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The story of the Ultramagnetic MCs often looks like a typical tale from the music industry’s contested margins. A talented bunch of street-level outsiders make a big buzz with a classic independent debut, get signed to a major and suffer the usual traumas of transition – the follow-up flops, the third album arrives on a […]| The Quietus
I can only echo the feeling of gratitude that has characterised the collective response to the tragic loss of Mark Fisher. His online jousts with Simon Reynolds as alter-ego K-punk dovetailed with my years at university, acting as a bridge between an innate obsession with music and the more daunting world of theory. […]| The Quietus
Last week I got a text from a man named Scott, a living legend amongst London-based music journalists. His unenviable task is to try and make some of these journalists write stuff about my band 65daysofstatic. The text told me that John Doran from The Quietus was going to be calling me later that day […]| The Quietus