the quietus : the new look

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