Claire Rousay The Bloody Lady A new soundtrack for an old Slovakian animation finds Claire Rousay at her most dreamy The Bloody Lady by claire rousay Ten minutes into Viktor Kubal’s 1980 animated film The Bloody Lady, a whimsical world turns evil. A noblewoman who’d spent her mor … | Continue reading
Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years o … | Continue reading
Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years o … | Continue reading
In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Joe Muggs hymns the potent legacy of broken beat and picks five tunes where you can find it today, from D'Monk to Kokoroko and Jorja Smith (pictured below) It’s hard to shake off a feeling that one of the reasons broken beat hasn’t been gi … | Continue reading
As the Universal Music Group gobbles up independent stalwart PIAS, music biz expert Eamonn Forde asks if this corporate greed suggests bleak times are ahead for the rest of the indie ecosystem Sitting down like Mr Creosote in The Meaning Of Life (pictured above), Universal Music … | Continue reading
Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know you needed Photo by Beck Cooley Lower case titles, allusions to dreams, and descriptors like ‘introspective’ and ‘fragmentary’ – the ostensible building blo … | Continue reading
Yara Asmar Stuttering Music The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient electronic music Stuttering Music by Yara Asmar A box-shaped musical instrument invented in ninteenth-century Berlin has gained popula … | Continue reading
The Utrecht festival's organisers said they have had to cross significant hurdles to ensure performers from non-Western countries are able to enter the Netherlands Le Guess Who? has issued a lengthy complaint about the increasing problem it's facing securing visas for the various … | Continue reading
From his first discovery of The Velvet Underground to a cruise with Father John Misty, via mixtapes personally compiled for him by Spacemen 3 and encounters with Alex Chilton, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through his favourite records By his own estimation, Mark Webbe … | Continue reading
From his first discovery of The Velvet Underground to a cruise with Father John Misty, via mixtapes personally compiled for him by Spacemen 3 and encounters with Alex Chilton, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through his favourite records By his own estimation, Mark Webbe … | Continue reading
Gaister Gaister Coby Sey, Olivia Salvadori and Akihide Monna sculpt a sparse and striking LP out of little more than the voice and percussion GAISTER by GAISTER It can come across a bit contrived when artists sneak off to some quiet place to record an album. But would For Emma, F … | Continue reading
On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her head, despite societal and institutional pressure to ignore them, and whose experiences demonstrate how female artists can seek a fulfilled creative life ag … | Continue reading
Freshly dressed for Comic Con, JR Moores gets stuck into the latest psych and noise rock releases God Bullies, photo by Scott Kodrik When is a band not a band? It sounds like a question The Riddler would pose to a grown billionaire dressed as a bat. In homage to both Frank Gorshi … | Continue reading
Freshly dressed for Comic Con, JR Moores gets stuck into the latest psych and noise rock releases God Bullies, photo by Scott Kodrik When is a band not a band? It sounds like a question The Riddler would pose to a grown billionaire dressed as a bat. In homage to both Frank Gorshi … | Continue reading
Tarta Relena És pregunta Catalan vocal duo add subtle electronics to uncanny effect, finds Jakub Knera És pregunta by Tarta Relena In 2022, I attended Tarta Relena’s Le Guess Who concert at Janskerk in Utrecht. Although most of the seats were taken, I managed to find a free one a … | Continue reading
Eros Your Truth Is A Lie Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor, MY DISCO’s Liam Andrews, and Einstürzende Neubauten’s engineer Boris Wilsdorf have opened the door to their dank, dark basement. Jon Buckland nervously takes a peek… Your Truth Is A Lie by EROS Back in the winter of ’06 a piece of m … | Continue reading
The recordings, which are available to download and stream, are lifted from performances in Paris, Barcelona, Sydney and elsewhere Autechre have shared 12 live recordings from sets that they played across 2023 and 2024. The recordings are available to download and stream via the … | Continue reading
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory explores why the world needs art Brian Eno has written a book with Dutch artist and theorist Bette A., called What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory. The book explores the question of why we need art, and looks into its transformative qualities on … | Continue reading
The widely revered musician and producer had a hand in records by the likes of Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis Quincy Jones, the legendary musican, producer and composer, has died at the age of 91. Jones' publicist confirmed that he passed yesterday (November 3) at … | Continue reading
40 years after it stormed to the UK number one, Wrongtom charts the history of ‘I Feel For You’, from an overlooked Prince album track to Chaka Khan’s smash hit, via Stevie Wonder, Patrice Rushen, glitching tape machines, the death of Sugar Hill Records and more In 1969, on the S … | Continue reading
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld Christian & Mauro Einstürzende Neubauten frontman steps into a fine velvet lounge suit for a suite of richly orchestrated songs in a continuing fruitful collaboration with Italian polymath composer Teho Teardo Christian & Mauro by Teho Teardo & Blixa B … | Continue reading
With the releae of his new book The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, author S.H. Fernando Jr. takes us through some of the defining cuts from the seminal rapper-producer MF DOOM performing in 2011. Photo by possan. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Hip-hop h … | Continue reading
tQ's staffers pick out their favourite albums and tracks of the last month, from sensory overload to melancholy meditation October is the time of year at which I'm asked to start thinking about my ballots for our albums of the year list. And yet, the torrent of new releases flood … | Continue reading
Reviewing a new Light In The Attic compilation of Ukrainian music, Richard Foster explores how artists were able to find a voice and sense of identity against the strictures of Russian communism Where to, musician? In his magisterial work, Music In The Balkans, Professor Jim Sams … | Continue reading
Don Henley’s melancholy, uncanny ‘The Boys of Summer’ might be the ultimate song of the 1980s, says Toby Manning, as he takes a deep dive into the track four decades on One of the unique things about the 1980s was that history, as a process, felt curiously tangible. Something was … | Continue reading
Tyler, The Creator Chromakopia Drawing inspiration ranging from 70s zamrock classics to his own mother, the Odd Future co-founder delivers a thrilling journey of self-exploration, finds Francis Buseko From the moment the first notes echo, Chromakopia reveals itself as a meticulou … | Continue reading
Ray Aggs speaks to Zara Hedderman about the music created during their Samarbeta residency earlier this year, exploring their relationship with folk music as a person of colour, and released exclusively to tQ subscribers today. Plus, exclusive footage documenting its process, cou … | Continue reading
Anadol and Marie Klock La grande accumulation A quirky pop collaboration between artists from Paris and Istanbul, with each half of the pair seemingly pushing the other to greater heights of oddness La grande accumulation by Anadol & Marie Klock When artists team up for a collabo … | Continue reading
The latest album from Robert Smith & co feels unstuck in time, but taken on its own terms it’s as urgent and compelling as ever, finds Ned Raggett Credit: Sam Rockman A suggestion for you, me, all of us: try the seemingly impossible. Ignore the length of time since the last album … | Continue reading
Changes to business rate relief will put more than 350 venues at immediate risk of closure, the organisation said Music Venue Trust, the UK organisation advocating for grassroots music venues, has criticised today's (October 30) Autumn Budget announced by the Labour-led UK govern … | Continue reading
They've also shared lead track 'Lion Rumpus' Screenshot Mogwai have shared details of their 11th studio album, The Bad Fire. Spanning 10 tracks, the album was recorded in Blantyre, Scotland, and takes its name from a Scottish colloquialism for Hell. It draws inspiration from "a s … | Continue reading
The 10x12-inch vinyl set from Beggars Arkive focuses on live performances recorded for John Peel's BBC radio shows A new box set put out by Beggars Arkive collects BBC radio sessions by a number of artists recorded between the 1970s and 2000s. Split across 10 pieces of 12-inch vi … | Continue reading
Primal Scream Come Ahead With Bobby Gillespie virtually the sole surviving member, Primal Scream offer diminished returns, writes lapsed fan JR Moores There used to be something interesting about Primal Scream. Countless bands start off promisingly before their output steadily de … | Continue reading
A mixtape of Indonesian horror movie sounds, a doom metal supergroup from Beijing, the return of Felinto and a pair of artists embracing the sounds of insects. Daryl Worthington reports from the ever vibrant tape underground Bara & Isa Stridulation is how insects produce sounds b … | Continue reading
As London's Night Czar Amy Lamé leaves her job this week, Ed Gillett investigates her failures and successes, the increasing politicisation of her role, and whether alternative approaches offer any chance of doing better If you’ve read much about London Night Czar Amy Lamé recent … | Continue reading
Heavy industrial electronic collaborators Karl O'Connor, Liam Andrews and Boris Wilsdorf speak to Luke Turner about how a surrendering of ego in a magical studio were the vital ingredients to making new Eros album, Your Truth Is A Lie. Eros by Mattis Neumann “The whole thing was … | Continue reading
Heavy industrial electronic collaborators Karl O'Connor, Liam Andrews and Boris Wilsdorf speak to Luke Turner about how a surrendering of ego in a magical studio were the vital ingredients to making new Eros album, Your Truth Is A Lie. Eros by Mattis Neumann “The whole thing was … | Continue reading
Rubbish Music Fatbergs Taking inspiration from the great globs of grease that clog up our cities’ sewers, Iain Chambers and Kate Carr make creaky, echoey electro-acoustic music from waste Fatbergs by RUBBISH MUSIC “Huge and disgusting” said Matt Rimmer, head of waste networks at … | Continue reading
Underworld Strawberry Hotel British electronic music duo go Grand Hotel with fifteen tracks that take in everything from Monteverdi to Nina Nastasia In 2018, Underworld undertook a mission that would test the limits of their creativity and unleash new palettes of colour in the pr … | Continue reading
The release follows a debut live set together at Kraków's Unsound festival earlier this month Aïsha Devi and Slikback have teamed up for a new collaborative project, AKA HEX. Their first release will be a three-track EP, Do The Rite Thing / Hex On Fire, which features the track ' … | Continue reading
From field recording as provocation, to new constructions from the wreckage of club music, Daryl Worthington returns from a haunting edition of Semibreve with his picks of this year’s performances Eomac, Saint Abdullah and Rebecca Salvadori perform at Semibreve 2024. All photos c … | Continue reading
He's also shared the record's lead track, 'Polytunnel' Richard Dawson has a new album on the way, titled End Of The Middle. Comprised of nine tracks, the record is partly inspired by the artist's love of the films of Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu, and its stories focus around a … | Continue reading
Ahead of her performance at London Jazz Festival with Spencer Zahn, Dawn Richard selects the music that shook and inspired her in her youth, from Prince to The Prodigy via Enya and Fela Kuti Photo by Brit O'Brien Very few musicians have had a career trajectory like Dawn Richard. … | Continue reading
On the fortieth anniversary of Welcome To The Pleasuredome, Toby Manning explores how Frankie Goes To Hollywood's debut was the album that owned 1984, thanks to its ability to inhabit the liminal space between the queer margins and the straight mainstream Contrary to the claims o … | Continue reading
One True Pairing Endless Rain Former Wild Beast releases his inner sad boy, but there’s weirdness to the moping, finds Jeremy Allen Endless Rain by One True Pairing Barely a month goes by where there isn’t a fresh call for a moratorium on the earnest singer-songwriter, but still … | Continue reading
Buñuel Mansuetude After his announced departure from Oxbow earlier this year, Eugene Robinson still has plenty of deep, dark stories to tell, finds Jared Dix Mansuetude by Buñuel Buñuel make darkly fascinating music, a compelling noise noir that shuns the obvious routes but is st … | Continue reading
TG Berlin features material captured around a special series of live events that the group played in 2005 and 2006 Previously unreleased music by Throbbing Gristle is to be the focus of a new box set forthcoming on Mute. TG Berlin centres around a special series of live events th … | Continue reading
From demon-riffing drone-lords Bong to gruelling, piledriver punks Drunk In Hell, power trident-pronged psych outfit Blown Out, experimental soundtracking with Artifacts & Uranium, the atomic noise rock of Melting Hand and the crushing cosmic doom of 11Paranoias, plus a plethora … | Continue reading