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New Weird Britain: 2025 in Review by Noel Gardner
From avant folk to post-post-club computer music, via several doses of Cornish soundsmithery and a tribute to former Tottenham defender Ledley King, Noel Gardner presents his 10 favourite releases from New Weird Britain in 2025, and rounds up 10 more that got away
tQ Charts
Here Are the 25 Best Dancefloor Bangers of the 21st Century So Far…
...according to our team of experts, that is. Writers Richard Akingbehin, Jaša Bužinel, Chal Ravens and Philip Sherburne join tQ's own Christian Eede to chart what they consider to be the defining club anthems of the century to this point. Words by Christian Eede
Black Sky Thinking
From The Shout to Bait: Listening to the Sound of Movies about Sound
Darran Anderson relishes hearing Rupert Hine's soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski's 1978 psychological horror, The Shout and discovers a sonic gateway in the process. Contains mild spoilers for films The Shout, Berberian Sound Studio, Blow Out, and The Conversation
Album of the Week
Wrigglies Extra: Unite The Worms by Golden Toad
Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in an album of slithery bedroom electro-psych well-suited to the late, winter months
A Quietus Interview
Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata
Multi-disciplinary artist Lola De La Mata speaks to Patrick Clarke about how her experience with severe tinnitus and vertigo, groundbreaking work in the field of audiology, and stigma around hearing loss in the musical community fed into her new album Oceans On Azimuth
Baker's Dozen
Good Tradition: Tanita Tikaram’s Favourite Albums
Ahead of her performance at this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, Tanita Tikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles, an abiding love of the jazz and soul greats, and more
Baker's Dozen
Homecoming: Dev Hynes’ Favourite Albums
On the verge of Essex Honey, his first Blood Orange album in six years, Dev Hynes reflects on the tenderness of return and shares with Francis Buseko the 13 albums that shaped his homecoming, from Nina Simone to Slipknot, and from Beach House to Bach
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