Album of the Week

Full Force: Secret Machines’ Awake In The Brain Chamber

Despite a fraught and fragmented 12 year wait, Secret Machines' new LP 'Awake In The Brain Chamber' achieves something transcendent. Stream the album in full ahead of release exclusively via tQ alongside our review

Album of the Week

Hearts Of Glass: Still House Plants’ Fast Edit

The new album by Still House Plants is a fractured, fractious thing, twinkling like glass in the light

Album of the Week

Coastal Explorations: Visitations 0202 By Rachel Aggs

Prolific post-punk guitarist Rachel Aggs goes it alone on her debut solo record and discovers beauty in an inward-looking sound, finds Stephanie Phillips

Album of the Week

Tape Echoes: Couldn’t Wait To Tell You… By Liv.e

Liv.e embraces dislocations of time and space on debut album, *Couldn’t Wait To Tell You…*

Album of the Week

Downs, But Not Out: Heart’s Ease By Shirley Collins

Heart's Ease, the new album by Shirley Collins shows a masterful grasp of tradition, but its best moments are the new songs

Album of the Week

Rebel Alliance: Pain Olympics By Crack Cloud

With a shared history of trauma and an open-door policy at the studio, Crack Cloud's debut album is a remarkably focused affair, finds Zara Hedderman

Album of the Week

Volcanic Super-Eruptions: Sly & The Family Drone’s Walk It Dry

Sly & The Family Drone's latest LP, Walk It Dry, is a rolling disaster in the very best way, says Bernie Brooks

Album of the Week

Alien Materials: Lamin Fofana’s Blues

Taking inspiration from Amiri Baraka's seminal text *Blues People*, Lamin Fofana creates ethereal soundscapes channeling diasporic Black experience, finds Kashif Sharma-Patel

Album of the Week

Pick ‘N’ Mix: Luke Vibert Presents… Amen Andrews, Modern Rave, & Rave Hop

Rephlex alum Luke Vibert relives his youth on a career-spanning trilogy of new releases through Hypercolour records

Album of the Week

For The Other An Other: Nadine Shah’s Kitchen Sink

On her new album Kitchen Sink, Nadine Shah cuts loose and makes the record she's always wanted to, finds Danijela Bočev

Album of the Week

Open Heart Surgery: Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss By Regis

Karl O'Connor's first proper Regis LP in 19 years is an emotionally holistic tour de force, says Bernie Brooks

Album of the Week

Real Estate Rock: Amnesia Scanner Seem Bored With Their Own Future

Tearless, the new album by Berlin's Amnesia Scanner, is just awful

Album of the Week

Orcadian Rhythms: Erland Cooper’s Hether Blether

Orkney's Erland Cooper offers up an imagined idyll for days indoors, finds Jeremy Allen

Album of the Week

Everything Has An End: Aksak Maboul Sum Up With Figures

Synthesising the finer points of their three groundbreaking albums from the late 70s and early 80s, Rock In Opposition affiliates Aksak Maboul return with what could be their finest work to date, finds Sean Kitching

Album of the Week

Blazing Saddles: Perfume Genius Sets Our Hearts On Fire Immediately

Slipping between almost industrial-like rhythms and carefree pop songs, Perfume Genius produces his finest body of work to date, Finds Zara Hedderman

Album of the Week

Dangerous Visions: Type II By Sex Swing

The new Sex Swing album may be punishing and disquieting, but there is a point to all the sickness and gore, finds Adam Lehrer

Album of the Week

Mass Effects: On The New Soft Pink Truth Album

Drew Daniel's latest LP as The Soft Pink Truth, Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase, is a stunner that revels in communitas while flirting with house music and ambient tropes, says Bernie Brooks

Album of the Week

Supertoys Last All Summer Long: Lorenzo Senni’s Scacco Matto

Scacco Matto, Lorenzo Senni's first album for Warp Records, is like a superfast hypercar – but what would James May think about it? ponders Ryan Diduck

Album of the Week

Be Inside Your Mind: Shabazz Palaces’ The Don of Diamond Dreams

Three years on from their last studio release, Adam Quarshie finds warmth, optimism, and full-blown weirdness in Shabazz Palaces’ new album

Album of the Week

Where Is The Love? The Strokes’ The New Abnormal Reviewed

Live by nostalgia, die by nostalgia... Even with super-producer/exhumer Rick Rubin on board and a handful of catchy tunes, it seems The Strokes still can't quite sum up the necessary enthusiasm, finds JR Moores

Album of the Week

Gospel For A New Century: The Sublime Distortion Of Yves Tumor

Yves Tumor’s magnetic personality takes centre stage on new album Heaven To A Tortured Mind, finds Michael Appouh

Album of the Week

Completely In The Present: The Future Blues Of Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20

How has Childish Gambino succeeded in being everything Kanye West claims to be (but isn't)? It may be all in the timing, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Album of the Week

Growing Chorus: Lyra Pramuk’s Fountain Reviewed

With a chorus of paralingual vocalisations, Lyra Pramuk's debut album, Fountain, approaches the uncanny presence of the voice, beyond language and signification, finds Ryan Diduck

Album of the Week

Uncommon Pleasures: New Horse Lords Reviewed

The Common Task, the latest album by Baltimore four-piece Horse Lords is a full-on work out for the attention

Album of the Week

I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Formed around a core originally recorded in 2014 at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars channels the voice of the late Fall frontman on Molocular Meditation, with uncanny results, finds Adam Lehrer

Album of the Week

Energy Flash: Pulled By Magnets’ Rose Golden Doorways

After the break-up of Polar Bear, Seb Rochford did some searching. Hypnotic, turbulent, otherwordly, the new Pulled By Magnets gives us a glimpse into what he found

Album of the Week

Comrades In Arms: Sightless Pit’s Grave Of A Dog

A collaboration between Kistin Hayter (Lingua Ignota), Lee Buford (The Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell), Sightless Pit's debut Grave of a Dog finds a raw equilibrium amongst its different voices

Album of the Week

Branches Bloody Branches: Quadra By Sepultura

Thirty-five years after their debut, Sepultura's latest album shoots for the moon – and misses, finds Tom Coles

Album of the Week

Nimble Rhythms: Beatrice Dillon’s Workaround

Beatrice Dillon weaves disparate threads into a masterwork with her debut LP Workaround, says Kristen Gallerneaux

Album of the Week

Kitchen Sink Dramatist: Have We Met By Destroyer

On his new album, Have We Met, Destroyer's Dan Bejar reveals himself as not just a fine songwriter, but one of the age's great musical dramatists, finds Zara Hedderman

Album of the Week

One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Hotspot, the new album by the Pet Shop Boys, still clings to the utopian promise of the dancefloor, but the battleground has shifted, finds Canada Choate

Album of the Week

Mountains Collapsed Into Streams: Debris By Keeley Forsyth

The debut by Keeley Forsyth makes for a startling and boldly honest record, finds Lara C. Cory

Full Force: Secret Machines’ Awake In The Brain Chamber

Hearts Of Glass: Still House Plants’ Fast Edit

Coastal Explorations: Visitations 0202 By Rachel Aggs

Tape Echoes: Couldn’t Wait To Tell You… By Liv.e

Downs, But Not Out: Heart’s Ease By Shirley Collins

Rebel Alliance: Pain Olympics By Crack Cloud

Volcanic Super-Eruptions: Sly & The Family Drone’s Walk It Dry

Alien Materials: Lamin Fofana’s Blues

Pick ‘N’ Mix: Luke Vibert Presents… Amen Andrews, Modern Rave, & Rave Hop

For The Other An Other: Nadine Shah’s Kitchen Sink

Open Heart Surgery: Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss By Regis

Real Estate Rock: Amnesia Scanner Seem Bored With Their Own Future

Orcadian Rhythms: Erland Cooper’s Hether Blether

Everything Has An End: Aksak Maboul Sum Up With Figures

Blazing Saddles: Perfume Genius Sets Our Hearts On Fire Immediately

Dangerous Visions: Type II By Sex Swing

Mass Effects: On The New Soft Pink Truth Album

Supertoys Last All Summer Long: Lorenzo Senni’s Scacco Matto

Be Inside Your Mind: Shabazz Palaces’ The Don of Diamond Dreams

Where Is The Love? The Strokes’ The New Abnormal Reviewed

Gospel For A New Century: The Sublime Distortion Of Yves Tumor

Completely In The Present: The Future Blues Of Childish Gambino’s 3.15.20

Growing Chorus: Lyra Pramuk’s Fountain Reviewed

Uncommon Pleasures: New Horse Lords Reviewed

I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Energy Flash: Pulled By Magnets’ Rose Golden Doorways

Comrades In Arms: Sightless Pit’s Grave Of A Dog

Branches Bloody Branches: Quadra By Sepultura

Nimble Rhythms: Beatrice Dillon’s Workaround

Kitchen Sink Dramatist: Have We Met By Destroyer

One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Mountains Collapsed Into Streams: Debris By Keeley Forsyth

Most Popular

Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook

Why Edge Of Darkness Makes So Much Sense in 2025

The Strange World Of… Early Cabaret Voltaire

The Stone Roses’ Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield has Died, Aged 63

Noise is a Healing Force: My Bloody Valentine Live

Kling Klang Half Life

Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes

Insecure Men A Man For All Seasons

The Wind is Screaming Around the Trees: 40 Years of Psychocandy

The Murmuring of the Future: Ghost In The Shell 30 Years On

Who Says Free Music Can’t Dance? Sama’a (Audition) by [Ahmed]

Low Culture Essay: Duncan Wheeler on Ozzy at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival

The Bug vs Ghost Dubs Implosion

Don’t Miss The Quietus Digest

Help Support The Quietus in 2025

Get The Portal Direct To Your Inbox

The Quietus Digest

Kling Klang
Half Life

Insecure Men
A Man For All Seasons

The Bug vs Ghost Dubs
Implosion