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BTS’s new album is a triumph: it’s the first album by a K-pop band to dominate (obliterate, completely upend) the western music charts, and it captures everything fun and fresh about pop right now

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'Jimin’s Face is, perhaps, one of the most anticipated solo projects from BTS since he is one of those members whose tones we didn’t get to hear so often' Jimin - FACE

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'While it’s a short EP, it doesn’t disappoint. If anything, Jimin presents himself as a soloist with an unexpected sound for his high-pitched countertenor voice and very far from those earlier ballads' Jimin - FACE @JiminGlobal @BIGHIT_MUSIC

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'Unlike many pop groups, BTS have embraced their individualism to feed their art. A key factor in their concept has been to let the members express their voices from their own perspective.' @bts_bighit - PROOF @BIGHIT_MUSIC

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'An elegant and sensual approach to hip-hop pop, combining sounds like 80s lo-fi synthwave and the aspect of grime acts who go to gospel, electronic guitars and distortion in order to deliver their statement' Jimin - FACE @JiminGlobal @BIGHIT_MUSIC

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'BE serves as a chronicle of what 2020 has been during lockdown: a year of uncertainty, anxiety, depression and frustration. But it also delivers hope for the future.' BTS - BE @bts_bighit

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The new album by Korea's biggest pop group offers an introspective chronicle about isolation, quarantine and finding a safe middle between sorrow and hope, finds Verónica A. Bastardo BTS - BE

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Happy Birthday to Radiohead's No Surprises, which was released 25 years ago today!

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BTS live in London: their awkwardness and sensitivity is also the source of their strength

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'Face is a reminder that Korean pop acts are not a square sound, but a way to mix arts together on their own terms.' Jimin - FACE @JiminGlobal @BIGHIT_MUSIC

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R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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'It's now almost impossible to imagine any European or American male pop stars singing this kind of funky neon soul tune and carrying it off with the kind of aplomb that BTS do here' @BTS_twt - 'Butter' is one of our tracks of the month for May 2021

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'A surreal album in which a mix of sounds, music genres, and metaphorical lyrics seem out of shape – until you step to the right distance to appreciate the whole painting.' Tomorrow x Together - THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZE @BIGHIT_MUSIC @TXT_members

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'Perfect for singing along, chanting, dancing and bright your day if you're having a bad one - one thing that is definitely consistent in Red Velvet's music so far.' Red Velvet - QUEENDOM @SMTOWNGLOBAL

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RIP Damo Suzuki

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'With the catchiness that comes from quirky sound selections –flamboyant drums, crazy claps and cheers – that saccharine song interpretation - Nayeon is perfect to have as your new pop-girl-crush.' Nayeon - IM #NAYEON @jypnation

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Happy Birthday to Air's Moon Safari, which turns 25 today!

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'A demonstration of how BigHit Music’s in-house producers and TXT members' composing skills blend smoothly to experiment with sound in clever but relatable narratives.' Tomorrow x Together - THE CHAOS CHAPTER: FREEZE @BIGHIT_MUSIC @TXT_members

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R.I.P. Tina Turner

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Happy Birthday to New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies, which turns 40 today!

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R.I.P. Tom Verlaine

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'No one does virginal R&B better than South Korea. Take pH-1’s ‘365&7’, a song that sounds like twinkly MapleStory music set to a trap beat.' pH-1 – ‘365&7’ (feat. Jamie) In International Pop Music For August @misterminsoo @ph1boyyy @H1GHRMUSIC

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Brick by brick, BTS seem to be dismantling old poses of masculinity

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"Listening to new things, looking for new sounds has become part of my nature. And I think that's why you collaborate – to stay open." R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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'There is not a song on Build A Problem that does not deserve its place on the album. They all have the potential to be favourites, depending on the day, your mood and what you want from a song.' @doddleoddle - BUILD A PROBLEM

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"I've been doing field recording for many years – I don't use the recordings, I just keep collecting them. If I was a painter I would probably draw – recordings are something like that for me" R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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. @maryannehobbs has announced that David Sylvian will take part in a special show on BBC 6 Music later this month, the musician's first major engagement with the media in fifteen years

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8 years

Praise be to the Fox God! The rise of @BABYMETAL_JAPAN is all but unstoppable:

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3 years

'I burn marks a step further in (G)I-DLE’s mission to consolidate themselves as the most ambitious self-produced girl group in K-pop' (G)I-DLE - I BURN @cubeunited

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'6equence has an unexpected dynamic in which opposite music genres recreate the different stages of a relationship, from falling in love to the angst of one last call to mend things up' Moonbyul - 6EQUENCE @_Verolerolero @RBW_MAMAMOO

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3 years

Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire has died, aged 65

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'This album showcases the magic and freedom that comes from working solo and staying true to your own story, delivering a sincere and meaningful narrative that also highlights slightly hidden talents' Moonbyul - 6EQUENCE @_Verolerolero @RBW_MAMAMOO

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'A voyage through IU’s past decade. A goodbye to her 20s, summarising old loves and losses, her growth as a woman, and looking back to those years when struggles were overcome and loving fans welcomed her music' IU - LILAC @edam_ent @_IUofficial

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. @DAVID_LYNCH 's @trent_reznor -assembled Lost Highway soundtrack is coming to vinyl for the first time:

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R.I.P. Steve Albini

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"I asked Brian Wilson to sing on [Beauty - 1989]... the following day, I flew from LA back to New York to continue recording and he showed up without telling me. It was a beautiful moment – one I won't forget" R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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'IU has explored almost every music style you can think of. From jazzy rag piano craziness, lovely mellow ballads like ‘Lullaby’, and more ironic and disruptive hip-hop/pop tracks like ‘Bbibbi’.' IU - LILAC @edam_ent @_IUofficial

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'Cocteau Twins were considered gothic then shoegaze, dream pop, ethereal wave... there was no real need for such confections, Cocteau Twins were themselves, their own category, their own cosmos' Cocteau Twins' Head Over Heels turns 40 today!

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The life and work of Scottish guitarist John McGeoch – who worked with Siouxsie And The Banshees, Magazine, Public Image Ltd and Visage across a number of years – will be highlighted in a forthcoming docu-film called The Light Pours Out Of Me

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3 years

'Plays with different sound trends that navigate from Bollywood-esque details, Korean ballad fairytale-like chimes and strings, quirky jazz, radio friendly power ballads, and even the minimalistic traits of Korean indie r&b' Loona - [&] @loonatheworld

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Genesis P-Orridge, member of COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, has died after a long illness, it was announced today

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"Whether he knew it or not, Daniel Johnston's songs, and the struggles he went through to write them, were his gift to a universe that needed them." @Real_Krcatovich pays tribute to the late lo-fi troubadour, who passed on Tuesday.

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Bristol music venue Colston Hall's name will be changed by autumn 2020, the Bristol Music Trust has said. Until then, the building's signage is to be removed

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DJ, musician, producer and music pioneer Andrew Weatherall has died aged 56

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Happy Birthday to Television's Marquee Moon, which turns 45 today!

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Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral turns 30 today!

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Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards Of Canada, Kelela and lots more will contribute to a three-day takeover of NTS Radio next week to mark 30 years of Warp Records

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R.I.P. Peter Brötzmann

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'A rich vein of mystic British visionaries continued from William Blake to Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare, snaking its way to the poverty-stricken Boroughs of Northampton where, in 1953, Alan Moore was born...' An Interview With Alan Moore

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Warp Records have remastered three releases from the Broadcast archives for reissues due in March

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Many Happy Returns to @AphexTwin 's Selected Ambient Works II, which turns 30 today!

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IU's fifth album, Lilac, shows an artist far too inventive and eclectic to be constrained by a term like k-pop, finds Verónica A. Bastardo IU - LILAC @edam_ent @_IUofficial

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Happy Birthday to the Violent Femmes' S/T album, which turns 40 today!

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Mark E Smith didn’t rule The Fall, he wasn’t the dictator of cliché. He saw it as an entity outside of himself, of which he was the curator, the caretaker, the hip priest. RIP, one of the greatest poets & artists this nation has ever known

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3 years

Happy birthday to Talk Talk's masterpiece - Laughing Stock, which turns 30 today! You can revisit an archive Quietus anniversary piece on the album here:

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"His boundless creative energy touched so many over the whole world, not just with Can, but also with his all-continent-spanning Network Tour" RIP Damo Suzuki

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Gareth Southgate is perhaps the only public figure in charge of anything in England right now to demonstrate genuine leadership #ENGSWE

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Damo Suzuki has died aged 74

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Nick Cave says The Bad Seeds' new album is "nearly finished", and that he's "very, very excited about it"

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6 years

The Quietus Is 10! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Some reflections, and an unashamed plea for your support to help us do another decade of Black Sky Thinking, here:

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Sunn O)))'s Stephen O'Malley has released a new collaborative album with Senyawa

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Happy Birthday to Talking Heads' masterpiece Remain In Light, which turns 40 today!

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'While Killing Joke have never really been accepted as canonical members of any musical movement, goth, post punk, extreme metal or industrial, they minted an original sound which would go on to influence too many groups to list' RIP Geordie Walker

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Anita Lane RIP – Australian solo artist, songwriter and collaborator with the Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten, has passed away

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"We asked DJ Shadow if he would remix White Pony for us but he hadn't heard our music and said: 'The Deftones? Are you guys a ska band?'" Chino Moreno on a 20-year project coming to fruition in Black Stallion, later this year.

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Hear the full-length debut album from Iran's celebrated @MahdyarAghajani , streaming exclusively in full with tQ

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Exclusive: Les Rallizes Dénudés bassist speaks about Mizutani's death, a full reissue programme and the uncovered archive of recordings. Full interview here: Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

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'For del Toro, magic is the absolute opposite of fascism, a phenomenon that cannot be explained, or forced into the neat categories that define any rigid hierarchical system.' @pinocchiomovie : How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented The Fairytale

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'The Verve aren’t the only band in danger of being remembered for their worst songs, but there’s still time to set the record straight...' The Verve's A Storm in Heaven turns 30 today

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"It was like I had dropped acid, or something. I hadn't. I was not intoxicated. I'd maybe had a few drinks or something, smoked a joint. I don't know, but I wasn't under anything psychedelic..." Michael Imperioli on hearing My Bloody Valentine live

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RIP Mark E. Smith

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Tom Verlaine, the frontman of Television, has died, aged 73

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Tim Smith, frontman of the cult band Cardiacs, has died aged 59

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It's here! The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2022 (In Association With @normanrecords ) What's at number one? How many have you heard?

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Many Happy Returns to @thecure 's Disintegration, which turns 35 today!

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Florian Schneider, co-founder of Kraftwerk, has died, aged 73

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"He burned every time you played, like a human torch. Every time I looked at him, I thought, 'Jesus, I don't care what he's saying, he just fucking means it.'" - Peter Hook on Ian Curtis Closer & The Last Days Of Joy Division #GothWeek

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"I was in the Arctic. I chartered a boat and recorded with the microphone under the sea. At one point I heard a big BAAAAAAM BOOOOM – a kind of explosion. I thought it was a huge whale near us. It was very scary and very exciting' R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto

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It's here... The Quietus top 100 Albums Of The Year Chart for 2019... but what's number one?

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Good news! The Quietus is regenerating. Updates incoming. #CultureCountered

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The Faith And Courage Of Sinéad O'Connor, a tQ archive interview: "We all have a million lives within the one life, and we all die a million times within that life, and each death gives us life, if you like."

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Autechre have shared a new DJ mix online The mix features music by the likes of ESG, Pinch, DJ Stingray 313, KMRU, Russell Haswell and Pita

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"She told me that 3 people sought her out at the BBC to discover who the hell was sending those amazing sounds through the airwaves: Syd Barrett, Paul McCartney & Brian Jones." Pete Kember, aka Sonic Boom, praises the genius of Delia Derbyshire.

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"It's here! The Quietus Top 100 Albums of 2020... but what is at number one?" Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020 @normanrecords

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Pharoah Sanders has died, aged 81

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Many Happy Returns to My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything, which turns 35 today!

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My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, 35 years after after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything turns 35 today

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'I’m an anarchist and an anti-fascist. My problem isn’t with Nazis playing shows, it’s with Nazis breathing air into their lungs. But I understand why they’re attracted to the genre.' @magpiekilljoy Of Feminazgûl On Anti-Fascist Black Metal @PMPressOrg

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The Quietus turns 12 today! Help secure our future AND get a load of perks including bonus essays, a brand new podcast series & exclusive music by joining our amazing Subscriber system. Click here and find out what we can do for you.

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'IU’s sound here is a chameleon of creative decisions that travel from trendy funk pop songs (like ‘Coin’) to old style Disney movie-like music (‘Epilogue’)' IU - LILAC @edam_ent @_IUofficial

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A new film about the life, work and legacy of Delia Derbyshire is premiering online next week as part of this year's BFI London Film Festival

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The first great album of the 1990s was by a band who could be the Smiths and the Coctaeu Twins.... in the same song. Revisiting The Sundays' 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic' 30 years on:

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It's here! The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2021... But what is number one?

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"The majority of the album sounds dark but I think it's realistic rather than dystopian, at least according to the reality I was and am dealing with." - @MahdyarAghajani interviewed plus an exclusive new track premiere

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Happy 30th birthday to Slint's 'Spiderland', released on this day in 1991! Joe Kennedy explores the record's oft-overlooked literariness

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Happy 50th Birthday to Matt Berry!

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RIP Geordie Walker of Killing Joke

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Happy Birthday to Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted, which turns 30 today!

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The Quietus is in huge trouble but you can help – we need 350 new subscribers to stay alive & are giving a huge discount to our top two tiers. Please read and spread the word.

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It's here. You've read the rest, now read the best. Our #AlbumsOfTheYear chart is up (with introduction from @LukeTurnerEsq )

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