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Wanderlust: Steve Gunn Interviewed

With Eyes On The Lines, the singer-songwriter has produced one of 2016's finest guitar albums. He tells Barnaby Smith about going from adolescent hardcore acolyte to channelling the fretboard dexterity of John Fahey

Viva Exthopia! The Ex On Ethiopian Music

Ahead of their appearance across Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht this November Terrie Hessels, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer of The Ex sit down with Noel Gardner to talk about the importance of Ethiopian music. Features exclusive Fendika track

In Place: Yann Tiersen’s Favourite Albums

With his ninth album, EUSA, out now, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist takes Fred Jage-Bowler from the Velvets to Bill Callahan via NEU!, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom on a tour of his favourite records

Machinedrum

Human Energy

Petite Meller

Lil Empire

Horns Of Consecration: Xylouris White Interviewed

Xylouris White's new album Black Peak is a startling mixture of Cretan traditional music, punk rock and fiery improvisation. Danny Riley catches up with the drum and lute duo to discuss how this strange brew came together

He Shares A Lot: Chuck Mosley Interviewed

Jeremy Allen sits down in Paris with Chuck Mosley to talk Faith No More, Cement and second acts

Celebrating 20 Years Of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas

Wolfgang Voigt's ambient techno project turns 20 this year and is celebrated by a new box set on Kompakt. Long term fan David Stubbs sees Gas as a bridge between Krautrock and "the great dancefloor movements of the late 20th/early 21st century"

Taman Shud

Oracle War

Full Clip: October’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

An autumnal chill fills the air, and leaves begin to find their deaths on the ground. But the heat exuded by Meek Mill, Gucci Mane and Jeezy albums reviewed by Gary Suarez can counter all that

The World That Glitters: Diamonds And Pearls By Prince Revisited

Diamonds And Pearls may have been the first Prince album to feature The New Power Generation but it also marked the period where he began falling from critical favour. It is, however, an album that has aged extremely well, argues Lesley Chow. [NB: This feature was written before Prince's untimely death earlier this year]

Westworld, The Walking Dead & The Exorcist: TV’s Unholy Trinity

Cliffhangers and guessing games may be a necessary evil of episodic TV, but they aren't the same thing as narratives, says John Tatlock, tQ's new TV correspondent. *****Contains some mild spoilers*****

A Working Class Mythology: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem Reviewed

Ben Graham plunges into Moore's 600,000 word new novel, and concludes that it's a post-psychedelic proletarian masterpiece that, if anything, could have been longer

Some Will Not Sleep: Adam Nevill’s Favourite Horror Short Stories

To mark the Halloween release of his own first collection of short stories, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, horror novelist and genre aficionado, Adam Nevill, selects a Baker’s Dozen of his favourite short stories from contemporary writers in the field of modern horror. As with Nevill’s 2015 filmic Baker’s Dozen, fans of the genre are going to find an abundance of suggestions to work through on this list. (Written by Adam Nevill, as relayed to Sean Kitching)

Wardruna

Runaljod – Ragnarok

Northern Darkness: Grimmfest 2016 Reviewed

Jay Crosbie heads up to Manchester for this year's Grimmfest and comes back with a rotted handful of bloody treats to look out for in the coming months

A History Of Silence: Cinema, Noise And The Quest For Peace

Patrick Gamble takes a look at director Patrick Shen's documentary 'In Pursuit Of Silence' and ponders what the implications are of our increasingly noisy cinemascape

Acid Arab

Musique de France

Helen Money

Become Zero

Council Estate Electronics

Arktika

Lottie Brazier On Gaye Su Akyol’s Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu

In Turkish punk singer Gaye Su Akyol's second album, Lottie Brazier finds both a nod to the country's distinct classical musics and a force for resistance against cultural conservatism

A Kind Of Visceral Quality: Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Favourite Records

With the imminent release of his score for Arrival, the latest in a now thriving partnership with Denis Villeneuve that will see him take on Blade Runner next year, the Icelandic composer shows traditional reluctance in crafting a list of defining albums and opts instead of 13 works that exemplify a philosophy of minimal gestures with maximum impact

Hen Ogledd

Bronze

The Strange World Of… The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Julian Marszalek tries to talk to Anton Newcombe about the ten highlights of his musical career but ends up discussing the note the Earth vibrates at and his English family crest

Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967

Various Artists

René Aquarius

Blight

Draw A Straight Line: Linear Obsessional Recordings Interviewed

From recordings of Russian spaceports to musical machinery, Richard Sanderson's free-download label has been charting the sonic hinterlands for three years now. The founder and musician talks to Robert Barry

This Time We Go A Little Lower: The Afghan Whigs’ Black Love 25 Years On

In revisiting The Afghan Whigs' 1996 album, Aug Stone speaks to Greg Dulli about its creation, finding not only their masterpiece — exceeding the oft-touted Gentlemen — but also the band's soul record. (Photograph by Danny Clinch)

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For October By Tristan Bath

Featuring improvised analogue techno from France, abstract sounds from Hungary, scarred giallo noise from Italy plus some Canadian jaw harp and Russian free-punk, Tristan Bath goes against the grain of Brexit Britain with another month reviewing the best international tape releases

Fela Kuti And London’s “Underground Spiritual Game”

Attending London's recent Felebration — a fairly Ronal portmanteau celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti — Lottie Brazier finds a performance rightly reverent of history even as it creates new meaning for all involved, and an event which, in our current Right-lurching climate, is both necessary and in danger of disappearing

Amoral Avatar

Amoral Avatar

Thor & Friends

Thor & Friends