Bobby Barry

4 days ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry

For an album arriving twenty-five years after Mute Massaker, Caspar Brötzmann’s last outing with his legendary free noise trio, It’s a Love Song sounds and feels unusually pressing, like the heavy ticks of a clock nearing midnight.

5 days ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry

For Hampus Lindwall, the pipe organ is a playground. The organist and composer makes music that explores its textures and resonances, using it as both a vehicle for powerful chords and delicate rhythmic lattices. On Brace for Impact, he presents five pieces that highlight his experimental approach to the instrument, foregrounding off-kilter rhythms and tumultuous melodies. His music is eerie and light, ancient and futuristic, in equal measure.

1 week ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry

On 17 October, Brendan, Lisa, and I went to 4AD’s offices in Alma Road, Wandsworth – coincidentally adjacent to the location of my father’s first childhood home in Melody Road – and formally signed the recording contract with Ivo [Watts-Russell, 4AD co-founder]. It was also confirmed that we were to embark on an eight-date tour of Holland supporting fellow 4AD artists the Cocteau Twins starting in two weeks’ time.

1 week ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry

Like an electroclash party inside a kids TV studio, Gelli Haha’s debut album Switcheroo is characterised by playfulness with a hedonistic, sometimes sinister bent. Gelli Haha is the pseudonym of LA-based artist Angel Abaya, who released a decent indie rock album, The Bubble, under her own name in 2023.

1 week ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry

Imagine if instead of images and words we documented our lives by collecting sounds. Diaries and photo albums were replaced with audio recordings of objects being sounded – some musical, some otherwise – capturing things that moved our ears and needed to be inscribed for posterity. To organise this archive we latched onto the recurrence of a particular material rather than people, places or times.