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50 Years On: Patti Smith’s Horses Revisited

Hannah Pezzack looks back half a century and finds a crucial album which is pulsating with erotic energy

Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of Grime

With the publication of his new book, Grime, Roony Keefe talks to Arusa Qureshi about Rhythm Division, Grime Gran and how he became the documentarian of the grime scene

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year

Julian Marszalek relishes a live box set that captures a band at the moment of transition – in invention and reinvention – but, he asks, were they the Beatles of hardcore?

Anniversary

30 years on: Angus Batey dissects Liquid Swords By GZA

Angus Batey delves into his own extensive interview archive to reassess Liquid Swords three decades later. This feature was first published in 2015

Anniversary

What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20

Two decades on Matthew Barton considers how the revered artist came back after a 12 year absence with an album that was well worth the wait

Reviews

Danny Brown
Stardust

Danny Brown goes hyperpop, calling in a bevy of younger collaborators (Jane Remover, Frost Children, 8485, Issbrokie, femtanyl, and more) for the Detroit artist's most joyour album to date

Live Reviews

Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of Mucho Flow

Kate French Morris heads to the ancient city of Guimarães in Portugal, where These New Puritans and a host of local acts guide her through the rain-lashed, autumnal gloom

Anniversary

30 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited

Gary Suarez gives us an American perspective on one of Autechre's most revered albums and a duo about to sever all remaining ties to the culture that surrounded them. First published in 2015

Reviews

Charmaine Lee
Tulpa

With a contact mic taped to her throat, the Australian vocalist expands the very concept of vocal music

Album of the Week

Chopper Choons: Mercy by Armand Hammer and The Alchemist

On their seventh stellar album in a row, the unbeatable duo of Elucid and Billy Woods find space for small, everyday joys amongst the horror of contemporary geopolitics

Reviews

Hilary Woods
Night CRIÚ

The Dublin artist returns to the voice as a source of mystery and power on an album of tender incantations, produced by Big Dean Hurley

Baker's Dozen

Good Tradition: Tanita Tikaram’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of her performance at this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, Tanita Tikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles, an abiding love of the jazz and soul greats, and more

Reviews

Primitive Man
Observance

The Denver Death Sludge trio let a sliver of light in, testing genre limits to create a monolith of heavy art

New Weird Britain

New Weird Britain in Review for November by Noel Gardner

From weighty out-jazz poetry to a dream pop / post rock wormhole, via mutating synth grids, a record fuelled by hatred of the ‘the music industry’ and more – it can only be Noel Gardner’s latest guide to the best of New Weird Britain

Reviews

Makaya McCraven
Techno Logic/Hidden Out!/The People’s Mixtape/PopUp Shop

The drummer-producer’s four-EP project blends live performance and post-production tricknology into a new kind of superstrong musical compound

Playlists

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

The dearly beloved tQ supporters can catch up with everything we've written about this past month here

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Reviews

KeiyaA
Hooke's Law

The Chicago-born singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a record producer is like a coiled spring on this spacious yet claustrophobic follow-up to 2020's brilliant Forever, Ya Girl

Books

Stroppy, Optimistic, Overdressed Young Men: Robert Elms Remembers the Blitz Club

Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties, a new book by Robert Elms, returns the reader to a bygone London of squats full of future popstars and cans of Red Stripe to recall the nightclub that birthed Spandau Ballet and Visage and might just have invented the future

tQ Charts

Here are the 25 best pieces of Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far…

..according to our team of experts at least. Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune and Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colegate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre. Words by Sean Kitching

Music of the Month

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

As we approach the final months of 2025, tQ staffers select the finest album and tracks from October's releases

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: The Unutterable by The Fall

The best Fall album of the 21st century, or ever? Fergal Kinney makes the case for a dark and heavy masterpiece made up of ketamine, Pete Tong and pumpkin soup

Reviews

Bruise Blood
You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor

Mike Bourne of Teeth of the Sea and Hirvikolari takes us on a dystopian synth-wave journey replete with industrial crunches and stabs of sub bass

Anniversary

Something Changed: Pulp’s Different Class Revisited

Luke Turner looks back 30 years to a singular album and a nation standing at a cultural crossroads. First published in 2015

Reviews

Oruã
Slacker

From Rio de Janeiro, the group's loose, kosmische indie pop enacts its own quiet, day-to-day revolutionary practice, finds Hayley Scott

Album of the Week

Heavy Weather: A Theory of Cloud by Shrine Maiden

Husband and wife duo Rachel Nakawatase and Ryan Betschart blend their doom with dreampop, noise, ambient and shoegaze elements, exploding the confines of linear perspective into new forms of sonic space

Reviews

SANAM
Sametou Sawtan

Sandy Chamoun joins guitarist Anthony Sahyoun, buzuq player Farah Kaddour, bassist Antonio Hajj, plus electronics from Marwan Tohme, for an album that explores the horizons of post-rock beyond the Western world

Live Reviews

The Sublime to the Meticulous: Highlights from Semibreve 2025

Patrick Clarke reports from Braga's Semibreve, where high-concept programming and the use of beautiful interior spaces reap rich rewards

A Quietus Interview

Praying in Fire with Hildegard Von Bingen: Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko Interviewed

Ahead of their appearance at this year's Le Guess Who festival, Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko speak to Jennifer Lucy Allan about interpreting the music of Hildegard Von Bingen via Ukrainian folk song in the context of the Russian invasion of their homeland

Reviews

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50 Years On: Patti Smith’s Horses Revisited

Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of Grime

Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year

30 years on: Angus Batey dissects Liquid Swords By GZA

What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20

Danny Brown Stardust

Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of Mucho Flow

30 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited

Charmaine Lee Tulpa

Chopper Choons: Mercy by Armand Hammer and The Alchemist

Hilary Woods Night CRIÚ

Good Tradition: Tanita Tikaram’s Favourite Albums

Primitive Man Observance

New Weird Britain in Review for November by Noel Gardner

Makaya McCraven Techno Logic/Hidden Out!/The People’s Mixtape/PopUp Shop

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

KeiyaA Hooke's Law

Stroppy, Optimistic, Overdressed Young Men: Robert Elms Remembers the Blitz Club

Here are the 25 best pieces of Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far…

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

Reissue of the Week: The Unutterable by The Fall

Bruise Blood You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor

Something Changed: Pulp’s Different Class Revisited

Oruã Slacker

Heavy Weather: A Theory of Cloud by Shrine Maiden

SANAM Sametou Sawtan

The Sublime to the Meticulous: Highlights from Semibreve 2025

Praying in Fire with Hildegard Von Bingen: Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko Interviewed

Jeff Tobias One Hundredfold Now In This Age

Light Music: Sunn O))), Catherine Christer Hennix & More at Venice Biennale Musica

All this and Ian McShane too: Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm at 40

The Pastor Chris Congregation West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up the Serpents”

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Low Culture Podcast: Dr Martens Boots

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Kling Klang Half Life

Reissue of the Week: Tenor Saw’s ‘Ring The Alarm’

Low Culture Essay: Tom Howells on Michael Mann’s The Keep

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

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Danny Brown
Stardust

Charmaine Lee
Tulpa

Hilary Woods
Night CRIÚ

Primitive Man
Observance

Makaya McCraven
Techno Logic/Hidden Out!/The People’s Mixtape/PopUp Shop

KeiyaA
Hooke's Law

Bruise Blood
You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor

Oruã
Slacker

SANAM
Sametou Sawtan

Jeff Tobias
One Hundredfold Now In This Age

The Pastor Chris Congregation
West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up the Serpents”

Kling Klang
Half Life