün
YOL

They may be locked down, but Altın Gün are always a transportive listen, finds Richie Troughton

Baker's Dozen

Rope Ladders From Heaven: William Doyle’s Favourite Records

Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail

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Noga Erez KIDS

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Empire Of Dirt: Sam Byers On His New Novel, Come Join Our Disease

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

Hyperunionisation: Cultural Workers Fighting Precarity

Beware Of Rainer Werner: The Bitter Tears Of Fassbinder’s Fans

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra Promises

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of March 2021

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The Mark Of Infinity: Tomaga’s Intimate Immensity

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Honour The Darkness: An Interview With NYX

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Thrilling Me Softly: Serpentwithfeet Interviewed

Complete Communion: Jazz For March Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Screaming The Street Down: Niven Govinden’s Favourite LPs

Anarchist Spice Girls: An Interview With Joy

Playing More Music: Consolidated Interviewed

Only Now & Beneath The Ruins Anamnesis

TQ Sound + Vision Subscribers Get Debut VÄLVĒ LP Geography

Elegiac Elegiac

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Maximum Intensity: An Interview With The Armed

Feedback Loops: How The Who Turned Pop Into Self-Destructive Art

Irreal Deal: Anthony Mannix & The Trouble With ‘Outsider Art’

Liquid Lunch: Milk Fed By Melissa Broder

The Realm Of The Senses: Blow Out And Cutter’s Way At 40

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Noga Erez
KIDS

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises

Bernardo Devlin
Proxima B

serpentwithfeet
DEACON

Only Now & Beneath The Ruins
Anamnesis

Elegiac
Elegiac

Gazelle Twin & Nyx
Deep England

Altın Gün
YOL