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Here are our favourite albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers
Jakub Knera reviews the year in Central and Eastern European music, picking out ten key records and a host of reissues, and highlighting the importance of Raphael Rogiński and the late Vojtěch Havel
Drawing on his new book, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s, JR Moores explores Macca’s breadth of activities in what he argues was the most important decade of his post-Beatles career
Angel Death Traps
An album of static grain and abrasive chaos at the fraying interface of music and technology
Kez Whelan salutes one of the best years for metal in recent memory, and forces himself to pick just 20 of the best heavy releases from 2024
It’s the end of the year pod, with John Doran and Luke Turner having a chat about weird sightings in Dungeness, and highlights of this year’s albums
We left two of our favourite musicians, Gazelle Twin and Gary Numan, alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked, talking ghost encounters, weirdness in pop music, parenthood, the end of humanity and more
As the US reels from the re-election of Donald Trump, Jesse Dorris finds solace and inspiration in a fine weekend of concerts curated by Polish festival Unsound, from hunkering down to basement techno to riding the drone of Kali Malone and Sunn O))). Photos by Lawrence Sumulong.
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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On 3 December 1984, Wham! released a Christmas single that over the years would lose none of its power despite becoming a sonic monolith of the festive season. Ian Wade reflects on how the song has haunted his life, and the strange melancholy of a Christmas pop death.
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
Explore The PortalBeautifully intimate home recordings made by an Ethiopian nun reflecting on the idea of exile in the 1970s and 1980s, probably never intended to be heard by anyone but herself, have taken on an astounding universality in 2024, says Jakub Knera
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