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Hot Chip

A Bath Full of Ecstasy

On their new album, Hot Chip work out what to do once the imperial phase is over, finds Fergal Kinney

Youthful Urgency: Lanark Artefax Interviewed

With a new record just released via Nic Tasker's unstoppable Whities label, Lanark Artefax talks sneaking into Glasgow clubs underage, 'IDM' and why he prefers making music outside of traditional electronic music structures

Adjunct Ensemble

Sovereign Bodies / Ritual Taxonomy

Featuring the combined talents of Felispeaks, Catherine Sikora Mingus, Mariam Rezaei, Amy Ní Fhearraigh, Stephen Davis, Darren Beckett and Oscar Cassidy, Jamie Thompson's ensemble is best when it goes big, finds Vanessa Ague

Horns Up Ya Shitters! June’s Best Heavy Metal Reviewed

Toby Cook takes you on a riff-splattered tour through the month's best metal - from Shining and Autopsy to Power Trip and Death Trip - all the while subliminally commanding you to stop what you're doing and listen to more Bongripper

Rewire Confirms First Acts For 2020

HTRK, The Caretaker & Weirdcore, Hildur Guðnadóttir and more will play next year's event in the Hague

Alice Hubble

Polarlichter

One half of “cutie electronica” duo Arthur and Martha, Alice Hubble's solo debut conjures gorgeous pastoral soundscapes, finds Fergal Kinney

LISTEN: Grumbling Fur – Protogenesis

Another preview of forthcoming new album Glynnaestra

Capital Punishment: An Interview With Gum Takes Tooth

After five tumultuous years, Gum Takes Tooth have delivered one of 2019’s early standouts in the form of new album ‘Arrow’. Patrick Clarke meets the band to talk the realities of musicianship in London, automatic writing and the story behind their stunning third record. All pictures by Eric Oliveira.

WIN: Benga Signed Vinyl

Good knowledge of Croydon-based record shops? It could win you a beautiful new signed copy of Benga's Chapter II LP

LISTEN: Will Dutta – ‘Distance’

The opening track from Dutta's new album, in collaboration with Plaid

Short Fiction By: Oliver Zarandi

A 35-point list of imparted wisdom (or, "wisdom") from father to son — a piece of short fiction by Oliver Zarandi — makes up this week's instalment of new writing on The Quietus

Irresponsible Science – An Interview With Maja S. K. Ratkje

Before her appearance at next month's Le Guess Who? festival, Maja S. K. Ratkje talks to Russell Cuzner about her wide-ranging work that, whether freely improvised or composed for orchestra, consistently bears the mark of an uncompromising, unconventional spirit

Suuns/Jerusalem In My Heart

Suuns And Jerusalem In My Heart

The Master’s Amusement Park: The Up And Down Cinema Of Bong Joon-ho

To mark the release of the historic Parasite, it seems fitting to track the physical levels of Korean master Bong Joon-ho's cinema, from Memories of Murder to Snowpiercer, finds Joel Whitaker

Field Music Detail New LP, ‘Flat White Moon’

On the new record, the brothers wanted to make "something which just feels good and feels physical"

Quietus Link Of The Day: New Bands, Visit Strummerville

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