Arooj Aftab Night Reign Grammy-winning New Yorker settles into her first major label album with a record no less striking or adventurous than its predecessors, finds Jeremy Allen The title of Arooj Aftab’s latest album might suggest we’re about to plunge down the tenebrous spiral … | Continue reading
It follows last year's standalone release, 'Birth4000' Floating Points has released a new track, 'Del Oro'. Available digitally and on limited edition white label vinyl, the track centres around the UK artist's characteristic modular sounds and nimble dancefloor-focused rhythms. … | Continue reading
He's also announced a European tour for February 2025 Caribou, real name Dan Snaith, has released a new single, titled 'Broke My Heart'. Marking the artist's second release of 2024, following April's standalone single 'Honey', the new cut arrives alongside news of a European tour … | Continue reading
ShinyHunter has placed a ransom of $500,000 on the data to avoid it being sold on to other parties A hacking group has alleged that it has stolen the personal data of 560 million Ticketmaster users in what could represent one of the largest-ever known hacking operations in histor … | Continue reading
Kez Whelan salutes a particularly fertile year in the world of metal, and delivers your regular guide to all things heavy with reviews of new releases from Darkthrone, Full Of Hell, Pallbearer and many more Tzompantli, photo by Luckee Ngin 2024 is shaping up to be an absolutely i … | Continue reading
Iceboy Violet & Nueen You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through The Fire A breakup record, ghost story, mystery and love poem, Iceboy Violet and Nueen are natural storytellers on their collaboration for Hyperdub You Said You'd Hold My Hand Through The Fire by Iceboy Violet, Nueen “Auto … | Continue reading
DJ and live sets from more than 500 artists appear across the extensive archive Amsterdam club De School, which closed for good in January of this year, has launched a digital archive, featuring more than 800 set recordings from the venue. Put together in collaboration with Mixcl … | Continue reading
As he tours the third installment in his Cwmwl Tystion trilogy, an ambitious combination of jazz and folk music that explores Welsh national identity, culture and history, Tomos Williams tells Gail Tasker about the connections between Paul Robeson and the Welsh labour movement, r … | Continue reading
Thou Umbilical Raw sludge from Baton Rouge condensed into toxic nuggets of nobbly riffs and deliciously tricksy drum patterns Umbilical by Thou Accepting that there’ll be outliers, oddities and inevitable bleed between genres that sprouted from the same gnarled Sabbathantine root … | Continue reading
We've done something a little different this month and asked William Doyle to accompany his fantastic stripped-down release of three of his own songs and three covers with an essay about how he makes touring work financially – this is free to read to non subscribers too. Screensh … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his memoir A Dysfunctional Success: The Wreckless Eric Manual, Eric Goulden looks back ruefully on an encounter with the police in Chatham I think perhaps the only way to write an honest autobiography is to go about it with the idea firmly in mind tha … | Continue reading
The 62-track 'ENOUGH!' is available to purchase via Bandcamp A new compilation has been released via Bandcamp to raise money for a charity fund aiming to support children affected by the Israeli military's ongoing assault on Gaza. Spanning 62 tracks, ENOUGH! has been compiled by … | Continue reading
The Birmingham festival returns this August Birmingham's Supersonic Festival has confirmed the addition of Matana Roberts to its 2024 lineup. The US artist will perform live on the final day of the weekend-long event this August, just under a year on from the release of their lat … | Continue reading
Beings There is a Garden A collaboration between Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Jim White and Shahzad Ismaily sounds as fresh and lively as a spring day, finds Tom Bolton There Is A Garden by Beings Beings seem to have come together entirely naturally: drawn to play with one another by un … | Continue reading
UKAEA and Natalia Beylis are among the acts set to play the experimental music event later this year Sunderland's Boundaries Festival is set to return for its fourth edition this November. Taking place across two days at events space The Peacock, this year's event will take in a … | Continue reading
Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist! 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 … | Continue reading
From Beak > to Broadcast, and Eric Chenaux to Ex-Easter Island Head, this is tQ's favourite music of the last four weeks This is the first music of the month round-up to appear on the new-look tQ which launched earlier this month. Not only does the arrival, at long last, of a ful … | Continue reading
The latest in an ongoing series of live albums proves once again that Can were far from a spent force on stage in the post-Damo era, writes Joe Banks Many bands suffer from the ‘classic line-up’ phenomenon, and Can are a classic example of it. In the alternative rock canon, the t … | Continue reading
The Dublin-based artist will play a series of shows later this year in support of last year's 'Look Over The Wall, See The Sky' LP John Francis Flynn has announced an extensive run of tour dates that will take him across the UK and Ireland later this year. Kicking off at Dundalk' … | Continue reading
"The music on this record is about connecting or reconciling polarities," the composer and pianist said in a statement Max Richter has a new album on the way, titled In A Landscape. Due out in September, the composer and pianist's ninth studio record was recorded at Studio Richte … | Continue reading
The Dnipro-based event will travel to Lisbon, Gothenburg, Amsterdam and elsewhere in the coming weeks Photo credit: Vera Dumke Construction, an audiovisual art and new media festival based in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, has announced a series of events and artist residencies ac … | Continue reading
Multi-disciplinary artist Lola De La Mata speaks to Patrick Clarke about how her experience with severe tinnitus and vertigo, groundbreaking work in the field of audiology, and stigma around hearing loss in the musical community fed into her new album Oceans On Azimuth Photo by R … | Continue reading
In the first instalment of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk of Neformat explores the role of women in the Ukrainian music scene during wartime Ragapop perform at Waves “I’ve never on … | Continue reading
'Anthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988)' is part of an ongoing series of retrospective releases looking over Carpenter's back catalogue | Continue reading
The new record was birthed out of the "total boredom" of COVID-19 lockdowns, says the group's Andy McCluskey | Continue reading
'Australian Carnage - Live At The Sydney Opera House' was captured across three nights in December 2022 | Continue reading
Having retired her Lingua Ignota project earlier this year, the US artist will now be known as Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter | Continue reading
Ben Frost and Lanark Artefax are among the final additions to the bill for the Kraków event | Continue reading
Albums by Shygirl and Young Fathers are also among the 12 shortlisted records for this year's award | Continue reading
'In The Cell Of Dreams' follows on from a 2020 album by Shackleton and Wacław Zimpel | Continue reading
We've selected a track each from tQ's top 100 albums of 2023 so far into a ten hour mega-playlist, exclusively for our subscribers | Continue reading
Acid Klaus' first full headline tour comes along with a new remix courtesy of Head Technician | Continue reading
It's the second cut to be unveiled from forthcoming album 'Everything Is Alive' | Continue reading
The new box set release from Luaka Bop will also take in previously unreleased material | Continue reading
'My Words Are Music' features contributions from L'Rain and TV on The Radio's Tunde Adibempe, among others | Continue reading
The shows in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and elsewhere will mark their first in the countries in 10 years | Continue reading
The multi-purpose venue, formerly known as The Drumsheds, will be refreshed and reopened in the aftermath of the recent closure of Printworks | Continue reading
The double-single 'Butterfly Effect / Tar' previews a larger project due later this year | Continue reading
It follows on from last year's 'Endure' LP | Continue reading
The Salford event returns this September with GAIKA, Dawn Terry and more set to play live | Continue reading
ABADIR, m.a.t.a.d.a.t.a., Jaka Berger and more have been added to this weekend's showcase at Tblisi's Mutant Radio | Continue reading
The latest album from the Italian electronic producer bears the marks of its author's prior engagement with early music, finds Robert Barry | Continue reading
Legss speak to Laviea Thomas about how their new EP Fester represents a major turning point in a career marked by struggle and frustration, and the importance of embracing your limitations | Continue reading
The organisation has "lost confidence" in the venue's owner AMG, according to a report | Continue reading
A Long Strange Dream's inaugural release, 'For Spirits', is out in May | Continue reading
Users of Jamm Pro were previously only able to access the app on iPads | Continue reading
'Launch300' features exclusive and unreleased tracks by Gnod, GOAT, Shit And Shine and more | Continue reading
It's her third full-length effort for Domino | Continue reading