Future Now will host 60 artists across five stages in venues across Birkenhead on the August bank holiday weekend Future Yard, photo by Niamh Blackburn The fifth edition of Future Now, a two-day festival of new music in Birkenhead, has been announced for next month’s bank holiday … | Continue reading
In a double-edition of our regular roundup, tQ's staffers select the very finest new albums and tracks released so far this summer This month's edition of our new music roundup is a double edition. What with June being given over to our albums of the year so far, we've selected a … | Continue reading
Darran Anderson gets to grips with a long overdue repress of the cult 1969 LP by Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus and Brian Hodgson The paintings of Maxim Vorobiev are largely forgotten. The glow of his arcadian land and seascapes feels kitsch now, lacking the untamed strangeness … | Continue reading
KMRU Natur Nature and technology collide and combine on an album of electromagnetic waves and twittering birdsong Natur by KMRU What does the modern world sound like? The question evokes numerous answers; blaring car speakers, engine motors, loud cellphone conversations, nightclu … | Continue reading
'Dark Entries Collected Music Graphics' compiles typography, illustrations and various other visual ephemera from the label's history to date Dark Entries is marking its 15th anniversary with the publishing of a zine focused on the label's graphic design history. Put together by … | Continue reading
Charli XCX and English Teacher also feature among the 12 albums nominated this year The 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize have been revealed, with Beth Gibbons' solo debut album, Lives Outgrown, and grime veteran Ghetts' fourth studio album, On Purpose, With Purpose, feat … | Continue reading
Charli XCX and English Teacher also feature among the 12 albums nominated this year The 12 nominees for this year's Mercury Prize have been revealed, with Beth Gibbons' solo debut album, Lives Outgrown, and grime veteran Ghetts' fourth studio album, On Purpose, With Purpose, feat … | Continue reading
It will be released by French label Latency in September Multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti has teamed up with Afro-Portuguese producer and Príncipe label affiliate Nídia for a new album, Estradas. Due to be released through Paris-based label Latency, the nine-track record … | Continue reading
It will be released by French label Latency in September Multi-instrumentalist Valentina Magaletti has teamed up with Afro-Portuguese producer and Príncipe label affiliate Nídia for a new album, Estradas. Due to be released through Paris-based label Latency, the nine-track record … | Continue reading
In the second podcast from Kyiv's 20ft Radio, we look back into the Novaya Scena that thrived in Kharkiv as the USSR crumbled. New Voices Ukraine is a collaboration between The Quietus, 20ft Radio, Neformat, the Ukrainian Institute and the British Council. Kazma Kazma live at Nov … | Continue reading
The latest from the Polish improviser-composer-researcher sees folk music shedding its skin and carving out spaces of opposition to the tyranny of the present, finds Bernie Brooks “Snakes, why’d it have to be snakes?” We all know that one. So, how about Mattie Ross? Having just d … | Continue reading
Laurie Tompkins and Max Syedtollan The Tank A radio play abotu ufology by two absurdist British composers becomes the occasion for free-wheeling vocalisations, spacey synths, and some sdar The Tank by Laurie Tompkins and Max Syedtollan Towards the end of ‘The Blessing’, the openi … | Continue reading
The group's 10th album is preceded by lead single 'Chicken' Pixes have a new album, The Night The Zombies Came, on the way. Spanning 13 tracks, the band's 10th studio album follows on from 2022's Doggerel LP and is the first full-length effort to emerge from them since Band Of Sk … | Continue reading
From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more Photo by Stewart Morgan-Hajdukiewicz A little late on this … | Continue reading
Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne The Coincidence Masters Two guitarists improvising freely sound only rarely like guitars (and often quite comical), finds Antonio Poscic The Coincidence Masters by Eyal Maoz and Eugene Chadbourne Listening to certain stretches of the guitar duo rec … | Continue reading
On the release of a new Uniform single and video for 'Permanent Embrace', Michael Berdan writes about the harsh realities of bulimia nervosa. CW: some readers may find this article disturbing. Band portrait by Joshua Zucker-Pluda & Sean Stout https://youtu.be/J0EzCXsxQR8?si=vfk8h … | Continue reading
The film and score will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September Burial has produced the soundtrack for director Harmony Korine's next film, Baby Invasion. The thriller is filmed in first-person shooter style, and follows a "group of mercenaries using baby faces as avata … | Continue reading
The group will release a new album, 'Everything Squared', next month Seefeel have shared their first new music since 2011 in the form of a song called 'Sky Hooks'. The new track, which you can listen to below, leads a forthcoming six-track album by the group, titled Everything Sq … | Continue reading
The eight-minute piece was previously only made available on a CD release sold on the group's final US tour in 2009 Throbbing Gristle have shared a rare recording ahead of the reissue next month of two releases from the group's back catalogue. 'The Third Mind: First Movement', wh … | Continue reading
It appears on forthcoming album 'Wild God' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new song, titled 'Long Dark Night'. It's the third track to be unveiled from the group's forthcoming album, Wild God, after they shared the title track upon announcing the record in March of this y … | Continue reading
It appears on forthcoming album 'Wild God' Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new song, titled 'Long Dark Night'. It's the third track to be unveiled from the group's forthcoming album, Wild God, after they shared the title track upon announcing the record in March of this y … | Continue reading
In the latest subscriber exclusive Low Culture Essay, John Doran reflects on class, craft and the risk of a flashed or crushed testicle in his life-long relationship with the denim trouser. John Doran in his fancy jeans photographed by Maria Jefferis I buy jeans like my life depe … | Continue reading
Putting aside his concerns about the "nonsense" of the process, Spiritualized leader Jason Pierce takes Daniel Dylan Wray through a thoughtful selection of soul, gospel, country, jazz and R&B deep cuts Photo by Sarah Piantadosi “I've been dreading doing this to be honest,” laughs … | Continue reading
Elori Saxl Drifts and Surfaces Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion, Tigue and the Guggenheim Museum, a suite of long electro-acoustic meditations explore the fragmented nature of time Drifts and Surfaces by Elori Saxl Elori Saxl’s music ripples like the water under an ice shee … | Continue reading
Wayne Gooderham explores the influence of Hubert Selby Jr's transgressive masterpiece on popular music; and on the gender sensibilities of The Smiths, Van Morrison and The Velvet Underground in particular. CW: Some may find the language quoted in this article that describes LGBTQ … | Continue reading
Sote Sound System Persepolis Ata Ebtekar's latest re-imagines the Iranian landscape as an ecstatic sonic geography Sound System Persepolis [DIAG065] by Sote Sound System Persepolis, the recent release by the 45-year-old Iranian electronic musician Sote, plays with boundaries and … | Continue reading
Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and greatest moments. This feature was first published on 9 August 2014 In a curious twist … | Continue reading
Oneida Expensive Air Oneida continue to ride their experimental pysch-rock wave on their brand-new album Expensive Air by Oneida Oneida is more than just a musical project but a project born of multi-faceted creatives wearing multiple hats. Planting themselves deep within the fou … | Continue reading
Music and art exhibitions in support of Hackney NFP picture house Dalston institution The Rio Cinema has been part of cultural life in Hackney for 50 years but in recent years, it has been facing one existential threat after another. You can do your part to help keep the doors of … | Continue reading
The track was recorded by the late Steve Albini at his Electric Audio studio The Breeders singer and guitarist Kim Deal has released a new solo single, 'Coast'. Marking Deal's first solo release for 4AD under her own name, the track, which you can listen to below, was recorded by … | Continue reading
It features music by Emptyset, ZULI and Roly Porter, among others Emptyset, photo by Camille Blake Subtext, the label run by Emptyset's James Ginzburg has shared details of a 20th anniversary compilation, titled Cybernetics, Or Ghosts? – Stories From Myths To A.I. Spanning 15 tra … | Continue reading
It features music by Emptyset, ZULI and Roly Porter, among others Emptyset, photo by Camille Blake Subtext, the label run by Emptyset's James Ginzburg has shared details of a 20th anniversary compilation, titled Cybernetics, Or Ghosts? – Stories From Myths To A.I. Spanning 15 tra … | Continue reading
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Jeremy Allen takes us up to the far north of Norway and the emergence of the country’s techno scene Wikimedia Commons By Mitja Podreka The so-called Bergen Wave of Norwegian techno might have gained currency outside of its homeland durin … | Continue reading
The new album from Brainfeeder Records’ latest signing is as dizzying, complex and contradictory as life itself, finds Claire Biddles In an interview with Ryo Miyauchi for the experimental music newsletter Tone Glow, the producer and songwriter Hakushi Hasegawa is asked whether t … | Continue reading
Rhodri Davies WYTH A box of eight great records from the almost irritatingly brilliant Welsh harpist WYTH (8 x solo album set) by Rhodri Davies For an instrument with such a rich, thousands of years long history, our mainstream cultural view of the harp is absurdly limited. The w … | Continue reading
The track features vocals from South London singer-songwriter Ruthven Overmono have released a new single, titled 'Gem Lingo'. Featuring vocals from South London singer-songwriter Ruthven, the new cut was first debuted by the duo during a broadcast on New York's The Lot Radio alo … | Continue reading
It's Sparhawk's first full-length release since losing his wife and LOW co-founder, Mimi Parker, to cancer in 2022 Alan Sparhawk, co-founder of the band LOW, is to release his debut solo album later this year. Titled White Roses, My God, it spans 11 tracks and marks Sparhawk's fi … | Continue reading
The new edition takes in the full remastered album, as well as bonus cuts produced around the same time as the record Photo by Kevin Cummins Suede are reissuing their second album, Dog Man Star, to mark its 30th anniversary. The full original record has been newly remastered for … | Continue reading
The new edition takes in the full remastered album, as well as bonus cuts produced around the same time as the record Photo by Kevin Cummins Suede are reissuing their second album, Dog Man Star, to mark its 30th anniversary. The full original record has been newly remastered for … | Continue reading
Former Wild Beast Tom Fleming's One True Pairing project, Clarissa Connelly and many more have been added to this year's sprawling lineup One True Pairing, photo by Jenny Lane EFG London Jazz Festival has added another wave of acts to the lineup for its 2024 edition, taking place … | Continue reading
tQ tote bags and a handful of remaining limited edition T-shirts are now on sale to non-subscribers After a priority sale to our subscribers last week, our limited edition The Quietus T-shirts created in partnership with 1 Of 100 are now available to all. Only a handful of the T- … | Continue reading
Following new album Sentir Que No Sabes and ahead of her guest curation at this year’s Le Guess Who?, Mabe Fratti takes Laura Snapes through thirteen favourite records spanning her Central American adolescence, cult dream pop and French post-punk Zeligs Photo by Andrea Ballesta F … | Continue reading
The publisher of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and Eugene Thacker's In The Dust Of This Planet parts ways with imprints after 15 years. Portrait by Eddie Otchere Tariq Goddard the co-founder and publisher of Zero & Repeater books is stepping down from both titles today, it has … | Continue reading
Scarcity The Promise Of Rain Conductor of the Glenn Branca Ensemble channels black metal riggs and post-hardcore dissonance into a fierce emotional gut-punch, finds Alex Deller The Promise of Rain by Scarcity Scarcity’s 2022 debut, Aveilut, was a startling piece of work: both an … | Continue reading
It will be released via the US artist's own Late Music label Sarah Davachi has shared details of her first album in two years, The Head As Form'd In The Crier's Choir. The double-LP is comprised of seven pieces of music written by Davachi between 2022 and 2024. The work featured … | Continue reading
In his first psych rock roundup to take place under a Labour government, JR Moores welcomes a bright new era Red Kross, photo by Wanda Martin In the recent election campaign Keir Starmer kept his cards to his chest in order to lure swing voters to his party and infuriate Owen Jon … | Continue reading
Orange Goblin frontman, “Big” Ben Ward, was infamous for drinking all comers under the table. But now he's gone sober and on new album, Science, Not Fiction, has embraced reason – up to a point. Words: Dan Franklin. Main portrait by Tina Korhonen. Astrophotography by Giancarlo Er … | Continue reading
Pleasure Planet Pleasure Planet Upbeat debut from the new band of Ex-Hercules & Love Affair vocalist and Firehouse Records founder, Kim Ann Foxman Pleasure Planet by Pleasure Planet Part of club music’s great power is that it simultaneously provides a source of community whilst f … | Continue reading