In this month’s edition of the pod, John Doran and Luke Turner face a terrifying beast of the atomic age

Behold! A horrific-looking, lumbering beast comes crashing through his environment, pulverising everything in his path with his concrete-vapourising breath, leaving a trail of destruction that will take months to repair. But once John is settled in his shed, behind the mic and ready to talk to Luke, it’s time for another Quietus Low Culture Podcast. 

This month the pair discuss Godzilla, which is both a type of Kaiju (strange beast) and the name of a sensational black and white Japanese film from 1954 (although tQ’s co-pilots have a lot to say about the recent ‘prequel’ Godzilla Minus Zero as well). The original…

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Eight years after Bone Bame, the Paris collective return with a record named after a Cameroonian mountain that traps walkers in a dance they cannot quit. The reason they chose that story is more pointed than the sleeve lets on

Somewhere in the middle of the Bone Bame touring cycle, 10LEC6 stopped being able to work. Nicole, the singer whose voice is the entire centre of the group, was served an OQTF, the French administrative order requiring a person to leave the country. The practical result was that the band could not honour festival bookings outside France. A Paris collective built almost entirely on movement, on diaspora, on rhythms carried between continents, was pinned to one territory by paperwork.

It was Nicole…

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Marvin Tate

Controlled Burn

Chicago slam poet teams up with Wilco’s LeRoy Bach for an album of avant-soul storytelling and hallucinatory instrumentation

Controlled Burn by Marvin Tate

Whether you’re just the right amount of tapped-in to Marvin Tate or whether Controlled Burn is your first encounter with the esteemed Chicago poet-performer, you’ll soon realise there’s little else quite like him. On his new full-length album with Amalgam Records, Tate joins forces with veteran Chicago multi-instrumentalist, Wilco’s LeRoy Bach, setting melancholic spoken word against an unruly bed of stretchy, hallucinatory instrumentation.

The duo, in their narrative playfulness, don’t make it easy to parse what came first in the experimental collaboration. More often than not though, Bach’s arrangements seem to meet Tate where he’s at – a…

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Michael Smith will serve 18 months in prison and give up $8 million in fraudulently earned royalties

A North Carolina man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting millions in royalties from bot-farming streams of AI-generated songs.

The US Justice Department announced the sentencing of 54-year-old Michael Smith (pictured above) in a press release yesterday (6 October). He was sentenced for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud having pleaded guilty in court in March of this year.

Smith, who is a musician, has also been forced to forfeit the $8 million in royalties that he earned from the bot-generated streams. He earned those royalties via his activities from 2017 until his arrest in 2024. According to the US…

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The Scottish artist describes the new record as “a channelling of intensity, energy and euphoria”

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Anna Meredith has unveiled a new album, titled DARLING.

Featuring 11 tracks, it’s the Scottish artist’s first non-soundtrack record since 2021’s Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies For Dodgems. In recent years, she has focused her practice on soundtrack work, providing the scores for A24 film Tuesday and Netflix’s The End We Start From.

In a press statement about the new album, Meredith said: “DARLING is a channelling of intensity, energy and euphoria. This is me making music to summon motion, tension and release, to push through my brain and my body at a time when my own world (and the world in general) feels overwhelming.

“My…

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Marking the album’s 10th anniversary, the new edition adds four previously unreleased recordings

The Comet Is Coming are marking the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Channel The Spirits, with an expanded reissue.

The new edition, titled Exploding In Slow Motion: The Complete Channel The Spirits Recordings 2013-2017CE, features the full original album, which was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2016. It also takes in their two EPs from the period – Prophecy and Death To The Planet – and four previously unreleased recordings. One of them, One, ‘Late Night Party Jam 2’, was recorded at London’s Total Refreshment Centre, the now-shuttered music venue that the band served as unofficial residents of for a number of years. You can listen to that…

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All Ages features contributions from Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart, and skateboarders Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas

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Lorenzo Senni has shared details of his first album in six years, titled All Ages.

Spanning 11 tracks, the record sees the Italian artist make use of his own vocals for the first time. It also features vocal contributions from Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart, and skateboarders Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas.

The album builds on Senni’s distinctive weightless trance sound, meshing it together with the spirit of the hardcore punk that he also takes influence from. The LP’s title references the open door policy of hardcore punk gigs.

“I was one of those weird kids, a straightedge drummer at drugged-out gabber raves, but I…

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The free event will allow fans to gather to listen to the group’s music, while extra tickets for Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s talk with tQ’s own Luke Turner are also set to be released

Further details of the ICA’s upcoming TG50 event, marking the 50th anniversary of Throbbing Gristle’s formation, have been revealed.

Scheduled for 18 October, the free event will begin at midday, and will give fans of the group the chance to gather and listen to their music in the venue’s main theatre, while sharing stories of the band and their importance to them.

Extra tickets are also going on sale today (7 October) for Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s conversation with tQ’s own Luke Turner. A second…

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The event, previously famously held as a weekender at UK holiday parks, will return for a one-off party at The Cause in London next March

Bloc has revealed the first acts playing its one-off 20th anniversary event next year.

The promoter will take over London club The Cause on 6 March for an extended 16-hour party. The reunion event will take in a headline set from Jeff Mills, as well as appearances from British Murder Boys, Leftfield, Egyptian Lover and Miss Djax.

There will also be back-to-back DJ sets from DJ Storm and Tasha; Tama Sumo and Lakuti; and Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi. More acts will be added to the bill in the coming months, with the programming set to be spread…

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Space Afrika, Rainy Miller and more have contributed production to the record

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Blackhaine has signed to XL Recordings for the release of his debut album, Saints In The Wethouse.

Featuring 12 tracks, the LP combines the Manchester artist’s industrial sound with noise and more stripped-back moments. Wraith9, fresh from work with EsDeeKid and Fakemink, served as the record’s executive producer, while Space Afrika, Rainy Miller and Ship Sket are among the other acts who’ve contributed production to the album.

The album’s announcement comes alongside the unveiling of lead single ‘Consumer’, for which you can watch a video below.

Saints In The Wethouse follows 2022 EPs And Salford Falls Apart and Armour II.

XL Recordings will release Saints In The Wethouse on 13…

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