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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Nov 2020

    "It's here! The Quietus Top 100 Albums of 2020... but what is at number one?" Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020

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  2. 18 minutes ago

    "My self appointed tutors were, in the order I discovered them, Robbe-Grillet, Borges, Nabokov, and Burgess. All of them associable in one way or another with labyrinths" Jonathan Meades Talks Blair, Brutalism & Benny Hill

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  3. 1 hour ago

    'In 1980, ACDC’s Back in Black tour whacked 130 decibels; in 1996, Leftfield cracked the ceiling at Brixton Academy with 137; Sleazy Joe thundered over 142 decibels in 2009' On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise

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  4. 2 hours ago

    'Ann suffered a stroke in 2012 that stopped her performing, and it is rare for her to join an interview, but today she is whipsmart and funny, correcting Don...' As part of our partnership with , an interview with Ann Peebles & Don Bryant

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  5. 3 hours ago

    'An alternate history lesson, to be sure, this is music that not only survives the ravages of time, it’s still maintains a relevance that damns the here and now.' New Age Steppers - STEPPING INTO A NEW AGE 1980–2012

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  6. 4 hours ago

    "You can pick out your favourite club, but you can also read the book chronologically and learn how the people in their clubs reacted to the pandemic." & Timo Stein Capture The Silent Clubs Of Berlin

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  7. 5 hours ago

    'Since the only copy on Discogs will set you back $899 and the only rip on YouTube is uploaded in the wrong order, Visions of the Third Eye could well be the holy grail of spiritual jazz records...' New Life - VISIONS OF THE THIRD EYE

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  8. 6 hours ago

    "I have long had a fascination with apocalypse and the end of the world. I don’t believe in it, which is part of the fascination." On Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World in our latest subscriber essay

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  9. 7 hours ago

    'A master collaborator, Tucker now enlists his own all-star team of players including , , Astrud Steehouder, and ' XMIT By Microcorps is this week's Lead Review

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  10. 8 hours ago

    Can you help support tQ's ongoing independence by becoming a subscriber? Help us reach 1000 members... Details available here:

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  11. 9 hours ago

    “In one meeting [of the Jazz Composer's Guild], Sun Ra said aloud to all the members of the group that I would sink the ship because that’s what women do. I was furious. I got up and said, ‘You son of a...’" An Interview with

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  12. 10 hours ago

    "I love accordion music and I know it’s something which strikes fear into the heart of people. My lockdown project has been to learn how to play it because a parishioner died and left me his accordion" on Richard Galliano – ‘Libertango’

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  13. 11 hours ago

    'The initial demos Smith recorded were pretty upbeat; it was only when he wrote ‘All Cats Are Grey’ and ‘The Funeral Party’ in one miserable night that the mood turned irrevocably black...' Faith - The Cure’s Third Album, 40 Years On

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  14. 12 hours ago

    'Sound of Metal isn’t simply a deaf memoir, nor a critique of ableism. Marder reminds us that noise is heaven when you want it and hell when you don’t.' On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise

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  15. 13 hours ago

    Owen Hatherley interviews about his new book Pedro and Ricky Come Again, a collection of his writing from 1988 to 2021 – and on why he’s no longer making television Jonathan Meades Talks Blair, Brutalism & Benny Hill

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  16. 13 hours ago

    'The pair create their own absurd little universe through a palette of circus like loops, Dadaist sonics and cheap electronics' Brandstifter & Diurnal Burdens – Miraculous Seepage in Cassette Reviews For April

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  17. 14 hours ago

    "We had Max Richter playing in the gallery recently. We got talking about Spotify and I said it was like buying those records from Woolworths as a kid when you got bad cover versions. Like the cheapest option" Rachel Interviewed

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  18. 14 hours ago

    'Slimelight industrial pop, synthesised folk-metal like Goblin doing Korpiklaani, ultra-tense alt-hip-hop with techsteppy sonic flourishes, like Clipping. meets Source Direct.' MXLX - NEBULA RASA

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  19. 15 hours ago

    'The performances and productions are all incredible and, when the time is right, wildly propulsive. The hectic breakbeats are exactly as hectic as they need to be...' Manslaughter 777 - WORLD VISION PERFECT HARMONY

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  20. 23 hours ago

    Black Lives In Music has launched a survey of Black artists' experiences in the UK, alongside a five-part video series featuring Shabaka Hutchings and more You can watch the first episode here:

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  21. Apr 16

    'Our worship of the physicality of rock has silenced the deafness in our midst, though deaf artists have shaped Romantic music since Beethoven...' On Sound Of Metal And The Hell Of Noise

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