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Baker's Dozen
Organs Of Ecstasy: Ben Chasny’s Favourite Albums
Questing experimental guitar hero Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, tells Ben Graham about 13 records that influenced his playing and shaped his worldview, from psychedelic Japanese noise rock to American Primitive acoustic fingerpicking
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In Conversation
Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa
Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
Track-by-Track
Pet Shop Boys’ New LP Electric, Track-By-Track Preview
Electric, Pet Shop Boys' first LP on their own record label, sees Stuart Price aiding Messrs Tennant and Lowe in a hugely enjoyable record aimed at the dancefloor. Luke Turner does gives a track-by-track preview, plus listen to new track exclusively here
Books
The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Strange Young Alien, the founder member and principal songwriter of the Monochrome Set discusses the ruptured cerebral aneurysm that changed the way he thought about music and the creative process
Album of the Week
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Manchester’s Mandy, Indiana haver never sounded so direct, so fierce, so angry as on this, their second album, a record which forcefully calls out rape culture and toxic masculinity amidst racing polyrhythms and a barrage of noise
The Quietus International
North American Music: tQ in The Twin Cities, by Natalie Marlin
In the first edition of a new series exploring underground and left-field music from North America, Natalie Marlin delivers an insider's guide to the frantic, uninhibited and queer-driven energy of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul underground, and picks out five essential new releases from the cities' most exciting artists
Black Sky Thinking
How Women are Changing Greater Manchester’s Grassroots Music Scene
Perturbed by a study that found young women in the north of England are struggling to feel musical, Lottie Brazier set out to speak to the promoters, artists and managers who are helping shift the dial in the region
A Quietus Interview
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
Mary Epworth On Nature & The Mysterious, Mystical Hare
Mary Epworth's Twitter profile is three words long. It reads 'I like hares'. Here, the singer-songwriter and self-confessed "wildlife-obsessive" talks to John Freeman about the "otherworldly, but hugely misunderstood" mammal.
