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Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of July 2021

Here are the very best albums and tracks of July 2021, as selected by tQ's in-house staff

Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration

Benjamin D. Duvall looks at what the longest musical performances in history teach us about the current climate crisis

How The Baby Boomers Stole Music With Myths Of A Golden Age

Luke Turner despairs of John Lennon tooth cloning and the cultural stranglehold the baby boomer generation have over culture and the media... and asks, in our diverse modern age, might it be starting to weaken?

Green Issues: Music, Cannabis And You

Music and intoxication have gone hand in hand since prehistory, but the relationship of music and cannabis is particularly strong and complex, says Jono Podmore, a former habitual smoker, as he investigates a groundbreaking new study which may get us closer to understanding these links

Tyondai Braxton

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Love Bytes: Artists Choose Their Favourite Music By The Black Dog

To mark the year in which Spanners was reissued, musicians such as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Mike Paradinas and Call Super heap praise on IDM/ ambient rave pioneers The Black Dog

Origin Story: Billy Woods’ Favourite Albums

As he releases acclaimed new album Maps alongside Kenny Segal, underground hip hop mainstay Billy Woods takes tQ through the thirteen records that have defined his life, from Goodie Mob to Ghostface Killah

Satirical Concerns: Looking Back At Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Live

As the supposed answer to the Daily Show approaches the end of its run, Toby Cook takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of this new wave of British satire

Magic Moments: Michael Head’s Baker’s Dozen

In a year that sees him finish his 'magical memoir', a new album with The Red Elastic Band and a career-spanning homecoming show in Liverpool, former Shack, Strands and Pale Fountains frontman Michael Head takes Patrick Clarke through the 13 records that shaped him

Stalker Humanoids: The ERC, Maxine Peake & Lias Saoudi Interviewed

The Eccentronic Research Council, Maxine Peake and Lias Saoudi get together with John Doran to talk tactile knobs, pop star crushes and the secret history of early electronic pop

Do Ya Wanna Funk? Paul Flynn On Hi-NRG

In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author

Pieces Of Life: Gaspar Noé’s Favourite Films

On the release of his new film Vortex, Gaspar Noé takes Patrick Clarke through an intense and adventurous Baker's Dozen of favourite films, and the lessons they've taught him on the extent of human cruelty and the joy of shocking an audience

The Thrill And The Hurting: 30 Years Of The Sensual World

Burning fields, black November nights, the swirling beauty of the Uilleann pipes… Matthew Barton examines how Kate Bush made the perfect soundtrack to autumn

The Quietus’ Top 40 Books About Music

From New Orleans rap to noughties New York rock, via krautrock, jazz, riot grrrl and the story of political pop, we asked Quietus contributors to pick out forty of the finest music books ever written

Lead Review: Amelia Phillips On Klara Lewis’ Too

Digging into Klara Lewis' second full-length, Amelia Phillips finds an artist balanced on the knife edge of internal/external experience, and a musical narrative that puts the listener at the subjective forefront even as it details and abstracts the objectivity of the physical world around it

Lennon Naked & Depictions Of The Beatle On The Screen

With _Lennon Naked_ about to hit the small screen, Terry Staunton examines the various ways that cinema and television have interpreted his life