Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “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 …
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · 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 the years, …
Lewis Spybey – LEWISPYBEY | The Quietus
Nov 28, 2024 · LEWISPYBEY is a voluptuous and busy-sounding record throughout, full of the slightly manic music you often get from those who have been in the music business too long to care about what others think.That allows for some curveball moments of beauty answerable only to themselves. Second track ‘Boot Island Twin’ is a shimmering number, more meditative than …
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Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed
Sep 30, 2024 · On the same day, Denver’s Blood Incantation released a 12-inch Maxi single called Luminescent Bridge.The title track was a mantra-like piece of synth music and clean guitar, picking up from the ambient experimentation of 2022’s Timewave Zero album. On A-side ‘Obliquity Of The Ecliptic’, they returned to the metallic furnace of their first two albums, 2016’s …
Able Noise – High Tide | The Quietus
Nov 20, 2024 · At its core, High Tide feels like a meditation on just that: time, its dilation, its fragmentation, its weight. The album unfurls through shifting phases, where sounds become malleable and moments move almost infinitely. Opener ‘To Appease’ sets the pace, presenting a dazed march of tape manipulation and skewed, breathy vocals from Knegtel: “If the child we …
Michael Berdan of Uniform on Living with an Eating Disorder
Jul 24, 2024 · On the release of a new Uniform single and video for 'Permanent Embrace', Michael Berdan writes about the harsh realities of bulimia nervosa. CW: some readers may find this article disturbing.
Primal Scream – Come Ahead | The Quietus
Oct 30, 2024 · 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 …
The Endless Now: An Interview With Lisa O’Neill
Feb 20, 2023 · It certainly explains how O’Neill’s new album All Of This Is Chance arrived in the world; the title derives specifically from this idea. It’s also a record where tradition and modernity, history and stories playing out in the restless now, the yearning for freedom and righteous anger at repression are in constant dialogue with each other.
Warmduscher – Too Cold To Hold | The Quietus
Nov 18, 2024 · 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.