The Strange World Of… Dead Can Dance

Lottie Brazier looks back at Australian group Dead Can Dance’s legacy in chill-out rooms, Hollywood soundtracks, as neo-classicists and fearless improvisers

She’s The One: Annette Peacock Interviewed

Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of Revenge - an album she recorded in 1968 that still sounds fresh now. With thanks to Cindy Stern

Ricarda Cometa

Ricarda Cometa 2

A revelation outta thin air, courtesy of this dazzlingly trigonometrical spritz of minimal rock clang from Buenos Aires

LISTEN: Bruxa Maria / Casual Nun Record

Bruxa Maria and Casual Nun join forces for a split release

Mercurial Rev: Richard Coles’ Favourite Music

Vicar, musician, broadcaster and ex-Communard, The Reverend Richard Coles tells Alex Burrows how music is still important to belief and why parish choirs are the new punk. Portrait by Tim Anderson.

For Victory: An Interview With Narrows

Transatlantic crew Narrows, featuring former members of Botch, These Arms Are Snakes and Bullet Union, among others, are about to embark on what might be their final European tour. Quietus editor John Doran catches up with them to talk Bolt Thrower, Game Of Thrones and Greenland

Fresh Starts & Happy Endings: Quaranta By Danny Brown

Lockdown (and rehab) allow Detroit’s finest living storyteller to deliver his most personal album to date, finds Arusa Qureshi

Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Toby Cook reviews all the metal that's fit for your shell-like: Napalm Death, The Body, Thou, Xibalba, Lotus Thief and Necrocanibalistic Vomitorium

Macca In Fake Personal Ads Shocker!

Lennon and Harrison also claimed to have been in on the ruse.

King Midas Sound Announce New Album

Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin are back with a new King Midas Sound album

DJ Hell Interviewed

For the first in a new series of articles exploring the ongoing experiments in modern German music we talk to DJ Hell about his fine new album Teufelswerk.

The Spirit Is The Thing: Irmin Schmidt’s Favourite Records

As the former Can man releases his Electro Violet box set this week, he boils his all-time favourites down to a 'records of the day' selection, taking Sean Kitching from albums to individual songs and classical compositions

Analogue Alienation: The Very Rare Sound Of Wierd Records

The Very Rare sounds of Cold Wave have proved influential on two Wierd Records acts, Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est. Louis Pattison investigates

LISTEN: First Commissions From tQ’s PRES Partnership

Hear the first selection of commissions from our ongoing competition based around the pivotal Polish Radio Experimental Archive

New Order Back Catalogue Reissues

Darren Hayman

You Will Not Die

The former Hefner frontman follows a set of Oulipian constraints to produce a set of typically affecting meditations of love, life and mortality, finds Aug Stone