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Lightspeed Champion Dev Hynes Interviewed: Nice To Meet You!

Stevie Keen was delighted to hear that Lightspeed Champion were about to release a new album early next year so she piled down to Abbey Road Studios to have a word with Dev

Battle Trance

Blade Of Love

Restraint, Dear Boy: Emily Berry Interviewed By Sam Riviere

Fellow Faber poet Sam Riviere speaks with Emily Berry about her much-anticipated and highly-lauded debut collection, Dear Boy, the difficulties of political poetry and the idea of submission

All The Kids Are Dead Kids: Fat White Family Live

Fat White Family are the seediest, strangest, nastiest guitar group in Britain today, and The Quietus loves them. We sent John Calvert to review a recent gig in a derelict hospital. Photographs thanks to Lou Smith

The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Reveals Debut Solo Album

"The album distils my years of musical, political and artistic life with these genre-breaking songs," Birch has said of 'I Play My Bass Loud'

INTERVIEW: Adrian Corker

Plus, listen to Richard Skelton and Circle Traps reworks of tracks from the composer's new EP, Start Merge Fade

Erasure

Always: The Very Best Of Erasure

Red Brut

Cloaked Travels

The second LP from Rotterdam experimentalist Red Brut is a thrilling journey through inner and outer space, finds Richard Foster

Reissue Of The Week: Tonic 19-01-2001 On Black Truffle

Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke appear on Black Truffle's remarkable 100th release. Stewart Smith salutes an essential independent label

Genius Of Hitchcock Live Soundtracks

The Ring and The Lodger restored and rescored, premiering soon at Hackney Empire and the Barbican. Stills courtesy of the BFI

Immigration As Erasal: On ‘Signs Preceding The End Of The World’

Pete Mitchell considers Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World — the author's only full-length work currently translated in to English — in the light and shadow of its macho, othering, counterparts in Anglophone border fiction, as well as its translated contemporaries, and the spectre of that last great imaginary line in the sand

“Make Something Out Of This”: Drumbo On The Making Of Trout Mask Replica

In an exclusive extract from his book Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic, band member John 'Drumbo' French recalls the making of Trout Mask Replica

Gyratory System

New Harmony

Nick Cave Writes Letter To Brian Eno On Israel

Nick Cave says his decision to play in Israel in 2017 was a "principled stand against those who wish to bully, shame and silence musicians"

This Is A Big Record: An Interview With Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce

Pierce talks to Elizabeth Aubrey about Spiritualized’s forthcoming festival performances, Ladies and Gentlemen at 20 and the next Spiritualized album

A Deafening Glory: On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise

Darius Marder's bold debut Sound of Metal asks the viewer to understand rock and deafness as two contradictory things – but it's a complex history, finds Soma Ghosh