With its squelchy electronics, post-trip-hop beats and black metal roar, this might be the Finnish quintet’s shortest album, but it’s also their most expansive and experimental, finds Kez Whelan Photo credit: Rainer Paananen Muuntautuja, the title of Oranssi Pazuzu’s sixth album, … | Continue reading
Tracklisting and new song from Songs Of A Loss World revealed The Cure have unveiled a new song from much-anticipated new album Songs Of A Lost World. 'A Fragile Thing' is described by Robert Smith as "the 'love song' of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that … | Continue reading
The Chinese artist's latest album combines opera with Chinese folk music Haining-born, Berlin-based artist otay:onii, who is among the SHAPE+ roster of artists for 2024/25, has released a new album, True Faith Ain't Blind. Spanning eight tracks, it's mostly acoustic and combines … | Continue reading
The new record is based around a podcast he produced for Resident Advisor in June Photo by Ola Rindal Actress has a new album on the way, titled Даррен Дж. Каннінгем. Building on a partnership with the label Smalltown Supersound that was established earlier this year with the Jun … | Continue reading
It features on a new deluxe edition of her 2024 album 'The Collective' Kim Gordon has shared a new song, 'Bangin' On The Freeway'. The track, which you can watch a video for below, features on a new deluxe edition of the US artist's album The Collective, which was released in Mar … | Continue reading
Each edition will include three different cover stars, on even rotation on newsstand shelves DJ Mag has announced a significant shake-up to its physical magazine, which will see it become a quarterly publication from January 2025 onwards. The new iteration of the magazine will no … | Continue reading
At odds with the world, with reality, with Britpop and with each other, Suede were in a terrible place as they wrote and recorded Dog Man Star. But, writes Matthew Lindsay, it's the album that would end up as their masterpiece. This feature was originally published in 2014 Bernar … | Continue reading
John Doran enjoys Lankum, Mica Levi, Petronn Sphene, AYA and Tarta Relena at Unsound whose theme of noise inspires as much optimism as pessimism. Main portrait, Lord Spikeheart at Kamienna The verb ‘to chitter’ has gone through a reversal of fortunes. Once falling between the orn … | Continue reading
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction Photo courtesy of La … | Continue reading
In the latest edition of our journey through the global underground, Álvaro Molina examines the steadily-diversifying sounds of Chilean DIY, from abstract hip hop to ambient deep listening, and picks out five crucial new releases DJ Felpa at Cajacústica. Photo by Detective Cona C … | Continue reading
OneDa Formula OneDa Manchester MC brings puts the pedal to the metal with a full tank of righteous pussy power Formula OneDa by OneDa “Just do you and kill it / The right energy will feel it, innit / My gyal just fly / Do more than just survive,” OneDa urges on ‘Set It Off’. One … | Continue reading
Crazed quartet follow Unsound triumph with dates across the EU and UK including London, Bristol and Salford Concentration by Michal Murawski Aussie-German group Concentration are one of the greatest live acts on the planet right now, a perplexing, angry, hilarious, neurotically h … | Continue reading
The classic album has just been given an expanded reissue by Warp Records London gallery Tate Modern is set to host a listening party for Warp Records' recent expanded reissue of Selected Ambient Works Volume II. The event is scheduled for October 25, and will run from 6pm until … | Continue reading
'Aggressive' is the lead track from a forthcoming mixtape called 'Black British Music (2024)' South London-based artist Jim Legxacy has released a new song to mark his signing to XL Recordings. 'Aggressive' is the lead track from a forthcoming mixtape by the singer/rapper titled … | Continue reading
Jaša Bužinel address the "panopticonisation" of dance music culture, and reviews exciting new releases from various electronic realms, among them new albums by CS + Kreme, Lechuga Zafiro, Mala Herba, Rrose x Polygonia and more Mala Herba, photo by FED It’s normal to get disenchan … | Continue reading
As the Brewis brothers, the mainstays of Field Music, prepare to release a new album, they guide Jonathan Wright through their work together – and apart – via 10 key releases Photo by Andy Martin Though they’ve been making records together as Field Music for more than two decades … | Continue reading
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere Rich, ambient tapestries meet serious metal riffing on the latest from Denver's Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere feels like the cosmic leap into the unknown that Denver quartet Blood Incantation have … | Continue reading
It features vocals by Nigerian-British MC Magugu The Bug has shared a new track, titled 'Deep In A Mud'. The song is a vocal version of his previously released cut 'Drop (Machine Sex)', and features Nigerian-British MC Magugu. You can watch a video for it below, and purchase it v … | Continue reading
It marks the Berlin and New York-based multi-disciplinary artist's first new material since 2018 Colin Self has released a new EP through US label RVNG Intl.. Spanning four tracks, lemniscate centres Self's voice and takes its name from the mathematical term for what's widely kno … | Continue reading
The Shovel Dance Collective The Shovel Dance Memento mori lurk everywhere in the London-based nonet’s sombre excavation of traditional songs from the British Isles The Shovel Dance by Shovel Dance Collective The Shovel Dance Collective’s raison d’être is to find hidden queer hist … | Continue reading
Tariq Goddard finds himself not just entertained but understood by Matt Johnson as he sees him perform new The The album Ensoulment in full before a run of greatest hits. But, in an era where music has ceded its centrality in everyday life, were he and 5000 others packed into an … | Continue reading
As Sonic Cathedral prepare for a run of birthday gigs and a box set release, founder Nat Cramp reflects on how shoegaze went from being a dirty word to darlings of Gen Z via a new generation of artists like Whitelands, pictured here. Have a listen to a specially-compiled Spotify … | Continue reading
Marking 50 years since Millie Jackson's Caught Up, Matthew Lindsay dives into a deep soul masterpiece, and explores the trope of the ‘other woman’ in soul, via Doris Duke, Irma Thomas and more “The women came to see me. The men hated me. On Saturday morning when the men done stay … | Continue reading
The word 'ambient' is a misdirection worthy of the greatest illusionist, says John Doran, SAW2 is the work of a modern electronic composer, intent on destroying the boundaries between himself and the material of Cornwall which inspired him Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expand … | Continue reading
In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk and Kseniia Yanus examine the radio stations, small events and music schools that are forming the heart of Ukraine’s undergr … | Continue reading
Jennifer Walshe/Kurt Schwitters URSONATE%24 Jennifer Walshe tackles the notoriously difficult sound poetry of Kurt Schwitters – with a little help from some AI URSONATE%24 by Kurt Schwitters, Jennifer Walshe Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate is a forty-minute stream of made-up … | Continue reading
Mark Templeton Two Verses The Edmonton-born electronic music artist may be sampling muzak, but he’s certainly not making muzak, finds Levi Dayan Two Verses by Mark Templeton Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton has always maintained a sense of dualism in his work. His usage of ta … | Continue reading
'Kingdom Of Discipline' spans performances by the legendary jazz artist from 1971 through to 1990 Live recordings by Sun Ra & His Arkestra have been collected on a new album, titled Kingdom Of Discipline. The seven-track record spans performances by the legendary jazz artist and … | Continue reading
Portuguese sound artist Ana Lua Caiano and Nordic experimental trio FIRE! are among those playing next year's event Screenshot Tremor, the five-day festival which takes place on the Azores island of São Miguel, has confirmed the first wave of acts playing its 2025 edition in Apri … | Continue reading
The group play gigs in Bristol, Todmorden and London next month The legendary hurdy-gurdy powered kraut/psych/folk/drone band France have announced three hugely anticipated English shows next month. Though they’ve been operational for two decades, these November shows will be the … | Continue reading
It's a re-recorded and rearranged version of 'Funeral For Justice' Mdou Moctar are releasing a new album, Tears Of Injustice. Spanning eight tracks, the new record sees the band produce an alternate version of their recently released LP, Funeral For Justice, re-recorded and rearr … | Continue reading
She said it had been a "real privilege to serve Londoners" but it was the right time to move on London's 'night czar' Amy Lamé is standing down from her role after eight years. Announcing her decision, she said the time was right for her to move on but added that it had been a "r … | Continue reading
We left musician Hayden Thorpe and the writer Robert Macfarlane alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get musician Hayden Thorpe and the acclaimed writer Robert Macfarlane together. … | Continue reading
In this month’s podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran sing the praises of this collection of songs both original and covers, from Grace Jones’ artistic imperial phase, recorded at Nassau's Compass Point Studios in the early 1980s The Quietus’ editors John Doran and Luke Turner head … | Continue reading
CS + Kreme The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise Melbourne two-piece take a drift through pastoral worlds of sound The Butterfly Drinks The Tears Of The Tortoise by CS + Kreme In 1958 Guy Debord defined the dérive as an exploration where participants “let themselves be d … | Continue reading
Following soundtracks for Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Gonzalez, and Kevin Hegge, members of Wire and Electrelane unite for a new project that has Will Salmon under its strange spell Photo credit: Holly Whitaker For an apparently new band, Memorials have a surprisingly long history. V … | Continue reading
Hill has been accused of fraud and breach of contract in relation to the cancelled reunion tour Lauryn Hill is being sued by her Fugees co-member Pras Michél in relation to a cancelled reunion tour that had been due to take place through late 2023 into 2024. Michél's lawsuit clai … | Continue reading
From the intensity of working with Scott Walker, to the transformative thrill of seeing Joy Division live, via Mahler, Brel and Bowie, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday takes Julian Marszalek through the 13 albums that shaped him Gavin Friday is very entertaining company … | Continue reading
Ahead of a show at this year’s Sensoria Festival in Sheffield Kirsten Norrie, aka MacGillivray, talks to John Doran about her elemental multi-disciplinary practice drawing together folklore, poetry, music and film making. Main portrait by Zanne Chaudhry Kristján Norge’s problems … | Continue reading
Stephen Malkmus and Emmett Kelly speak to Brian Coney about how how a Magma belt buckle helped form the genesis of their new band with Matt Sweeney and Jim White, and whether they're the 'anti-Them Crooked Vultures' Photo by Atiba Jefferson “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to … | Continue reading
Sex Swing Golden Triangle Triumphant return for noise rock sextet – perhaps their fleshiest record so far, finds Alex Deller Golden Triangle by Sex Swing Sex Swing resurface much like a dubious stain that refuses to be scrubbed from your best pair of trousers. As with said stain, … | Continue reading
Alan Sparhawk White Roses, My God Low frontman tries to put the pieces back together White Roses, My God by Alan Sparhawk How do you make sense of the unanswered questions and all-engulfing sadness that comes with losing someone? What do you do when everything feels like it’s dis … | Continue reading
It's out on November 8 Claire Rousay is releasing a reimagined score for Slovakian animator Viktor Kubal's 1980 film The Bloody Lady. Spanning 11 tracks, the score was produced by Rousay at her home studio over much of 2023, with work on it beginning immediately after she relocat … | Continue reading
The seven-track 'From Behind' features music recorded by the late artist during his most productive period of 1980-82 US label Dark Entries is lining up another release of archival material by the late producer Patrick Cowley. From Behind, which spans seven tracks, explores cover … | Continue reading
The three-track release marks the German artist's first full record for the Berlin techno institution Helena Hauff is releasing an EP through Berlin label Tresor. Marking the Hamburg-born DJ and producer's first full outing for the imprint, Multiply Your Absurdities takes in thre … | Continue reading
Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we're compiling a specially-curated, playlist for our readers every month. Across almost more than … | Continue reading
Forty years on from its release – and with the band’s popularity in question more than ever – Wyndham Wallace returns to The Unforgettable Fire, U2’s incendiary denial of expectations and their first encounter with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. (This feature was original … | Continue reading
Rubber Oh SOIL Of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Sam Grant gets his hands dirty (and his embroidery) SOIL by Rubber Oh “Another damn’d, thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh, Mr Gibbon?” Thus spoke William Henry, Duke of Gloucester to the historian Edwa … | Continue reading