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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |John Doran
One of the highlights of a working trip to Prague last spring was a visit to the Kafkaesque exhibition at the DOX gallery. I was delighted, but not surprised, when I stumbled across a set of ten gloomy, wry and haunting lithographs by David Lynch, who has died this week at the age of 78.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Patrick Clarke
Baker's Dozen Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives A Quietus Interview Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums When tQ meets Spider Stacy in his north London home, the Pogue is in contemplative mood. As we speak, tomorrow is the anniversary of the death of his former bandmate Shane MacGowan. “This time last year we were in Ireland,” he says, pouring a pot of black coffee for us both. “We were in the Clayton Hotel in Ballsbridge, and were going to go...
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |Patrick Clarke
Late in 1988, in a studio in west London, a 19 year old by the name of Jonathan Saul Kane dropped the needle on a copy of ‘The Recluse’ by UK funk group Cymande, snatching a sample of vocalist Jimmy Lindsay crying out, “will the darkness come to set me free, and comfort me?” Cymande disbanded soon after the release of their third album Promised Heights in 1974, and would remain unsung heroes for nearly 50 years, but here they were repurposed nearly a decade and a half later on the inaugural...
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Patrick Clarke |Tariq Goddard
Like Matt Johnson I came of age at a time when popular music took itself very seriously, arguably far more so than it does now, to a point where it was treated as an important social and political force even by the grown up squares who did not like it.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Remembering Steve Roden |Lawrence English |Neil Kulkarni
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Bobby Barry
137 is a number of apparent cosmic significance for materialists and mystics alike. At their own estimation, the group play post-jazz art rock. To that end, they may be this emerging genre’s first supergroup. Forget notions of bloated big-name excess though, 137 lean more toward a musicians’ musician ensemble – think Last Exit rather than SuperHeavy, their constituent parts having blazed a collective trail through every decade of British musical life since the 1970s.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden |Patrick Clarke
As was the custom in pre-internet days, I was introduced to Françoise Hardy by a trusted adviser, an older friend, through the medium of mixtapes that were filled with thrillingly strange, beautiful and obscure music. One such tape featured a handful of songs by Hardy, as well as some by Serge Gainsbourg. I was delighted by the provocations and groovy arrangements of the Gainsbourg tracks but with Hardy, I – like many before and after me – simply fell head over heels.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tariq Goddard |Richard Foster |Bobby Barry
Residuum, by Shane Latimer, is an extraordinary record. You may think you have heard every sampled electronic bump, tap, scratch and groan there is to be heard, but think again. This is primarily an album that plays with feelings and sensations, and as such, one likely to catch you off guard.
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May 13, 2024 | 
stage1.thequietus.com | JR Moores |Tariq Goddard |Lawrence English |Remembering Steve Roden
It is hard to say what Steve Albini would want to have written about him the day after he died. “Requiescat” was the term he would tend to use on social media whenever he paid tribute to those individuals he’d known or admired who had recently passed away. It’s a fancy word, from Latin. Not one that nowadays remains in many people’s vocabularies. Much like “integrity”, “dignity” or the correct use of “humble”.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Eugene Thacker |Tariq Goddard |C.D. Rose
This week Faber publish Neu Klang: The Definitive Story Of Krautrock by Cristoph Dallach, the first comprehensive oral history of the diverse and radical movement in German music during the late 60s and 1970s. Including eye-witness accounts of the rise of groups such as CAN, Neu!, Amon Düül, Popul Vuh, Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Kraftwerk, from the likes of Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Holger Czukay, Michael Rother, Dieter Moebius, Klaus Schulze, Karl Bartos and Brian Eno.
