Ben Hewitt

All She Ever Looked For: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever, 45 Years On

Kate Bush’s third album is not her most celebrated but, Ben Hewitt argues, it might be her most pivotal – the start of her transition from artist to auteur. First published 07/09/20

You Gotta Have Faith: The Cure’s Third Album, 40 Years On

It wasn’t The Cure’s first great album, but was it the first great ‘Cure album’? Ben Hewitt braves one of Robert Smith and co’s darkest nights of the soul

All She Ever Looked For: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever, 40 Years On

Kate Bush’s third album is not her most celebrated but, Ben Hewitt argues, it might be her most pivotal – the start of her transition from artist to auteur

Porridge Radio

Every Bad

Brighton indie band get slick on new album Every Bad, finds Ben Hewitt

Crack Actor: PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love at 25

In 1995, Polly Harvey reinvented herself as a pink catsuit-wearing vamp peddling an album of stormy gothic American blues. But was it really such a surprise? Ben Hewitt argues the transformation only put up in lights what Harvey had already shown: she was an actor as much as a singer

True Pairings: Tom Fleming’s 13 Favourite Albums

Former Wild Beast Tom Fleming, who's just released his excellent debut album as One True Pairing, picks the 13 records that shaped him, from Tool and Def Leppard to Scott Walker and Joanna Newsom

Ex Hex

It's Real

Ex Hex return with another album of bleak-banishing good times rock & roll... this time with a hint of Def Leppard

Moments Of Pleasure: The Red Shoes By Kate Bush 25 Years On

It’s often dismissed as a rare misstep but, Ben Hewitt argues, her seventh album is filled with moments of pleasure

Pretty On The Outside: Hole’s Celebrity Skin 20 Years On

Hole’s third album was staggeringly sleek and shiny compared to what had come before. But, Ben Hewitt says, there was something defiant about its power and polish

Cheerio Goodbye: Wild Beasts’ Final Gig

At their last ever show, Wild Beasts are bawdy and triumphant. Ben Hewitt is there for the bittersweet celebration

Fever Ray

Plunge

On her second album as Fever Ray, Karin Dreijer transforms lust into something radical and liberating.

Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths’ Strangeways Here We Come Revisited

The Smiths’ last studio album was their most ambitious, adventurous and experimental, too. Thirty years on, Ben Hewitt looks back on the forward-thinking record that could have been the start of a new chapter, rather than a full-stop

Leonard Cohen

You Want It Darker

Wild Beasts

Boy King

Music For The Lizard Brain: Ty Bulmer Of NYPC’s Favourite Albums

With their new album out yesterday, the band's singer-songwriter picks out her own top long-players

INTERVIEW: NYPC

We catch up with former New Young Pony Club duo Tahita Bulmer and Andy Spence ahead of the release of their new self-titled album

Drenge

Drenge

Johnny Marr

The Messenger

INTERVIEW: Esben & The Witch

Exploring their new LP in a Quietus news interview by Ben Hewitt, plus! a great new remix

Micachu & The Shapes

Never

Out Of Your Comfort Zone: Maria & The Mirrors Interviewed

The London trio speak to Ben Hewitt about the origins of their name, the Travel Sex EP and being "terrible at the piano"

Zola Jesus

Conatus

Precious Things Aren’t Always Perfect: Why The Queen Is Dead Is No Classic

The Queen Is Dead is 25 years old, and the eulogies have been non-stop. But Ben Hewitt reckons it's not the masterpiece people would have you believe...

The Horrors

Skying

Isaac Newton & Mind-Altering Loops: Standard Planets Interviewed

Standard Planets tell us about science, krautrock and their debut album Providers Of Utopian Energy

Confessions Of A Marked Woman: EMA Interviewed

She's produced some of the Quietus' favourite music of 2011 thus far, and now Ben Hewitt morphs into a goat farmer from Vermont for some full moon conversation on her music, guns, rebellion and why she can't rap

No Man Of Mystery: An Interview With Dave I.D.

Ben Hewitt chats creative frustration and media myths with the shadowy figure who's been racking up column inches, even though no-one knows the first thing about him

The World Is Yours: A Bizarre And Fishy Interview With Glasvegas

Glasvegas frontman James Allan talks fishy business, overdoses in front of Zane Lowe and new album EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\\

REM’s Collapse Into Now: A Track-By-Track Review

Ben Hewitt gives the track-by-track treatment to REM's 15th studio album, Collapse Into Now

Scaring The Spectators: An Interview With Suuns

Zeroes QC, the debut LP by Montreal quarter Suuns, has been one of the freshest albums The Quietus has heard this year. Ben Hewitt caught up with the band's Max Henry to found out what makes them tick

An Interview With Elbow’s Guy Garvey

Elbow's frontman talks to Ben Hewitt about success, youth, cookery programmes and their new album Build A Rocket Boys!

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