Luke Turner
Luke Turner is a co-founder of the online music magazine The Quietus. As a freelance journalist he has also written for the NME, The Guardian, Dazed & Confused and The Stool Pigeon.
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Interview by Luke Turner, Dazed & Confused, February 2008
"WE FOUND them in the woods," laughs Stephen O'Malley, refusing to divulge where Sunn O))) wove the monastic robes that, along with cranium-crushing waves of ...
Interview by Luke Turner, Dazed & Confused, March 2008
Diamanda Galás has been shouting down society's hypocritical moralists for over 30 years. Here, she explains how HIV/Aids, Catholicism and injustice inspired a lifelong crusade ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 16 May 2008
SPIRITUALIZED reached their commercial zenith a decade ago, when a nation wearying of Britpop and knocked sideways by the insane reaction to the death of ...
Suicide: Live 1977 - 1978 Box Set
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 6 August 2008
IT'S RARE to find live albums from canonical acts that don’t come swathed in mythology or creaking under the weight of their own self importance. ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 20 August 2008
BLOC PARTY have always made themselves a frustratingly difficult band to like. Alright, so if you're a 17 year old kid from Haywards Heath with ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 November 2008
IN THE YEARS SINCE Grace Jones' last foray into recorded music, female artistes have increasingly been forced into major label-defined sonic and aesthetic roles, be ...
Fleet Foxes: Why Is Our Radical Folk Heritage Ignored?
Comment by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 14 November 2008
Modern British music is so in thrall to Americana that our own treasure trove of radical traditional folk is in danger of being forgotten ...
Pete Doherty: Peter Doherty: Grace/Wastelands (EMI)
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 17 March 2009
IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, someone has taken Pete Doherty's cultural obsessions and musical touchpoints and made beguiling music that explores Englishness in a subtle, intelligent ...
Pet Shop Boys: Animal Instinct
Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2009
Pet Shops Boys done good these last three decades, and they're still playing cat-and-mouse with expectation. ...
Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2009
Luke Turner feels the pall in the mall as he accompanies a pre-boogie woogie jam Sonic Youth on a shopping trip. ...
Sunn O))): Doom With A View: Sunn O))) Discuss Monoliths And Dimensions
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 20 May 2009
THE QUIETUS has already stopped taking bets on our album of 2009. It's hard to imagine any other group coming up with a record as ...
Jarvis Cocker Interview: Talking Further Complications
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 May 2009
Luke Turner talks to Jarvis Cocker about Albini, the male psyche, Sunn O))), living in the moment, and how it feels to be accused of ...
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 24 July 2009
The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival ...
The Cribs, Johnny Marr, The Smiths: The Cribs
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 September 2009
In a revealing interview, Johnny Marr and The Cribs discuss what went wrong with indie, why LA destroys creative thought, the curse of the lad, ...
Esben And The Witch: Madame JoJo's, London
Live Review by Luke Turner, New Musical Express, 12 January 2010
THE MERCURY might be heading towards zero and the radio crackling with dire warnings of apocalyptic snowfall, but in the heart of Soho the pimps ...
Review by Luke Turner, New Musical Express, 5 March 2010
YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A UNIVERSE you've never before been to. Be prepared... ...
Interview by Luke Turner, Into Magazine (Sound & Music), 30 June 2010
Chris Watson talks to Luke Turner about the connections between his work as a documentary sound recordist, musician and artist, as his latest installation, Whispering ...
Beth Ditto: Winning The Fame Game With No Regrets
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 1 March 2011
As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record ...
Chris & Cosey, Nico, Throbbing Gristle: Chris & Cosey Talk Plans To Finish TG's Desertshore
Report and Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 19 April 2011
LATE LAST WEEK, observant souls on the internet had a look at Chris & Cosey's website and noticed that their Event Horizon page of planned ...
Chris & Cosey: From Death Factory To Fenland
Interview by Luke Turner, The Stool Pigeon, May 2011
At home with electronic and industrial music pioneers Chris & Cosey ...
Chris Rea: Santo Spirito Blues
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, September 2011
As blues homage this can't be faulted, but Rea doesn't allow his great voice to shine. ...
Can: Tago Mago – 40th Anniversary Edition
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, November 2011
The blueprint for much of the leftfield music of the past 40 years. ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 2012
Their dark echoes are still to be heard resonating through music's further reaches. ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 23 January 2012
A batty, compelling, smart and unusual fourth LP from the Iranian artist. ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 23 January 2012
A batty, compelling, smart and unusual fourth LP from the Iranian artist. ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 30 May 2012
OF ALL THE ARTISTS navigating the potentials of the great fracture that has occurred in musical culture over the past decade, it's arguably Liars who ...
The xx: Earthy & Complicated: The xx's Coexist Track By Track
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2012
Next month, London trio The xx release their much-anticipated second album Coexist. Luke Turner takes you on a track-by-track guide through its eleven "far more ...
Review by Luke Turner, bbc.co.uk, 12 November 2012
A superb comeback, 16 years after their last studio LP, from the big-riffed Seattle band. ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 23 November 2012
AT THE LIVE PREVIEW of some of Desertshore at Newcastle's AV Festival in March this year, there was in the room a sense of remembrance ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 February 2013
RECENT YEARS have seen messageboards, pop gossip sites and magazines alike indulging in the pursuit of Brighton-based Nick Cave spotting. Nick Cave spotted waving a ...
Savages: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 22 February 2013
SO JUST A YEAR after their first gig down in a manky former theatre in Brighton, Savages are here in the Electric Ballroom for an NME awards ...
Suede: Cheating The "Living Death": Suede Interviewed
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, March 2013
They triumphed with their live return, and now they're about to release killer new album Bloodsports. Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman ...
Preview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 March 2013
DEPECHE MODE are back with their 13th album, and Luke Turner sits down with it for an instant, track-by-track appraisal ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 3 May 2013
INSPIRATION, NOT innovation, is what I look for in Savages. One Quietus reader insists, every time we write about them, on commenting "post punk karaoke", ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 13 May 2013
PRIMAL SCREAM have always been a hard band to really love. Their lurching from jangling dreamers (Sonic Flower Groove) to drug-touched genre benders (Screamadelica) to ...
These New Puritans: Field Of Reeds
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 June 2013
FIELD OF REEDS. It's that title that holds the key to These New Puritans' third album. Fields are terra firma, wilderness tamed, human use of ...
Nine Inch Nails: Scala, London — Still Dirty On The Inside
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2013
On the evidence of last night's Scala show, Nine Inch Nails have recharged their batteries in spectacular style, writes Luke Turner, highlighting the subtle undercurrents ...
Zola Jesus: A Zola Jesus Baker's Dozen: 13 LPs By Women Who Inspired Me To Sing
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 27 August 2013
Zola Jesus (Nika Rosa Danilova) gives us a special Baker's Dozen — 13 albums by female singers who inspired her to find her own voice ...
Vatican Shadow: Remember Your Black Day
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 October 2013
IT WAS INEVITABLE that an event as grand, terrible, momentous and world-changing as the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington would ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Brighton Dome
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Nick Cave gets behind the piano for some slower songs from the Bad Seeds back catalogue at the Brighton Dome, but even that can't stop ...
(British) Sea Power: British Sea Power: From The Sea To The Land Beyond
Film/DVD/TV Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 December 2013
BRITISH SEA POWER'S rather schizophrenic identity has arguably been their commercial undoing. On one hand there's the indie group capable of writing songs with rousing ...
Blur, Elastica, Oasis, Pulp, Suede: Modern Life Isn't Rubbish: The Trouble With Britpop Nostalgia
Comment by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 April 2014
The mainstream media are currently engaged in a collective misty-eyed throwback to the 'glory days' of the mid 90s. Luke Turner, who was a teenager ...
Sleaford Mods: Divide And Exit
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 2 May 2014
SLEAFORD MODS snap at you, lumber at you, insult you, your friends, probably some of your family too. They're a force of nature, of testosterone ...
Daniel Patrick Quinn: Acting The Rubber Pig
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 25 July 2014
WHERE HAVE ALL the awkward bastards gone, the square pegs in round holes, those who wilfully follow difficult paths, to their own detriment, in a ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 15 August 2014
LEGION AND LAMENTABLE are the reviews of female artists written by male music critics in which their hands appear to have drifted away from the ...
Hot Chip, Thurston Moore, This Heat: This Is Not This Heat: Cafe Oto, London
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 14 February 2016
Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore joined the experimental lineup for a night of fresh and focussed sounds ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 12 January 2017
In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ...
Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 6 July 2017
The nostalgia merchants remember the miners with turgid, insipid, bizarrely misjudged pap. Luke Turner is righteously appalled. ...
Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 May 2018
Do not adjust your sets: our Luke Turner is a big fan of the new LP by Alex Turner & co. Here's why. ...
Nitzer Ebb: The return of pop perverts Nitzer Ebb
Retrospective and Interview by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 3 January 2019
Loud, rude and flirting with fascistic imagery, Nitzer Ebb took synth-pop and sexual deviance to working class Essex. Three decades on, they're back – now ...
The Residents — American dreams turned to grotesque nightmares
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 5 February 2019
The anonymous, long-serving denizens of the post-hippy underground are joined by Mother Teresa and John Wayne for a bizarre take on vaudeville ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 27 February 2019
Sleaford Mods new album is a huge leap forward and a welcome exploration of the nuances of masculine identity, says Luke Turner ...
These New Puritans: "We're the last cult band"
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 February 2020
As These New Puritans prepare for a major Barbican concert, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett speak to Luke Turner about their grand plans and ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 15 July 2020
Not your bog standard lockdown project, Heather Leigh's Glory Days feels like a new lease of life, finds Luke Turner ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 29 January 2021
A recorded live performance by Karl 'Regis' O'Connor makes for a unique and delightfully daft visual album, finds Luke Turner ...
Liars: "To dive into yourself is scary": the anxiety and awesome alt-rock of Liars
Interview by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 10 August 2021
FOR 20 YEARS, Angus Andrew has made Liars one of rock's most interesting, slippery acts — and by microdosing drugs to help understand his fears, ...
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