The Shits Diet Of Worms With their third album, the Leeds noise-punks are in danger of becoming an institution Diet Of Worms by The Shits The Shits have been a band for a little under nine years and Diet Of Worms is their third album. Neither of which is especially eye-catching a … | Continue reading
From cooperation in the face of political tension, to complex approaches to tradition, Jakub Knera explores the many driving forces of Croatia's underground music scene, and picks out 10 key releases Mimika Orchestra, photo by Marina Uzelac I wonder where the story begins for thi … | Continue reading
Sean Kitching speaks to Brian Hageman, Mark Davies and Hugh Swarts of TFUL282 about recording at Steve Albini’s house and setting John Cage’s voice to a glitchy dancefloor banger, while offering ten points of entry to their unique back catalogue TFUL282 by Michael Galinsky Haili … | Continue reading
Catch up with everything we wrote about in March. With March done and dusted with the appalling pollen of early spring, we’re back with your regular playlist of everything we wrote about over the past four or so weeks, available on Spotify, Apple Music, TIDAL, Qobuz and Deezer. F … | Continue reading
Ahead of their show at Bristol New Music, Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley and Ethan Miller tell Jennifer Lucy Allan how a Grateful Dead tribute show led to their acclaimed new collaboration, the joy of bootlegs, and how they're avoiding the ego-driven pitfalls that have dogged supergr … | Continue reading
After stripping pop down to its electro-skeleton in the first half of the decade, Prince built it back up from bones in 1986, says Toby Manning Prince always had a strange relationship to individualism, the ethos that was as constitutive of the 80s as his own music. As a one-man … | Continue reading
Irreversible Entanglements Future Present Past Their second album for Impulse! records finds the improvising quintet in a surprisingly hopeful place, finds Andrew Taylor-Dawson Since forming in 2015, free-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements have charted a singular musical … | Continue reading
A Bosnian satirist Dr. Nele Karajlić recently claimed that the entire Yugo rock scene of the 1980s was created by the socialist State; but what if he isn't joking? A report by Robert Rigny Laibach by Nika H. Praper & Ludvik In a small, smoky room in Sarajevo some time in the earl … | Continue reading
Robyn Sexistential Dumb pleasure is a philosophy on Sexistential, Robyn’s fizzing record of love, sex and motherhood Sexistential by Robyn Sixteen years since Body Talk? Eight since Honey? Robyn’s best albums feel closer and further away than that. The Swedish indie popstar’s bes … | Continue reading
He was already great, but over the course of one year, when he released Fishscale and More Fish, Ghostface became a legend. Words by Angus Batey As attentive readers of this august journal will know, the remit and parameters for the occasional Three Album Run series are exacting … | Continue reading
Approval for the development, which could have threatened the future of the London venue, wasn't granted amid a campaign against it by the venue and its supporters A planning application for a development adjacent to London venue MOTH Club has been refused, marking what the team … | Continue reading
tQ's staffers select the best songs and records that have soundtracked the long-awaited beginning of spring Last month there was a story doing the rounds about how, up until that point, it had rained every single day in the UK. It's certainly felt like we've needed this particula … | Continue reading
With their eighth album Paradises out this week, Simon Price asks Ladytron founder Daniel Hunt to shed some light (and magic) upon ten entry points into the Scouse-based synth lords' (and ladies') pristine body of werk. And for top tier subscribers revelation is at hand via an es … | Continue reading
A new four CD reissue package, including fabled lost album reveals a triumphant portrait of the gruppe, says Alastair Shuttleworth, no matter how short-lived When Fall Heads Roll came out in 2005, nearly 30 years into their career, The Fall were finally experiencing some proper g … | Continue reading
Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński Nocturnal Consolations Širom’s banjo and balafon player joins the Polish guitarist and composer to create a map of the folk unconscious, treating tradition as a field of forces in which sound drifts between memory, matter, and imagination Nocturnal … | Continue reading
The record emerged from a live collaboration between the two artists last year Actress and Suzanne Ciani are releasing a new album together, titled Concrète Waves. Marking the first joint release of music by the two artists, the record was born from a live collaboration between t … | Continue reading
Congolese collective build sonic starships ouf of the scrapyards of Africa, transforming ritual into auditory assault All photos by Violaine Morgan Le Fur Kinshasa isn’t the kind of city that waits for you to be ready, the city just takes over your experience. It is a metropolis … | Continue reading
Taupe Waxing | Waning Glaswegian trio summon a lurching, many-limbed beast in a state of restless permanent flux waxing | waning by taupe For her latest show Lunartic, the sweetly surreal comedian Lucy Pearman plays the role of the moon. She dresses up in a giant silvery disc and … | Continue reading
Half a century ago – between the release of Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin – Judas Priest were engaged in a revolution of image and sound... one that would cement the heavy metal aesthetic for good "He said in the cosmos is a single sonic soundThat is vibrating constantly … | Continue reading
Tim Burrows explains how a conversation on a park bench led to an inventive film about a unique, much missed voice in political philosophy and cultural criticism We are making a film about Mark Fisher. That much is true. The idea came about in October 2024 while we were sitting o … | Continue reading
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Natalie Marlin explores how a under-regarded soundtrack became part of understanding her evolving trans identity Hanna does not live with music to guide her, at least at first. Her life is scored solely by the openness of the tundra, the crackli … | Continue reading
Spatial, No Problem arrives almost five years on from the dub pioneer's death Photo by Constantin Carstens Lee "Scratch" Perry's final album is due to be posthumously released this June, almost five years on from the dub pioneer's death. Titled Spatial, No Problem, the eight-trac … | Continue reading
The debut self-titled album from Doublespeak features analogue synth takes on songs by ABBA, The Carpenters and more Vince Clarke has launched a new project devoted to cover versions, together with Benge and Blancmange's Neil Arthur. The trio are known as Doublespeak, and are lin … | Continue reading
Fatoumata Diawara and Emma-Jean Thackray are among the first announced artists for this year's event EFG London Jazz Festival has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2026 edition later this year. Taking over several venues across London over the course of 10 days, the festi … | Continue reading
Objekt and Drew McDowall are among the artists who've reworked tracks from last year's LP Photo by Juan Camilo Diez james K is releasing a remix album for her 2025 LP Friend. Taking in 12 tracks, the release features reworks of songs from last year's record by the likes of Objekt … | Continue reading
In her Baker's Dozen, self-penned between the release of her latest solo album and the return of her much-loved band Black Box Recorder, Sarah Nixey charts her life in listening from Carpenters to The Cure, via encounters with David Bowie and more Photo by pip&clo I've spent half … | Continue reading
Ladytron Paradises A quarter-century from their debut, the Liverpudlian electropop group release their eighth album with a wash of ethereal voices and blissful synth sounds Paradises by Ladytron What is paradise? It is probably a place where the wash of ethereal voices that heral … | Continue reading
The UK artist hopes to secure rights to her artist name amid ongoing cease-and-desist notices from the 90s band Photo by Jordan Hemingway FKA twigs has filed a lawsuit against 90s duo The Twigs in a bid to secure rights to her artist name amid a long-running legal dispute between … | Continue reading
In his latest missive from the French fringes, David McKenna digs into the archives of the Sonic Protest festival and a recent book on the post-68 French underground, and reviews new noise, folk, rap and indie pop releases Mérylle Ampe, photo by Titouan Massé One of the albums re … | Continue reading
John Freeman looks back at the album which provided Pet Shop Boys with the perfect launch-pad for everything that followed What would you want from a debut album? Instant success, hit singles and a worldwide fanbase or a musical springboard which would allow exploration of a myri … | Continue reading
The Leaf Library After the Rain, Strange Seeds Venturesome London-based group get spooky with an album that reveals its depths slowly but assuredly After The Rain, Strange Seeds by The Leaf Library Born to be mild, the Leaf Library have, across their 11-year career, explored the … | Continue reading
As his sprawling project My New Band Believe prepares a debut LP, Cameron Picton discusses life after Black Midi, the loss of former bandmate Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, ambition, and rethinking the possibilities of singer-songwriter records Photo by Daisy Ayscough and Tomos Ayscoug … | Continue reading
Underscores U Underscores’ third album is an excursion into the intersection of dance and pop music, sure to slingshot the American singer-songwriter into stardom U by underscores It’s hard to not feel a certain whimsy when listening to Underscores’ (real name April Harper Grey) … | Continue reading
Neurosis An Undying Love For A Burning World Thirty years after the release of Through Silver In Blood, Neurosis are back with a surprise album, but a lot has changed, says Dan Franklin An Undying Love For A Burning World by Neurosis When Scott Kelly was fired from Neurosis in 20 … | Continue reading
Ben Cardew's new book, Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs, recounts the tale of Stereolab in 20 songs that represent certain vital aspects of the band’s make up (from romance, to collage and repetition). In this extract, he looks at the idea of 'pro … | Continue reading
An Undying Love For A Burning World features eight tracks, and is available for streaming now Photo by Bobby Cochran Neurosis have released their first new album in a decade, titled An Undying Love For A Burning World. Spanning eight tracks, the album was recorded across three we … | Continue reading
Mary Chiney gets to grips with a holy grail of Antillean music, Roland Brival's seamless marriage of American spiritual jazz with the ancestral roots of Martinique’s bèlè and carnival traditions Many extraordinary works fade quietly into obscurity, only to be rediscovered years l … | Continue reading
Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone Music for Intersecting Planes The new collaboration between Leila Bordreuil and Kali Malone captures candlelit conjurations that unfurl into warning sirens, says Bernie Brooks Music for Intersecting Planes by Leila Bordreuil + Kali Malone A few days … | Continue reading
CEO Nick Williams has said the music tech company is in active talks on a possible acquisition, however Native Instruments (NI) is formally entering into insolvency proceedings. In a statement shared today (19 March), CEO Nick Williams said the Berlin-based music tech company and … | Continue reading
The track marks the band's first new music since 2022 and arrives 40 years on from their formation The Afghan Whigs have shared a new song, titled 'House Of I'. Marking the first release of new material from the band since 2022, it arrives 40 years on from their formation. They'r … | Continue reading
The U-turn on potential policy comes after backlash to the plans The UK government has scrapped its support for plans to allow AI models to be trained using copyrighted creative material, such as music, without compensating artists. The government's support for the idea was retra … | Continue reading
Chris Pugmire offers us ten entry points into the back catalogue of Ed Kuepper of Australian iconoclasts The Saints, Laughing Clowns, and solo and collaborative renown Ed Kuepper by Doctorhawkes Please meet, acquaint or re-acquaint yourself with Ed Kuepper, one of the greatest mu … | Continue reading
Teerath Majumder Dust To Dust Overflowing with sounds and ideas, the latest from the Bangladeshi composer-producer is full of surprises No stranger to a juxtaposition, Bangladeshi composer Teerath Majumder has previous in merging seemingly disparate forms to create something new. … | Continue reading
The Heads' chaotic Dionysian abandon is always tempered by a mathematical Apollonian rigour, finds Stewart Lee When Iggy Pop sang “Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell” on The Stooges’ 1973 swan song Raw Power, he anticipated the anti-romantic punk era nihilism that was to see futur … | Continue reading
In the latest antidote to the algorithm, Jakub Knera takes us to the wildly diverse and hypnotic sounds of the Portuguese city The Lovers & Lollypops record label holds a place in the Portuguese music scene that’s similar to the Bonfim district within the city of Porto. The gentr … | Continue reading
The classic work will be released in new Blu-ray, vinyl and digital editions Kraftwerk's Radio-Activity is getting a 50th anniversary reissue. The German group's first electronic record will be released in new Blu-ray, vinyl and digital editions to mark the landmark. It was origi … | Continue reading
It's the second taste of upcoming album Poem 1 Photo by Suzie Maez Ana Roxanne has shared a new track, 'Untitled II'. The delicate song centres around Roxanne's arresting vocals, as well as pared-back guitar, piano and percussive accompaniment. It's the second track to be unleash … | Continue reading
By the mid-90s Stereolab should have been at the peak of their powers, so why didn't it feel that way to Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier? Fergal Kinney examines the series of events that saw the band escape the dead end they'd ended up in culminating in the release of one of their m … | Continue reading