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
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
In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months. Bosc, photo by Nicolas Godin There have been signs in the past few months that France’s hith … | Continue reading
The self-titled record has been arranged by the late artist's brother, Benny Long A posthumous SOPHIE album is to be released later this year. Though the full tracklist for the self-titled record hasn't yet been revealed, it's said to feature contributions from several artists wi … | Continue reading
Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth Photo by Austin McDonald “It’s a little bit p … | Continue reading
Mabe Fratti Sentir que no sabes Backed by loyal collaborators, Guatemalan-born Mexico City-based cellist Mabe Fratti delivers a confidently confusing knockout Sentir que no sabes by Mabe Fratti There’s shame in not knowing. That’s why it’s hard to admit when you’re wrong. Doubt i … | Continue reading
In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!) I first met George Smiley … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, Justin Patrick Moore takes us through the secret history of the links between wartime cryptography and electro-funk By the 1940s, radio and telephone had revolutionized communications in the industrialized wo … | Continue reading
The album was recorded in Chicago in March 2022 Bill Callahan is releasing a live album, Resuscitate! Spanning 10 tracks, it was recorded during a show at Chicago's Thalia Hall in March 2022. Callahan was joined by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax and Jim White … | Continue reading
He's also shared lead track 'Sans Limities', which features vocals from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier Thurston Moore is set to release his ninth solo album this September. Titled Flow Critical Lucidity, the seven-track record was recorded at London's Total Refreshment Centre. Moore … | Continue reading
d’Eon Leviathan Montreal's Chris d'Eon returns with more rococo digital psychedelia for those who like their deconstructed IDM with a cool slice of Bach Leviathan by d'Eon While epithets like “transporting” and “evocative” tend to be overused to death, every once in a while somet … | Continue reading
JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films Films about exorcisms suffer from much the same problem as any movie in wh … | Continue reading
Innovation slowly becomes stifling orthodoxy in Irish music, says Darran Anderson, so welcome Lankum, the force that arrives once with every generation to revitalise the form Live in Dublin by Lankum Say what you like about the British Empire, and its crimes are legion, it sure h … | Continue reading