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1 day ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental saxophone player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion. As wayward as the weather, the LP’s seven tracks morph and elongate constantly. Late in, a human voice is added, ascending through the mists like whale song from the depths.
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2 days ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
At nine, Billy Woods was already creating worlds; he penned a story about an evil golliwog. His mother, a Jamaican professor of English literature, described it as derivative. His father, a Marxist exile from Zimbabwe, carried the scars of political warfare. These ghosts aren’t just part of his past; they’re woven into the very architecture of his music. They don’t speak; they’re felt, haunting every line.
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3 days ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Three years ago, Breton producer Émilie Quinquis decided, for pragmatic reasons, to learn to sail solo. Living on Ushant, an island with a landmass of six square miles off the cost of Brittany, she wanted to be able to come and go as she pleased. As she grew more confident at the helm, she graduated to travelling further out – to the Irish Sea, around islands off Scotland and north to the Faroes.
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5 days ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Ever since establishing himself with his films Radio On (1979) and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), novelist and director Chris Petit has remained one of the most fascinating and forensic voices within British counter-culture. He published his first novel, Robinson, in 1993, influenced by J. G.
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6 days ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews have always championed a sound that can’t quite be placed, but Moin’s experimental bedroom demo-tape vibe is the linchpin of their discography. 2021 debut Moot! was rich in post-punk rigour and chopped-up vocal samples. Drummer Valentina Magaletti joined the duo for 2022’s Paste, an avant-garde offering that hinted at the seeds of a bigger idea.
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6 days ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
After a live recording and a clutch of varied, ambitious standalone tracks, UK post-rockers Red Mar unfurl their long-percolating debut. It’s a dense and often dazzling piece of work – but also one that sometimes risks losing a firm sense of self amid its many fragmented personalities. Kicking things off with the seventeen-minute ‘Namokel’ is a bold, borderline arrogant move, but it effectively sets out Red Mar’s stall and their state of mind. Things start quietly enough.
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1 week ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Forty years at the top in pop is not to be sniffed at. And if you’ve got thirty-five Top 40 hits and five chart-topping albums under your belt to show for it, then you move into the territory of having ‘national treasure’ attached to your name. Truth is, Andy Bell (the Erasure one, not the Ride/Oasis one – easy to tell apart as one is a flamboyant entertainer known for occasionally wearing rubber leotards, and the other one is half of Erasure) is somewhat more than that.
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1 week ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Laibach announced Alamut to a roomful of music journalists in London back in July of 2022. The album they were aiming to bring to fruition was unusual even by their unorthodox standards. The Slovenians set forth a project on an epic scale: a nine movement symphonic work to be performed in both Ljubljana and Tehran with a full orchestra, written by Iranian composers Idin Samimi Mofakham and Nima A. Rowshan in collaboration with the Slovenian composer Luka Jamni of Laibach.
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1 week ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
The mere mention of Mclusky is often enough to elicit a laugh. Formed in 1996, the Welsh noise-rockers made absurdity their business from day one. With such song titles as ‘The World Loves Us And Is Our Bitch’ and ‘Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking?’, it’s safe to say they never took themselves all that seriously. Joking aside, the hard-riffing surrealists released a run of three stellar studio albums before splitting in 2005.
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1 week ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry
Das Kinn, Bureau B’s new signing, feels like a bold new discovery even if he’s in his mid-40s. Hamburg’s experimental imprint finds itself in the unusual position of being one of the most consistently interesting labels on the planet whilst also fielding a roster of artists of a certain vintage such as Karl Bartos, Peter Baumann, Faust and Martin Rev. Fresher blood about the place augurs well, but don’t expect sunshine and roses.
