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John Doran

John Doran

Co-founder and Editor at The Quietus

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    Another Round: The Pogues’ Rum, Sodomy & The Lash at 40

    The Pogues' second album saw Shane MacGowan become the first among equals says Tariq Goddard 40 years after its release.
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    Three Album Run: How 20th Century Metal Never Bettered Slayer’s Unh...

    20t h Century metal has never bettered Reign In Blood to Seasons In TheAbyss... sorry Metallica, Priest & Sabbath!
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    Reissue of the Week: The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World

    JR Moores casts a weary eye over a treble album of remixes, that can't quite make us forget how harrowing the source material is.
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    Some Might Not Say: What a Glut of New Oasis Books is Leaving Unwri...

    There are a glut of new Oasis books out due to the reunion, but, asks Fergal Kinney, how is the band's shocking decline in quality dealt with?
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    A Condition of the Space: Mary Anne Hobbs Interviewed

    Ahead of the launch of her new radio show on 6 Music & an appearance at MIF, Mary Anne Hobbs would sooner talk about an old bus...
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    Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)

    Joe Muggs celebrates the reissue of an album which captures the thrilling contradictory power of rave, just moths before it splintered.
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    Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC's Powerage, Hi...

    The Beatles? The Stones? Led Zeppelin? Please... when it comes to rock, no one comes close to these three consecutive AC/DC albums
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    Reissue of the Week: Butthole Surfers Live At The Leather Fly

    Sure the idea of the Buttholes as the penis surgery band who might shoot you is exciting but this live LP reminds you how great they were
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    Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats

    The Raincoats were revolutionaries first, musicians second. Ahead of a new book, Audrey Golden charts their riotous journey
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    Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

    Jennifer Lucy Allan finds some gems on a frustratingly patchy and difficult to navigate compilation of Japanese soundtrack music
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    Remembering Alan Lamb, by Lawrence English

    Lawrence English looks back fondly over the life of a true giant of Australian sound art, Alan Lamb, who died recently
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    An Extract from Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who by ...

    Doctor Who is a televisual institution and cultural phenomenon which has so far spanned seven decades. John Higgs, one of the UK’s most unfailingly original authors, has written a book on the series which concerns “change, mystery and the importance of imaginary characters in our lives” while mirroring a lifetime of “social, technological and cultural […]
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    Three Album Run: How Krautrock Never Bettered Can's Tago Mago, Ege ...

    Darran Anderson nails his krautrock colours to the mast and declares Tago Mago, Egi Bamyasi and Future Days the best 3LP run
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    Reissue of the Week: Dark Magus by Miles Davis

    Angus Batey drops the needle on yet another (expensive) Miles Davis reissue but still finds there are new sounds and ideas to be had
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    Los Pirañas – Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida

    Already excellent
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    Warriors of the Wasteland: How Heavy Metal Survived 1995

    Heavy metal has never looked as directionless as it did in 1995. Keith Kahn-Harris looks back to a genre close to dissipating
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    Matmos, Scotch Rolex, The Utopia Strong and More to Play Acid Horse...

    Regis, Dyslecta & Slav To The Rhythm DJ, while the Utopia Strong, Matmos and Scotch Rolex play live at Acid Horse 25
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    Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for February Reviewed by JR Moores

    JR Moores packs it all in to follow The Jesus Lizard on tour, pausing only to review the best psych (and noise) rock there is.
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    Noise To Signal: Unsound Krakow 2024 Reviewed

    John Doran admires the noise to signal ratio at Unsound Krakow while taking in Petronn Sphene, Lankum, Aya, Yellow Swans and Lord Spikeheart
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    Dread Magnificence: LSD, Selected Ambient Works II & The Psychic De...

    Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an often misunderstood album that offers little in the way of chill, but instead a communion with Cornwall
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    Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed

    Blood Incantation's Isaac Faulk talks to Dan Franklin about how pushing at the boundaries of what a band can be created their most mind-expanding music yet