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Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
Columns of the Year
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
Albums of the Year
The culmination of our musical year in 100 albums
Albums of the Year
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2024 (In Association with Norman Records)
Here are our favourite albums of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers
Tracks of the Year
The culmination of our musical year in 100 tracks
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Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of September 2025
tQ's staffers have sifted through the stream of September's music, and returned with a selection of shiny golden nuggets
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The best albums there are at the half way mark of the year
Albums of the Year so far
The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)
As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year
Reissues etc. of the Year
The best reissues, compilations, live albums, DJ mixes, and box sets
Reissues etc. of the Year
tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2024 (In Association with Norman Records)
These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes, OSTs and etceteras of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers
Columns of the Year
Our columnists round up the best in their field
Columns of the Year
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
Columns of the Year
Straight Hedge! The Best Punk and HC of 2025
Noel Gardner caps off his 15th year as our punk and hardcore columnist with a roundup of the 10 best records of 2025, and reviews of 10 more that got away
Columns of the Year
Rum Music: The Best of 2025 Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan
Jennifer Lucy Allan picks out 10 of the best from another Rum year, from lucid bedroom pop made in 1980s Hungary, to wild new sounds out of Lancashire produced on self-built wooden instruments, via accordions, kanteles, lap steel guitars, modular synths and much much more
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