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Reissues, Comps & Mixes Of 2013 (In Association With Norman Records)

As if there wasn't enough to keep you occupied in our albums of 2013 list, the Quietus staff sift through 2013's finest archival reissues, compilations, soundtracks, free-to-download mixes, mixtapes and other unclassifiable sonic artefacts. With thanks to Sophie Coletta

Time For Acting: Oneohtrix Point Never On The Good Time Soundtrack

Daniel Lopatin - AKA Oneohtrix Point Never - talks to Mat Colegate about his award winning soundtrack to the Safdie Brother's grimy New York crime thriller Good Time.

Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Listen and understand, says Kez Whelan. Heavy metal is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever until you are banging your head to some sweet riffology

Get Physical: Perfume Genius Interviewed

Perfume Genius' new album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately is his best yet. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about physicality, connection, and embodying the swagger of Elvis and Roy Orbison. Photos by Camille Vivier

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan encounters puppies, performance art and sound poetry, plus the polished versions of Les Rallizes Denudes, in a busy trip into The Zone

Boards Of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, Track-By-Track

Warp's shadowy duo Boards Of Canada return in June with their first album in six years. Joe Clay attended the album's first playback, and gives us a run through of his initial impressions

Hulubalang

Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal

An album of maximalist electronica from Indonesia proves an ambitious, if difficult listen for Alex Rigotti

Shackleton

Freezing Thawing Opening EP

Music For A New Society: Use Knife Interviewed

Richard Foster meets Belgian/Iraqi outfit Use Knife to discuss their all-embracing vortex of a sound, anti-violence, the essential link between politics and art, and breaking down barriers

They Were Not Evil: The Loveable Raconteurs Of NWOBHM

Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s *Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal* and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past

Bob Mould Interviewed: From Husker Du To Trance And Beyond

In an in-depth interview, Bob Mould talks to Petra Davis about Sugar, Husker Du, being a trance DJ and his sexuality

Black Midi Reveal Covers EP, ‘Cavalcovers’

Out today, the EP features the band's take on tracks by Taylor Swift, King Crimson and Captain Beefheart

“I Prefer Their Later Work”: 40 Brilliant Albums At The End Of Artists’ Careers

Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.

IKEA Is Organising A Virtual Music Festival

The lineup includes Loraine James, ZULI and more

Wrapped Up: Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, 30 Years On

It's been three decades since the release of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart's classic. Matthew Lindsay casts an ear and an eye back over a "sad, strange and popular" album that "pulled off the New Pop trick of having your cake and eating it; revelling in what you deconstruct"

Big Music: The Cure Live At Wembley Arena

Rather than the miserabilists they’re often unfairly painted as, watching The Cure at Wembley Tariq Goddard finds a band of sincerity and empathy, with superb new songs of colossal scale and a bond between artist and audience that continues to grow tighter and more heartfelt as time keeps passing