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1 week ago | 
thequietus.com | Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
It’s impossible to disentangle Tremor Festival from the island on which it takes place, São Miguel, the largest of The Azores. Just as the programming of the festival puts an impetus on adventurousness and the dissolving of arbitrary boundaries, purposefully fostering disorientation in a number of different ways, so too does flux feel innate to the island. Historically, it’s been a place of comings and goings rather than settlings, thanks to its location in the middle of the Atlantic.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen The Modern Saints: Shackleton’s Favourite Albums Having been on our list of dream Baker’s Dozens for some time, we were thrilled when Shackleton agreed to pen one for us himself ahead of the second ever live performance (and first in Britain) of his partnership with Holy Tongue. The gig, off the back of last summer’s superb debut album The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now, takes place at No90 in...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen The Modern Saints: Shackleton’s Favourite Albums I suppose there are a lot of people doing this series that have named this record. I haven’t dared to look through the series for fear of repeating a cliche, but still, what a record! Me and a couple of mates back in our home town used to listen to this all the time when we were kids and it has never lost its vitality for me. It is all about...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen The Modern Saints: Shackleton’s Favourite Albums These guys are just kings of the riffs! I had a friend I was living with in London who used to listen to a lot of the stoner rock stuff and I have lost track of the amount of times we listened to this record together at ungodly hours in the morning in all kinds of states, jumping around to this playing air guitar or whatever! And again it’s...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen The Modern Saints: Shackleton’s Favourite Albums Of all the records on this list, this is probably the most personal of the lot as it’s so wrapped up with my youth. I used to listen to it non-stop on the headphones when I was 16 to 20 or so. It’s just got every element there. I guess for some people it’s dark but for me it’s got a total psychedelic side to it as well and is such a deeper...
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen The Modern Saints: Shackleton’s Favourite Albums Joyous music from the heart. Like Terry Riley, she exists as some kind of modern day saint in my mind. I could have chosen any of those first half a dozen or so classic records from her as they are all great but they are very much more of a crystallised sound than this one. I went for this in the end because it has so much colour going on, the...
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Rory Gibb |Patrick Clarke |Jakub Knera
“I love the world,” says Raphael Roginski. “We’re used to complaining about it, but it’s amazing. David Attenborough was once asked what planet he would choose if he had the opportunity to choose any. And he said, ‘I wouldn’t want to go anywhere else, because I find the world so beautiful and beyond my grasp.’”For Rogiński, exploring the world is an act both of contemplation and of endless work. He digs into almost every genre.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Rory Gibb |Christian Eede
Diagonal, the experimental electronic music label run by Oscar Powell and Jaime Williams, is set to mark 13 years since its founding later this year with the release of an extensive 4xLP box set. Spanning 19 tracks, 13 aims to reflect the evolution of the imprint, which is now more than 70 releases deep. It takes in new tracks by the likes of Russell Haswell, Jim O’Rourke, Sote, Not Waving, Dale Cornish and EVOL.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Rory Gibb |Bernie Brooks |Bobby Barry
“Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes?”We all know that one. So, how about Mattie Ross? Having just dispatched her father’s killer, our heroine stumbles backwards into an old mining pit, landing next to a long-dead frontiersman. As if that ain’t bad enough, her foot is all caught up in a tangle. Searching for a way to free herself, she accidentally uncovers a nest of slumbering rattlers who’ve made cozy in the desiccated chest of her newfound corpsey compatriot. They menace and bite. An arm is lost.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Rory Gibb |Christian Eede
Holy Tongue and Shackleton have linked up for a new collaborative album, titled The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now. Spanning six tracks, it marks the first time the two acts have collaborated on record and came about after they shared a festival lineup in Sweden. Holy Tongue – the trio of Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton and Susumu Mukai – had initially wanted Shackleton to remix one of their existing tracks, but they ultimately settled on working on a whole new project.
