Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
I first heard this at our friend Adam’s house in Holland Park. I’ll never forget it, he had it on as we entered the house and I said, What is that?! Yes, we all know about Mozart’s Requiem but this is the one that really hits me.
Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.
In anticipation of the release of Sons of Kemet's latest LP, Your Queen Is A Reptile and their appearance at this year's Field Day Festival, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings detailed the thirteen albums that shaped his experiences as both a man and a musician to Olamiju Fajemisin
Amber Medland's new book Wild Pets is "an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction" (*The Guardian*). In this exclusive essay for the Quietus, she talks about campus rape culture and teaching masculinity in the classroom
The highly charged vocal manipulations of Holly Herndon, Katie Gately (pictured), Burial and The Knife, writes Alex Borkowski, are powerful expressions of our fast-evolving relationships with technology, space and our own bodies
Une Aventure de VV (Songspiel)
The reactivated Belgian avant-rock band follow 2020’s *Figures* with a fifteen-part, sixty-three-minute experimental audio play voiced by a host of collaborators, including Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Tuxedomoon’s Blaine L. Reininger and Alig (John Pearce) of Family Fodder
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