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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Hayley Scott
Upset The Rhythm On their third album, Rattle continuously trace the circle’s edge, experimenting with the interplay of time and expectation utilising only doubled-drums, fluctuating tempos and chanting vocal cycles. Through wordless repetition, you don’t have to engage in conscious thought. Eventually, the lines between beginnings and endings blur; they become circular. Encircle could almost be a stripped-back version of The Raincoats’ percussion-heavy Odyshape album. Its four tracks...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Hayley Scott
East-London rapper and producer John Glacier confronts the duality of human existence on her debut studio album Like A Ribbon. Split into three sections, each representing the fluid, evolving nature of a ribbon unfurling, the album comprises tracks drawn from a series of EPs, revealing a deeper impact in the context of a larger project, while carving out a distinctive niche at the intersection of pop and avant-garde sounds.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Hayley Scott
City Lights, the second album from Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougal’s The Waeve, opens with the tonally bewildering title track – a futuro Roxy Music or less depraved version of The Moonlandingz. Interstellar glam meets a glaring excavation of Bowie’s Low. Elsewhere, heavy, expansive bass and chugging motorik pulses summon a scuzzier Goldfrapp with a 70s chamber rock rhythm section.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Hayley Scott |Bobby Barry
The psychoanalyst Carl Jung recognised modern lifestyles had alienated people from the “dark, maternal, earthy ground of our being”. He was describing the ancient connection with the earth that we can experience in the garden. Plants put us in touch with the cycle of life, where destruction and decay are followed by regrowth and renewal. In working with nature’s powers of transformation, we can find ourselves feeling quietly transformed too.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Robert Barry |Hayley Scott
There’s a lot to be said for collaboration in times like these. For all of its advantages, social media has become an oxymoron, fragmenting communities and monetising a vision of life as performance, rapidly accelerating the modern trend of expressive individualism. Artists now find themselves competing against the tyranny of algorithms, where self-serving egotism is applauded and competition over collaboration prevails.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Robert Barry |Hayley Scott
The sound of existential angst, Berlin-based post-everything group NEBEL 3000 are fearlessly slapdash in their approach to noise. Frankenstein Freakout is all over the place, sharing subtle similarities with everything from Genesis P Orridge (‘Playmobile Metalhead’) and Laurie Anderson (‘In Between’) to Klaus Dinger on Neu! ‘75 (‘Interrupted’) as vocal echoes clash with pound shop synthesizers containing the depths of DAF, and more focussed electronics reminiscent of Exploded View.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hayley Scott |Sharon Neale |Elizabeth Harrington |Hayley Hodgson
Key Points for Occupational Therapy Patients value the broad range of occupational therapy interventions which addressed their individualised needs and preferences. Inpatient occupational therapists mostly commonly provided interventions for personal care occupations. Patients value the opportunity to practice meaningful occupations to improve their confidence and self-esteem. 1 INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges to global healthcare systems.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | David McKenna |Robert Barry |Hayley Scott
A phrase that keeps coming back to me in one of life’s rare quieter moments is “not knowing is most intimate”. It’s a Zen Koan, or so my partner tells me after spending a bit too much time on meditation apps of late. The phrase is traditionally repeated to oneself to bring ordinary daily occurrences to a deeper and more mysterious level. The point is not to think about the words, to figure out what it means. The point is to keep chewing on it until it suddenly or gradually reveals itself to us.
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May 2, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Isobel Stoodley |Bronwyn S. Berthon |Hayley Scott |Evan Williams
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Hayley Scott
Music is at its most commanding when its creator is most possessed. Jess Hickie-Kallenbach’s words pour out of her through repetition, preserving the emotive depth of Still House Plants' past two albums; her stop-start refrains not so much focused on feelings but conveying emotions others cannot reach. On ‘M M M’, her lyrics appear like letters scrawled across a steamed-up car window, before slowly dissipating into varying shapes and patterns.
