Foetus

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Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus

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Let’s Talk About Death: Marc Almond Interview

Simon Price talks to the enigmatic singer about Soho, Soft Cell and mortality

Anniversary

30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

Joseph Burnett looks back to The The's debut proper and finds one of the greatest albums of the 80s

Anniversary

Young Limbs And Numb Hymns: The History Of The Batcave Club

Val Siebert speaks to members of Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Specimen and Foetus about Soho's original gothic haunt

A Quietus Interview

Working With The Weapons At Hand: JG Thirlwell Of Foetus Interviewed

In a wide-ranging interview, Mark Emsley talks to Jim Thirlwell about his work including Foetus, Manorexia, and soundtracking Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. Photo by Marylene Mey

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Who Lights Up The Dance? An Interview With Flowdan

Commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, Rory Gibb meets Flowdan, one of the most distinctive voices in grime and beyond, to discuss Jamaican sound system culture's influence on UK music and the origins of The Bug's mighty anthem 'Skeng'

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Return of the Macc: Factory Floor Interviewed

Dan Dylan Wray hops on the Trans Pennine Express and travels to Macclesfield to interview newly reformed and reinvigorated Factory Floor ahead of a live show at MUTEK Montreal this month. Cover portrait by Barnaby Ward

Anniversary

Love & Ecstatic Dancing: Soft Cell & Human League Go Long

Four decades ago Human League (as The League Unlimited Orchestra) and Soft Cell revolutionised the art of remixing and cemented the idea of the remix album in the public consciousness, says Ian Wade

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Final Meltdown Lineup

Princess Nokia, Fakear, Soulwax and more join the M.I.A.-curated lineup

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I Thrive on Auto-Destruction: An Interview with Prolapse

As they return from a 26 year studio hiatus sounding fresher than ever, Prolapse speak to Derek Walmsley about the benefits and pitfalls of defying the 90s mainstream, self-sabotage, empathy with the downtrodden and the growing spectre of mortality

Things I Have Learned

Amanda Palmer On Mindfulness And Gender

"I'd sooner write a song than buy a gun", Amanda Palmer tells Erin Lyndal Martin

Anniversary

The Wind is Screaming Around the Trees: 40 Years of Psychocandy

Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all

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Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Will Burns On 90s Skate VHS Soundtracks

In this month’s subscriber-exclusive essay, poet and novelist Will Burns argues that skateboarding is close to dancing as he reflects on how the soundtracks of grainy DIY VHS films opened his musical mind

Things I Have Learned

The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing

The Wakefield brothers spar with Fergal Kinney about the unlikely – and mutual – love affair between The Cribs and the combat sport.

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The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the middway point of 2023, we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile the top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

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Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs

The debut album from the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-producer, finds the digital age's only medieval princess bursting with ideas and cartoonish intensity. Truly, Hemlocke Springs contains multitudes

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Reviews 1

Baroque and Roll: Halt by Foetus

Articles 4

Let’s Talk About Death: Marc Almond Interview

30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

Young Limbs And Numb Hymns: The History Of The Batcave Club

Working With The Weapons At Hand: JG Thirlwell Of Foetus Interviewed

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