John Doran

England

Co-founder and Editor at The Quietus

Roadman Gandalf Co-founder and Editor of @theQuietus. #AntiFascist #PermanentCeasefireNow

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Articles

Reissue of the Week: Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly (10 Year Anniversary Edition)

1 week ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

Kendrick Lamar’s third album was almost called To Pimp A Caterpillar, a title that would reference an acrostic touchstone (Tu-P-A-C), but the rapper’s own metamorphosis was, by this point, more butterfly than developmental stage. To become a butterfly, a caterpillar must pupate within a chrysalis for radical transformation. Lamar’s journey had been just as dramatic, with 2011’s Section.80 and 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city announcing a new and singular sensibility.
Heavy Metal Rituals: Osmium Interviewed

1 week ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Words can, like Shelley’s, bring a certain irony to a situation. Written down, the bare facts about experimental supergroup Osmium and their self-titled debut look daunting.
Ride The Lightning: An Interview with Foudre! | The Quietus

1 week ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

‘Foudre’ In French means lightning or thunderbolt, and the most recent album from French trio Foudre!, Voltæ (Chthulucene), feels electrically charged, appearing like a bolt from the blue after several albums’ worth of atmospheric drone. It’s their first time recording a proper studio album rather than capturing live performances or entirely improvised sessions.
Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)

2 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

1993 was the last hurrah of rave’s original explosion. In 1994 the Criminal Justice Act would serve as a symbolic clamping down on raving. If you wanted to be fanciful you might paint a picture of it as a boot coming down and smashing the scene’s unity into a million social and stylistic pieces, but in fact things were already fragmenting. Rave culture was still at fever pitch in 1993, but the centre couldn’t hold.
The Strange World Of… Editions Mego

2 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

“You could write a whole book about this,” says Stephen O’Malley. The Sunn O))) co-founder is talking about the network of musicians, sub-labels and visual artists connected by Editions Mego and its predecessor, Mego. It’s a topology which, over the last three decades, has connected far-flung corners of groundbreaking music.
The Chameleons' What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40

2 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

It’s been 40 years since The Chameleons released What Does Anything Mean? Basically. Currently playing on my laptop, remastered in crisp HD 1440p, their frontman Mark Burgess is belting out the final refrain of ‘Singing Rule Brittania’. It’s 1984, the year before the album was released, and The Chameleons are playing live at Camden Palace, following the release of the album they are best known for, Script Of The Bridge. Four brooding Manchester lads in skinny jeans look cool as ever.
Last Few Acid Horse Weekend & Day Tickets Remaining

2 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

Acid Horse, a three day, two stage festival in Wiltshire featuring headliners Matmos, William Doyle, Dyslecta, The Utopia Strong, Michael, Regis, Karl D’Silva and Slav To The Rhytym, is coming close to selling the last of its weekend and day tickets.
Reissue of the Week: Shirley Collins' Sweet England | The Quietus

3 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

When I was a young girl, people approaching a century seemed like creatures of mythology. But age creeps up, then explodes in midlife. You realise insane things, like that the end of the Second World War was as close to the release of Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love as you are to it now. Each season speeds past in time-lapse. History shrinks. Long lives contract. On 5 July, Shirley Collins will turn ninety, a woman I’ve known through interviews and friendship for seventeen years.
40 Years On: X-Clan's To The East Blackwards Revisited

3 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

It can be a confusing business, being a fan of music. You find yourself going through your listening life holding certain truths to be self-evident, only to be confronted, unexpectedly, with the realisation that more or less each and every one of them flies fast in the face of values you have come to cherish.
The Countercultural Figures who helped give birth to the Neo-Nazi Terrorist Networks of Today

3 weeks ago | thequietus.com | John Doran

Anyone who pays attention to the news today, or has done so over the last decade, can’t have failed to miss numerous stories concerning murder, terrorist plots, and child porn being linked to neo-Nazis. The origins of this new wave of neo-Nazi terrorism can be traced to the online forum Iron March, a hate site and platform which united groups such as the British fascist organisation National Action who were involved in a plot to kill MP Rosie Cooper, and Australia’s Antipodean Resistance.