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Yuma Hampejs and Marcel Schulze, authors of a new book, Eletronic Body Music, present a playlist that embodies the visceral, industrial heart of the genre, featuring seminal tracks from Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Chrome Corpse, and more. Tut-tut! Tut-tut! Recording the Sounds of War.
The Centre Of Everything: John Frusciante’s Favourite Electronic …
Sep 23, 2020 · Talk of the Second Coming of John Frusciante is far from new. Following the release of Red Hot Chili Peppers’ critically-devoured Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Frusciante left the band only to be brought to the brink by an extended period of reclusive drug addiction.His subsequent resurgence was full testament to the power of …
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music. The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg. Baker's Dozen.
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
Apr 11, 2017 · Thanks to the band’s run of magnificent social vignettes throughout the 1960s, Ray Davies of The Kinks became known not simply as a fine songwriter, but a fine British songwriter. While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved transatlantic megastardom, as a writer Davies was forced to look inward after being banned from entering the country between 1965 to 1969, following a dispute with ...
30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
Feb 10, 2010 · Iain Moffat looks at The Sundays' 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic', originally released in 1990. The first great album of this decade is something that looks likely to be up for debate for some time yet, but there was a time when things were rather more clear-cut; specifically, thirty years ago. Of course, to really appreciate the impact of ...
Reviews - The Quietus
In his latest survey of the French music scene, David McKenna takes stock of a tumultuous few months in French politics, picks some recent cultural highlights and reviews culture-straddling music from Marseille as well as new folk, occult rock and an adventurous gamelan ensemble. The Quietus International.
The Strange World Of… Shirley Collins
May 23, 2023 · Don’t be fooled. In real life, she balances her sweetness with a bloodily dogged determination to bring ears to songs about past working-class lives. She’s tackled the grim stuff often: multiple murders, suicides, as well sex and lust, …
The Breath Of Life: Colin Stetson Interviewed
Mar 29, 2023 · Colin Stetson, portrait by Ebru Yildiz. Colin Stetson’s new single ‘When We Were That What Wept For The Sea’ begins with the quiet sound of human breath. It’s a simple but effective touch. Humans take 22,000 breaths a day, or thereabouts. The pressure of the thoracic pump, lifted by the diaphragm and intercostal muscles when breath is ...
About Us - The Quietus
Founded in the UK in 2008, The Quietus is one of the world’s leading independent websites for quality longform writing on visionary and modernist music and culture, covering all genres with an equal weighting. The Quietus treats the emerging artists of the genre-melting present with the same reverence the mainstream reserves for the stale ...
A Long Way From Accrington: Jon Anderson Of Yes Interviewed
Aug 3, 2020 · Duncan Seaman Published 11:14am 3 August 2020. All portraits by Deborah Anderson. By any standards, Jon Anderson’s album 1000 Hands has been a long time in coming. The former Yes singer actually started work on this record 30 years ago with Brian Chatton, a long-time friend from his 60s group The Warriors. Anderson had contacted Chatton ...