In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months. Bosc, photo by Nicolas Godin There have been signs in the past few months that France’s hith … | Continue reading
The self-titled record has been arranged by the late artist's brother, Benny Long A posthumous SOPHIE album is to be released later this year. Though the full tracklist for the self-titled record hasn't yet been revealed, it's said to feature contributions from several artists wi … | Continue reading
Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth Photo by Austin McDonald “It’s a little bit p … | Continue reading
Mabe Fratti Sentir que no sabes Backed by loyal collaborators, Guatemalan-born Mexico City-based cellist Mabe Fratti delivers a confidently confusing knockout Sentir que no sabes by Mabe Fratti There’s shame in not knowing. That’s why it’s hard to admit when you’re wrong. Doubt i … | Continue reading
In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!) I first met George Smiley … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, Justin Patrick Moore takes us through the secret history of the links between wartime cryptography and electro-funk By the 1940s, radio and telephone had revolutionized communications in the industrialized wo … | Continue reading
The album was recorded in Chicago in March 2022 Bill Callahan is releasing a live album, Resuscitate! Spanning 10 tracks, it was recorded during a show at Chicago's Thalia Hall in March 2022. Callahan was joined by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax and Jim White … | Continue reading
He's also shared lead track 'Sans Limities', which features vocals from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier Thurston Moore is set to release his ninth solo album this September. Titled Flow Critical Lucidity, the seven-track record was recorded at London's Total Refreshment Centre. Moore … | Continue reading
d’Eon Leviathan Montreal's Chris d'Eon returns with more rococo digital psychedelia for those who like their deconstructed IDM with a cool slice of Bach Leviathan by d'Eon While epithets like “transporting” and “evocative” tend to be overused to death, every once in a while somet … | Continue reading
JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films Films about exorcisms suffer from much the same problem as any movie in wh … | Continue reading
Innovation slowly becomes stifling orthodoxy in Irish music, says Darran Anderson, so welcome Lankum, the force that arrives once with every generation to revitalise the form Live in Dublin by Lankum Say what you like about the British Empire, and its crimes are legion, it sure h … | Continue reading
Kali Malone, Marie Davidson and more will play the Bologna festival this October Italian multi-venue festival ROBOT has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2024 edition later this year. Taking place across four days in the city of Bologna, the festival will feature a spec … | Continue reading
The nine-track record explores themes of shock and trauma Jeff Mills has shared details of a new album, titled The Eyewitness. Comprised of nine tracks, it explores themes of shock and trauma, and follows on from the Detroit artist's recent record, The Trip: Enter The Black Hole, … | Continue reading
Martyyna Written in the Scars Czech producer weaves trauma into fractured and futuristic post-techno IM113 - Martyyna - Written In The Scars by Martyyna Martyyna takes a unique approach to the voice. The Prague-based producer and DJ sees her vocals as a starting point to tell spe … | Continue reading
Major new work by the Icelandic composer and Slátur co-founder is inspired by an old hydro-electric dam that became a haven for birds and other wildlife Stífluhringurinn is a landmark in suburban Rekyavik. The name means ‘dam circle’. It is the site of an old hydro-electric dam. … | Continue reading
In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases Elijah Minnelli … | Continue reading
Still House Plants, Nadah El Shazly and more will play the Guimarães event later this year Photo credit: Jorge Nicolau Portuguese festival Mucho Flow has shared the first wave of acts playing its 11th edition this October into November. The event, which takes place across multipl … | Continue reading
The LP tells the story of Amelia Earhart's tragic last flight Laurie Anderson has a new album on the way, titled Amelia. Spanning 22 tracks, the record tells the story of the tragic last flight by aviator Amelia Earhart, and its lyrics, written by Anderson, present a subjective n … | Continue reading
The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg Photo by Madeline McManus In J … | Continue reading
µ-Ziq Grush After thirty years in the game, Mike Paradinas is clearly still having a heck of a time, finds Jon Buckland Grush by µ-Ziq µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas has been in the game long enough to see styles and fashions come and go. Hell, in his career spent carving out glitchy, … | Continue reading
The NYC-based saxophonist, composer, bandleader of the Contortions and member of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks passed away on Tuesday of an unspecified illness James Chance, the New York City-based no wave, free jazz and punk funk musician and composer died at the age of 71 on Tues … | Continue reading
The label will release remastered vinyl versions of 'Locust Abortion Technician', 'Hairway To Steven' and 'Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis' in September Three records by Butthole Surfers are to be reissued by Matador later this year. The label will issue remastered vinyl vers … | Continue reading
The music and audiovisual art platform co-funded by the European Union will curate lineups at Polja Festival and şien Festival respectively SHAPE+, a music and audiovisual art platform co-funded by the European Union, has announced two collaborative showcases outside of the EU, a … | Continue reading
The tracks from four highly limited cassettes released in 1981 are being released alongside some previously unheard material Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel's collaborative work as CHBB is to be given its first official reissue. Out later this week, the release takes in all nine tr … | Continue reading
The expanded 30th anniversary release is out across multiple formats in October Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is getting an expanded reissue by Warp Records. Out in October, the 30th anniversary release will include all of the album's songs that were released on v … | Continue reading
The suspension affects all of Live Nation's UK festivals for 2024 Barclays has suspended its sponsorship of all UK-based Live Nation festivals for 2024 following protests against the bank's ties to Israel. Protest group Bands Boycott Barclays, which has encouraged artists to pull … | Continue reading
Richie Culver Hostile Environments Hull-born sound artist and painter simmers with resentment, finds Ian Opolot Richie Culver · Hostile Environments Richie Culver paints a decrepit landscape in Hostile Environments. It’s a record that features a fusion of distorted synth sounds i … | Continue reading
The Rotherham-based musician and artist looks back 40 years and considers the noise of industry, the noise of industrial action, the noise of excessive police violence and electronic music as political resistance. Digital and 35mm photographs of the site of the former Orgreave Co … | Continue reading
It’s four decades since Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their debut album From Her To Eternity, a record that found Cave attempting a new musical and lyrical language that could free him from his past and help him create – and curate – his future, says Wesley Doyle “At the e … | Continue reading
Taking in a solo track by each artist, the new record is out now on Hyperdub Burial and Kode9 have released a split single, titled Phoneglow / Eyes Go Blank. Available now for digital download and streaming via Hyperdub, it features a solo track by each artist. Burial's 'Phoneglo … | Continue reading
Immersion Nanocluster Vol.2 Thor Harris from Swans, Penelope Isles’ Cubzoa and Matt Schulz from Holy Fuck join Malka Sppigel and Colin Newman’s ever-convivial Immersion project for a head-on collision of experimental technique and poppist euphoria Malka Spigel and Colin Newman ar … | Continue reading
Noel Gardner brings us artificial birdsong, real birdsong, a metal nail hammered up a nostril, and a big set of technoise gloomsteppers in his latest re from British fringes Weird Weather Nothing like starting your reviews dispatch with a release that makes you question how you’v … | Continue reading
In the first podcast from Kiev's 20ft Radio, we're taken deep into the otherworldly folk sounds of the Ukrainian underground of the late 80s and early 90s. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Cou … | Continue reading
Anthony Galluzzo's new book Against the Vortex uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented Anthony Ga … | Continue reading
KRM & KMRU Disconnect The Bug and Joseph Kamaru find common ground and companionship in a stifling world on their album-length collaboration, writes Skye Butchard Disconnect by KRM & KMRU Kevin Martin’s 2017 collaboration with doom metal band Earth had fun pointing out their diff … | Continue reading
Regis and Surgeon talk to Bernie Brooks and Kristen Gallerneaux about techno, big tent gigs, and BMB's unexpected and excellent debut LP Active Agents and House Boys by British Murder Boys "I used to work at a nightclub in Birmingham," says Karl O'Connor, better known as Regis, o … | Continue reading
It will be released by Mute in September Aaron Hemphill, formerly of Liars, has announced details of a new album under his Nonpareils moniker. Spanning nine tracks, Rhetoric & Terror is his second album as Nonpareils, following 2018 debut Scented Pictures. The new record features … | Continue reading
Taking place at the MeetFactory venue, the talk will precede a concert by Chelsea Wolfe Synapse Knowledge – an annual event run out of Prague venue MeetFactory that takes in live performances, talks, listening sessions and more – will host a lecture by tQ's own John Doran later t … | Continue reading
The 12-track record is out now on his longtime label home of Ilian Tape Skee Mask has released a new album, titled Resort. Out via his longtime label home of Ilian Tape, the 12-track record is the German producer's fourth studio album, after 2016's Shred, 2018's Compro and 2021's … | Continue reading
'I'm With Pulp, Are You?' features photographs, flyers and other material, alongside a foreword by Jarvis Cocker Pulp guitarist Mark Webber is publishing a book, featuring a visual history of the much-loved Britpop band. Set to be published in September, I'm With Pulp, Are You? g … | Continue reading
The special party this October will take in sets from label artists such as Duke Garwood and Rainbow Grave Duke Garwood God Unknown Records is putting on a 10th anniversary event in London this October. Taking place at Walthamstow Trades Club on October 5, the special party will … | Continue reading
'Buchla Concert At Galeria Bonino New York April 1974' is out in August Recordings from Suzanne Ciani's very first public performance using the Buchla synthesiser are set to be released through the UK archival label Finders Keepers. Buchla Concert At Galeria Bonino New York April … | Continue reading
Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat, finds Ilia Rogatchevski Mary Ocher reclines on a rubber dinghy that is perilously adrift at sea. Her voice lifts above the waters as a shuffling backbeat dominates the track … | Continue reading
Normil Hawaiians Empires Into Sand Four decades after their last album, peripatetic London postpunks return in force Empires into Sand by Normil Hawaiians The fourth album by Normil Hawaiians, a band founded in London but with a transient way of living, comes nearly forty years a … | Continue reading
3-step is a new evolution within South African dance music, writes Skye Butchard in the latest instalment of our antidote to the algorithm You can achieve a lot just by removing one element. Sometimes, it even creates a genre offshoot of its own. By removing a kick in a 4/4 groov … | Continue reading
Punk bands Speed, Scowl and Zulu are among the acts who will no longer play the event this weekend Several bands have cancelled their appearances at this weekend's Download festival over Barclaycard being listed as one of the event's official sponsors, due to Barclays providing f … | Continue reading
The two records have been remastered for an updated September release Two classic Japanese techno albums from the 90s are being reissued this September for their 30th anniversaries. Tokyo-based label MUSICMINE will handle the reissues of Ken Ishii's Reference To Difference and Su … | Continue reading
Underground Resistance, Voices From The Lake and Shannen SP are among the acts playing the Dutch festival this September Tilburg's Draaimolen Festival has shared the full lineup for its 2024 edition. Returning to its usual home of the MOB Complex, the Dutch event's programme will … | Continue reading