'It’s very simple, as are a lot of Maher Shalal Hash Baz melodies. I think Tori Kudo is a surrealist of the highest order, and this record proves that.'

Eric Chenaux on Tori Kudo – The Last Song Of My Life

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Will Salmon feels a strange mix of melancholy and joy on hearing this valuable collection of demo tracks

Compilation Of The Week: Broadcast's Spell Blanket (Collected Demos 2006-2009)

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'This album is for listeners like me for whom their songs have provided the soundtrack for getting ready to go out after the disco nap, for whom their songs have commented on life’s compromises'

Pet Shop Boys - NONETHELESS

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“Dispensing with the idea that you need to be a certain kind of person to be in an orchestra has led to this fantastic, inspiring group of people coming together, with such talents, and so many ideas.”

Charles Hazlewood & The Paraorchestra Interviewed

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'With gorgeous new keyboard and drum parts, Tillmans shows his music not just to be a capturing of snapshots, but a fluid conversation with himself and with time.'

Wolfgang Tillmans - BUILD FROM HERE

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'After a while we’d had enough of staying at the Manor. We didn’t like the food there any more. So we left and moved into a five-star hotel. We got them to send the bill to Richard Branson'

Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Faust On Virgin Records

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Faber Books

'There is a sense of both existential remove and a contrary, niggling, remorselessness in application: a bit like Faust and Tony Conrad’s Outside the Dream Syndicate'

Luka Aron - XV XXVII III XXI IX: VARIATIONS & CODA

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'This record has all the wild alien psychedelia of a Sun Ra record – I have no idea how she’s making it. I’ve no idea if there are live musicians, I’ve never read the liner notes. It’s beautiful'

Eric Chenaux on Jyoti – Mama, You Can Bet

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Day tickets now on sale and daily lineups also available...

John Francis Flynn, Teeth Of The Sea And More To Play Acid Horse 2024

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'We are trying to defend a lifestyle that we think we’re entitled to – to exist in Lancaster in an alternative community, a bunch of fucking freaks, and to have our own place. If we lose that, we lose everything.”

An Interview With The Lovely Eggs 🥚 📺

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'You can find the pulse of Steve Reich’s minimalist ‘Electric Counterpoint’ scattered through tracks like ‘The Visionary’ and ‘Dream State’, giving the album a fluttering organic quality'

Kamasi Washington’s Fearless Movement - tQ's Album of the Week

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“I wanted a name that started with an X, because X seemed like this mysterious, futuristic letter. I wanted something artificial, plastic and cheap, something sweet and a bit icky'

An Interview With Xylitol And Sculpture

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'What at times may feel ordinary is thankfully buoyed by the same compositional openness in which the album excels'

Ben Chasny - TIME IS GLASS

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'Someone out there, right now, is listening to the Fat White Family discography while reading their biography, Ten Thousand Apologies, and they will turn out to be the next Iggy Pop.'

Fat White Family's Forgiveness Is Yours

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'I got into hip-hop before this record, but this is the one that really did it. And it’s one I go back to when I forget what hip-hop can do.'

Eric Chenaux on Gang Starr – Step In The Arena

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'You could, in theory, dance to the groove of this opening cut, even if the only folk joining you on the floor were fellow freaks in Scratch Acid merchandise.'

Obey Cobra - MWG DRWG

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'It’s perhaps easier to think of Social Engineering as a sound installation, crafting aurally an inherently deceptive world, and the deeper cruelty in our society that this ambient threat in online life reveals'

Jan Jelinek - SOCIAL ENGINEERING

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'Understands what separates the noise-rock wheat from the clumsier chaff. Namely, as a scaffold to the rough distortion and decorative electronic disarray, the rhythm section really needs to swing'

Obey Cobra - MWG DRWG

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Bangers from Ibibio Sound Machine and bbymutha, sonic transcendence from Rich Ruth and Kiran Leonard, essential new picks from fast-risers like Wu-Lu and Martha Skye Murphy...

tQ's Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2024

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'Fearless Movement feels most successful on Washington’s most energetic tracks, where the vitality of the instrumentation comes together with political messaging and psychedelic observations'

Kamasi Washington’s Fearless Movement - tQ's Album of the Week

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