tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns' Photo … | Continue reading
Croation Amor & Lust For Youth All Worlds A surprisingly joyous club nugget from the smartly-dressed Danes All Worlds by Lust For Youth & Croatian Amor On August 20th 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. A little over two weeks later V … | Continue reading
Penelope Trappes A Requiem Anchored by smoke and dissonance, latest from the Brighton-based Australian vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist sounds like seaweed drifting in a current to Amanda Farah A Requiem by Penelope Trappes Penelope Trappes is very clear that her fif … | Continue reading
"Despite rumour and hearsay, we remain active as Death Grips," the post revealed Death Grips have taken to Instagram to shoot down rumours that they had broken up. In their first post on the social media platform since October 2023, the group shared an image featuring a picture i … | Continue reading
The Baltimore group have also shared a video for the record's title track Turnstile have a new album on the way. Titled Never Enough, it marks the Baltimore hardcore group's first full-length outing since 2021's Glow On, and was recorded by the band in Los Angeles and Baltimore. … | Continue reading
The Fateful Symmetry was recorded shortly before his death in April 2023 Mute is lining up the posthumous release of an album by Mark Stewart. Titled The Fateful Symmetry, the nine-track record was recorded shortly before the artist's death in April 2023. It's described in a pres … | Continue reading
The 13-track record is out next month Photo by Joe Dilworth Stereolab have shared details of their first studio album in 15 years, titled Instant Holograms On Metal Film. Spanning 13 tracks, the record was written by the group's Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane, and performed by the … | Continue reading
Richard Foster needs a sit down after a spell-binding weekend taking in sonic veterans, new pioneers, and a waterborne performance that is like "some absurd clash of Handel, Stockhausen and Jerome K Jerome" more ease and claire rousay by Alex Heuvink Den Haag’s Rewire: a festival … | Continue reading
The Ex If Your Mirror Breaks The ever-curious Dutch quartet’s latest album shows yet again that they manage to look at the world through a very singular lens, over and over. If Your Mirror Breaks by The Ex If The Ex have a signature sound, it’s a kind of Bo Diddley-style shuffle … | Continue reading
Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom Photo by Pak Bae After a w … | Continue reading
Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom Photo by Pak Bae After a w … | Continue reading
Richard Foster needs a sit down after a spell-binding weekend taking in sonic veterans, new pioneers, and a waterborne performance that is like "some absurd clash of Handel, Stockhausen and Jerome K Jerome" more ease and claire rousay by Alex Heuvink Den Haag’s Rewire: a festival … | Continue reading
Benefits Constant Noise Like Underworld fronted by Simon Armitage, the Middlesbrough duo offer a trenchant call to arms, finds Hayley Scott Constant Noise by Benefits The word ‘benefits’ has been at the forefront of public discourse over the past few weeks as the government conti … | Continue reading
It marks Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' first soundtrack work together under the band moniker A first trailer has been publicly shared for Tron: Ares, the forthcoming film which is set to be scored by Nine Inch Nails. Set to hit cinemas this October, it's the third film in Disney … | Continue reading
'Deepest' is a new version of the UK duo's 1989 song 'Deeper' Photo by Steve Price Orbital have collaborated with actress Tilda Swinton on a new song, 'Deepest'. The release of the track, which is an updated version of the UK duo's 1989 song 'Deeper', follows on from Swinton maki … | Continue reading
Russell Cuzner talks to Russell Smith about the weirdest album in the very weird career of Terminal Cheesecake. This feature was originally published in 2015 "The first side starts so powerfully, it tears through, and then it just goes very strange…" is how Russell Smith, co-foun … | Continue reading
Noel Gardner's guide to the best in new punk returns, featuring heavy hitters from Toronto via Tehran, primitive French noise that blasts straight through the language barrier, newly reissued 1980s NYC gold dust, and much more Black Iron Prison, photo by Rajen Bhatt Listen to Noe … | Continue reading
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka Chuquimamani-Condori (fka Elysia Crampton) teams up with her brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton for an album of veering guitars and percussive minefields Los Thuthanaka by Los Thuthanaka Geologists read history in a language of scarred stone. But it c … | Continue reading
John Higgs, author of books about the KLF, William Blake and James Bond, has now turned his eye to Doctor Who. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers Ben Wheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis... Peter Capaldi as Doctor Who, … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Whisper Aloud: Czech shoegaze between the East and the West, Miloš Hroch recalls the time Vyškov na Moravě band Here (almost) took London by storm Here live in 1996, Entre Deux Soleils, Zdeněk Marek (left), Valerie Chauvey (right). photo … | Continue reading
Destroyer Dan’s Boogie Dan Bejar finds humour in his own irascibility, still room for plenty of gravity and grit Dan's Boogie by Destroyer Destroyer are not so much destroyers of worlds as destroyers of methodology. Dan Bejar’s impressive Canadian experimental art rock outfit see … | Continue reading
Travis Elborough hails what he considers one of the greatest lost albums of all time Henry Badowski-Life Is A Grand by CTR "Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day", maintains Paul McGann's character near the start of Withnail And I. He plays Marwood – the ‘I’ of th … | Continue reading
Tracks II: The Lost Albums takes in material recorded between 1983 and 2018 Photo by Danny Clinch A number of previously unreleased albums by Bruce Springsteen are set to be released in a new box set, Tracks II: The Lost Albums. Set to be made available digitally, and in 9xLP/7xC … | Continue reading
The new cut follows recent news that the band had reunited for their first live shows in 13 years Photo by Jonathan Flanders WU LYF have shared their first new music in 14 years, a song called 'A New Life Is Coming'. Out now, the track, which you can listen to below, arrives off … | Continue reading
Bambara Birthmarks The Brooklyn-based trio prove a commercial-sounding rock LP can also be rich and strange Birthmarks by Bambara Reflecting roots in Athens, Georgia, there’s always been a strong element of Southern Gothic in Bambara’s music. This is something the now Brooklyn-ba … | Continue reading
In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation Joseph, What Have You Done? by Rainy … | Continue reading
Ahead of their performance at Tremor Festival, Kinshasa electro-punk group Fulu Miziki speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about building instruments from trash, their use of masked costumes, and staying hydrated Photo by Vlad Braga For years, the Democratic Republic Of The Congo’s … | Continue reading
Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues Portrait by Marcia … | Continue reading
Longplayer is a musical installation that will play for a millennia. Its composer Jem Finer speaks to Darran Anderson about how the differences between this challenge to our sense of human time is, perhaps unexpectedly, closely related to his work in The Pogues Portrait by Marcia … | Continue reading
Hunkered down in their basement studio, the Baltimore rapper-producers may have come up with their angriest, messiest, and most deliriously experimental album to date, finds Arusa Qureshi Credit Micah E Wood “Sometimes it’s not about making the perfect track; it’s about making th … | Continue reading
Richard Fearless' new record under the moniker is out in June Photo by Elaine Kin Death In Vegas, the alias of DJ and producer Richard Fearless, has a new album on the way, titled Death Mask. Spanning nine tracks, it's Fearless' first album as Death In Vegas since 2016's Concrete … | Continue reading
Stevie Chick speaks to John Schmersal in order to offer ten points of entry into the back catalogue of recently reconvened cult rock band Brainiac. Main portrait by Lee Ann McGuire “Were we cyberpunk?” asks Brainiac guitarist/vocalist John Schmersal, who, since 2023, has led his … | Continue reading
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Death Hilarious Another hulking beast of chugged rhythms and swirling guitars from the porcine Tynesiders, this time with added El-P Death Hilarious by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Five albums in for the five-pronged psych rockers and that … | Continue reading
With TV drama Adolescence and Andrew Tate currently in the news, author Craig Johnson asks how the toxic ideology extremist influencers became so widespread and offers practical advice to help young people affected. CW: Reference to sexual assault and violence against women. Cont … | Continue reading
It's lifted from new album Abyss, which is out this Friday Anika has released a new single, titled 'Oxygen'. The track appears on new album Abyss, which is out later this week. "'Oxygen' is about feeling trapped in your own body, in your own narrative, in your own society, within … | Continue reading
Backxwash Only Dust Remains The latest album finds the Zambian-Canadian rapper in reflective mode, bathed in warm synths and more melodic percussion to balance the darkness Only Dust Remains by Backxwash In a sleeve note on 2022’s His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are … | Continue reading
In his latest deep dive into the music scenes of Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera explores how Serbia's artists are responding to a climate of increasing political tension, profiles the forward-thinking figures at the heart of the country's underground scene, and reviews a … | Continue reading
Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus "Back in the 1980s Prefab Sprout put out an album called Steve McQueen", says Mike Scott … | 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
Ingram, fka WOEBOT, shares the things he has learned about improving the health of soil while researching his new book, The Garden. All portraits by Sam Ingram Matthew Ingram, aka Woebot, is an author and researcher in countercultural history. He found his way into a wider study … | Continue reading
Sandwell District End Beginnings Fifteen years after their debut album, Karl O’Connor and David Sumner return to cruise the night time streets of techno city once more Karl O’Connor seems to be enjoying getting his old bands back together. Last year he reunited with Surgeon for t … | Continue reading
In this exclusive extract from Ecoes #7 – a new magazine issue exploring ‘the art of listening and unveiling the unseen,’ published by Sonic Acts – editor and writer Hannah Pezzack ventures into Wales' post-industrial hinterlands All photos by Charlie Pezzack Uncovering the many- … | Continue reading
From Hammer Horror to kitsch to electronic music, to coincide with the publication of his new book The Alienation Effect, Owen Hatherley explores the neglected history of European music in Britain Mátyás Seiber The other ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was composed by Allan Gray, for Michae … | Continue reading
Quietus Ed John Doran presents the Australian debut of the Live Documentary Performance: What Is This That Stands Before Me? Metal & Modernism in Hobart/Nipaluna TQ's John Doran is traveling a long way to make the claim that heavy metal is the last true form of mass modernism. Ha … | Continue reading
Cian Traynor celebrates the 30th birthday of a unique and brilliant album and re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew its creator, Ol' Dirty Bastard, the best. This feature was originally published on 30 March 2015 It was a muggy Manhattan afternoon w … | Continue reading
The shoegazers will play three dates in London, Manchester and Glasgow later this year My Bloody Valentine have announced a run of UK arena shows for this November. The live dates will mark the much-loved shoegazers' first UK headline tour in over a decade, and will see them play … | Continue reading
From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that dance music still has space for innovation, tQ's staffers round up the best that March had to offer Along with the first rays of worryingly warm sp … | Continue reading
Twenty "tips of the tongue" with the subtitle 'A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music' recall a time & place of passion, mailing lists and CD-rs, says Jeanette Leech Volcanic Tongue - A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century U … | Continue reading