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Opinionated and informative criticism of all the music that counts
In Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Watson used tape loops and field recordings as a pioneer of industrial music. Now, he is a sound recordist for BBC nature programmes who also works on installations, films and his own albums. He speaks to Luke Turner about trying to capture the sound of the world in a very noisy modern age
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Justyna Banaszczyk (whom regular tQ readers will know as the musician FOQL) guides us through summer woodlands and murky memory with a terrific selection of Polish contemporary experimental music, including Krolowczana Smuga, pictured below.
When Ramesses’ bassist and singer Adam Richardson asked the enfants terrible, Jake and Dinos Chapman, if he could use their art to adorn his band’s new album _Take The Curse_, he had no idea that they’d say yes. He explains his love for their disturbing vision…
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more