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Juni Habel

Carvings

The Norwegian artist’s second album is a powerful invocation, finds Irina Shtreis

Kernow Calling: Mark Jenkin’s Favourite Albums

Cornish bard Mark Jenkin talks Sean McGeady through the soundtracks to his teenage summers, long drives to the hospital, and lonely afternoons hand-processing celluloid, from Junior Wells to Joni Mitchell

Use Your Days: An Interview With Gina Birch

Gina Birch takes Elizabeth Aubrey through her storied career - from The Raincoats' pioneering punk to her ferocious debut solo album, visual art that channels illness and recovery, Kurt Cobain, overcoming imposter syndrome and more

Debashish Bhattacharya

The Sound of the Soul

Combining his love of Hawaiian slide guitar with Hindustani classical music has made Debashish Bhattacharya one of John McLaughlin's favourite guitarists

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music For January Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

In his first column of 2023, our dance music columnist sheds light on the small Slovenian electronic music scene and shares his favourite recent releases from the likes of Vid Vai, POUCH ENVY, dvidevat and Black Dot

Big Music: The Cure Live At Wembley Arena

Rather than the miserabilists they’re often unfairly painted as, watching The Cure at Wembley Tariq Goddard finds a band of sincerity and empathy, with superb new songs of colossal scale and a bond between artist and audience that continues to grow tighter and more heartfelt as time keeps passing

Kali Malone

Does Spring Hide Its Joy

Teaming up with Lucy Railton and Sunn O)))'s Stephen O’Malley, Kali Malone's latest creates a time distortion field of sine tones, e-bows, and spidery cello lines

Daniel Pioro

Saint Boy

The violinist draws together sacred music from Hildegard von Bingen to Laurence Crane

The Upward Trajectory: An Interview With Memorials Of Distinction

As Memorials Of Distinction's ‘house band’ SUEP release their debut mini-album, Josh Cohen tells the story of his label and management company's rise from scrappy roots in Brighton’s DIY scene to a connecting point for some of the most exciting musicians in Britain

Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men

Fêted director and screenwriter Mark Jenkin is staying true to the purity of filmmaking like few others – he tells Darren Hayman about his new feature Enys Men

Paul Dunmall, Paul Rogers, Tony Orrell

That’s My Life

A live set recorded in a Bristol pub a quarter of a century ago proves a definitive document of the UK jazz scene, finds Antonio Poscic

Ingrid Plum

Corporeality

Working with the archive of concrete poet and Radiophonic Workshop collaborator Lily Greenham, Ingrid Plum finds high strangeness in the everyday flux of modern life, finds Daryl Worthington

Ergot You Under My Skin: Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph

A special edition 12" featuring the voice of Molly Moody and the music of Maxwell Sterling accompanies the latest project from Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani

Low Culture Podcast: Enys Men-ergy With John & Luke

The Low Culture podcast is back for 2023 as John and Luke get stuck in to the best new culture, from Enys Men to a cosmic tome about psychedelic light shows

Mark Jenkin

Enys Men (Original Score)

Director Mark Jenkin offers up a sinister take on the haunted sound of post-millennial electronica for his new film, Enys Men

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For January Reviewed By Kez Whelan

For those of a heavy persuasion, 2023 is off to a flier says Kez Whelan, as he delivers the essential guide to January's best metal

Belle and Sebastian

Late Developers

The twelfth album by Glasgow’s perennial indie-poppers radiates confidence

Ryuichi Sakamoto

12

The latest music from the great Japanese composer offers a frank, diaristic portrait in sound, finds Jeremy Allen

Not Done: An Interview With Nakhane

South African musician, actor and novelist Nakhane talks their latest LP Leading Lines, how queerness invites new perspectives, and balancing necessary rage and dancefloor euphoria

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2022 (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

Pressure Cooker: Petbrick Interviewed

Wayne Adams, one half of extreme noise-pummellers Petbrick (with former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera) speaks to Kez Whelan about their behemoth of a new single recorded just for Quietus subscribers, and the joys of working with limited resources

Bak ‘Ome To The Top: Michael Hann On Slade On Stage

In this month subscriber exclusive Low Culture essay, Michael Hann explores how the power of Slade live reclaimed their reputation from chicken-in-a-basket glam has-beens to punk metal powerhouse

Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni

Tripping The Light Fantastic: Kevin Foakes On Psychedelic Light Shows

Kevin ‘Strictly Kev’ Foakes has written a new book called Wheels Of Light, containing a short but stunning history of the psychedelic effect wheel lighting of the 60s and 70s. John Doran talks to him about this passion

Things Fall Apart: Mona Hatoum Builds The Impossible

A large sculpture by the London-based Lebanon-born artist poses some lofty questions about our precarious and unsteady existence, finds Geoff Cowart

A Thumbs-Up To The People We Liked: How We Used Saint Etienne To Live

In an exclusive extract from his new book *How We Used Saint Etienne To Live*, Ramzy Alwakeel looks back to the early tape experiments behind *So Tough* and *Foxbase Alpha*

Rum Music: The Best Of 2022 Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan plucks her essential releases from this year's onslaught of sonic activity in the Zone, from hurdy gurdy and home-made modulars to gamelan and music made under Swedish bridges

If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50

Nigel Kneale’s BBC ghost story still haunts the fields of parapsychology and cinema 50 Christmases since it first aired, finds Sean McGeady

Sad Season: Ze Records’ Christmas Album, 40 Years On

Ian MacMillan looks back 40 years to Ze Records’ classic festive compilation, and finds a Yuletide ‘state of the nation’ that captured an America burdened with financial struggle, loneliness, broken relationships and malaise

Martin Rev

To Live / Les Nymphes

Misunderstood upon their release at the beginning of the century, these two album by Suicide's synths man now sound full of life, finds Jeremy Allen

SZA

SOS

The St Louis-born vocalist takes the horny-sad vibes to a whole other level, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Rockfort! The Best French Music Of 2022

From mind-warping hip hop to riotous machine funk, titanic techno-folk to transformative organ compositions, 2022 was a golden year for French music. David McKenna rounds up his ten favourite releases of the year