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Rum Music For May, Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

This month Jennifer Lucy Allan opens her ears to new music for gamelan, old music on the Atari ST, and fresh Manc workouts
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Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Soothing bedroom synths, Donald Judd harmonies, accumulation loops and brass played under a German bridge all feed into this month's Rum Music reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
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Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan considers new releases from Argentinian musique concrete composer Beatriz Ferreyra, some snap & tickle from Dale Cornish, and a collection from lesser-spotted Japanese cassette label birdFriend
Rum Music

Rum Music For February Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan is back with polyglot adventures in the future overground, the current underground and the emotional edgelands, tracking Finnish blues, Fluxus crying spaces, neural networks and long string instruments
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Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan draws together sounds from the Kiev underground; forgotten synth explorations of a jazz legend and a must-watch of woodblocks and bells by Sarah Hennies in the first Rum Music of 2020
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Rum Music: Jennifer Lucy Allan’s 2019 Favourites

Jennifer Lucy Allan surveys standouts from her inaugural year at the Rum Music controls, and looks forward to getting her hands dirty in 2020
Rum Music

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Tropical ambient, Enka-noise, minyo footwork and plenty of cross-genre collaboration feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan’s Rum Music round up for the winter months
A Quietus Interview

Creased Up: Jennifer Walshe interviewed

Ahead of her appearance at NEXT festival, artist, writer, composer and improvisor Jennifer Walshe talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about entropy, absurdity, and improvising with GRANNMA
Rum Music

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan fills her plate with shrimp, brutalised stringed instruments and sounds from broken voices
A Quietus Interview

House Of Pain: Natalie Sharp’s Body Vice

Jennifer Lucy Allan is offered electrocution or suspension in an interview with Lone Taxidermist’s Natalie Sharp about MRI scanners, face painting, and chronic pain
Baker's Dozen

Dawn To Dusk: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Albums

Tales of the oddest record shop on Tyneside and much more as Richard Dawson guides Jennifer Lucy Allan through an unsurprisingly diverse selection of records in this week's Baker's Dozen
Rum Music

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

In a hot September for releases, Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out bagpipe drones, bubbling modular, and other vague music
Rum Music

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

In the cruelest month for releases, Jennifer Lucy Allan writes from a static caravan, on lost minimalism, childhood nostalgia and Mosquitoes
Baker's Dozen

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

The musician, label head and self-described record obsessive has eyes bigger than his stomach in his own Proustian boulangerie of jazz and fusion records. By Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Rum Music

Faith, Discouragement & Imagination: Rum Music With Jennifer Lucy Allan

New Rum Music Editor Jennifer Lucy Allan hosts a roadside picnic of long notes and short (wave) records excavated from the future and the past, from Bamako to Stockholm; Yugoslavia to Japan
Baker's Dozen

No Definitive Version: Nate Young’s Most Influential Records

Nate Young talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about what made his music, from teenage revelations, learning when to press record, and roofing with Scott Asheton.

Live Reviews

Sculpt A Rodin From Mashed Potato: On Tour With Ecstatic Material

Outlands is a new network of promoters, arts organisations and curators putting on strange and wonderful performances in the corners of New Weird Britain. Their last tour featured Beatrice Dillon making a racket to splatter sculptor Keith Harrison's Play-Doh - Jennifer Lucy Allan reports
Black Sky Thinking

The Trouble With Menimalism: Rescuing Histories From The Cutting Room Floor

The BBC's recent minimalism series has turned the form into a narrow, exclusive Music For (Male) Musicians narrative. Jennifer Allan argues that the media needs to catch up with fast-evolving histories
Reviews

Lea Bertucci

Metal Aether

Exploring space, exploring sound, exploring alto sax: Lea Bertucci is just getting started.

News

Chris Watson & Laura Cannell Appear At Sound Conference

Large Objects Moving Air taking place in early 2018
A Quietus Interview

Interesting, Cheerful, Sociable: Errorsmith Interviewed

Ahead of his appearance at Unsound Adelaide, German dance music producer Erik Wiegand talks about pulling song titles from articles on dating sites, sculpting hyperbolic sounds and his first new solo album in 13 years, Superlative Fatigue
Black Sky Thinking

Huffing Wronguns: Why Real-Music Dads Are Destroying Music Criticism

Last week, Jennifer Lucy Allan wrote a loving, honest live review of Steely Dan - and got a load of abuse for it. Would the same thing have happened if she were a man?

Live Reviews

With Half A Heart: Steely Dan At The O2

Jennifer Lucy Allan goes in search of lost friends and the smooth yacht rock sound at the O2, and finds a big sad hole where her favourite band should be.

Baker's Dozen

Concretise The Oddness: Lee Gamble Picks His 13 Favourite Records

With his first album for Hyperdub en route and Unsound appearance impending, Lee Gamble guides Jennifer Lucy Allan from 80s beatboxing to some of 2017's best releases through the medium of his 13 favourite records
Live Reviews

Catching Sight Of Possibilities: Ultima Festival Reviewed

At Ultima Festival in Oslo, from concrete bunkers and fog-consumed rooftops, Jennifer Lucy Allan reflects on public art, public money and all the things we'll never see
Film

Not Right: Stooges Doc Gimme Danger Reviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan reviews Jim Jarmusch's Stooges documentary, but is it a Real Cool Time or an L.A. Snooze?
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