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New Weird Britain in Review for January by Noel Gardner

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By Tristan Bath, NOEL GARDNER, Patrick Clarke Verified
| The Quietus Verified
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Spools Out: The Best Cassettes of 2024

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By Tristan Bath, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Noel Gardner, Patrick Clarke Verified
| The Quietus Verified
Anticyclonic gloom isn’t a dungeon synth project from 2024, but someone should patent the name if they haven’t already. It’s what the Met Office called the wave of relentless grey weather across the UK in early autumn, when skies stayed the same colour as the roads. That explains early November, but what about the rest of the year? 2024 has been bleak on levels more than climatic, although the prospects for the climate’s future are also pretty depressing. War, violent oppression, far-right thugs.
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Sly & The Family Drone – Moon Is Doom Backwards | The Quietus

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By Tristan Bath, Bobby Barry Verified, Jared Dix
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You probably wouldn’t have bet on Sly & The Family Drone sticking around this long. Born of a DIY scene of short-lived projects and constantly reconfiguring participants, their pursuit of transcendent abandon through noise seemed destined to burn itself out. As much as their chaotic mash up of instant composition methods and low-key spectacle made for a brilliant, exultant, live experience, the jokey name and carnival atmosphere suggested they were here for a good time, not for a long time.
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