Luke Turner
, April 1st, 2021 13:00
Spirituality, masculinity, death rituals, music and the power of language – we go deep with Max Porter and his love of Georgian singer Hamlet Gonashvili in the latest edition of the Quietus Low Culture podcast.
“Music is god to me,” Max Porter tells us in this, the latest episode of the Low Culture podcast. We almost lost Max when he turned around to show us the innermost details of the dolls house in the room behind him and nearly vanished into the Zoom ether. Thankfully, the acclaimed author of
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers,
Lanny, and
Patrick Clarke
, March 15th, 2021 13:05
Preston/Sheffield/Pennsylvania synth trio Another New Thing share the latest single from debut album XYZZY
Another New Thing, the new project of UK musicians Paul Nagle and Dean Honer, and Pennsylvania novelist and musician Don Himlin, have shared their latest single.
You can watch the video for The Action Membrane above, which takes its inspiration from a curious phase Himlin heard come out of his radio: Probe the action membrane! What could it mean? What the hell is The Action Membrane? reads a press release. Inspired by the nonsensical phrase, a peculiar little song of love, lust, test tubes and laboratories was spawned. The original meaning lost to the ether.
Daniel Dylan Wray
, March 17th, 2021 10:10
Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail
Doyle made many drafts of his list. One didn’t include a Fall record, so had to be re-thought. Another featured favourites like Robert Wyatt, PJ Harvey and These New Puritans but again that was scratched. “Initially I was thinking about this as an all-time favourites list,” he says. “But one of the things that I was unhappy with when taking that approach was that the mood of them was all quite similar. They all seemed to have a very similar kind of pastoral melancholy feel.” So Doyle ditched that approach entirely. “I decided to write a list of albums that have had a significant impact in the direction of my life,” he says. “Maybe albums that were triggers for ot
The Quietus
, March 17th, 2021 09:10
For the latest instalment of our series that sees some of our favourite musicians interview one another without editorial interference, this month the subjects are Lara Rix-Martin and Mike Paradinas
Music writers. Who needs em? We recently had the opportunity to get Mike Paradinas and Lara Rix-Martin together (admittedly, it wasn t hard, they re married and live in the same house) and left them to have a conversation about their individual practice, without any interference.
Lara releases
Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter², her third album as Meemo Comma, this week. The album is inspired by classic anime soundtracks and Jewish mysticism and follows on from tQ favourite,