The Sound of the City: Pet Shop Boys’ West End Girls 40 Years on
May 21, 2024 · The sharp eyes of pop past had seen the bruising reality beneath the romantic metropolitan promise. In1966, the capital’s swinging scene was eviscerated by The Kinks (‘Dead End Street’, ‘Big Black Smoke’) and Bowie (‘The London Boys’). During punk, it was a place of high-octane danger, full of “Hades ladies dressed to …
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature | The Quietus
Nov 27, 2024 · There’s a gorgeously tender reading of the ballad ‘We’ll Be Together Again’ along with a relatively concise account of Henderson’s ‘Isotope’, but the biggest thrills come in the extended pieces, such as the spontaneous minor blues later titled ‘Taking Off’, where the musicians tap into the pure expression and improvisational exchange of that era rarely captured in …
Lewis Spybey – LEWISPYBEY | The Quietus
Nov 28, 2024 · LEWISPYBEY is a voluptuous and busy-sounding record throughout, full of the slightly manic music you often get from those who have been in the music business too long to care about what others think.That allows for some curveball moments of beauty answerable only to themselves. Second track ‘Boot Island Twin’ is a shimmering number, more meditative than the opener but still possessing an ...
Deep Deep Down: J Spaceman & John Coxon's Music for William …
Oct 17, 2024 · Stranded In Canton is Eggleston’s 1974 documentary of the Deep South and its inhabitants, most of whom are his friends, co-conspirators, family or fellow debauchees. It’s full of the kind of freaks and misfits – ‘characters’ we might call them – …
Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More | The Quietus
Dec 3, 2024 · Forget everything you know about Kim Deal – but of course, you can’t. How could you? She’s written herself into the DNA of modern music, burrowing, defiant, unmistakable. Still, Nobody Loves You More, her long-awaited solo debut, dares you to try.Across its twelve tracks, Deal teases out entirely new sonic terrain while honouring the weight of her legacy.
The Waeve – City Lights | The Quietus
Sep 27, 2024 · City Lights, the second album from Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougal’s The Waeve, opens with the tonally bewildering title track – a futuro Roxy Music or less depraved version of The Moonlandingz. Interstellar glam meets a glaring excavation of Bowie’s Low.Elsewhere, heavy, expansive bass and chugging motorik pulses summon a scuzzier Goldfrapp with a 70s chamber rock rhythm section.
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
Apr 11, 2017 · Thanks to the band’s run of magnificent social vignettes throughout the 1960s, Ray Davies of The Kinks became known not simply as a fine songwriter, but a fine British songwriter. While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved transatlantic megastardom, as a writer Davies was forced to look inward after being banned from entering the country between 1965 to 1969, following a dispute with ...
Tarta Relena – És pregunta - The Quietus
Nov 5, 2024 · In 2022, I attended Tarta Relena’s Le Guess Who concert at Janskerk in Utrecht. Although most of the seats were taken, I managed to find a free one at the front. I believe being close to the artists made the experience different from being at the back.
The Strange World Of… Gruff Rhys
Jan 17, 2024 · "I still feel I need to do something original", says Gruff Rhys as he ponders his ongoing motivation for making music. "I’m working with quite a limited palette in a way and just looking for ways to make unique music. I still feel there are things I need to try out. I still feel in […]