The Quietus’ Self-Indulgent Reissues, Comps & Mixes Of The Year List: 14 to one

The Quietus rounds off its list of reissues, compilations and mixes by using means no more scientific than casting a goat's entrails across the office.

Djrum

Portrait With Firewood

A meticulous, moving electronic album

Cassegrain

Centres Of Distraction

The Beginning Of The End: The Return Of Rum Music

A temporal burp uploads a historical research dossier from the far future into The Quietus’ content management system. Portending the end of music, it gives a quick introduction to Rum Music, our newly returned column that tries to map new territories in the ever-shifting auditory dimension, along with a mix featuring the ‘best’ Rum Music of 2018

James Cargill Working On New Broadcast Material

A new Broadcast album and film soundtrack in the works, using vocals recorded by Trish Keenan before her death earlier this year

Star Striped Tragedy: Captain Phillips Reassesed

Raphael Hall tackles some of the tricky questions raised by Paul Greengrass's modern epic

Yoko, Thurston & Kim LP Due

Six-track YOKOKIMTHURSTON is lined up for a September release

Laibach Release John Peel Radio Sessions on Vinyl

The John Peel Sessions collects two BBC performances the band did in 1986 and 1987

Neurosis & Godflesh London Show

Steel-plated night at the Forum in December

Maja Ratkje

Crepuscular Hour

Masculinising Spaces: Inside The Seduction Industry

In an edited extract from her book Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, sociologist Rachel O’Neill explores the way an industry based on the promise of sexual access reconfigures men’s relationships with women – and with other men

First Names For Weather Festival

Robert Hood, Richie Hawtin and Actress among first names announced for the Parisian festival

LOW’s Alan Sparhawk Reveals New Solo LP, ‘With Trampled By Turtles’

It follows his 2024 solo debut, White Roses, My God

A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age

As Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.

Peter Doherty

Grace / Wastelands

Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed

Ahead of an appearance at next month's Acid Horse festival, the industrial folk ensemble speak to Claire Biddles about power plant tourism, Home Counties gothic and why they embrace artistic violence (as long as it doesn't occur near the cellist). All photographs by Spela Cedilnik