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.
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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
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
2024年10月31日 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …
Primal Scream – Come Ahead | The Quietus
2024年10月30日 · On Utopian Ashes, an album of fogeyish duets with ex-Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth, Gillespie strove to reinvent himself as a torch crooner, albeit one who still needed assistance from another singer.Following that yawn-inducing effort, Come Ahead was initially conceived as a solo album. We’re told it turned into a Primal Scream record when Gillespie asked the only other member remaining from ...
Rockfort! The Best French Music of 2024 | The Quietus
2024年12月17日 · Just as I was wondering how to round of the year with this column – I made the mistake of cramming big stuff like the French elections and the Paris Olympic Games into the previous one – I put on tQ’s Low Culture podcast, in which editors Luke Turner and John Doran opened by discussing the mighty hurdy-gurdy, bass and drums trio …
Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
2024年10月2日 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
Beyond the Page: Rediscovering Sinead O’Connor | The Quietus
2024年11月23日 · Two recent books have tried to recontextualise O’Connor beyond the black and white depictions of her that have dominated media so far. The Real Sinéad O’Connor by Ariane Sherine attempts to present a thoroughly researched version of O’Connor’s life, plodding through each event in chronological order. Although Sherine uses archival research and new interviews to construct her narrative ...
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Mariam the Believer – Breathing Techniques | The Quietus
2024年10月11日 · Wallentin unrolls the variations in her songs like a quilt, sometimes disparate pieces stitched together into a whole work. She allows for massive amounts of space in her arrangements, at times creating more of a tag-team effort among instruments.
The Cure Announce London Show to Launch New Album
2024年10月11日 · The Cure will play their only full live show of 2024 next month at London’s Troxy to mark the release of their latest album, Songs From A Lost World. Scheduled for November 1, the night of the release of the new record, the show will give fans the chance to hear tracks from the record in a live setting after the band previously previewed a number of them during shows in recent years.