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LISTEN: Depeche Mode’s New Album

Delta Machine streaming on iTunes

A Police Utopia: Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle

The KLF's Jimmy Cauty discusses taking his dystopian model village on a tour of the sites of great riots from the past, present, and future

Choice Of An Angel: Charlotte Church’s Favourite Albums

Charlotte Church, former world-conquering child soprano turned alt-rock auteur, picks 13 albums that may entirely change your view of her. But, as the Quietus finds out, challenging preconceptions is something she's used to

More Fire! The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane become accelerating vectors , fast-forwarding jazz to new worlds on the new Comet is Coming album. But Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery could appeal just as well to clubbers, grime fans and football hooligans, finds Mike Vinti

Autechre

Oversteps

The Low Culture Podcast: John & Luke On Heart Of The Congos

This month the Quietus Editors talk about the 1977 vocal reggae album by The Congos, widely held to be one of the greatest Jamaican LPs and an example of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Black Ark Studio at the height of its power

No Wave Mainstay James Chance Dead at 71

The NYC saxophonist, composer, bandleader of The Contortions and member of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks passed away on Tuesday following an unspecified illness

Blancmange

Unfurnished Rooms

A pleasing new album - as if Blancmange have journeyed back to the early 1980s and taken a different turning

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This November

Before we get our whopper out next week, here's our little monthly roundup of joy and succour: with Audiobooks, Planningtorock, Big Joanie and a little gem from the isle of Eigg

This Is A Low: Blur, Asia & Cultural Appropriation

In claiming their new album The Magic Whip to be 'Asia-inspired', Blur have become the latest in a line of Western musicians to boil down the diverse cultures of the most populated region in the world into one nonsensical mishmash, says Sandra Song

TONIGHT: Martin Gore Listening Event

Tune in here from 9 pm for a live playback of the Depeche Mode man's upcoming solo album MG and a live chat

2015: The Year We All Became C*nts

Bobby Barry looks back at 2015, the year of Uber-ubiquity, "shy Tories" and virtue signalling, and asks if we've finally crossed the rubicon and are no longer worth rescuing from our appalling human selves

Still House Plants

If i don’t make it, i love u

For their third album, the London via Glasgow trio trawl through their teenage idols and smash them all to pieces, finds Hayley Scott

Neurosis

Honor Found In Decay

Sort Out Your Psyche! Mikey Georgeson Discusses The Civilised Scene

Aug Stone chats to The Civilised Scenester about pop music's relation to the unconscious, mystical moustaches, and Making Blackberry Crumble For Change

A Blank Page Gives Me Freedom: Orhan Pamuk Interviewed

The Turkish Nobel Literature Laureate speaks in-depth to Kevin Perry about his reluctant role as the voice of a generation