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The essence of our musical world rounded up
Music of the Month
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2025
From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that dance music still has space for innovation, tQ's staffers round up the best that March had to offer
Albums of the Year
The culmination of our musical year in 100 albums
Albums of the Year
Quietus Albums Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)
These 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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The best releases from the past calendar month
Music of the Month
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2025
From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that dance music still has space for innovation, tQ's staffers round up the best that March had to offer
Music of the Month
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2025
From a revelatory debut of Chilean post punk to gargantuan sound design, via left-field trad fiddles, sonic euphoria, and proof that dance music still has space for innovation, tQ's staffers round up the best that March had to offer
Albums of the Year so far
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 Chart 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)
As we reach the middway point of 2023, we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile the 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 2023 (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
Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music of 2024
Our electronic music columnist looks back at dance music culture in 2024, and presents his top 30 tracks from the last 12 months
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Organic Intelligence
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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
Folk
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 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
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Charles Hayward and Agathe Max, two-fifths of experimental supergroup Abstract Concrete, talk to Ben Graham about creative evolution, learning to work with melody and structure, and saying goodbye to rock & roll. All portraits by Lewis Hayward
