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From Arca To Adult.: April’s Best New Music

Another month, another round of incredible new albums that we weren't able to give the time to that they might have deserved – and, of course, another quick nod to our favourites of the ones we've already told you about

“Put That Back And Get Something Decent”: Pete Burns Behind The Counter

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Going for a Song: A Chronicle of the UK Record Shop, Garth Cartwright tells the story of the Cartel and Probe Records

Something Potty In The State Of Denmark: Elsinor’s Click Reviewed

Tristan Bath heads to the Danish city of Helsingør, home of Hamlet's dad's castle, to try and stay up for 24 hours and watch music from Rhys Chatham, CTM, Ellen Fullman, Keiji Haino, Bjørn Svin, Carl Emil Carlsen and Lee "Scratch" Perry

Primitive Painters: Drinks With The Long Blondes

Ahead of its Rough Trade reissue, Richard Foster maps out the backstory of The Long Blondes’ debut, Someone To Drive You Home

The Month’s Electronic Music: Pirate Radio Techno

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb casts an ear over a slew of new UK club music releases, plus new records by Laurel Halo and Kyle Hall

Dedications: An Interview With Jeff Parker

Riding high in our top 100 albums of 2020 so far, Jeff Parker's Suite For Max Brown is a delight. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about the making of an extraordinary record, which was dedicated to his mother

The Gold Standard: Imperial Triumphant Interviewed

Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void

Everything But The Girl

The Language Of Life, Worldwide, Amplified Heart

Grace Jones-Curated Meltdown Festival Postponed To 2022

The likes of Solange and Peaches remain on the bill for the rescheduled event

Voracious Stylistic Promiscuity: Frank Zappa Reissues 1966 – 1972

Everyone at the Quietus is either Frank Zappa sceptic or phobic. Ringo P Stacey tells us why we are wrong in his review of the first 12 reissues

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

PREVIEW: Raw Power Festival!

Toby 'Columnus Metallicus' Cook picks his top tips for this weekend's Raw Power Festival in London. Circle! Pharoah Overload! SEX SWING OMG WE LOVE SEX SWING AIEEEEEEE LUBE US UP NOW!

Saint Etienne

I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

Saint Etienne's first sample-driven record since 1993 finds the group looking backwards to the future, finds Zara Hedderman

The Strange World Of… Circle

Jussi Lehtisalo, founding member of Circle, guides Kevin Mccaighy through highlights of their bewilderingly large back catalogue

Art Into Pop: Leeds Punk & Post-Punk, 1974-–81

No Machos Or Pop Stars: When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt examines how bands used their art school education to push the boundaries of pop music