It's lifted from new album Abyss, which is out this Friday Anika has released a new single, titled 'Oxygen'. The track appears on new album Abyss, which is out later this week. "'Oxygen' is about feeling trapped in your own body, in your own narrative, in your own society, within … | Continue reading
Backxwash Only Dust Remains The latest album finds the Zambian-Canadian rapper in reflective mode, bathed in warm synths and more melodic percussion to balance the darkness Only Dust Remains by Backxwash In a sleeve note on 2022’s His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are … | Continue reading
In his latest deep dive into the music scenes of Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera explores how Serbia's artists are responding to a climate of increasing political tension, profiles the forward-thinking figures at the heart of the country's underground scene, and reviews a … | Continue reading
Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus "Back in the 1980s Prefab Sprout put out an album called Steve McQueen", says Mike Scott … | Continue reading
Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers As one 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 than … | Continue reading
Ingram, fka WOEBOT, shares the things he has learned about improving the health of soil while researching his new book, The Garden. All portraits by Sam Ingram Matthew Ingram, aka Woebot, is an author and researcher in countercultural history. He found his way into a wider study … | Continue reading
Sandwell District End Beginnings Fifteen years after their debut album, Karl O’Connor and David Sumner return to cruise the night time streets of techno city once more Karl O’Connor seems to be enjoying getting his old bands back together. Last year he reunited with Surgeon for t … | Continue reading
In this exclusive extract from Ecoes #7 – a new magazine issue exploring ‘the art of listening and unveiling the unseen,’ published by Sonic Acts – editor and writer Hannah Pezzack ventures into Wales' post-industrial hinterlands All photos by Charlie Pezzack Uncovering the many- … | Continue reading
From Hammer Horror to kitsch to electronic music, to coincide with the publication of his new book The Alienation Effect, Owen Hatherley explores the neglected history of European music in Britain Mátyás Seiber The other ‘Stairway to Heaven’ was composed by Allan Gray, for Michae … | Continue reading
Quietus Ed John Doran presents the Australian debut of the Live Documentary Performance: What Is This That Stands Before Me? Metal & Modernism in Hobart/Nipaluna TQ's John Doran is traveling a long way to make the claim that heavy metal is the last true form of mass modernism. Ha … | Continue reading
Cian Traynor celebrates the 30th birthday of a unique and brilliant album and re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew its creator, Ol' Dirty Bastard, the best. This feature was originally published on 30 March 2015 It was a muggy Manhattan afternoon w … | Continue reading
The shoegazers will play three dates in London, Manchester and Glasgow later this year My Bloody Valentine have announced a run of UK arena shows for this November. The live dates will mark the much-loved shoegazers' first UK headline tour in over a decade, and will see them play … | Continue reading
From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that dance music still has space for innovation, tQ's staffers round up the best that March had to offer Along with the first rays of worryingly warm sp … | Continue reading
Twenty "tips of the tongue" with the subtitle 'A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century Underground Music' recall a time & place of passion, mailing lists and CD-rs, says Jeanette Leech Volcanic Tongue - A Time-Travelling Evangelist’s Guide to Late 20th Century U … | Continue reading
Playboi Carti MUSIC The Atlanta rapper's third album is a sprawling mess with a few too many unnecessary and forgettable features, but buried somewhere in its capacious 77-minute runtime there's a fantastic album trying desperately to claw its way out, finds Christian Eede It was … | Continue reading
Serial collaborator and Propellor Orchestra leader Jack McNeill's long-awaited debut solo album is released today exclusively for tQ subscribers, a record that draws deep on his surroundings in Cumbria, but subverts our expectations of the clarinet as an instrument that hymns the … | Continue reading
Use Knife État Coupable Dark folk, new beat and post-national sensibilities combine in a searing indictment of the violence of the state État Coupable by Use Knife Those who have been listening to Use Knife’s previous output may notice a sharpening of sound, and a hardening of at … | Continue reading
On her thrilling second album, Aya's abrasive mix of techno, UK bass, noise and industrial becomes a surgical tool for explorations of trauma and identity Credit Dee Iskrzynska “When it comes to trauma, I think you can see both sides of an event,” explained DJ and producer Aya Si … | Continue reading
Technology firm Infinite Reality is planning to refresh it as a streaming and virtual concert platform Napster, the peer-to-peer file sharing application popular in the early 00s for pirating music and other audio, has been sold for $207 million, 23 years after it was originally … | Continue reading
It follows recent single 'Vega' and the launch of the artist's new label, pop.soil Photo by Leonard Scotti Lyra Pramuk is set to release a new album this June. Titled Hymnal, the 14-track record marks the US artist's first full-length studio effort since 2020's Fountain. Its anno … | Continue reading
As she moves up to co-lead vocal and songwriting duties for Black Country, New Road, Tyler Hyde selects 13 records that influence her craft, from Randy Newman to The Fall via Frank Ocean, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and more Photo by Eddie Whelan “It sounded like a really exciting opport … | Continue reading
Eiko Ishibashi Antigone Following success scoring the films of Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, the Chiba-born composer-performer returns to the leftfield pop of her albums from the 2010s Antigone by Eiko Ishibashi It’s been such a long time since Eiko Ishibashi produced the kind of leftfield … | Continue reading
A price cap of up to 10 percent above face value on resold tickets was included among Labour's election pledges last year UK competition watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has said for the first time that it would back a price cap on the resale of events tickets … | Continue reading
It's the UK producer's first full release outside of his own Timedance and A Long Strange Dream imprints since 2018 Photo by Finnegan Travers Batu has a new EP on the way, titled Question Mark. Spanning four tracks, it builds on the UK producer's expansive club sound explored on … | Continue reading
The Danish artist's audio play explores the dynamics of home life, routine and queer relationships Photo by Oda Egjar Starheim Nic Krog, one of the acts featured on SHAPE+'s 2024/25 roster of artists, has released a new album, Perfect Pattern. The 13-track release forms a spatial … | Continue reading
It marks the first time both albums have been reissued individually Pete Shelley's first two post-Buzzcocks solo albums, Homosapien and XL-1, are being reissued by Domino. The updated release of the two records will mark the first time that they have been reissued individually. T … | Continue reading
40 years on, Simon Price revisits the undeclared war between Arcadia, who made "the most pretentious album ever", and The Power Station, who made "the most cocainey album ever"; and asks who, if anyone, was the winner "Arcadia and The Power Station", writes Saint Etienne's Bob St … | Continue reading
Ahead of Counterflows festival, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to Tori Kudo to offer ten points of musical entry to his extensive back catalogue. Well, nine points of musical entry and one pair of ceramic shoes Maher Shalal Hash Baz portrait courtesy of Domino As futile pieces of mus … | Continue reading
Sacred Paws Jump Into Life Glasgow post-punks Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers return after a five year hiatus, their exuberance undimmed Jump Into Life by SACRED PAWS When the duo of Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers first broke through with their debut album as Sacred Paws, audiences were … | Continue reading
Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, re-tuned fiddles that wallop and croon in equal measure, clattering 1980s Japanese post punk and more Valentina Goncharova, photo courtesy of Hidden Harmony A che … | Continue reading
Her second full-length release of the year is due out in August Photo by Hayden Anhedönia and Silken Weinberg Ethel Cain has shared details of a new album, Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You. Marking her second full-length release of the year, following January's Perverts, t … | Continue reading
Pavements will premiere in May before getting a wider release in June The first official trailer for Pavements, the forthcoming film on the band Pavement, has been shared online, alongside details of the movie's cinema release. Premieres of the Alex Ross Perry-directed film will … | Continue reading
She's also shared lead track 'Stound' Photo by Chris Carter Cosey Fanni Tutti has a new album on the way. Composed, performed and produced fully by the artist herself, the nine-track 2t2 draws on tough recent years for Cosey which have included personal bereavements and a period … | Continue reading
It will be screened in almost 30 different countries between May 7 and 11 Björk's concert film Cornucopia is getting a limited cinema release. From May 7, the film will be screened in 25 different countries, including the UK, the US, Brazil, Australia and Germany. It will then pr … | Continue reading
Black Sound London will run until July 19 A new exhibition at London's Barbican Music Library is exploring the past 100 years of Black British music. Black Sound London opened earlier this month and will be on display at the Barbican until July 19. It aims to explore "the outsize … | Continue reading
Darran Anderson sifts through all of the glorious rubble of German experimental music, psychedelic rock, avant funk and elektronische of the late 1960s onwards to hail an unbeatable trinity. All photographs by Maria Jefferis Three Album Run is a new series on tQ where we explore … | Continue reading
The band have currently lined up three dates in Manchester, alongside festival appearances in Europe WU LYF are reuniting for a run of live shows, beginning next month. Marking the band's first dates in 13 years, the announcement of the shows follows on from frontman Ellery James … | Continue reading
Inturist Tourism With a broken tape recorder and a flea market mixer, the exiled artist summons ghosts of Cluster and the Clangers Tourism by Inturist Forever alone, forever making beautiful things. The nomadic life of Jenya Gorbunov continues apace after russia’s brutal and ille … | Continue reading
Driving Him Nuts: Squirrely Years Revisited Is Ministry's Best Album In Decades Al Jourgensen's latest is a startling proposition – re-recordings of material that he outright despises, with a raging squirrel phallus displayed on the cover. It's also, says JR Moores, the best mate … | Continue reading
From hypnagogic pop to the New Weird America, Jon Buckland finds a glimpse of hope in an anthology of music writing by author and critic David Keenan “I like art where the blood is streaming and the flowers are blooming like hell.” – Peter Brötzmann Pitiful royalties. Chronic tic … | Continue reading
Twenty years on from her debut, Skye Butchard maps the ways M.I.A.’s art has aligned with and often predicted internet culture - in both the bad and the brilliant Last summer, M.I.A. debuted a fashion line of sorts on Infowars, the platform of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex J … | Continue reading
The subversive cinema takeover is back in Hackney this April with an even bigger celebration of women in underground scenes, goth, EBM and fetish culture Dalston institution The Rio Cinema has been part of cultural life in Hackney for half a century but in more recent years, it h … | Continue reading
Jeremy Allen considers the special plight of the brilliant album which commits the crime of only refining a sound when the previous album originated it “Today kids get an instrument and see what they can do with it. Then they look around and start to copy, which is okay to start … | Continue reading
Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick If there’s a commonality shared by all the n … | Continue reading
More Eaze & Claire Rousay No Floor As the two friends and regular collaborators slide into Thrill Jockey's roster, Emo and Americana get stirred into the ambient stew to heartfelt and often dreamlike effect no floor by more eaze & claire rousay Longtime collaborators and kindred … | Continue reading
It's out next month on Rocket Recordings Photo by Alex Telfer Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have a new album on the way, titled Death Hilarious. Continuing the band's longstanding connection with Rocket Recordings, the record features nine tracks. The group's producer and gu … | Continue reading
Anna Doble recalls a youthful encounter with Trish Keenan and James Cargill in Leeds, and their debut album which is now a quarter of a century old The Noise Made By People by Broadcast A song drifts across a creaking wooden stage and through the side exit of a pub. I see the sin … | Continue reading
Heimat Iti Eta No French duo weave Byzantine dreamscapes out of complex rhythms and folkish surrealism Iti Eta No by HEIMAT There’s something about trees and storms in Iti Eta No. Heimat’s third album is an exploration of collage and landscape – not just the physical landscape of … | Continue reading