
Luke Turner
Co-Founder at The Quietus
Black Sky Thinking since 2008. Help support independent cultural journalism & get perks by becoming a tQ subscriber here: https://t.co/NrqfnC4NUC
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6 days ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner
One of the most intriguing releases we’ve heard this year is LYRELYRELYRE, the new album on which Laura Cannell uses bass recorder and crumhorn alongside a copy of an instrument discovered in the 7th Century Sutton Hoo ship burial to create nine, haunting improvised tracks.
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6 days ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner
Floating in a netherworld of bedroom synths and home duped cassettes, the artists in this list exist in a nebulous sub genre of my own creation, one defined as much by quality of execution and mood as by style. Largely lo-fi, ephemeral, and hard to pin down in many ways, I recommend taking your own route through this music.
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2 weeks ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner
Erasure – Pop! The First 20 HitsGreatest hits album, 1992The best songs write themselves. For me, I would say ‘Oh L’amour’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Victim Of Love’, ‘Ship Of Fools’, ‘Chorus’, ‘Love To Hate You’ just sprang out of nowhere, which I love. Every time we tried to write a hit, it’s failed. For instance, because we went off the road with Erasure the album we consciously made a decision to do ultra-pop on Cowboy, and it didn’t gel with me. If you’re writing it on purpose, it’s not going to work.
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2 weeks ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner
Erasure – Pop! The First 20 HitsGreatest hits album, 1992The best songs write themselves. For me, I would say ‘Oh L’amour’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Victim Of Love’, ‘Ship Of Fools’, ‘Chorus’, ‘Love To Hate You’ just sprang out of nowhere, which I love. Every time we tried to write a hit, it’s failed. For instance, because we went off the road with Erasure the album we consciously made a decision to do ultra-pop on Cowboy, and it didn’t gel with me. If you’re writing it on purpose, it’s not going to work.
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3 weeks ago |
thequietus.com | Luke Turner
If there’s one music style that never fails to make me smile its classic girl groups. The harmonies, the youth, the choreographed moves, the identical outfits – what’s not to love. I’ve spent thousands of hours devouring the groups most people had heard of, from the bad girls of 60s pop culture to the ultra-modern proto-feminist women of late 90s R&B, but those song selections always remained within the realm of the Western music world.
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'Grand Voyage considerably ups the fun dosage, their prior work despondent by comparison. The serotonin hits come so thick and fast you could fear running up quite the fun deficit. Music made by comedown deniers.' Tapeworms - Grand Voyage https://t.co/0tgIas1JS2 https://t.co/62C5MDHfIq

.@TobyManning revisits how Prince's oft-overlooked seventh album dared to draw on 60s psychedelia at the height of 80s hippyphobia – and how doing so produced the most countercultural sounding work of his career #Prince’s Around the World in a Day turns 40 today! https://t.co/Cw8mcsSWAL

'In Raven Chacon’s music, listening is about paying attention to silence as much as sound. Listen closer and find that so much lives inside: the weight of history, the power of protest, the resonance of performing spaces.' #RavenChacon - Voiceless Mass https://t.co/Mc63JOeJTp https://t.co/Ky1E13ByT4