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STREAM: Sónar Festival Sets

Live-stream from Sónar festival starts today with sets from SonarDome broadcast, via RBMA Radio until Saturday

Gaudy Bauble: An Extract From The New Novel By Isabel Waidner

Isabel Waidner shares an exclusive extract from Gaudy Bauble, her new "beguiling, hilarious, rollocking, language-metamorphosing novel" (Olivia Laing), published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Maya Shenfeld

In Free Fall

A feeling of suspension and weightlessness pervades on the new album by Berlin-based composer Maya Shenfield, finds Vanessa Ague

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

A haunting folk relic from Japan, a mafia themed concept album, drum virtuoso hyper pop, and an occult radio play. Daryl Worthington finds there’s a host of fascinating stories in the tape world this month

Heart-to-Heart: Rufus Isabel Elliot’s Three Sexual Pieces For Violin

Composer Rufus Isabel Elliot writes music of stunning intimacy for violinist Harry Gorski-Brown

Why “Hotly Tipped” Brother Exemplify Perennial Tipster Idiocy

Agnes Ball calls for a violent and immediate end to the media's rekindled bromance with laddy Britpop, incarnated in the execrable Brother

The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2022

At the year's half-way mark, all of tQ's editorial staff, core writers and columnists have voted for their essential 2022 albums so far, released between January and June

Someone Disappears / Someone Reappears: Jules Reidy Interviewed

You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit. Miloš Hroch talks to Jules Reidy about this statement fuelled by mysticism, ego death and the influence of shoegaze. Portraits by Camille Blake

Old Soul: XamVolo Interviewed

Patrick Clarke catches up with the formidable rising master of neo-soul to talk ambition, legitimacy and his mammoth new conceptual project - his debut LP.

Wire

Mind Hive

Forty years young and still bearing surprises, Wire's latest, Mind Hive, sees the post punk legends continue to evolve, finds Richard Foster

Wire Announce New Album, ’10:20′

Described as a collection of "stray" tracks, it will be released on vinyl on Record Store Day

Expanding the Circle: Blood Incantation Interviewed

In summer 2023, death metallers Blood Incantation decamped to Berlin’s Hansa studios to record groundbreaking new album, Absolute Elsewhere. Isaac Faulk talks to Dan Franklin about how pushing at the boundaries of what a band can be and a near-disaster with an untied shoelace went into creating their most mind-expanding music yet

The Bored & The Beautiful: Advertise Here By EXEK

Their mien may be baggy but their rhythms are taut. EXEK drive a truck through the funky bits of your post-punk record collection; Richard Foster takes up the slack

Quietus CollaboLabs! Natalie Sharp & Seaming To at Tate Modern

All The Glitter: Ira Kaplan Of Yo La Tengo’s Favourite Albums

Yo La Tengo’s frontman leads April Clare Welsh through a selection of his most played LPs

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

Poems on space and place, divine bassoon, reality bending plunderphonics. Daryl Worthington catches up with the tape scene for the first time in 2022, and finds things as chaotically brilliant as usual