Vanishing

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Vanishing’s Gareth Smith: “What Is A City If Not For Its People?”

Elizabeth Aubrey takes a trek across Manchester with Gareth Smith, aka Vanishing, as he talks about the future of the city and his brand new album, Shelter Of The Opaque, released exclusively to our Sound & Vision subscribers. All Vanishing portraits by Der Fotoautomat, photographs of Manchester by Elizabeth Aubrey

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Collision Course: Karl D’Silva Interviewed

Ahead of his Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur), Michael Brooks talks to multi-instrumentalist/composer Karl D’Silva about his new solo work, his formative musical experiences, and what it was like performing with the likes of Thurston Moore and GNOD

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Grist For The Mill: GNOD Interviewed

Infinity Machines by GNOD is one of tQ's albums of the summer. Ian Fraser meets Salford's finest and finds himself put through the Mill – Islington Mill, that is. Band photos by Sam Huddlestone

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Interiority Complex: Exploring Manchester’s Hinterlands With Lonelady

Wandering star Julie Campbell takes John Doran for a walk around the canal towpaths, vacant lots, Victorian mills and red light districts of Greater Manchester in order to explain the genesis of her new album, Hinterland

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Vanishing Launches 55°N, 5°E Project

A new project by electronic music producer Vanishing will look into The Dogger Bank Incident of 1904 which killed his great-grandfather

Vanishing: Where Is The Music Of The Impending Apocalypse?

In 1982 when nuclear war seemed inevitable, the charts were teeming with songs about the apocalypse but now that we're living in the shadow of the bomb once more, end of the world music is nowhere to be seen. John Doran looks at several outliers in the field of end times pop and rock

INTERVIEW: Vanishing

Vanishing's Gareth Smith tells the story of his singular new spoken word project and gives a hint of what to expect from their upcoming live debut

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Post-geographic bass music with an experimental thrust, defined by Cell’s adventurous arrangements and Miniawy’s commanding Arabic vocals

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INTERVIEW: Barry Hyde

Ex-Futurehead talks his new solo album, managing his bipolar disorder, and Britain’s mental health crisis

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Metamorphic Rock: Gwen Siôn Discusses Quarrying Slate for Sound

Gwen Siôn speaks to Jude Rogers about how her love of dubstep raves in tunnels became a creative practice of turning the slate of North West Wales into music, blending field recordings with choral song, and how landscape art is political

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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

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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

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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

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Anti-Sus Soundsystems: An Interview With Dennis Bovell

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

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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

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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

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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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We’re All In It Together: Quietus Writers’ Tracks Of 2013

Our staff and writers distil 2013's tracks down into handy top tens for our year-end hit parade

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Ancient to the Future: Discombobulated by Hen Ogledd

The Hen Ogledd family keeps on expanding – the group’s sound, likewise. But more than anything, Discombobulated sounds like the present, finds Jeanette Leech

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In Transit: An Interview With Danielle de Picciotto

The prolific musician, artist, film-maker, author and co-founder of the Berlin Love Parade has recently released her debut solo album, Tacoma. She tells Sand Avidar how the nomadic lifestyle she shares with husband Alexander Hacke and a return to her hometown shaped the record

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Vanishing’s Gareth Smith: “What Is A City If Not For Its People?”

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Vanishing: Where Is The Music Of The Impending Apocalypse?

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