Patrick Clarke

Ch'uwanchaña ~El Golpe Final~, by Joshua Chuquimia Crampton from the album Anata

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Vecna Guy's Track Record: Jamie Campbell Bower's Favourite Albums “We always had such a broad spectrum of music in our house,” explains musician and actor Jamie Campbell Bower from his flat in London. “While I was growing up, it spanned from classical music all the ...

Mentions of Pony Express in Guildford *and* Underage Festival within the same breath in Jamie Campbell Bower's Baker's Dozen have spun me the fuck out

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I cannot handle another Wuthering Heights hot take. There are too many Wuthering Heights hot takes

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often w...

Great article about the Black British Folk Collective, founded in our very own basement! @thequietus.com @angelcakepie2.bsky.social

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Attendees at Land In Our Names’ Birthday Folk Session. Photo by Fatima Yasmin. Two people seated, playing banjos.

'Throughout the project was an idea of 'retracing the journey of the banjo from West Africa to the plantation in the Caribbean, to the American South.' "It feels really significant to re-establish the connection to that instrument and where it comes from."

Folk Music for Winter

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New folk column has arrived!!!

I spoke to the good people of the Black British Folk Collective, and reviewed some amazing new records including an absolutely nuts 20 min Occitan pipe drone freakout, joyous psychedelic reworks of Polish folk dance, a harsh noise/bodhran mashup AND MORE

New folk column has arrived!!!

I spoke to the good people of the Black British Folk Collective, and reviewed some amazing new records including an absolutely nuts 20 min Occitan pipe drone freakout, joyous psychedelic reworks of Polish folk dance, a harsh noise/bodhran mashup AND MORE

A close up picture of the bowl of a clay pipe found washed up on the Thames, featuring a carving of a human figure holding a sword

A close up picture of the bowl of a clay pipe found washed up on the Thames, featuring a carving of a thistle

Four muddy pipe bowls arranged on a rock, with some other detritus around the edges of the frame

Lovely morning in the Greenwich mud, found my new favourite pipe with a mysterious figure carved into the side, another with a lovely thistle

New Silvia Tarozzi is absolutely sublime

YouTube video by Brenda Wootton - Topic The Bristol Christ

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Reliably on brand

(marginally) less bad grammar on the site itself

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also if you wanna lend your cash to a publication that is not owned by Conde Nast, offers actually good perks, and does not even let our writers score albums, and why not tQ?

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I'm (obviously) all for people paying so that quality music journalism can continue, but surely P4K's 'readers-pay-to-review-albums' thing just devalues its own writers? I want the music journalism I read to be an authoritative voice to cut through noise, not yet another social media debate vessel

glad to hear it!

YouTube video by Gondola_Archives Arbete Och Fritid ‎– Gånglåt efter Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung ( Prog Folk, Sweden )

very into scandi prog folk atm

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I can't handle any more albums of pleasantly distorted saxophone loops. Thank you but I am full.

From the way I'm feeling this morning, I'm starting to wonder whether the independently brewed stouts consumed last night shouldn't have tasted quite so much like beef McCoys

'Whether an angular groove so watertight that it can serve as a song’s foundation, or a little lick of slide guitar that ups the sweetness just the right amount, Dry Cleaning have never felt so closely intertwined, nor as broad in their capabilities'

Dry Cleaning - Secret Love

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Dry Cleaning – Secret Love | The Quietus Florence Shaw opens her soul to a bracing cleanse, backed by a band that now sound both darker and groovier than ever before

Reviewed the first great album of 2026 which is the new Dry Cleaning

For @thequietus.com

Horrible, horrible news. RIP Matt.

Today is 10 years to the day since I started at @thequietus.com as an intern (!)

here’s me around then, greasy and hungover and looking annoyed about something in the dodgy stairwell leading up to the freezing old office

I felt dreadfully.

Shovel Dance on very fine form indeed at this year’s festive show, my favourite part of the Christmas gig onslaught 4 years in a row

I really, really love the aftermath of publication, seeing people introduced to so much and loving what they find, hearing what we missed - genuine soul nourishment

Personally, in terms of physical/mental health, housing, loss of loved ones, skintness, creative knockbacks etc, 2025 was deeply grim

It might be trite to say, but helping build the best AOTY chart and full of so much good music that I really believe in means that even still 2025 ends on a high

tQAOTY is here plz read it’s a killer list

Bonus bump for my latest folk music column for The Quietus - plz read if you enjoy radical and interesting and strange takes on traditional music and/or instrumentation thanks

I absolutely love the latest entry in our new North American music column

Just seen this band live at the Windmill and it’s blown my head clean off - they’re doing Bristol, Liverpool and Leeds next and if you live even slightly near those places you’d be insane not to go