Novelist, flim-maker, psychogeographer Chris Petit talks to Juliet Jacques about his new book Come In and Shut the Door and film D is for Distance

Ever since establishing himself with his films Radio On (1979) and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), novelist and director Chris Petit has remained one of the most fascinating and forensic voices within British counter-culture. He published his first novel, Robinson, in 1993, influenced by J. G. Ballard and Louis-Ferdinand Céline – its story about a man working in the film industry in Soho, becoming involved in pornographic productions, reaffirmed Petit’s place within the psychogeographic movement alongside Patrick Keiller and Iain Sinclair. His later novels have explored the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Second…

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Shows in Bristol and London have been cancelled following protest campaigns in solidarity with Palestine

Jonny Greenwood and Israeli collaborator Dudu Tassa have issued a statement in response to recent cancellations of their gigs, which were brought about after protesters linked to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) called on promoters to pull the events in solidarity with Palestine.

The Radiohead musician and Israeli singer are frequent collaborators, and have faced ongoing criticism of their willingness to perform in Israel amid the nation’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Tassa has also previously played as part of a band that entertained members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) supported protests against UK concerts by the pair…

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It’s the Outkast member’s first new music since 2023’s flute-focused New Blue Sun LP

André 3000 has released a new instrumental project, titled 7 Piano Sketches.

As the name suggests, it features seven tracks that are centred around the piano. Each cut is introduced by himself, or collaborators Emmy Paalman and Fatima Robinson reading the song’s title. There are also occasional samples and vocal effects added across the record.

“The original title for it was The Best Worst Rap Album In History,” André 3000 said in a press release. “And here is an excerpt from the original liner notes: ‘It’s jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all. It’s the best because it’s the free-est emotionally…

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Laura Cannell tells us about the challenges of improvising and recording music made on a replica of an instrument buried with the Sutton Hoo ship in the seventh century

One of the most intriguing releases we’ve heard this year is LYRELYRELYRE, the new album on which Laura Cannell uses bass recorder and crumhorn alongside a copy of an instrument discovered in the 7th Century Sutton Hoo ship burial to create nine, haunting improvised tracks. Paddy Clarke has already reviewed the record in his Radical Traditional column, saying “listening to the chasmic reverberations on LYRELYRELYRE, it’s easy to imagine them echoing all the way back to the seventh century and beyond.” As ever in Cannell’s music, the East Anglian landscape ancient and modern glows as one….

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Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads. This feature was first published 26/07/15

“We’re standing on the edge, on the edge of time. And it is dark, so dark on the edge of time, and we’re tired of making love.”

So intones Hawkwind’s premier nasal-voiced woodwind player and resident birdman Nik Turner on ‘Standing At The Edge’, one of two spoken-word tracks from the band’s most conflicted album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time. The 1975 LP is frustrating and beguiling in equal measure. And his words were pertinent, since this year saw the band reach the edge in more ways than one. There was the increasingly fractious personal relationships within the group,…

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Austin, Tx’s Buttholes were notorious for any number of reasons, but, says Ned Raggett, why not think of them first and foremost as an inspired and shit hot rock group?

I’d heard the stories before I saw the show in Hollywood, of course. How could I not? I was only twenty years old in spring 1991, but ever since I’d picked up Musician magazine three years prior for its Pink Floyd cover story, I was thoroughly bemused by its lead album review being about some band called Butthole Surfers, how could I not have heard the stories? Accounts regarding two wild drummers and projected films showing penis removal surgeries and the like had circulated. One friend told me earnestly he’d heard…

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Moin

Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

Belly Up by Moin

Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews have always championed a sound that can’t quite be placed, but Moin’s experimental bedroom demo-tape vibe is the linchpin of their discography. 2021 debut Moot! was rich in post-punk rigour and chopped-up vocal samples. Drummer Valentina Magaletti joined the duo for 2022’s Paste, an avant-garde offering that hinted at the seeds of a bigger idea. ‘You Never End’ pushed the proverbial boat out, providing a semblance of regularity and straying from their typically piecemeal, Jenga-like philosophy. Now, with Belly Up, the London three-piece return to…

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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, exclusive to tQ subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through a selection of transportive releases from DIY synth voyagers of the near past

Oksana Linde in 1985, by Mardonio Diaz

Floating in a netherworld of bedroom synths and home duped cassettes, the artists in this list exist in a nebulous sub genre of my own creation, one defined as much by quality of execution and mood as by style. Largely lo-fi, ephemeral, and hard to pin down in many ways, I recommend taking your own route through this music. It should be a solo mission; a choose-your-own-adventure through an infinity of bedroom synth music, via a universe of defunct blogs like Mutant Sounds; old WordPress…

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Red Mar

Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

Our Low Cell by Red Mar

After a live recording and a clutch of varied, ambitious standalone tracks, UK post-rockers Red Mar unfurl their long-percolating debut. It’s a dense and often dazzling piece of work – but also one that sometimes risks losing a firm sense of self amid its many fragmented personalities.

Kicking things off with the seventeen-minute ‘Namokel’ is a bold, borderline arrogant move, but it effectively sets out Red Mar’s stall and their state of mind. Things start quietly enough. Acoustic arpeggios and mumblefuck vocals are threaded with drones and scritchy background noise, but it’s…

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Andy Bell

Ten Crowns

Erasure singer heads to Nashville, belts out a suite of ten big pop anthems seasoned with a healthy dash of club music, gospel and Debbie Harry

Forty years at the top in pop is not to be sniffed at. And if you’ve got thirty-five Top 40 hits and five chart-topping albums under your belt to show for it, then you move into the territory of having ‘national treasure’ attached to your name. Truth is, Andy Bell (the Erasure one, not the Ride/Oasis one – easy to tell apart as one is a flamboyant entertainer known for occasionally wearing rubber leotards, and the other one is half of Erasure) is somewhat more than that. One of the great gay and…

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