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WEBIn this month's essay, Skye Butchard remembers their dad's collection of cassettes on which he recorded the 1981 radio version of Tolkien's classic to reflect on memory, archiving, and how familial relationships and loss are intrinsically bound up with the culture we share. Subscribers. The Quietus International.
Missing The Jackpot: William Gibson’s Slow-Cooked Apocalypse
WEBMay 30, 2020 · With his latest novel, Agency, set in an alternative present, without Trump and without Brexit, William Gibson talks multicausal Armageddons – and Dominic Cummings. “There’s never been a culture that had a mythos of apocalypse in which the apocalypse was a multi-causal, longterm event.”. William Gibson speaks in …
30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
WEBFeb 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 ...
The Strange World Of… Panopticon - The Quietus
WEBMar 9, 2022 · Kez Whelan Published 10:12am 9 March 2022. In the space of fifteen years, multi-instrumentalist Austin Lunn’s solo project Panopticon has become one of the most revered and unique names in American black metal, and has arguably incorporated the country’s folk music into the sound more successfully than any of his peers.
The Strange World Of… Yoko Ono
WEBFeb 15, 2024 · We have the three engineers who were working on John Lennon’s debut solo album to thank for Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band the album, and in particular ‘Why?’, a skittering, screaming sonic headfuck of a song that recalls the elasticated manic energy of early Butthole Surfers. The impetus was Lennon jamming on his guitar, with Ono reciprocating in kind with her larynx.
Alison Moyet Interviewed: Only You – The Story & End Of Yazoo
WEBMay 4, 2011 · In an extensive interview about the history of life before, during and after Yazoo, Alison Moyet explains why her forthcoming Roundhouse performance with Vince Clarke could be the duo's last hurrah. Alison Moyet photo by Nicole Nodland. England’s post-punk mythos tells that certain towns became spawning grounds for …
The Endless Now: An Interview With Lisa O'Neill | The Quietus
WEBFeb 20, 2023 · The Irish singer-songwriter tells Jonathan Wright how embracing a lack of control, the influence of poet Patrick Kavanagh and the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic influenced her new album All Of This Is Chance. Birds are a recurring motif in the songs of Lisa O’Neill, so it’s fitting that, within five minutes of our interview beginning ...
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
WEBApr 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 ...
Proud Muddle of Desire: A Firmer Hand by Hamish Hawk
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Hamish Hawk has the horn and he’s not afraid to let you know it. The Edinburgh born and based artist’s previous albums Angel Numbers (2023) and Heavy Elevator (2021) were made up of erudite songwriting ideal for the Morrissey fan in your life who was unable to chisel the art from the increasingly reactionary and tedious artist. However well crafted, both records perhaps suffered from an ...
Low Culture Essay: Jim Gibson on Better Things and Rural Poverty
WEBAug 22, 2024 · In this month's essay, Jim Gibson unpicks the cultural myths of the idyllic British countryside as he reflects on Duane Hopkins' 2008 film Better Things in the context of his own life in a rural working class community. Jim Gibson Published 6:00am 22 August 2024. The relationship between the British people and nature has changed over time.