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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for September by Daryl Worthington

From gnome-inspired computer music to dancing incandescent lightbulbs, dungeon synth soundtracks for imagined RPGs and apocalyptic drum solos, Daryl Worthington dives into early-Autumn’s cassette releases

Reviews

Lucrecia Dalt
A Danger to Ourselves

Joined by David Sylvian and Juana Molina, Lucrecia Dalt finds wild abandon in minimalist electronics and eerie soundscapes, finds Lina Adams

Black Sky Thinking

Imagine There’s no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture

As Universal release an expensive box set celebrating John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "political activism", Samuel Cox argues that it cheapens the legacy of more impactful, radical figures

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for September Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan reflects on the passing of Ozzy Osbourne and Mastodon's Brent Hinds, and reviews crucial new heavy releases from Human Leather, Endless Swarm, Kayo Dot and more

Reviews

Gwenifer Raymond
Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

With her finger-picked acoustic guitar, the Welsh-born artist plays hymns to dusty landscapes and oddball outsiders

Anniversary

All She Ever Looked For: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever, 45 Years On

Kate Bush’s third album is not her most celebrated but, Ben Hewitt argues, it might be her most pivotal – the start of her transition from artist to auteur. First published 07/09/20

A Quietus Interview

Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed

Ben James Wood is part of a new generation of Cornwall-based producers, mixing and matching modular and desktop/ soft & hard synths to reboot Braindance for the 21st Century barn dance. Words: Noel Gardner. Photos: Patrick Matthews

Reviews

Kinzoogianna
The Clique of ’86

Jazz virtuouso goes electro-boogie on a neon-streaked night ride to the past – without a trace of nostalgia

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Autechre’s Quaristice

C.D. Rose hails the reissue of this 2008 album as a perfect and playful introduction to the full range of Autechre

Reviews

Saint Etienne
International

The final album from Bob, Pete and Sarah. And they're going out with a bang, finds Ian Wade

Electronic

Hyperspecific: The Best Dance Tracks from Summer 2025, Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

As autumn approaches, tQ's electronic music columnist Jaša Bužinel compiles the tunes that have had the greatest impact on this summer's festival dancefloors, from progressive bangers to nostalgia triggers

Reviews

Dream Skills and Burn Into Sleep
I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry

A collaboration between siblings produces a completely beguiling body of work that’s simultaneously scary and sexy, finds Zara Hedderman

Album of the Week

See It, Say It, Sorted: Antidepressants by Suede

Suede's painterly new album takes the raw energy of its predecessor and twists it through layers of distortion and high drama

Live Reviews

tQ’s Highlights of Supersonic 2025

As Digbeth's Supersonic festival continues to defy the odds, Patrick Clarke reports with five highlights from this year's edition

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne

After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album

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Reviews

Prolapse
I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face

More than a quarter-century since their last album, the Leicester post-punks sound as sludgy and dyspeptic as ever

Reviews

BlankFor.ms
After The Town Was Swept Away

Brooklyn-based ambient music composer stringing degraded tape loops into sinister new shapes

New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain in Review for September by Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner's guide to the greatest in the British underground returns, with vaporous synths, leftfield new age bubblers, avowedly fuck-off noise music and more

Reviews

Guedra Guedra
Mutant

On his second full-length album, Abdellah M. Hassak creates sonic cartography

Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: August 2025

Catch up with everything we wrote about last month

Subscribers

Anniversary

American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40

Legacy Of Brutality conveys much of what is magnificent about the band, and much of what is exasperating about Glenn Danzig, says Andrew Holter, as he assesses the compilation – and Danzig’s complicated legacy – 40 years on

Reviews

Adrian Sherwood
The Collapse Of Everything

Over a decade since his last solo record, the UK dub pioneer returns with Brian Eno and the late Keith LeBlanc in tow along with a swelling sense of hope

Music of the Month

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of August 2025

tQ's staffers select the finest new music from an August that's provided a torrent of excellent releases

Reviews

Blood Orange
Essex Honey

Devonté Hynes returns to England with a jolt on the first new Blood Orange LP for six years

Reviews

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush

The LA-based artist foregrounds non-verbal communication

Music Downloads

tQ Subscriber Release: Material Object’s Cloud Chamber

For our latest exclusive release for our subscribers, Material Object has supplied six colossal tracks of extraordinary widescreen electronics. He speaks to Alex Maiolo about the recording and his career thus far

Subscribers

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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for September by Daryl Worthington

Lucrecia Dalt A Danger to Ourselves

Imagine There’s no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for September Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Gwenifer Raymond Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

All She Ever Looked For: Kate Bush’s Never For Ever, 45 Years On

Kernow Craft: Oh Mr James Interviewed

Kinzoogianna The Clique of ’86

Reissue of the Week: Autechre’s Quaristice

Saint Etienne International

Hyperspecific: The Best Dance Tracks from Summer 2025, Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Dream Skills and Burn Into Sleep I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry

See It, Say It, Sorted: Antidepressants by Suede

tQ’s Highlights of Supersonic 2025

The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne

Prolapse I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face

BlankFor.ms After The Town Was Swept Away

New Weird Britain in Review for September by Noel Gardner

Guedra Guedra Mutant

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: August 2025

American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40

Adrian Sherwood The Collapse Of Everything

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of August 2025

Blood Orange Essex Honey

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Gush

tQ Subscriber Release: Material Object’s Cloud Chamber

Rún Rún

Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars Amazing Things

Voices Beneath the Rubble: Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends At TreePeople

The Strange World Of… Van Morrison

Homecoming: Dev Hynes’ Favourite Albums

Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love

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That’s How We Make It Our Home: Will Oldham Selects 13 Valiant Records from Louisville, Kentucky

How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids

Ore Ore Ore: The Andrea True Connection’s More More More

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More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for March

The London Sound Survey From Dusk Till Dawn

Guest Playlist: Alexis Taylor

The Four Seasons: Bill Orcutt’s Music In Continuous Motion

Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums

Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble Signals

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Lucrecia Dalt
A Danger to Ourselves

Gwenifer Raymond
Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

Kinzoogianna
The Clique of ’86

Saint Etienne
International

Dream Skills and Burn Into Sleep
I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry

Prolapse
I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face

BlankFor.ms
After The Town Was Swept Away

Guedra Guedra
Mutant

Adrian Sherwood
The Collapse Of Everything

Blood Orange
Essex Honey

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush

Rún
Rún

Darren Hayman and his Electric Guitars
Amazing Things

Earl Sweatshirt
Live Laugh Love

New Age Doom featuring H.R.
Angels Against Angels

The London Sound Survey
From Dusk Till Dawn

Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble
Signals

Tanya Tagaq
Saputjiji