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Bashy
Being Poor Is Expensive

Fifteen years after his last album (and with a gaggle of prestigious film and TV roles now under his belt), Ashley Thomas returns to the grime sound of his early mixtapes and his own memories of growing up in Hammersmith and Kensal Rise

Baker's Dozen

Pull Together: Eno Williams of Ibibio Sound Machine’s Favourite Records

From Nigerian jùjú to American R&B, Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams speaks to Alastair Shuttleworth about some of the music that shaped her life, ahead of a set at this year’s Green Man

Anniversary

How To Sell A Contradiction: Sade’s Diamond Life & Sophisti-Pop 40 Years On

Unlike 80s pop’s synthetic bombast, says Toby Manning, some of the era’s best music was defined by a sophisticated smoothness whose ambivalence captured the period’s contradictions

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for July

Noel Gardner delivers ten more frowning bales of intemperate earslaughter, including the perfectly executed anarcho punk of Subdued, the oppressively fucked sound of rising Leeds teenagers Narkotyk, and the feral, bare-brick recordings of Vancouver's Bootlicker

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Clevelode
Muntjac

Paul Newland of The Lowland Hundred finds redemption in the liminal space of Epping Forest, finds Tom Bolton

Monthly Playlists

The Best Albums of 2024 So Far – Exclusive Subscriber Playlists

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beißpony
The Small & The Many

An album inspired by a sonified bee colony causes quite a buzz

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Scanner & Neil Leonard
The Berklee Sessions

Short wave transmissions meet jazz fusion aesthetics on the latest addition to Robin Rimbaud's fascinating and multi-faceted catalogue

A Quietus Interview

Music For The Jilted Generation Turns 30: The Prodigy Talk Early Years

Liam Howlett, Maxim Reality and Keith Flint talk to John Doran about the birth of rave, their first two albums and singles from 'Charly' to 'Poison'. This feature was first published in 2008

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NEBEL 3000
Frankenstein Freakout

Punk rock energy, madcap samples and a delirious eclecticism blur the lines between trashy and arty, finds Hayley Scott

Album of the Week

The Dot Connector: Anemones By Xylitol Is Our Album of the Week

Catherine Backhouse is equal parts scientist and artist on her joyous DIY record of ‘gutter kosmische’ for Planet Mu, writes Skye Butchard

Baker's Dozen

I Need A Double Dozen: Chris Corsano’s Favourite Albums

As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records, from punk to jazz to his year spent listening only to Curtis Mayfield

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Eiko Ishibashi
Evil Does Not Exist

The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself

Anniversary

I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

Stewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic

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Max Stadtfeld
Fancy Future

Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig

Music Downloads

tQ Subscriber Release: Hitiloma & Nat Sharp

J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse

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Cassettes

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

Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes

A Quietus Interview

Switchblade Romance: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu Interviewed

22 years into their career the perennial outsiders of 21st century queer American art rock have announced a potentially game-changing album in the shape of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Words by Natalie Marlin. All pictures by Eva Luise Hoppe. Contains video arguably NSFW

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Gryphon Rue
4n_Objx

Alexander Calder’s great grandson bridges electronic and avant-garde in a series of deft and impish collages

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Senyawa
Vajranala

Indonesian duo find new kinds of heaviness

Albums of the Year so far

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: June 2024

Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers

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Bashy Being Poor Is Expensive

Pull Together: Eno Williams of Ibibio Sound Machine’s Favourite Records

How To Sell A Contradiction: Sade’s Diamond Life & Sophisti-Pop 40 Years On

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for July

Clevelode Muntjac

The Best Albums of 2024 So Far – Exclusive Subscriber Playlists

beißpony The Small & The Many

Scanner & Neil Leonard The Berklee Sessions

Music For The Jilted Generation Turns 30: The Prodigy Talk Early Years

NEBEL 3000 Frankenstein Freakout

The Dot Connector: Anemones By Xylitol Is Our Album of the Week

I Need A Double Dozen: Chris Corsano’s Favourite Albums

Eiko Ishibashi Evil Does Not Exist

I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

Max Stadtfeld Fancy Future

tQ Subscriber Release: Hitiloma & Nat Sharp

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

Switchblade Romance: Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu Interviewed

Gryphon Rue 4n_Objx

Senyawa Vajranala

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: June 2024

Kate Carr Midsummer, London

Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker WEBO

Various Artists – Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)

An Altamont for Rock Music’s Imperial Period: June 1, 1974 Half A Century On

Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance Jinxed By Being

A Music of Shadows: Sheida Gharachedaghi Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind

Martha Skye Murphy Um

Lie Down and Listen: Aaron Turner’s Favourite Albums

Winning It All: Prince’s Purple Rain Revisited

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band Dancing On The Edge

Most Popular

No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums

50 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Everything is Permitted: Alamut by Laibach

Reissue of the Week: Butthole Surfers Live At The Leather Fly

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

Thicker Than Water: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Films

Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats

Mclusky The world is still here and so are we

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

Like Choosing A Lover: Viv Albertine’s Favourite Albums

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums

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Bashy
Being Poor Is Expensive

Clevelode
Muntjac

beißpony
The Small & The Many

Scanner & Neil Leonard
The Berklee Sessions

NEBEL 3000
Frankenstein Freakout

Eiko Ishibashi
Evil Does Not Exist

Max Stadtfeld
Fancy Future

Gryphon Rue
4n_Objx

Senyawa
Vajranala

Kate Carr
Midsummer, London

Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker
WEBO

Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance
Jinxed By Being

Martha Skye Murphy
Um

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band
Dancing On The Edge

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we