..according to our team of experts at least. Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune and Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre. Words by Sean Kit … | Continue reading
The best Fall album of the 21st century, or ever? Fergal Kinney makes the case for a dark and heavy masterpiece made up of ketamine, Pete Tong and pumpkin soup Stand on the high street of an English town centre as darkness covers the early evening, and strip-lit shops – stacked w … | Continue reading
As we approach the final months of 2025, tQ staffers select the finest album and tracks from October's releases We are fast hurtling towards end-of-year-list-ageddon, which means this October roundup is one of our last chances to zoom in to examine 2025's music in relative microc … | Continue reading
Bruise Blood You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor Mike Bourne of Teeth of the Sea and Hirvikolari takes us on a dystopian synth-wave journey replete with industrial crunches and stabs of sub bass You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor by Bruise Blood A taxidermied … | Continue reading
"I wanted the melody to overwhelm and swoon," Martin said of the rework Kevin Richard Martin, photo by lulia Alexandra Magheru Kevin Richard Martin, AKA The Bug, has remixed a track by US composer and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Anton Irisarri. Martin has turned in two reworks o … | Continue reading
Luke Turner looks back 30 years to a singular album and a nation standing at a cultural crossroads. First published in 2015 September 25, 1995. After school, the walk into town to Our Price. I might have been wearing my grey silver sixth form suit three chest sizes too big, black … | Continue reading
Oruã Slacker From Rio de Janeiro, the group's loose, kosmische indie pop enacts its own quiet, day-to-day revolutionary practice, finds Hayley Scott Slacker by Oruã The phrase “poor man’s jazz, working-class krautrock” appears in Oruã’s press materials with the same tongue-in-che … | Continue reading
Husband and wife duo Rachel Nakawatase and Ryan Betschart blend their doom with dreampop, noise, ambient and shoegaze elements, exploding the confines of linear perspective into new forms of sonic space Husband-and-wife duo Shrine Maiden deal in heavy music and heavy concepts. Th … | Continue reading
SANAM Sametou Sawtan Sandy Chamoun joins guitarist Anthony Sahyoun, buzuq player Farah Kaddour, bassist Antonio Hajj, plus electronics from Marwan Tohme, for an album that explores the horizons of post-rock beyond the Western world Sametou Sawtan by SANAM SANAM couldn’t choose a … | Continue reading
SANAM Sametou Sawtan Sandy Chamoun joins guitarist Anthony Sahyoun, buzuq player Farah Kaddour, bassist Antonio Hajj, plus electronics from Marwan Tohme, for an album that explores the horizons of post-rock beyond the Western world Sametou Sawtan by SANAM SANAM couldn’t choose a … | Continue reading
Patrick Clarke reports from Braga's Semibreve, where high-concept programming and the use of beautiful interior spaces reap rich rewards Lucy Railton performs at Semibreve's Theatro Circo. All photos courtesy of Adriano Ferreira Borges / Semibreve From the outside, the Congregado … | Continue reading
Patrick Clarke reports from Braga's Semibreve, where high-concept programming and the use of beautiful interior spaces reap rich rewards Lucy Railton performs at Semibreve's Theatro Circo. All photos courtesy of Adriano Ferreira Borges / Semibreve From the outside, the Congregado … | Continue reading
Ahead of their appearance at this year's Le Guess Who festival, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about interpreting the music of Hildegard Von Bingen via Ukrainian folk song in the context of the Russian invasion of their homeland Live photograph … | Continue reading
Ahead of their appearance at this year's Le Guess Who festival, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about interpreting the music of Hildegard Von Bingen via Ukrainian folk song in the context of the Russian invasion of their homeland Live photograph … | Continue reading
Ahead of their appearance at this year's Le Guess Who festival, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about interpreting the music of Hildegard Von Bingen via Ukrainian folk song in the context of the Russian invasion of their homeland Live photograph … | Continue reading
Jeff Tobias One Hundredfold Now In This Age From Queens, New York, the composer and multi-instrumentalist – some time member of Modern Nature, Thee Reps and Sunwatchers – makes jazzy, proggy sunshine pop with a scathing take on contemporary US politics in its tail Jeff Tobias’s O … | Continue reading
Jeff Tobias One Hundredfold Now In This Age From Queens, New York, the composer and multi-instrumentalist – some time member of Modern Nature, Thee Reps and Sunwatchers – makes jazzy, proggy sunshine pop with a scathing take on contemporary US politics in its tail Jeff Tobias’s O … | Continue reading
At the 69th annual International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice, performances by the Kamigaku Ensemble, Jasmine Morris and Sunn O))) leave Robert Barry pondering what we mean when we call music 'heavy' SUNN O))). Ph. Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia Alread … | Continue reading
Stewart Smith looks forward to this year's event by speaking to Neil Charles about a new work inspired by James Baldwin, and highlights sets by Charles Hayward, Linda May Han Oh and Tortoise Mulatu Astatke by Karston Tannis EFG London Jazz Festival returns this November with ten … | Continue reading
Stewart Smith looks forward to this year's event by speaking to Neil Charles about a new work inspired by James Baldwin, and highlights sets by Charles Hayward, Linda May Han Oh and Tortoise Mulatu Astatke by Karston Tannis EFG London Jazz Festival returns this November with ten … | Continue reading
At the 69th annual International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice, performances by the Kamigaku Ensemble, Jasmine Morris and Sunn O))) leave Robert Barry pondering what we mean when we call music 'heavy' SUNN O))). Ph. Andrea Avezzù. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia Alread … | Continue reading
Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson will "go round the block one more time" to play 11 shows in 2026 Cabaret Voltaire have outlined plans for their final tour. Coming more than 50 years on from the formation of the band, the 11-date run will see Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, … | Continue reading
Palais, set to open in February 2026, is a new project from the owners of Night Tales and Netil360 A new nightclub in opening in the Peckham Palais building in South London. Set to open its doors in February 2026, Palais is a new venture from Night Group, the operators of East Lo … | Continue reading
Out in January, it's preceded by lead track 'Time Inside The Violet' Photo by Josh Sisk The Soft Pink Truth, otherwise known as Matmos' Drew Daniel, has shared details of a new album, titled Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? Spanning eight tracks, the album features guest … | Continue reading
Out in January, it's preceded by lead track 'Time Inside The Violet' Photo by Josh Sisk The Soft Pink Truth, otherwise known as Matmos' Drew Daniel, has shared details of a new album, titled Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? Spanning eight tracks, the album features guest … | Continue reading
Keith Kahn-Harris celebrates a sometimes glorious, occasionally infuriating, always baffling album that remains entirely of its time Rhythm is both the song’s manacle and its demonic charge. It is the original breath. It is the whisper of unremitting demand. 'What do you still wa … | Continue reading
Keith Kahn-Harris celebrates a sometimes glorious, occasionally infuriating, always baffling album that remains entirely of its time Rhythm is both the song’s manacle and its demonic charge. It is the original breath. It is the whisper of unremitting demand. 'What do you still wa … | Continue reading
The Pastor Chris Congregation West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up the Serpents” Strychnine, speaking in tongues and ramshackle rockabilly spits forth from West Virginia’s last remaining snake handling church West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Ta … | Continue reading
The Pastor Chris Congregation West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up the Serpents” Strychnine, speaking in tongues and ramshackle rockabilly spits forth from West Virginia’s last remaining snake handling church West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Ta … | Continue reading
Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton It’s 10 December … | Continue reading
Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton It’s 10 December … | Continue reading
Falle Nioke Love From The Sea With lyrics in French, English, Susu, Fulani, Malinké, and more, the debut album from the Guinea-born, Margate-based artist makes for a veritable outerrnational jamboree built on club rhythms and ambient electronic textures Love From The Sea by Falle … | Continue reading
Falle Nioke Love From The Sea With lyrics in French, English, Susu, Fulani, Malinké, and more, the debut album from the Guinea-born, Margate-based artist makes for a veritable outerrnational jamboree built on club rhythms and ambient electronic textures Love From The Sea by Falle … | Continue reading
Among the more than 450 items featured in the sale are the EMS Synthi AKS suitcase synth from Kraftwerk's Autobahn era, and the bicycle Schneider rode in the video for 'Tour de France' More than 450 items previously belonging to the late Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk are being p … | Continue reading
Among the more than 450 items featured in the sale are the EMS Synthi AKS suitcase synth from Kraftwerk's Autobahn era, and the bicycle Schneider rode in the video for 'Tour de France' More than 450 items previously belonging to the late Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk are being p … | Continue reading
Noel G is back again to blast away Autumnal blues with "wicked sick stick-thin machinified aquatic death rock", Iranian diaspora HC, the grotty AF Brainbombs and Eva Leblanc's Traidora (featured in the main portrait) The debut LP by devastating London hardcore group Traidora is t … | Continue reading
Noel G is back again to blast away Autumnal blues with "wicked sick stick-thin machinified aquatic death rock", Iranian diaspora HC, the grotty AF Brainbombs and Eva Leblanc's Traidora (featured in the main portrait) The debut LP by devastating London hardcore group Traidora is t … | Continue reading
As Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson bring Cabaret Voltaire back to life at the Sheffield's FORGE warehouse as part of the Sensoria Festival, Daniel Dylan Wray is knocked sidewise by a set of visceral power, and moving tribute to Richard H Kirk Cabaret Voltaire live in Sheffield … | Continue reading
As Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson bring Cabaret Voltaire back to life at the Sheffield's FORGE warehouse, Daniel Dylan Wray is knocked sidewise by a set of visceral power, and moving tribute to Richard H Kirk Cabaret Voltaire live in Sheffield by Leon Chew “For Richard Kirk,” … | Continue reading
KAKUHAN & Adam Gołębiewski Repercussions The duo of Koshiro Hino and Yuki Nakagawa team up with Polish percussionist Adam Gołębiewski for an album composed and recorded in a single improvised session Repercussions by KAKUHAN & Adam Golebiewski Watching KAKUHAN at last week’s Inso … | Continue reading
KAKUHAN & Adam Gołębiewski Repercussions The duo of Koshiro Hino and Yuki Nakagawa team up with Polish percussionist Adam Gołębiewski for an album composed and recorded in a single improvised session Repercussions by KAKUHAN & Adam Golebiewski Watching KAKUHAN at last week’s Inso … | Continue reading
Lily Allen West End Girl The Hammersmith-born singer-songwriter phone hacks herself, resulting in an album of unvarnished rawness with more in common with Kirsty MacColl or Squeeze than any of her pop contemporaries West End Girl by Lily Allen When you first go, one of the weirde … | Continue reading
Lily Allen West End Girl The Hammersmith-born singer-songwriter phone hacks herself, resulting in an album of unvarnished rawness with more in common with Kirsty MacColl or Squeeze than any of her pop contemporaries West End Girl by Lily Allen When you first go, one of the weirde … | Continue reading
Aug Stone talks to the Dolly Mixture singer/bassist about her new book, Teenage Daydream, chronicling the band’s brushes with success Dolly-Mixture, 1982, Debsey, Hester, Rachel; Elizabeth Hollingsworth Dolly Mixture: a best kept pop secret, a charmed existence.They were the band … | Continue reading
Aug Stone talks to the Dolly Mixture singer/bassist about her new book, Teenage Daydream, chronicling the band’s brushes with success Dolly-Mixture, 1982, Debsey, Hester, Rachel; Elizabeth Hollingsworth Dolly Mixture: a best kept pop secret, a charmed existence.They were the band … | Continue reading
Dave Ball, of Soft Cell and The Grid, should be remembered not as a hitmaker, but as one of the most ceaselessly explorative, pioneering musicians of his generation, says Patrick Clarke Photo via Wikimedia Commons In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who … | Continue reading
Dave Ball, of Soft Cell and The Grid, should be remembered not as a hitmaker, but as one of the most ceaselessly explorative, pioneering musicians of his generation, says Patrick Clarke Photo via Wikimedia Commons In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who … | Continue reading
Joe Muggs looks back to Tom Jenkinson's first bid for braindance supremacy and finds much to love has been revealed by a crunchy remaster Stereotype by Squarepusher Quite a few years ago, I was talking to Tom Jenkinson about his considerable popularity in Japan, and he remarked t … | Continue reading