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Organic Intelligence XLVI: The UK Industrial Diaspora

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm Mat Colegate rips it to shreds with the ‘orrible racket that emerged in the early-80s, from S.P.K to Ramleh, Whitehouse and 23 Skidoo (pictured)

Strange World Of...

Mysterium Tremendum: The Strange World Of Lustmord

Ahead of his upcoming performance at Berlin Atonal festival, Russell Cuzner finds ten points of entry into the back catalogue of former SPK member Brian Williams aka Lustmord. Portrait by Aina O'Kane

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Baker's Dozen

No Music: A Baker’s Dozen with Alva Noto

From Laurie Anderson’s United States Live to Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music, Carsten Nicolai tells Mollie Zhang about 13 records that shaped his musical backbone. Photo by Andrey Bold

Baker's Dozen

I Ate It All Up In Fast Forward: Ariel Pink’s Favourite LPs

Ariel Pink shares 13 of his favourite records, taking in albums from Ata Kak, The Shaggs and John Maus amongst others

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Folk

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's guide to the best in strange, left-field and underground traditional music returns, with reviews of 10 essential new releases that take in everything from Irish fairy forts to Japanese rivers, strange parallel worlds and stark protest songs

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Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Ian Wade on Queer As Folk

In this month's subscriber essay, Ian Wade writes on how pioneering British gay drama Queer As Folk, screened by Channel 4 in 1999, reflected a generation's experiences of coming out and discovering their identity

A Quietus Interview

What Will Remain Is Love: Marta Salogni Interviewed

Music For Open Spaces is an album inspired by landscape recorded by the late musician Tom Relleen with partner Marta Salogni. She talks to Kat Lister about the 'long journey' this music has taken

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Music For Nitrous Oxide by Stars Of The Lid

Daryl Worthington looks back three decades to the release of the ambient duo's spellbinding debut, now reissued by Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing

Reissue of the Week

OST Of The Week: Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra – My Father’s Shadow

Mary Chiney celebrates the soundtrack to Akinola Davies Jr.'s debut feature film, depicting a single eventful day in Lagos, during 1993

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week – The Blue Album by K. Frimpong & His Cubano Fiestas

Mary Chiney celebrates the timely reissues of a highlife album for the ages; no mere postcard from the past but an essential atmosphere once more accessible to all

A Quietus Interview

Moving Big Mountains: Årabrot’s Karin Park Interviewed

Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park decided recently to take Årabrot forward into a new era. Dannii Leivers met Karin to talk about how her glittering pop career is influencing their new album, Norwegian Gothic, which is streamed here in full. Årabrot portraits by Olle Lundin

Art

Still Lives: Hannah Starkey’s Pictures Of Women

The Hepworth in Wakefield stages an impressive mid-career show from an artist whose images invite narratives without a trace of theatricality, finds John Quin

Album of the Week

The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))

Stripped back to a two-piece, the latest from the Seattle-born drone monsters returns the group to their thrillingly arboreal roots

A Quietus Interview

Anti-Sus Soundsystems: An Interview With Dennis Bovell

Melissa Bradshaw talks to Dennis Bovell about police powers, imprisonment and premium noise levels

A Quietus Interview

Chaotic Bucolic: An Interview with No Joy

Jasamine White-Gluz, aka No Joy, tells Claire Biddles about how a move to rural Quebec inspired the shift to multi-faceted maximalism that defines her new album Bugland

Things I Have Learned

Silent Night, Miserable Night – Tracey Thorn On Christmas Songs

When she recorded her seasonal album, Tracey Thorn discovered that all Christmas songs are essentially about misery and suffering. Photograph by Edward Bishop

News

INTERVIEW: DM Stith

After touring with Sufjan Stevens, and working on The Revival Hour’s debut album with The Earlies’ JM Lapham, DM Stith discusses the difficult genesis of his long-awaited second album with Wyndham Wallace. You can also stream his new single exclusively below

Album of the Week

Navigate the Moment: Širom’s In The Wind Of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper

A new-found emphasis on melody to the fore, the Slovenian trio triumphantly capture the sense of music evolving even as it’s played

Books

More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave

From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise, melody, and why the fertile ecosystem of Downtown NYC couldn't come about today

A Quietus Interview

Time Becomes A Loop: William Basinski Interviewed

John Doran talks to William Basinski about the tenth anniversary of The Disintegration Loops. Main picture by Peter J. Kierzkowski

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Organic Intelligence XLVI: The UK Industrial Diaspora

Mysterium Tremendum: The Strange World Of Lustmord

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

No Music: A Baker’s Dozen with Alva Noto

I Ate It All Up In Fast Forward: Ariel Pink’s Favourite LPs

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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

Low Culture Essay: Ian Wade on Queer As Folk

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The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O)))

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Silent Night, Miserable Night – Tracey Thorn On Christmas Songs

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