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The Extreme South: Último Sosiego By Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal

An album of improvised music for trumpet and double bass draws on the emotional resonances of Chile’s southern tip

Driving Force: Adam Franklin’s Baker’s Dozen

From childhood seven inch singles and cash-in LPs to the joy of Sandinista! on shuffle, Swervedriver and Bolts Of Melody frontman Adam Franklin takes Ned Raggett through the thirteen records that shaped him

Aron and the Jeri Jeri Band

Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want To Go Home)

From Senegal via Berlin, Aron and the Jeri Jeri Band fuse griot storytelling with jazz, reggae, afrobeats and electronics to spectacular effect, finds Ian Opolot

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For January By Daryl Worthington

Achingly raw spoken word, achingly raw vocal contortions, dungeon synth from an abandoned church, and a whole load of duos in this month’s Spool’s Out

Kreidler

Twists (A Visitor Arrives)

The first album in nearly five years from the influential German electronic group features guests such as saxophonist Timuçin Dündar and Khan Of Finland

The Ever Present : Remembering Phill Niblock

The American film maker and composer, Phill Niblock has died aged 90. Here composer and artist Lawrence English pays tribute

Safe As Houses: An Interview With Bill Ryder-Jones

Patrick Clarke meets Bill Ryder-Jones in his West Kirby studio to discuss how his home town, lockdown and a period of major turmoil informed his new album Iechyd Da

Pyur

Lucid Anarchy

The Berlin-based electronic artist puts texture and feeling first on her new record, where compositions bloom from nothing. Skye Butchard finds that you don’t have to think too hard to hear its beauty

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers

The Wonder Of Yew: Sealionwoman Interviewed

Kitty Whitelaw and Tye McGivern of Sealionwoman speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about their crushing, yew tree-inspired second album, available exclusively for Quietus subscribers.

Organic Intelligence XXVII: A Psych Rock Christmas

In this month's antidote to the algorithm cosmic Santa JR Moores rides his riffin' reindeer around the globe to bring you a selection of seasonal psychedelic rock treats

Echoes Of A Horror To Come: The Exorcist At Fifty

The Quietus’ Top 75 Tracks Of 2023

Here are our favourite songs of the year, compiled and ranked for your listening enjoyment

Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music Of 2023

Our dance music editor surveys the most exciting and the dullest trends of 2023, and presents his top ten electronic records from the past twelve months

Straight Hedge! The Best Punk And Hardcore Of 2023

Noel Gardner looks back at 2023's best punk and hardcore releases, picks his top ten from the year and rounds up a handful that got away

Low Culture Essay: Eamonn Forde On The Harrods Princess Di & Dodi Statue

Each year, Eamonn Forde would make a Christmas pilgrimage to "London's greatest tourist attraction", the statue to Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed at Harrods. In this month's Low Culture Essay, he mourns its loss, and reflects on the nature of its art

Love Bytes: Artists Choose Their Favourite Music By The Black Dog

To mark the year in which Spanners was reissued, musicians such as Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Mike Paradinas and Call Super heap praise on IDM/ ambient rave pioneers The Black Dog

Regan Bowering

Solos for _ _ _ _ spaces

A strange loop of sound and place engulf the listener in the latest release from Bezirk Tapes

Rum Music: The Best Of 2023 Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Another trip around the sun for the weightless world of Rum Music, reviewed and rounded up by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Laura Cannell

Midwinter Processionals

Laura Cannell’s latest is an easy entry into the alternative holiday canon, but it deserves much more than that, says Bernie Brooks

Rockfort! The Best French Music Of 2023

Our French music columnist David McKenna rounds up the 20 finest albums released across the channel this year, from abstract rap to avant-folk and everything inbetween

Low Culture Podcast: Acid Horsing & Reflections On 2023

In this month's subscriber podcast, John and Luke look back on highlights of 2023, including a weekend with a Wiltshire Acid Horse

FRANKIE

Heaven/Hell

Classically trained and modern-minded artist and composer Franziska Aigner steps into the shadows on this piano-backed offering, finds Skye Butchard

The Fall’s Perverted By Language Revisited 40 Years On

On its 40th anniversary, Eden Tizard explores The Fall’s Perverted By Language, an album where Mark E. Smith turns his focus to the suburbs and its inhabitants. A key record in The Fall saga, featuring a group at a crossroads, on the hunt for a new mode of attack

Among The Rocks And Roots

Pariah

Richmond, Virginia duo take post-metal and hardcore aggression to rapturous new heights, finds Antonio Poscic

tQ’s Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes, OSTs and etceteras of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers

Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes Of 2023

After the cassette celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, Daryl Worthington looks back on a year where it reinforced its role as pivotal to the present of underground music. From deep-fake ecosystems to post-sense Dictaphone freakouts, dolphin impersonations, and cutting edge beats

Reissue Of The Week: Daniel Avery’s Drone Logic

Daniel Avery's debut album was a product of its time, completing the circle of dance music's relationship with rock and shoegaze, but still stands up today, says Alex Maiolo

Yas Clarke

The Thicket

Bristolian composer turns words into putty in a suite of hocketing tracks for four voices

Old Man Look At His Life: Neil Young’s Before And After

Neil Young's new album of old songs gets JR Moores thinking about the musician's outlook from the start

New Weird Britain: 2023 In Review By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner selects his ten favourite albums from his New Weird Britain column in 2023, and also picks ten essential LPs that got away

Songs From Under The Floorboards: Inner Winter By Gentle Stranger

With distant sleigh bells and creaking field recordings, Gentle Stranger bring a seasonal mood to a suite of stark, intimate songs, finds Patrick Clarke