These New Puritans
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A Quietus Interview
“We’re The Last Cult Band” These New Puritans Interviewed
As These New Puritans prepare for a major Barbican concert, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett speak to Luke Turner about their grand plans and how their relationship feeds into the band's resolutely DIY approach. B&W portraits by Guy Lowndes, other pictures George Barnett
A Quietus Interview
Setting Fire To Field Of Reeds: These New Puritans Interviewed
As These New Puritans put an end to their Field Of Reeds phase of activity by releasing a live album of their Barbican concert back in April, Jack and George Barnett tell Luke Turner about constructing a sound library, Arsenal, soundtracks to jogging and where the band will be heading next
Black Sky Thinking
Terror In The Terroir: Resisting The Rebranding Of The Countryside
Resisting ideological efforts to brand the countryside as a place of safe, reassuring conservativism, argues Joe Kennedy, a host of art and music in 2013 powerfully emphasised the uncanny and traumatic aspects of rural Britain. Photograph by Luke Turner.
Black Sky Thinking
“What Are You Doing In There?” The Rise and Fall of Bedroom Music
"I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed," once sang Noel Gallagher. Tim Burrows, on the other hand, argues that those bedroom-dwelling music makers who were hyped to change the face of music in 2010 aren't as ground-breaking as many first thought...
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Film
Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Toute Une Nuit’
One of Chantal Akerman's lesser known works feels singularly important during times of global isolation. Toute Une Nuit telegraphs the importance of human connection over one finite period of time and now plays like a foggy memory, finds Patrick Preziosi
