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Ash Fure

Animal

Award-winning composer strikes at the palpable physical presence of sound

Next Level Electro-Shaabi: Rhlt Jdi by Elkotsh

Elkotsh’s debut LP is a mahraganat colossus with one foot in electro-shaabi's past and one in its future, says Bernie Brooks

The Countercultural Figures who Helped Give Birth to the Neo-Nazi Terrorist Networks of Today

The academic author and political analyst Spencer Sunshine has uncovered disturbing evidence that links musicians Boyd Rice and Nikolas Schreck, writer Michael Moynihan and publisher Adam Parfrey to the current explosion in neo-Nazi terrorism. CW: discussion of racism, anti-semitism, murder, violent assault & child sexual abuse

The Ultimate Fuck You: McAlmont & Butler’s ‘Yes’ Revisited

Mike Drop: Finn Wolfhard’s Favourite Albums

As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the Stranger Things star speaks to Alex Rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste

Cole Pulice

Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver's sax player goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.

Billy Woods

Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

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

Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts "'n' Roll" to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker

Quinquis

eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

Our Old Friend Robinson: An Interview with Chris Petit

Novelist, flim-maker, psychogeographer Chris Petit talks to Juliet Jacques about his new book Come In and Shut the Door and film D is for Distance

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

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads. This feature was first published 26/07/15

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

Austin, Tx's Buttholes were notorious for any number of reasons, but, says Ned Raggett, why not think of them first and foremost as an inspired and shit hot rock group?

Moin

Belly Up

Smaller in scale than its predecessor, the new release from Moin is stil a wild and blissful trip, with additional contributions from Ben Vince and Sophia Al-Maria

Organic Intelligence XLIV: World-Building-For-One AKA DIY Synth Music for Getting Off-Planet

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, exclusive to tQ subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through a selection of transportive releases from DIY synth voyagers of the near past

Red Mar

Our Low Cell

Impressive debut from UK post-rock quintet throws everything at the wall, then smashes the wall into little bits and throws that, too

Andy Bell

Ten Crowns

Erasure singer heads to Nashville, belts out a suite of ten big pop anthems seasoned with a healthy dash of club music, gospel and Debbie Harry

Everything is Permitted: Alamut by Laibach

Slovenian Martial Industrialists embark on what may be their most intrepid gambit yet – will they succeed? On the evidence of their latest album, it has at least pushed them towards some of their most adventurous and experimental music yet, finds Jeremy Allen

The Strange World of… Steve Aylett

With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue

Music as a Weapon: The Sonic Power of The Raincoats

The Raincoats were revolutionaries first, musicians a close second. Ahead of her new book Shouting Out Loud, Audrey Golden traces a riotous journey across the world. Cover image by Maria Helena da Silva, courtesy of Ana da Silva

Mclusky

The world is still here and so are we

Two decades since their last album, the Welsh post-hardcore group return with jagged riffs and irreverent song titles still firmly in place, finds Oliver Cookson

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke

Patrick Clarke's seasonal exploration of forward-thinking folk music returns, featuring an interview with Eliza Carthy on the attentional ebb & flow the scene attracts, and the importance of hammering home an anti-fascist message, plus reviews of ten essential new releases – from magical Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the heart of Ireland's trad scene, via the Balkans, Lebanon, Argyll, Connemara and beyond

Das Kinn

Ruinenkampf

Frankfurt's former geriatric nurse imagines The Stranglers discovering EBM on experimental Hamburg label Bureau B

Ooooh Betty! Nasty Gal By Betty Davis Turns 50

Major label flop it may have been, but Betty Davis’ Nasty Gal, showcased an artist raging against the dying of the funk light, says Patrick Corcoran. This article was first published in May 2015

Staraya Derevnya

Garden window escape

Psychedelic septet tread the line between motorik groove and full-blown freak-out, finds Rosie Solomon

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

Here's all the very best music from the last month, picked out for your pleasure by tQ's editorial team

Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates a frustratingly patchy compilation that nevertheless is studded with some unusual gems

Brooklyn Bass Music: Masta Ace Incorporated’s Sittin’ On Chrome turns 30

Masta Ace’s best-selling LP led to his withdrawal from hip hop at its commercial peak. Cian Traynor charts the rapper’s extraordinary career... and the industry forces that held him back

elijah jamal asani

,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,,

Beautiful, sparse lowercase music recorded at the bottom of the Grand Canyon

Deerhoof

Noble And Godlike In Ruin

On their nineteenth album, the San Francisco quartet show no signs of letting up their brutal assault on pop music conventions

The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners

Plays music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, Gerard Lebik, Luigi Russolo, John Hegre

Recreating the bizarre instrumentarium of Futurist artist Luigi Russolo, Luciano Chessa and his orchestra play new music by Mariam Gviniashvili, Aleksandra Słyż, and others

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2025

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