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A Quietus Interview
Like Jesus Christ Superstar With Depression: Beak> Discuss Their new Album
As they surprise-release their first album in six years, the Bristol trio speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about how ambiguity, a Welsh farmhouse and a departed pet all played a part in their astonishing new music. Cover portrait by Andre Habermann
A Quietus Interview
No Affectation Of Misery: An Interview With Matthew Loveridge AKA MXLX
Inhabiting myriad identities to build an enormous catalogue of experimental music, Matthew Loveridge’s fascinating career was briefly paralysed by personal hardship. As he returns, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the enigmatic composer about anhedonia, abrasiveness, and the difficult birth of his new masterpiece
A Quietus Interview
Little Deaths & Anxieties: An Interview With Fairhorns
Matt Loveridge, formerly Team Brick and a member of Bristol trio Beak>, has recently animated a new solo project: the dark and stormy motorik of Fairhorns. He tells Ben Graham that it's simply another continuation of the pathways he's been exploring throughout his musical career
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Columns of the Year
Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes Of 2023
After the cassette celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, Daryl Worthington looks back on a year where it reinforced its role as pivotal to the present of underground music. From deep-fake ecosystems to post-sense Dictaphone freakouts, dolphin impersonations, and cutting edge beats
New Weird Britain
New Weird Britain In Review For March By Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, with extraordinary bursts of melody from Margate-via-Maine, the Bristolian blurring lines between techno and noise, fizzy meteorites of party-smashing illbience and more
