Our journalism is funded by our readers. Become a subscriber today to help champion our writing, plus enjoy bonus essays, podcasts, playlists and music downloads. Couch Slut are, most definitely, the latter. Fiction and reality blur in uncomfortable ways as the quintet recount tales of hauntings, assaults, self-harm, bad drugs and worse sex.
Awful things are recounted with a malevolent chuckle, while humdrum occurrences are delivered as though a death sentence is being pronounced. The Big Riffs are bloated and inelegant, oozing from one note to the next like the last fatty deposits that slowly close off an artery.
The Small Riffs, meanwhile, are lithe and keen: sharp, bright splinters that manage to lodge themselves under your skin no matter how gingerly you approach them. The Quietus Digest - Sign up for our free Friday email newsletter. Sign Up Sign Up. Support The Quietus Our journalism is funded by our readers. Alex Deller Published am 19 April Most Popular. The Quietus Digest Sign up for our free Friday email newsletter.
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