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
Kate Carr Midsummer, London South London sound artist travels across town, finding strange beauty in the everyday Midsummer, London by Kate Carr Kate Carr’s new album is a ‘sonic transect’ across London. She slices the city from her Loughborough Junction home out west to Staines … | Continue reading
Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker WEBO A legendary live set from the summer of ‘91 is full of joy and fire, finds Vanessa Ague WEBO by Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker In June 1991, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker played two nights a … | Continue reading
Daryl Worthington relishes tQ's Compilation Of The Week: an anthology of electronic and tape music made by Peruvian composers In the early sixties, the Peruvian composer José Malsio started experimenting and composing music with a pair of Philips reel-to-reel tape players. It was … | Continue reading
The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. Michael Bellis looks at a highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change Things were not looking up in 1974. Fr … | Continue reading
Well-established left field festival in Salford with strong emphasis on diversity returns this September This year's Fat Out Festival has just been announced for a number of venues in and around Salford, Greater Manchester, to run 20, 21 and 22 September. The lineup includes tQ f … | Continue reading
Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance Jinxed By Being Deep bass rumble meets ritual folk on an album filled with post-apocalyptic dread Jinxed by Being by Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance Both habitual collaborators and sonic adventurers, Sam Shackleton and Ben Chasny share … | Continue reading
Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better At a film festival in 1970s Iran, after the screening of The Chess of the Wind, a critic brutally … | Continue reading
The Berlin festival will feature a spotlight on the pioneering Katalin Ladik amid a diverse programme of music, video art, workshops, panel discussions and more Heroines Of Sound festival will return to Berlin next month, and has announced its full programme for this year’s editi … | Continue reading
Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton, DJ Anderson do Paraíso, and more have joined the bill for the Portuguese festival Barreiro's OUT.FEST has confirmed a second wave of acts playing its 2024 edition this October. The Portuguese event, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, wil … | Continue reading
Martha Skye Murphy Um A remarkably accomplished debut from the South London singer/songwriter Um by Martha Skye Murphy Martha Skye Murphy’s debut album has been a long time in coming even if she’s still in her twenties. Collaborations with Squid and Maxwell Stirling are in the re … | Continue reading
Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life Photo by AF Cortes Connected to the mainland only by ferries, Vashon Island sits in Puget Sound, just … | Continue reading
The new clip shows the band in the process of recording their forthcoming album in a studio in Provence Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new video featuring footage of the band recording their forthcoming album, Wild God. The near-five-minute video, which you can watch bel … | Continue reading
'Sun Ra: Door Of The Cosmos' collects interviews, concert footage and more to put together an oral history of the legendary musician A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help fund the completion of a documentary on Sun Ra. Directed by filmmaker Drew DeNicola and in the mak … | Continue reading
The nine-track release is out in September Xiu Xiu have shared details of a new album, titled 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Spanning nine tracks, it was partly motivated and inspired by the group's recent relocation from Los Angeles to Berlin. It sees … | Continue reading
The standalone single follows recent LP 'The Collective' Kim Gordon has shared a new non-album single, 'ECRP'. The track was produced by Justin Raisen, with whom Gordon also worked for her recent LP, The Collective. It comes with a music video directed by her daughter, Coco Gordo … | Continue reading
Ned Raggett remembers the audacity – the white heat – of a first encounter with the OST in 1984. This feature was first published on 25 June 2014 Saying something new about albums that have been loved and discussed over the moons can sometimes feel like gilding the lily, no matte … | Continue reading
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band Dancing On The Edge Louisville artist takes on the big stuff in an album of long song, packed with ideas RYAN DAVIS & the Roadhouse Band "Dancing on the Edge" by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band “I never asked to be born / I was only wondering where … | Continue reading