Following her visit to the Clockenflap Festival, Irina Shtreis looks at a new wave of Hong Kong artists reinterpreting Cantopop

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34130-hong-kong-lo-fi-dreampop-my-little-airport

Thou’s new album takes a brutal back-to-basics approach, all under the ruthless glare of frontman Bryan Funck. Dan Franklin speaks to him and guitarist Andy Gibbs about holding their feet to the fire, roughly dispensing with melody and, most surprisingly, The Mighty Boosh. Home page Thou portrait by Nathan Tucker

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34134-thou-interview

The 20th anniversary vinyl repress of the band’s fifth studio album is due out in October

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34132-animal-collective-reveal-sung-tongs-reissue-and-live-lp

Cambridgeshire rockers go full giallo – with a little help from genre stars Franco Nero and Edwige Fenech. Photo by Karin Hunt

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34123-uncle-acid-the-deadbeats-nell-ora-blu-review

Two Quietus writers, JR Moores and Alex Maiolo, pay tribute to Steve Albini who died this week, remembering him not only for his innumerable contributions to music, but his humour, his generosity, his self-awareness, and his impact on keeping communities alive

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34131-steve-albini-obituary

A towering figure in American independent rock; a scabrous and sometimes controversial voice of anti-commercialism in music and much sought after sound engineer has left the party too soon

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34129-steve-albini-dies

TQ Editor John Doran appears at the Bosco Theatre this weekend to talk about the occult history of Cornish pasties, tin mine goblins, vengeful witches and Richard D James

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34128-aphex-twin-cornish-mythology

Ahead of an appearance at Acid Horse and the release of a career best album Norther, Benjamin D Duvall of Ex-Easter Island Head shoots the breeze with Ophira Gottleib

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Two years after *Limbs*, the third album from the brilliant actor-composer references Bela Tarr and 80s protest anthems, occupying a space all its own

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34119-keeley-forsyth-the-hollow-review

As they prepare to release their second album and embark on their debut UK tour, Canadian improvisational ensemble Earth Ball tell Julian Marszalek about advertising on an old mattress, their unconventional base in a “dirty, weird coal mining town,” and the cooperative joy of instant composition

source https://thequietus.com/articles/34126-earth-ball-band-interview