The Quietus Albums of the Year 2024 (In Association with Norman …
2024年12月2日 · There was a week in mid-October when The Quietus’ release schedule spreadsheet was overflowing with bounteous goodness, with over ten albums by artists we’re partial to out on the same day. This was a fantastic problem to have – we reviewed some out of release week and squeezed out extra budget from our Subscriber revenues […]
Mogwai – The Bad Fire | The Quietus
6 天之前 · “. . . if anything weighty happens in my life, the last thing I want to do is write a song about it,” Stuart Braithwaite told The Herald in 2003. Discussing Mogwai’s fourth album, Happy Songs For Happy People, the man sometimes known as “Plasmatron” denied the tracks had been written about anything, per se. It was open to the individual’s interpretation regarding which numbers were ...
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Books Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf. As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
tQ’s Subscriber Playlist: Our Top 50 Tracks of 2024
2024年12月16日 · We’re nearly at the end of a big year for The Quietus, with our regeneration done and dusted, readership going up, and yet more of our readers signing up to become subscribers – the support that we rely on to keep the lights on and keep paying our writers. We wanted to thank everyone who has […]
The Silent Partner Speaks: Vince Clarke Interviewed
2023年10月5日 · All portraits by Eugene Richards The cover of Vince Clarke’s debut solo album feels like it’s making a statement. Monochrome, grainy, all ear, nose and throat, it’s a close-up of the face of an unlikely pop star, one who has sold roughly 30 million records over the last 42 years. He’s looking down, as we’re […]
Where Are We Now? The Night by Saint Etienne | The Quietus
2024年12月12日 · The band had a clear concept for The Night: to make the kind of music you listen to with your eyes closed – a ‘headphone album’, as Bob Stanley describes it.The album was made to provide solace, too, connecting back to what Benjamin Myers, in his accompanying sleeve notes, identifies as the ancient tradition of humans listening to the sounds of nature to calm and console themselves.
The Strange World Of... The La's - The Quietus
2023年8月30日 · Indeed, like Beckett once writing in distress to a director after hearing that Estragon’s trousers only fell halfway down (rather than fully down) in a rehearsal of Waiting For Godot, Mavers would reject certain cables for being the wrong colour, cycle through umpteen guitars for one part, and fixate on certain tunings (either the ‘Pythagorean’ variant of 432Hz, or tuning to fridges, or ...
Warmduscher – Too Cold To Hold | The Quietus
2024年11月18日 · Having previously worked with Dan Carey and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard, this is the first time they’ve self-produced. It has seemingly allowed them to lean more into their afrobeat-influences and expand their sound.
Post-Whatever: You Never End by Moin is our Album of the Week
2024年10月24日 · This isn’t Moin’s first rodeo. Their barbed 2021 debut, Moot!, and its stellar follow-up, Paste, saw the group fashion a kind of uncanny, cut-up sound that combined garbled vocal samples, dislocated rhythms, and disembodied guitars reminiscent of a whole cannon of 80s and 90s guitar music.Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews continue the work of their brutalist electronic outfit Raime, except the ...
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024 | The Quietus
2024年12月16日 · Tracks of the Year Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2020. These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington.