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Game Of Thrones Season 7 – Falling At The Final Hurdle?

Game of Thrones returns, with all of its grandeur intact, but its grace increasingly absent. ***Contains mild spoilers***

From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity

When we started The Quietus we made the fairly arbitrary decision that modern popular music started with Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' in 1974. John Doran talks to Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Karl Bartos about the build up to this flash point in musical history

The Turn To Language: At Borealis Festival 2019

What is the place of language and of the voice in experimental music? This was the question addressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, by several artists at this year's Borealis Festival

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

The new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a journey into the music of the 60s that somehow manages to avoid excessses of nostalgia or sentiment, finds Mathew Lyons

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Kinds

A suite of delicately coloured ambient electronics offering an almost child-like sense of wonder

Prince: Revolutionary Transmissions From Beyond The Greatest Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)

The Quietus’ Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 14 to One

The Quietus finishes our countdown of the very best albums of 2008. Who will make the top?

Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) To Curate Xmas ATP

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases

The Best Albums Of 2017 Thus Far – And A Quietus Appeal For Help

In association with Norman Records we've turned our ears molten with listening and put together a list of the 100 best records released in the first six months of 2017. While we're at it, we've also got an appeal to you to help us continue doing what we do

The Strange World Of… Soulwax

Poised to release their first Soulwax album in seven years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover. Main portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski

Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold

The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival of the year. Photographs by Lucy Johnston.

A Pavement Interview: Terror Twilight, Radiohead, & Going Overground

As Pavement announce their reunion, Rock's Backpages and the Quietus revisit Barney Hoskyns' 1999 feature, written during the recording of final album _Terror Twilight_

EastEnders: The Death Of Pat, And The Decline Of The Soap Matriarch

The elder stateswomen of serial drama are an endangered species, says Terry Staunton

Hide And Seek: Pakistan’s Remarkable Joyland

The first Pakistani film to be shortlisted for an Oscar, Joyland is a defiant family portrait tackling gender expectations, finds Cici Peng

Classic Bruce Springsteen Interview: How Born To Run Saved The Boss

Bruce Springsteen may sell out a stadium tour in the blink of an eye nowadays, but as this 1975 interview by Dave Marsh from _Creem_ shows, it wasn't always so easy for The Boss...