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Quietus Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)

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Various ArtistsKaleidoscope: New Spirits Known And Unknown

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VovodLost Machine

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PylonPylon

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Dean BluntRoaches 2012 – 2019

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ThouA Primer Of Holy Words

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Various ArtistsEmodrill: Le Nouveau Western

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VenomSons Of Satan: Rare And Unreleased

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Los JaivasLos Jaivas

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Sun RaEgypt 1971

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Moor Mother Nicole MitchellOffering (Live At Le Guess Who?)

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Various ArtistsThe Ladies Of Too Slow To Disco 2

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Ennio Morricone Bruno NicolaiDimensioni Sonore: Musiche Per L’Immagine E L’immaginazione

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Robert WyattHis Greatest Misses

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Tangerine DreamPilots Of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980 – 1983

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Eris DrewEcstatic Bass Transmission 1

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LeilaLike Weather

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Josey RebelleJosey In Space

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The Heshoo Beshoo GroupArmitage Road

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Craig KupkaCrystals: New Music For Relaxation 2

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TreesTrees (50th Anniversary Edition)

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Kraftwerk Lose Long-Running Copyright Dispute

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Boards Of Canada Share New Track, ‘Tape 05’

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Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture

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Reviews

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Album of the Week

Thickened Moments: Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux

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Playlists

Guest Playlist: Mark Jenkin

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Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: Children Of The Stones

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A Quietus Interview

A Different Beast: Abigail Snail Interviewed

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Virtual Mentors: Arooj Aftab’s Favourite Albums

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News

Massive Attack Collaborate with Tom Waits on New Song, ‘Boots On The Ground’

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Books

Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty

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Reviews

My New Band Believe
My New Band Believe

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Stellar Systems: Antony Hegarty’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed

This year, the Southbank Centre invited Antony Hegarty to curate their annual Meltdown Festival. We assembled a crack team of reviewers to cover a selection of its highlights. Words: Rory Gibb, Russell Cuzner, Joseph Burnett, Chris Roberts, Lee Arizuno

Album of the Week

Rhythm Nation: Ben LaMar Gay’s Open Arms To Open Us

The new album by Chicago's Ben LaMar Gay is a wild ride through idioms and styles, from hip hop and pop to free jazz and bossa nova

Black Sky Thinking

My Country Needs Me: on Sons Of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile

By celebrating great black women across history, by crowning Angela Davis, Harriet Tubman, Albertina Sisulu and Doreen Lawrence, Sons Of Kemet begin a new myth-making and bring afrofuturism down to earth with a beautiful bang. By Teju Adeleye

Columns of the Year

New Weird Britain: Noel Gardner’s 2019 Round-Up

Noel Gardner looks back at the no audience but too many names DIY underground during 2019 and serves up his ten of the best and his ten of the rest

Album of the Week

New Play For A New Day: Kamasi Washington’s Fearless Movement

The Californian saxophonist finds political and musical inspiration in the ludic intensity of childhood games, finds Lottie Brazier

Books

Searching for the Celtic Soul Rebels: Scottish Pop, 77–84

Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977–1984) by Douglas MacIntyre and Grant McPhee with Neil Cooper tells the story of independent music north of the border

Wilco’s ‘Wilco (The Album)’ Track-By-Track Review

Tweedy uploaded it, The Quietus reviews it. Mark Mitchell lends an ear to Wilco's new album, Wilco (The Album)

Genius Of Lovers: Tom Tom Club’s Favourite Albums

The former Talking Heads and husband and wife duo Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth whittle their record collection down to 13 all-time favourites

Books

Immigration As Erasal: On ‘Signs Preceding The End Of The World’

Pete Mitchell considers Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World — the author's only full-length work currently translated in to English — in the light and shadow of its macho, othering, counterparts in Anglophone border fiction, as well as its translated contemporaries, and the spectre of that last great imaginary line in the sand

Robbie Williams New Album Reality Killed The Video Star First Review

What do Morrissey and "the fat dancer from Take That" have in common? Well, quite a lot, according to Jude Rogers. Let her explain as she dissects Reality Killed The Radio Star . . .

News

WATCH: International Teachers Of Pop Video And More!

ITOP are back with a new video for 'Love Girl', two remixes, news about their second album, *and* a brand new London headline show. Ooft!

Film

Like Tears In The Rain: Death Scenes On The Big Screen

David Bax takes a look at some of the best - and longest - death scenes in movie history

Album of the Week

Full Of Promise And Cum: Baxter Dury’s Prince Of Tears

It's time for a beautiful, heart-rending, sexy, repulsive album about “emotionally blunted men who are fucked-up”. By Jeremy Allen.

New Labour, New Genre: Political Drama In The Blair And Brown Years

The General Election that could end the New Labour era nears a conclusion – here, Adrian Lobb looks at the new wave of political biopics in the last 13 years

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