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Album of the Week
Wrigglies Extra: Unite The Worms by Golden Toad
Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in an album of slithery bedroom electro-psych well-suited to the late, winter months
Black Sky Thinking
From The Shout to Bait: Listening to the Sound of Movies about Sound
Darran Anderson relishes hearing Rupert Hine's soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski's 1978 psychological horror, The Shout and discovers a sonic gateway in the process. Contains mild spoilers for films The Shout, Berberian Sound Studio, Blow Out, and The Conversation
tQ Charts
Here Are the 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far…
...according to our team of experts, that is. Writers Richard Akingbehin, Jaša Bužinel, Chal Ravens and Philip Sherburne join tQ's own Christian Eede to chart what they consider to be the defining club anthems of the century to this point. Words by Christian Eede
Anniversary
Been Around The World: The Magical Odyssey Of The Avalanches’ Since I Left You
A concept album that transcended its concept, a stealth mix-CD, global disco, sampledelic exotica, yacht rock by other means: the Australian group’s debut was many things, writes David Bennun - and above all it was, and remains, a joy. This article was first published in 2020
A Quietus Interview
Kindred Spirits: FearDorian & osquinn Interviewed
Following the recent release of Before You Press Play, their first album together, the young Atlanta-based rapper-producers speak to Christian Eede about finding their feet as vocalists, preconceptions with Atlanta rap, and the pitfalls of irony and complacency within their current music scene
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Duncan Wheeler on Ozzy at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival
Although they went to the same primary school, Duncan Wheeler knew little about Ozzy Osbourne until Jon Bon Jovi led him to a VHS of a gig that counts as one of the strangest live events in rock history
