Kinetic Energy: Seismo by Upsammy & Valentina Magaletti | The Quietus

Originally commissioned by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, this collaboration between the Amsterdam-based producer and ther UK's busiest drummer opens up dazzling worlds of percussive sound

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The Band Whom the Trees Loved: SUNN O))) by SUNN O))) | The Quietus

“He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them.” So begins Algernon Blackwood’s 1912 novella, ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’, a rich and unsettling tale that follows a man who, influenced by a painter specialising in portraits of trees, develops a strange obsession with the woodland surrounding […]

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Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct | The Quietus

Congolese collective build sonic starships ouf of the scrapyards of Africa, transforming ritual into auditory assault

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Twilight of the Idols: Yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell by The Heads | The Quietus

The Heads' chaotic Dionysian abandon is always tempered by a mathematical Apollonian rigour, finds Stewart Lee

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The Four Seasons: Bill Orcutt's Music In Continuous Motion | The Quietus

The latest work for four guitars by the Miami-born musician and composer sounds like a history lesson in guitar technique to Bernie Brooks

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Crimes of the Future: Torn by Cobrah | The Quietus

BDSM meets industrial beats on the new album from the sex-positive Swedish singer-producer

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The Forest Murmurs: Marathon by Maria BC | The Quietus

Understated yet subtly devastating, the Oakland, California-baed artist turns down the aggression of previous album Spike Field in favour of a more tender kind of violence

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Ancient to the Future: Discombobulated by Hen Ogledd | The Quietus

The Hen Ogledd family keeps on expanding – the group’s sound, likewise. But more than anything, Discombobulated sounds like the present, finds Jeanette Leech

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Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs | The Quietus

The debut album from the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-producer, finds the digital age's only medieval princess bursting with ideas and cartoonish intensity. Truly, Hemlocke Springs contains multitudes

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Black to the Future: A Bleak King Cometh by Qasu | The Quietus

Even within a genre increasingly filled with aberrations, Qasu's debut represents an odd yet scintillating proposition

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