Bryozone - Eye of Delirious

From Odesa, sound artist Ganna Bryzhata evokes the hazy ambience of the "Black Sea Paris" | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

NTS Radio Welcomes New Residents For 2023

Lena Willikens, Moin and more will host regular shows via the online station this year | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Shackleton Unveils New Alias, The Purge Of Tomorrow

His debut release under the new solo moniker, 'The Other Side of Devastation', will be released by Modern Obscure Music | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Manchester International Festival Unveils 2023 Lineup

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Janelle Monáe are among the musicians involved in this year's event | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Animal Collective Reveal 'Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished' Reissue

The band's debut album will be re-released alongside a bonus EP of additional tracks | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Strong Silent Type: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Configures Language, Art & Politics

An enigmatic East German artist used a typewriter and stamps to quietly disrupt the boundaries of poetry and graphic design. Geoff Cowart travelled to Potsdam to examine her creative disobedience and find out why she quit | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Deformed! Regis On Some Bizzare

*Conform to Deform: the Weird and Wonderful World of Some Bizzare* is an in-depth oral history of the legendary record label and its founder, Stevo Pearce. Techno pioneer Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor – a huge fan of the label – met the book’s author Wesley Doyle to discuss how Some Bizz … | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Mike Paradinas Details New Album As μ-Ziq, '1977'

It will be released through Barcelona-based label Balmat in April | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Waterworks Reveals Lineup For 2023 Edition

Blawan, Eris Drew, SHERELLE and more will play the London day festival this September | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70

Stewart’s darkest picture so far showed the actor angrier and more tortured than ever before, finds Sean McGeady | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Link: “Make It Go Woomph!” New Order's Low-Life Revisited

“Make It Go Woomph!” New Order's Low-Life Revisited by John Doran. Originally published 30 Jan, 2023.This and Brotherhood – in their fantastic original Peter Saville designed white boxes, which I still own – is the sound of my teenage years.Reply to this link on my website → | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 1 year ago

Into the Pre-Gap: Forty Years of the CD

40 years since the first album was released on CD, Daryl Worthington pays tribute to the unique experimental potential of the format, explores how it changed the parameters of the album itself, and wonders why it’s still not thought of as fondly as cassettes and LPs | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 2 years ago

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far

At the year's half-way mark, all of tQ's editorial staff, core writers and columnists have voted for their essential 2022 albums so far, released between January and June | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 2 years ago

The Slow Cancellation of the Future (2013)

We're very pleased to have an early extract from Mark Fisher's new title for Zero Books published later in the year... | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 3 years ago

The MP3 at 25: How a digital file dynamited the music industry

A quarter of a century ago today, the MP3 was born. Eamonn Forde argues that this, not the invention of vinyl, was the most revolutionary format in musical history | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 4 years ago

Wealth and Privilege Are Distorting Underground Music

What links a bland mainstream club EP to the structures of finance capital and gentrification? Ed Gillett discusses the ongoing creeping class issue of underground dance music in 2020 | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 4 years ago

The ‘Curse’ of Echo and the Bunnymen

Richard Foster sets out to rescue Bunnymen from thee crack of doom - the hackneyed “coulda been” curse - with a celebration of their music’s demonic heat. All photographs courtesy of Will Sergeant | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 4 years ago

Behringer Faces Criticism over Bizarre Attack on Journalist

A video apparently taking aim at CDM journalist Peter Kirn, and featuring anti-semitic tropes, was produced and circulated by the music equipment manufacturer before being pulled | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 4 years ago

In Defense of the Audio CD

We're supposedly in the middle of a vinyl revival, streaming services are hoovering up all the coin, and everyone seems to have a cassette column. But, argues James Toth, it's the humble compact disc that we should be celebrating | Continue reading


@thequietus.com | 6 years ago