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Yama Warashi

Crispy Moon

Yama Warashi plays with time and space on an album that, for all its diverse influences, is pop through and through, finds Daryl Worthington

Continuous Miracles: An Interview With Better Corners

Three of leftfield music’s most pioneering musicians, Valentina Magaletti, Sarah Register and Matthew Simms, speak to Patrick Clarke about their new band together Better Corners, whose debut album is released today exclusively for Quietus subscribers

Lost Highway: Jack Nance Remembered By David Lynch & Others

In a piece originally written to mark the 15th anniversary of Jack Nance's death, Cyrus Shahrad looks back over the actor's life and work and talks to those close to him, including Catherine Coulson and David Lynch

LIVE REPORT: Neutral Milk Hotel

Elizabeth Murphy heads to Memphis, Tennessee to kneel at the altar of the US indie luminaries

Vanishing Launches 55°N, 5°E Project

A new project by electronic music producer Vanishing will look into The Dogger Bank Incident of 1904 which killed his great-grandfather

No Stars In Krautrock: David Stubbs’ Future Days Reviewed

Getting stuck in to David Stubbs' more-than-just-an-index new book, Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany, Stewart Smith considers the unique egolessness and socio-historical peculiarities that gave rise to the enigmatic genre and Stubbs' effectiveness as guide

Field Maneuvers Unveils Full Lineup For 2022 Edition

The small festival is back for the first time since 2019, and has a new location

Poetic Realism: Marcel Carné’s Le Jour Se lève revisited

Paul Risker talks to Ginette Vincendeau, King's College professor of film studies, about the enduring influence of Marcel Carné's masterpiece Le Jour Se lève

Posthumous Leonard Cohen Album Planned

Leonard Cohen's son says that plans for a posthumous album are in the works

The Feedback Of Myth: Osaka’s Cult Label Vanity Records

The short-lived Vanity Records experiment with electronic noise under Japan’s commercial explosion was mesmerised by the post punk countercultural phenomena in the West says Miranda Remington

Julian Cope

Saint Julian

An Age Of Promise: The Strange World Of… The Kronos Quartet

Leo Chadburn talks to the quartet's founder member, violinist David Harrington, about ten key projects which have shaped their unique career

Wire

Silver/Lead

The Academisation of Rave: Is Everyone Talking About Dancing, Rather Than Doing It?

Clubs are closing, a new generation is less keen on going out and bashing their bonces with garries – yet raving is discussed more than ever, with endless books and academic articles discussing the dancefloor as a utopia. Chal Ravens asks what this phenomenon tells us about the state of modern raving.

The Extinction Of Reality: The Counselor Reassessed

Jasun Horsley looks back at The Counselor, and finds new depths in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's unlikely collaboration

Two Poems By: Fawn Parker

New writing this week comes to you — via tQ, of course — from Montreal-based poet and editor Fawn Parker