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@thequietus.com"I mean, we can try to recreate some of the pieces but that would take some practice. And we have one and a half days of practice."
Daniel Miller on Duet Emmo's long-awaited live debut
@thequietus.com'Reich won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music with this 2007 piece which is reminiscent of Different Trains, although with a far more densely layered, multifaceted texture.'
Double Sextet - The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@thequietus.com'Such is the dissolution of roles and traditional songwriting techniques within the band that Cathy Lucas’ vocals rarely settle, somehow sitting at right angles to the music...'
Vanishing Twin’s Archives is tQ's Album of the Week
@thequietus.com"I don’t think any of us have been involved in the emulation game, ever. Trying to completely recreate something: it’s a rather tedious activity, isn’t it?"
43 years on from their debut album, Duet Emmo speak to tQ ahead of their first ever live performance
@thequietus.comPet Shop Boys' new rework of their 2014 BBC Proms performance about Alan Turing mirrors a tension that has always been at their heart – machine vs human, digital vs analogue, electronic vs classical
Pet Shop Boys – A Man From the Future
@thequietus.com'Reich hit upon the idea of using the recollection of his travelling as a child on a train between New York and LA while addressing the disparity between those memories and what was happening to Jews in Europe at that time'
Different Trains (1988) The Strange World Of… #SteveReich
@thequietus.com"I find Trish Keenan’s singing very inspiring. I love her lyrics. They’re proper, proper poetry. Her melodies as well. I wish I could write a melody like hers one day."
Tara Clerkin on Broadcast's Tender Buttons
@thequietus.comJohn Doran went to Krakow to throw darts with Leyland James Kirby and hear about Everywhere At The End Of Time, the grand farewell he has planned for his Caretaker project…
Leyland James Kirby And The Death Of A Caretaker #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
@thequietus.com43 years since their sole record Or So It Seems, Duet Emmo will be reforming for their first ever live performance. Speaking to Kiran Sande, they look back at a cult classic, and forwards to a show that won't try to emulate what's come before
@thequietus.comSad news reaches us of the death of Lois Kahlert, who with her husband Dennis were immortalised as two of the most devoted superfans in the history of alternative music.
In 2020, Adele Stripe paid homage to a film about the pair that understood their fandom like no other.
@thequietus.comSean Kitching suggests ten points of entry into the back catalogue of the late great Brazilian composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer known as ‘O Bruxo’ (the Sorcerer)
The Strange World Of… #HermetoPascoal #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
@thequietus.com'A hugely influential piece that helped to bridge the gap between minimalism, rock music & dance music, Electric Counterpoint explored the concept of a live soloist playing against a layered pre-recorded tape of themselves'
Electric Counterpoint - The Strange World Of #SteveReich
@thequietus.com'Controlled Burn is a welcome addition to the slim canon of what Tate brands ‘avant-soul’ storytelling – an album whose embers seem, hopefully, primed to catch.'
Marvin Tate – Controlled Burn
@thequietus.comA childhood spent dancing to Top Of The Pops, a complicated relationship with Michael Jackson and the tragic loss of her tape collection, Afrodeutsche takes us through the 13 albums that changed her life
Afrodeutsche’s Favourite Albums #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
@thequietus.com'This debut solo release from flautist Joussein is astonishing. One track, ‘Argent Massif’ takes such an unexpected turn that I had to check my laptop wasn’t malfunctioning...'
Delphine Joussein - Calamity #FrenchMusic for September
@thequietus.com'Eraserhead—a hallucinatory black hole of a film with a soundtrack that resembles a field recording made in a derelict section of hell...'
The Haunted Legacy Of #DavidLynch’s Eraserhead Soundtrack #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
@thequietus.com'Gamelan concertos-of-sorts for Jakarta-born jazz pianist Sri Hanuraga, who plays catchy, angular polyrhythms with the off-kilter strut of 1920s player pianos.'
Dewa Alit, Gamelan Salukat - Baur Bentur - Rum Music For October 2026
@thequietus.comParis collective 10LEC6 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.
Ako Akas by 10LEC6 is our album of the week
@thequietus.com'A large part of Seconds’ unsettling power is down to the tantalising ambiguities that lurk at the edge of our understanding. These ambiguities are explained away in David Ely’s 1963 source novel but sensibly excised by Frankenheimer'
John Frankenheimer’s Seconds at 60
@thequietus.com'Sacred Harp hymns, experimental folk, Appalachian motets, a dose of drones, all with the aim to “retell our current reality through a feminist lens”. Very nice'
Jessie Marino, Inga Margrete Aas, Pinquins - Murder Ballads Vol II - Rum Music For October 2026
