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Will Your Anchor Hold? 75 Dollar Bill Interviewed

As 75 Dollar Bill release the latest in our Singularity series of tracks, exclusive to our Sound & Vision subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan asks them about defying genre and pattern building

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Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2022

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

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Art

A Handful Of Dust: An Interview With Katie Paterson

With an exhibition of new work currently on display at Edinburgh's Ingleby Gallery, Katie Paterson talks about the anthropocene, deep time, andthe pulse point between science and art

Books

A Man Awake: On Georges Perec’s A Man Asleep

Daniel Williams on the novella that inspired his first novel

Reviews

Real Lies
Lad Ash

Real Lies' second album may be the first great London record of the year, finds Luke Turner

Film

Let’s Not Rush: A Love Letter To Trains On Screen

Modern cinema portrays trains as spaces between spaces, a place of fascination for the moving image that culminates with Compartment No 6, finds Henry Jordan

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of April 2022

The last month saw a bumper crop of brilliant new records, and tQ's staffers deliver their buyer's guide to the best of the best below

Reviews

Mall Girl
Superstar

A lockdown album from the Oslo-based alt.rock four-piece hits all the right notes for Amanda Farah

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Albert Ayler’s Revelations

Daniel Spicer gets to grips with the newly minted five LP set, Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings, and finds the crowning triumph of Albert Ayler's career as a live performer

Film

Fuck Fame: Charli XCX, A-ha And Destructive Fandom

The cost of summery, youth-led music is steep as much in the 1980s as the 2020s, as revealed in documentaries about Charli XCX and A-ha, finds Soma Ghosh

Album of the Week

Feeling Sinister: LP.8 By Kelly Lee Owens

Kelly Lee Owens’s latest, a surprising and stunning album, is much more than the mathematics of influences, says Bernie Brooks

Rum Music

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Just intonation electric guitars, third ears cast in plastic, and a crucial henge of minimalist composition in a hot month for The Zone on holiday

Reviews

Vox Populi!
Psyko Tropix

Sean Kitching is delighted to discover the work of the cult French and Iranian group via an album of largely unreleased tracks from an archive that, if this is anything to go by, has much more fascinating and unclassifiable music still up its sleeve

A Quietus Interview

Electric Light Orchestra: Viridian Ensemble Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to four members of the Bristol group who experiment with music and film, prompted by 12th century texts about women's medicine, shrimp in the West Country, and finding the edges of their instruments

Baker's Dozen

Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

Paddy Shine is one of the most relentless instigators in the underground, both as part of Gnod and in myriad other projects. Ahead of the release of the debut album by his weird folk group Moundabout alongside Phil Masterson on Rocket this summer, he guides Harry Sword through 13 vital slabs

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Kathryn Joseph
for you who are the wronged

This third solo album leaves the Scottish singer-songwriter stripped down, more exposed than ever – and all the more powerful for it, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

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Nyokabi Kariuki
peace places: kenyan memories

The Kenyan musician and composer explores the resonance of place via manipulated vocals and acoustic instruments

Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores momentarily prises himself away from web-based lexicon challenges to bring a fresh batch of psych. Home page photograph: 50ft Wave

Reviews

Claire Rousay
Everything Perfect is already Here

Field recordings and traditional orchestral instruments combine in broad brushstrokes with uniquely affecting results, find Vanessa Ague

A Quietus Interview

It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed

Under his moniker “The Lord”, the Sunn O))) mainman has written a record inspired by the woods, horror soundtracks and Swedish death metal, with help from an unlikely source, says Dan Franklin

Books

That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall

In an extract from the book Ten Thousand Apologies, Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi tells Adelle Stripe about the time he met Mark E. Smith

Art

The Raw & The Cooked: Seth Price’s Uncanny Valley

At Sadie Coles HQ in London, American conceptual artist Seth Price makes canvases that teeter between the virtual and the real

Reviews

Sault
Air

Producer Inflo and his merry band add lush orchestration to their heady mix of funk and soul, finds Nathan Evans

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Jarboe – Skin Blood Women Roses

Kevin Mccaighy speaks to Jarboe about the timely reissue of one of her key recordings

Low Culture Essay

I Am The Resurrection: How The BBC’s Manchester Passion Ignited My Indie Adolescence

An ill-conceived marriage of songs from the city's storied past and the story of Christ's crucifixion was event TV for a 12-year-old Catholic boy in Blackburn

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Will Your Anchor Hold? 75 Dollar Bill Interviewed

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2022

A Handful Of Dust: An Interview With Katie Paterson

A Man Awake: On Georges Perec’s A Man Asleep

Real Lies Lad Ash

Let’s Not Rush: A Love Letter To Trains On Screen

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of April 2022

Mall Girl Superstar

Reissue Of The Week: Albert Ayler’s Revelations

Fuck Fame: Charli XCX, A-ha And Destructive Fandom

Feeling Sinister: LP.8 By Kelly Lee Owens

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Vox Populi! Psyko Tropix

Electric Light Orchestra: Viridian Ensemble Interviewed

Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

Kathryn Joseph for you who are the wronged

Nyokabi Kariuki peace places: kenyan memories

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

Claire Rousay Everything Perfect is already Here

It Took The Night To Believe: Greg “The Lord” Anderson Interviewed

That Wasn’t Right, Mark: When Fat White Family Met The Fall

The Raw & The Cooked: Seth Price’s Uncanny Valley

Sault Air

Reissue Of The Week: Jarboe – Skin Blood Women Roses

I Am The Resurrection: How The BBC’s Manchester Passion Ignited My Indie Adolescence

Warping The Landscape: Laurie Anderson’s Big Science Revisited

If You Go Down To The Woods Today: Forest Nocturne By The Lord

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April Reviewed By Kez Whelan

The Fur Will Fly: Deep Tan Interviewed

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Real Lies
Lad Ash

Mall Girl
Superstar

Vox Populi!
Psyko Tropix

Kathryn Joseph
for you who are the wronged

Nyokabi Kariuki
peace places: kenyan memories

Claire Rousay
Everything Perfect is already Here

Sault
Air

50 Foot Wave
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