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The Residents
Doctor Dark

Stalwart Californian weirdos create a three-act avant-metal opera inspired by Judas Priest’s notorious 1990 trial for supposedly satanic subliminal messages

A Quietus Interview

Perc Life: Rattle Interviewed

Claire Biddles speaks to Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley ahead of the release of their hypnotic new album, Encircle. Portraits by Julie R. Kane

Reviews

Mirrored Daughters
Mirrored Daughters

Dragging their instruments through Epping Forest, members of Firestations and The Leaf Library team up with Marlody and Hannah Reeves to evoke a troubled exurban environment

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for February Reviewed by JR Moores

Barely recovered from The Jesus Lizard’s recent UK tour, JR Moores flings himself, in a zebra print G-string, at the latest psych and noise rock releases

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: La Haine

In this month's subscriber podcast John Doran and Luke Turner revisit Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 film of racial tensions and police brutality in the French suburbs

Subscribers

Things I Have Learned

Richard Foster on the Art of Punk Rock Birdwatching

Writer/ idler/ photocopyist Richard Foster is about to publish his second auto fiction – The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club – this month. Here he outlines the credo of this pastime. Portraits by Nina Dörner

Reviews

Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream

A box of old home movies provides a foil to the hushed voices and mangled guitar riffs on the latest chapter in the Boise, Idaho, artist's story

A Quietus Interview

Unfortunately, it’s the Perfect Moment: Prostitute Interviewed

tQ talks to hometown heroes Moe and Andrew, the incendiary songwriting duo behind Dearborn, Michigan's up-and-coming noise rock quintet, Prostitute

Books

She’s Always In My Hair: Salon Sounds of Then & Now

With the publication of her new book Base Notes: The Scents of a Life, Adelle Stripe recalls the soundscape of her mother's hair salon

Music Downloads

Jas Shaw & Simon Lord Discuss Their tQ Valentine’s Bonus Subscriber-Exclusive Release

As it's Valentine's Day we're showing how much we love our top Subscriber Plus tier supporters by giving them bonus music – here, former Simian members Jas Shaw and Simon Lord discuss how they combined vocals, long form production and the inspiration of Slavoj Žižek on their twinkling epic

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Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Ifetayo by Black Truth Rhythm Band

Irina Shtreis takes a closer look at Ifetayo – an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band which is reissued by Soundway Records this month

Reviews

Traxman
Da Mind Of Traxman Vol.3

A trawl through the archives of one of the pioneers of Chigago footwork still has fresh ideas for the future of the genre, finds Aydin Khalili

Album of the Week

More Than Real: End of the Middle by Richard Dawson

The bard of Newcastle upon Tyne in stripped-back, bare-bones mode delivers his most intimate – and perhaps his best – album to date, finds Tom Bolton

Reviews

White Magic For Lovers
The Book Of Lies

The Brighton-based Anglo-American duo of husbands Alfie and Thomas White craft an understated yet captivating album with a richness that only deepens on repeated listens

A Quietus Interview

Impermanent Everything: DARKSIDE Interviewed

Liam Inscoe-Jones sits down to talk with Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington and Tlacael Esparza about their new album Nothing, out later this month. Main portrait by Aurelie Sauffier

Reviews

Peter Brötzmann / John Edwards / Steve Noble / Jason Adasiewicz
The Quartet

The final concert of the late, great German saxophonist and clarinetist, recorded a year ago at London's Cafe Oto, makes for a truly remarkable swan song from an extraordinary artist

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… HTRK

As they release a special edition of their Marry Me Tonight album, Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang of HTRK sit down to guide Luke Turner through selections from their 21 years of seductive gloom pop

Reviews

Moundabout
Goat Skull Table

A roadtrip through the Irish midlands leads Gnod's Paddy Shine and Phil Langero of Los Langeros into some dark, dark places, finds Tom Bolton

Reviews

Califone
The Villager’s Companion

American oddballs search for the mythic in the everyday, finds Jared Dix

Anniversary

40 Years On: The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at The Smiths' second album and how this record changed his life. This piece was originally published in 2015

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for February

Noel Gardner delivers his latest roundup from the world of punk and hardcore featuring transmissions from the underground scenes of Beirut, Rome and Devizes (Wiltshire)

A Quietus Interview

Someone Disappears / Someone Reappears: Jules Reidy Interviewed

You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit. Miloš Hroch talks to Jules Reidy about this statement fuelled by mysticism, ego death and the influence of shoegaze. Portraits by Camille Blake

Reviews

Sophia Djebel Rose
Sécheresse

French-Morroccan artist combines folk songs with her own material to powerful effect, finds Jeremy Allen

Reissue of the Week

Compilation of the Week: Sensitive – An Indie Pop Anthology

Jem Stone celebrates his punk rock: the DIY indie pop of The Sea Urchins, the Pooh Sticks, The Clouds and Talulah Gosh, gathered together on a new Needle Mythology comp

Reviews

Manic Street Preachers
Critical Thinking

After nearly four decades, the latest album finds the Manics being reassuringly Manics-y, finds Will Ainsley

Album of the Week

The Evil That Men Do: Cowards by Squid

Brighton post-punks get weirder, wilder and more exploratory with age, finds Cal Cashin

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XLI: Toronto Goth of the 80s & 90s

In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Jonathan Wright visits his younger self in 1980s Canada, when goth was on a rise as steep as his backcombed hair

Subscribers

Reviews

Heartworms
Glutton For Punishment

Goth cardinal Jojo Orme turns in a well-crafted full-length debut with a distinctive military theme

The Quietus International

Rockfort! French Music for February, Reviewed by David McKenna

Addictive sprawling hip hop, specially crafted bird-imitating instruments, and bagpipe hyperpop are the order of the day in David McKenna's latest French dispatch

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Fugazi

Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether

Reviews

James Brandon Lewis
Apple Cores

New York's most open-minded saxophonist pays tribute to Amiri Baraka and Don Cherry

Reviews

Lina Tullgren
Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking

With a soft palette of guitar, harp, euphonium, saxophone and flute, and its sparse, intimate texture, the American artist's fourth album feels more dreamed than composed

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