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Yossari Baby
Inferiority Complex

Channeling creative insecurity as a DIY act of post-punk defiance, Yossari Baby are far more than just another post-punk band, finds Jonathan Wright

A Quietus Interview

Stone To The Bone: Squid Interviewed

Ollie Judge and Anton Pearson of modern rock band Squid take a walk past the neolithic burial chambers and chalk horse carvings of Wiltshire with John Doran to explain the genesis of their singular new album, O Monolith. All portraits by Maria Jefferis

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Alex Paxton
Happy Music For Orchestra

Chaotic, frenzied and maximised sensation is the order of the day for Alex Paxton’s gloriously childlike new LP, finds Alastair Shuttleworth

Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2023

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

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Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of April 2023

Here are the finest albums and tracks from April 2023, hand-selected by tQ's office staff

Music Downloads

Healing Magic: An Interview With MXLX

The influential Bristol experimentalist shares the story of his astonishing, magic-inspired new album, available exclusively for Quietus subscribers, with Alastair Shuttleworth

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Live Reviews

Child’s Play: Currents Festival At E-WERK Luckenwalde

After attending E-werk Luckenwalde's Currents festival with her one-year-old in tow, Claire Sawers writes on the delights of experimental arts events where children aren’t just tolerated, but welcomed

Black Sky Thinking

Facing The Music: We Need You To Subscribe To The Quietus

We’ve recently had to strip back what the Quietus does, closing down our film and arts sections and have reluctantly put our books section on ice. In order to protect our music coverage we need at least another 350 people to subscribe to the site, says editor John Doran, but just look at what you get in return…

Album of the Week

Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

Latest album Recovery Position sees the Oslo-Brighton duo reborn, sounding like a whole new band, finds Bernie Brooks

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Nabihah Iqbal
Dreamer

The artist FKA-Throwing Shade returns on gauzy, hallucinatory form, finds Matthew Horton

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Dragonchild
s/t

DA Mekonnen, of Boston's Debo Band, strikes out solo, drawing on gqom, contemporary jazz, and the rich traditions of Ethiopian music

Remember Them…

Remembering Mark Stewart

Publisher and author Tariq Goddard remembers the restless giant of The Pop Group and The Maffia, and the challenge his legacy leaves us with. Home page portrait by Beezer Redland

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

What will aliens make of our planet's recent psych and noise-rock offerings, ponders JR Moores

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Ital Tek
Timeproof

Alan Myson has come unstuck in time

A Quietus Interview

A Room Of One’s Own: Alice Low Interviewed

On the release of her new EP Transatlantic Sugar, Alice Low speaks to Alex Rigotti about trans beauty, the tumult of growing up in Thailand and Swindon, and her horde of as-yet-unreleased albums

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Uh
Humanus

The London duo choose to leave the rough edges on their unique interprettion of neo-Celtic cybernetic folk, finds Jeremy Allen

Books

You Might Dwell On It: Conversations With Coil

Author Nick Soulsby recently compiled a near-exhaustive volume of Coil interviews for Strange Attractor, Everything Keeps Dissolving. Here he outlines why the job was so important and we run an exclusive extract

Books

The Show: Michael Cragg’s Wild Ride Through Early-00s Pop Music

With his new book *Reach for the Stars*, Michael Cragg explores the backstage tears and Prozac prescriptions that fuelled the legendary stars of the new millennium, from Girls Aloud to Atomic Kitten

Art

The Right Stuff: An Interview With Mike Nelson

British artist and two time Turner nominee, Mike Nelson builds worlds within worlds. A few weeks back, he spoke to Robert Barry about time, tourism, and stuff

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Sisterworld By Liars

Oobah Butler looks at the magisterial run of albums by Liars – which arguably peaks with Sisterworld – and finds that rarest of things, an artistic mission completed

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Zubin Kanga
Machine Dreams

Playing new works by Alex Paxton, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, CHAINES, and others, pianist Zubin Kanga explores the cyborg side of contemporary classical music

Album of the Week

American Cyclo: 2222 And Airport By Shit & Shine

When he's not careening down a mountainside on two wheels, Craig Clouse releases a relentless sream of bangers – this one's a particularly meaty one, finds Jon Buckland

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Everything But The Girl
Fuse

More than twenty years since their last album proper, Tracey Thorn and Ben Watts return with a remarkable new release

Baker's Dozen

Miracle Encounters: Emma Tricca’s Baker’s Dozen

On the release of her Bella Union debut, Emma Tricca takes Jude Rogers through her thirteen favourite albums, from the fringes of the folk revival to the "Italian prog massive"

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan On Inspector Morse’s Rave Episode

In this month's Low Culture essay, Jennifer Lucy Allan rewatches the infamous rave episode of 90s TV detective drama Inspector Morse, and discovers that while he might have preferred lunchtime ale to nocturnal pingers, the Oxford detective knew all about a comedown

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Yossari Baby Inferiority Complex

Stone To The Bone: Squid Interviewed

Alex Paxton Happy Music For Orchestra

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2023

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of April 2023

Healing Magic: An Interview With MXLX

Child’s Play: Currents Festival At E-WERK Luckenwalde

Facing The Music: We Need You To Subscribe To The Quietus

Brace Yourself: Gum Takes Tooth Assume The Recovery Position

Nabihah Iqbal Dreamer

Dragonchild s/t

Remembering Mark Stewart

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

Ital Tek Timeproof

A Room Of One’s Own: Alice Low Interviewed

Uh Humanus

You Might Dwell On It: Conversations With Coil

The Show: Michael Cragg’s Wild Ride Through Early-00s Pop Music

The Right Stuff: An Interview With Mike Nelson

Reissue Of The Week: Sisterworld By Liars

Zubin Kanga Machine Dreams

American Cyclo: 2222 And Airport By Shit & Shine

Everything But The Girl Fuse

Miracle Encounters: Emma Tricca’s Baker’s Dozen

Low Culture Essay: Jennifer Lucy Allan On Inspector Morse’s Rave Episode

Benefits Nails

Left Hand Cuts Off The Right Free Time​/​Dead Time

Same As It Ever Was: Bell Witch Interviewed

Rum Music For April Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

The Strange World Of… Andrzej Korzyński

Brìghde Chaimbeul Carry Them With Us

Dig it: Mining The Deep Horizons Show In Middlesbrough

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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

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

Thicker Than Water: Richard Dawson’s Favourite Films

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

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

Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Mclusky The world is still here and so are we

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

It’s All Expression: Matt Berry’s Favourite Albums

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Yossari Baby
Inferiority Complex

Alex Paxton
Happy Music For Orchestra

Nabihah Iqbal
Dreamer

Dragonchild
s/t

Ital Tek
Timeproof

Uh
Humanus

Zubin Kanga
Machine Dreams

Everything But The Girl
Fuse

Benefits
Nails

Left Hand Cuts Off The Right
Free Time/Dead Time

Brìghde Chaimbeul
Carry Them With Us

Mclusky
The world is still here and so are we