The record is preceded by lead track 'Late Fragment' Photo by Daria Shestakova Dialect, the moniker of Andrew PM Hunt, has a new album on the way for RVNG Intl, titled Atlas Of Green. Marking Hunt's second full-length release for the label, after 2021's Under~Between, the 12-trac … | Continue reading
The band have enlisted a number of Rocket Recordings-affiliated acts to remix tracks from last year's 'Hive' LP Teeth Of The Sea are releasing a new limited edition cassette and digital EP, Get With The Program. Led by the title track, which appeared on last year's Hive LP, it al … | Continue reading
The artist's fifth studio album has been remastered for its updated release Photo by Petra Gall Diamanda Galás' fifth studio album, Saint Of The Pit, is being reissued. Due out in September, the album has been fully remastered for its updated release, which arrives off the back o … | Continue reading
The artist's fifth studio album has been remastered for its updated release Photo by Petra Gall Diamanda Galás' fifth studio album, Saint Of The Pit, is being reissued. Due out in September, the album has been fully remastered for its updated release, which arrives off the back o … | Continue reading
It features new tracks by the likes of Jeff Mills, Karenn, Kode9 and Steffi Dekmantel is marking the upcoming 10th edition of its flagship Amsterdam festival with a 44-track compilation, Dekmantel Ten: A Decade Of Dekmantel Festival. Set for digital release and in a 7x12-inch vin … | Continue reading
It features new tracks by the likes of Jeff Mills, Karenn, Kode9 and Steffi Dekmantel is marking the upcoming 10th edition of its flagship Amsterdam festival with a 44-track compilation, Dekmantel Ten: A Decade Of Dekmantel Festival. Set for digital release and in a 7x12-inch vin … | Continue reading
The European platform for innovative music and audiovisual art has announced 54 artists it will be working with over the next year SHAPE+, a European Union-funded platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, has announced the list of artists that it will be working with for … | Continue reading
2K88 Shame Polish producer (Strata, Syny, Etamski) bends and twists old school Polish hip hop into strange new shapes, finds Jared Dix SHAME by 2K88 Producer Przemysław Jankowiak has been busy in the Polish underground for a good long while under many guises. Most recently this y … | Continue reading
The Polish sound artist's latest album evokes strange hypnagogic states formed from zithers, ocarinas, bamboo flutes, and whistles Photo by Riccardo Caspani I remember the first time I saw Antonina Nowacka. It was in The Kitchen at the Hotel Forum during the Unsound Festival, whe … | Continue reading
We love it when our subscribers send in suggestions of things for us to talk about – but do we love what they’re suggesting? Is Eurythmics’ soundtrack to the 1984 film 1984 doubleplusgood or does it send John Doran into his own personal Room 101? Find out here. In this month’s Lo … | Continue reading
The album is back on vinyl for the first time since its original 1986 release Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd's 1986 collaborative album The Moon And The Melodies is getting a first-time reissue. Marking the first time the record has been made available on vinyl since its original … | Continue reading
It marks the artist's first solo release with the UK label Mica Levi has released a new song through Hyperdub, titled 'Slob Air'. Clocking in at just over 12 minutes, the track marks Levi's first solo release with the UK label, and comes backed by a video, which you can watch bel … | Continue reading
Bashy Being Poor Is Expensive Fifteen years after his last album (and with a gaggle of prestigious film and TV roles now under his belt), Ashley Thomas returns to the grime sound of his early mixtapes and his own memories of growing up in Hammersmith and Kensal Rise “Mill Hill an … | Continue reading
From Nigerian jùjú to American R&B, Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams speaks to Alastair Shuttleworth about some of the music that shaped her life, ahead of a set at this year’s Green Man A decade on from their eponymous debut album, Ibibio Sound Machine’s fifth record Pull The … | Continue reading
Unlike 80s pop’s synthetic bombast, says Toby Manning, some of the era’s best music was defined by a sophisticated smoothness whose ambivalence captured the period’s contradictions Few albums purr ‘mid-80s’ more seductively than Sade’s Diamond Life, which captures, in its style a … | Continue reading
'Bubblegum XX' will take in a remastered re-release of the late artist's album across several formats Beggars Arkive and the estate of Mark Lanegan are to mark the 20th anniversary of the late artist's classic album Bubblegum with an extensive reissue. Bubblegum XX will see the o … | Continue reading
The record sees the Hungarian artist blend club-ready techno sounds with experimental rhythmic structures Gábor Lázár is releasing an album through famed experimental electronic music label raster. Titled Reflex, the seven-track record sees the producer blend club-ready techno so … | Continue reading
The record sees the Hungarian artist blend club-ready techno sounds with experimental rhythmic structures Gábor Lázár is releasing an album through famed experimental electronic music label raster. Titled Reflex, the seven-track record sees the producer blend club-ready techno so … | Continue reading
Their third studio album will be released by God Unknown Records this October Sex Swing have a new album on the way, titled Golden Triangle. Comprised of eight tracks, the London band's third studio album marks their first full-length release with God Unknown Records. Its origins … | Continue reading
It's preceded by lead track 'Key103' Floating Points has shared details of a new album, Cascade. Spanning nine tracks, it takes in the previously released 'Birth4000' and 'Del Oro', as well as new single 'Key103', which you can listen to below. Cascade was made while Floating Poi … | Continue reading
Noel Gardner delivers ten more frowning bales of intemperate earslaughter, including the perfectly executed anarcho punk of Subdued, the oppressively fucked sound of rising Leeds teenagers Narkotyk, and the feral, bare-brick recordings of Vancouver's Bootlicker Subdued, photo by … | Continue reading
Clevelode Muntjac Paul Newland of The Lowland Hundred finds redemption in the liminal space of Epping Forest, finds Tom Bolton FC6 - Muntjac by Clevelode Muntjac is a location-specific album, packed with the spirit of particular places. Paul Newland, one half of The Lowland Hundr … | Continue reading
Get your ears round hours of music here! On 1 July, we published our list of our favourite albums of the year so far. 2024 is shaping up to be a magnificent year for music and we’ve been very excited to share this chart with you – you’ve clearly been excited to read it, as the pa … | Continue reading
T-shirt and tote bag coming tomorrow! If you've seen tQ ed. John Doran out and about interviewing people over the past couple of years, the changes are you've seen him in one of the limited edition t-shirts made by 1 Of 100. The company have made super limited edition runs of mer … | Continue reading
beißpony The Small & The Many An album inspired by a sonified bee colony causes quite a buzz The Small & The Many by beißpony In the Bandcamp liner notes for beißpony’s third album, The Small & The Many, among the usual mentions of cover photographers, mastering engineers, and th … | Continue reading
Scanner & Neil Leonard The Berklee Sessions Short wave transmissions meet jazz fusion aesthetics on the latest addition to Robin Rimbaud's fascinating and multi-faceted catalogue The Berklee Sessions by Scanner & Neil Leonard One of the most striking things about Robin Rimbaud ak … | Continue reading
Mixes.wiki is online now The long-running mixes and tracklists database MixesDB has been relaunched on a new website, Mixes.wiki. The new project has come about after a new team of people worked with the former owner of MixesDB to take over the code and data for the site, and upg … | Continue reading
Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality and Keith Flint talk to John Doran about the birth of rave, their first two albums and singles from 'Charly' to 'Poison'. This feature was first published in 2008 Recently XL reissued Experience: Expanded, the sounds of the bracing first flush of rave, … | Continue reading
NEBEL 3000 Frankenstein Freakout Punk rock energy, madcap samples and a delirious eclecticism blur the lines between trashy and arty, finds Hayley Scott Frankenstein Freakout by Nebel3000 The sound of existential angst, Berlin-based post-everything group NEBEL 3000 are fearlessly … | Continue reading
Catherine Backhouse is equal parts scientist and artist on her joyous DIY record of ‘gutter kosmische’ for Planet Mu, writes Skye Butchard Picture credit: Fran Young When the class got bored and rowdy one afternoon, our science teacher tried to engage us with the pictures from Ku … | Continue reading
The vinyl-only record also features new tracks by Donato Dozzy and Nkisi Milan festival Terraforma has released a vinyl-only compilation taking in tracks by artists long associated with the event. Available to purchase online now, the seven-track release celebrates the event, whi … | Continue reading
The six-track record came about after the two acts shared a festival lineup in Sweden Holy Tongue and Shackleton have linked up for a new collaborative album, titled The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now. Spanning six tracks, it marks the first time the two acts have collaborated on re … | Continue reading
The festival's occasional fallow year will give the farm site's land some time to rest Glastonbury festival will not take place in 2026, organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed. Eavis had previously suggested that the festival would soon take its occasional fallow year and confirmed … | Continue reading
As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records, from punk to jazz to his year spent listening only to Curtis Mayfield Photo by Rachel Orcutt A strong contender for the title o … | Continue reading
Eiko Ishibashi Evil Does Not Exist The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself Evil Does Not Exist by Eiko Ishibashi The power of Eiko Ishibashi’s work as a film composer lies in its subtlety. In an era of overly bombastic … | Continue reading
Stewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic A glorious affirmation of working-class creativity, The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime is … | Continue reading
Max Stadtfeld – Stax Fancy Future Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig Fancy Future by Max Stadtfeld - Stax Instrumental music has the advantage that it can mean anything you want it to mean. O … | Continue reading
'Opus' captures piano performances by the late artist during his final show in late 2022 Milan Records and the estate of Ryuichi Sakamoto have shared details of a final album from Ryuichi Sakamoto. Titled Opus, it's comprised of recordings from the late Japanese artist's final co … | Continue reading
J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse To receive Live At Acid Horse 24 by Hitiloma & Nat Sh … | Continue reading
Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes Ensemble Tikoro, photo by Yosa Fiandra For Jon Hassell, the fourth world mixed real and virtual. A … | Continue reading
22 years into their career the perennial outsiders of 21st century queer American art rock have announced a potentially game-changing album in the shape of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Words by Natalie Marlin. All pictures by Eva Luise Hoppe. Contain … | Continue reading
Gryphon Rue 4n_Objx Alexander Calder’s grandson bridges electronic and avant-garde in a series of deft and impish collages 4n_Objx by Gryphon Rue On 4n_Objx, Gryphon Rue plays with sonics in a way that a visual artist might manipulate light. The Brooklyn musician’s third album of … | Continue reading
Patrick Clarke delivers his third and final roundup from Worthy Farm, featuring Janelle Monáe, Shania Twain's legends slot, SZA's Sunday headliner, Kim Gordon and more Janelle Monae, photo by Jim Dyson The ‘legends slot’ at Glastonbury on a Sunday afternoon is a tricky thing to r … | Continue reading
Senyawa Vajranala Indonesian duo find new kinds of heaviness Vajranala by Senyawa Over the past two months, I have attended two festivals whose starting point is metal music: Roadburn in Tilburg and Mystic Festival in Gdańsk. Although they differ in their approach to programming, … | Continue reading
As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year We’ve recently been running a sale on subscriptions to The Quietus that highlights one of the paradoxes of trying to keep our operation going in … | Continue reading
Patrick Clarke delivers his second dispatch from Worthy Farm, where Little Simz, Lankum and Fat White Family lead the way Little Simz, photo by Jim Dyson Saturday is hotter than forecast, Worthy Farm baking and dusty, everyone diving for shade. One good place to find it is the Wo … | Continue reading
Patrick Clarke reports from Worthy Farm following superb sets from LCD Soundsystem, PJ Harvey, Decius and more Photo by Jim Dyson tQ’s Friday at Glastonbury starts slowly, mainly thanks to a prior night spent in the company of Decius, who play deep into the early hours of the mor … | Continue reading
Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers As part 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 tha … | Continue reading