the quietus : the new look

Terrible review. Sounds like the writer is describing a can of Pepsi they’re drinking. Absolutely tells you nothing about how it sounds or content etc

Finally, early Pitchfork reviewing is back in vogue

that's a joke guys

if it's a joke, they've been playing the long con https://twitter.com/TommyMonroe_

Men that allow other men walk through the door first are the real gentlemen.

— T O M M Y (@TommyMonroe_) July 16, 2018

:D

Pusha T has a discography filled with lyrics about drugs. On “The Game We Play,” he gives a shoutout the drug dealers—the people behind the scenes— “the names they fade”. This song is for people like El Chapo. ”This is the drug money your ex nigga claim he made” will have many girlfriends asking their man why he isn’t making drug money. With the message behind this song, he shows respect for drug dealers, and the profession (Yes, the profession) of drug dealing.

i was certain it was a joke but reading through his twitter TL it really seems like a long and weird way to go for some simple-ass parody

it would usually have to be funny to be a successful parody really

As The Quietus sometimes does Mr. Agreeable reboots it's no surprise that it's intended humour has a tendency to leave one's sides intact

back with a banger...

Travis Scott invites a league of top-rate collaborators to the album. Unlike most artists who would like to utilize featured guests to the maximum, Scott takes a different approach. There are many contributors on the album, some even unmentioned. The interesting thing about his approach is, on songs like ‘Stop Trying To Be God’, ‘Skeletons’, and ‘Yosemite’ for example, not all the guests play major vocal roles in singing as they might usually do. This genius approach by Scott leads to a blend of so many sounds, vocals that act as condiments on these songs.

http://thequietus.com/articles/25096-travis-scott-astroworld-review

this guy keeps following and unfollowing me on twitter and i'm like......my dude

http://thequietus.com/articles/25121-graham-lambkin-interview

nice write up on Graham Lambkin

Happy 10th Anniversary!
The Top 100 Albums Of The Quietus' Existence, As Picked By tQ's Writers

Nothing Important is in my decade top 2 as well! Good shout Quietus

superb stuff; great list and an awesome number 1

looking forward to delving into all the records i hadn't heard b4 (after revisiting field of reeds first :) )

interesting list at the very least with the occasional completely bizarre pick, like i would have never imagined the quietus would rep for travis scott's birds in the trap sing mcknight, of all things?

agree with a lot on the list but the travis pick is ludicrous, especially considering all the artists he ripped off have made better albums/tapes. the us rap picks being kendrick/kanye/travis/death grips is so "i don't like rap but _____", really just missing run the jewels.

great site for 10 years

ah reading again this list was voted on by everyone who's ever contributed to the site, unlike the end of year lists which are compiled only by the 5 core staff. that explains why it's in some ways a lot less distinctive than i would have expected for a quietus list, but still doesn't explain travis scott showing up

that claim can't be true cos I contributed a few reviews to the quietus and they never contacted me for this article, the bastards :)

that claim can't be true cos I contributed a few reviews to the quietus and they never contacted me for this article, the bastards :)

ditto, but without the emoji.

Twelve years old and a subscription model to help the site continue -- as well as get a slew of bonuses -- is now live:

https://thequietus.com/articles/28833-the-quietus-subscriptions-birthday

Think about it, won't you? (So I can write even more for them. :-D )

oh yes will do that now

tQ needs a subscriber boost -- if you can contribute, please do!

https://thequietus.com/articles/32853-quietus-subscriber-discount

I uhm ... doubt that I'm the only Quietus reader over 40. Why then the eyechart typeface

To make you work for your edification. :-D

The Quietus is one of those websites that doesn't specify a typeface. So if you go into your browser settings, change the default typeface and reload the site you should find something more to your liking.

redesign is unusable

... seems ok on my phone?

fine to me, and certainly a huge improvement on the previous incarnation

Fine here and it looks great

yeah redesign is much better (puts away reading glasses)

The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.

I gladly cannot think of anyone less likely to pivot to any kind of conservatism than John tbh

lol very true

or Luke

Yes of course Luke as well!

Looks nice but I did a few reviews for them years ago and the first few paras of them don't appear under the new look, which is weird.

Worth getting in touch to explain that - I'm sure they have an easy way around that glitch...

if you have the urls we could check the source code and see if there's some css styling/js that is creating that glitch!

The way they announced it on socials — "The Quietus is reborn" or some shit — made me worry they were gonna try to pivot to Unherd/Free Press/The Atlantic-style conservatism, while still covering music. Glad it was just a reskinning of the site and not some kind of "now let us tell you what we really think" nightmare scenario.

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Curious to know why this would make you think that?

The actual language I saw on Twitter was:

The Quietus has regenerated.

Welcome to our new realm of cultural discovery, devilment and debate.

I'm old enough to have seen too many media outlets (especially ones emanating from TERF Island) use language like that to signal a pivot to "iconoclast"/"contrarian" editorial perspectives that boil down to middle-aged right-wing bullshit in a leather jacket. And since my only exchange with the editors, some years ago, was an unpleasant one (they asked me to write a review, but only on the condition that it was negative), I was suspicious.

You can't Quiet Us, woke moralists

it's called humour, unperson.

i am just rather chuffed that the 4 (thomas dolby, age of chance, don letts, and foetus course),
interviews i did for them, have been ported across to the new site.

"foetus course" : "foetus of course"

What wine goes with foetus

Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel (Of Cheese)

"Culture Countered" is a bit rubbish (not sure if that's always been there though)

https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/music-industry-greed-taylor-swift/

Eamonn Forde on the state of the music industry