Body to Body: Ten Tracks That Tell the Story of Electronic Body …
Oct 26, 2024 · Emerging in late 1970s Europe, EBM (Electronic Body Music) fused hard, minimal beats with provocative lyrics and aggressive performances. Born from a stark, pulsating response to post-punk and experimental electronic scenes, EBM catalysed a wave of underground subcultures that shaped club landscapes across Europe and beyond.
The Sound of the City: Pet Shop Boys’ West End Girls 40 Years on
May 21, 2024 · The sharp eyes of pop past had seen the bruising reality beneath the romantic metropolitan promise. In1966, the capital’s swinging scene was eviscerated by The Kinks (‘Dead End Street’, ‘Big Black Smoke’) and Bowie (‘The London Boys’). During punk, it was a place of high-octane danger, full of “Hades ladies dressed to …
Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
Warmduscher – Too Cold To Hold | The Quietus
Nov 18, 2024 · Having previously worked with Dan Carey and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard, this is the first time they’ve self-produced. It has seemingly allowed them to lean more into their afrobeat-influences and expand their sound.
The Cure Detail New Album, ‘Songs Of A Lost World’, Share Lead …
Sep 26, 2024 · The Cure have shared further details of their long-awaited 14th studio album, Songs Of A Lost World. Following on from weeks of teasing the new record via postcards sent to fans, pub signs and cryptic web tasks, the band have unveiled the album’s lead single, ‘Alone’, which marks their first new release in 16 years and can be listened to below.
The Beatles Archives | The Quietus
Baker's Dozen A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums. With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums.
The Waeve – City Lights | The Quietus
Sep 27, 2024 · 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.
The Strange World Of… Gruff Rhys
Jan 17, 2024 · "I still feel I need to do something original", says Gruff Rhys as he ponders his ongoing motivation for making music. "I’m working with quite a limited palette in a way and just looking for ways to make unique music. I still feel there are things I need to try out. I still feel in […]
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …