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Albums of the Year so far

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

Baker's Dozen

Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

Black Sky Thinking

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

The Quietus International

What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Species turns 30

Books

“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for July Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Baker's Dozen

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

Baker's Dozen

The Perfect Beat: Arthur Baker’s Baker’s Dozen

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News

Cult Arthur Russell Record To Be Reissued

An album from cult Arthur Russell project The Necessaries will be made available again

Track-by-Track

Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone Not Just A Clever Name…

John Doran slowly peels back the masks of so-called extreme metal behemoths Slipknot and looks at the jaundiced and withered flesh underneath. It isn’t, he concludes, a pretty sight.

Album of the Week

Distant Worlds: One By S t a r g a z e

Berlin and Amsterdam-based ensemble play music by Tyondai Braxton, Nik Colk Void, Arone Dyer, Aart Strootman, and Greg Saunier

Baker's Dozen

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

With Slowdive reformed and about to release their fourth album (as well as playing Field Day and Roskilde), Neil Halstead tells Joe Clay about the gateway albums that influenced him the most. Photo by Ingrid Pop.

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Low Culture Essay

Baal: Paul Burston On David Bowie’s Goodbye to Berlin

In this month's Low Culture essay, Paul Burston looks back at David Bowie's appearance in BBC TV adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Baal, exploring how the German playwright was a frequent inspiration to the singer's many incarnations

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Monthly Playlists

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: September 2020

Here's the first in our new monthly series of playlists, compiling absolutely everything new we've covered over the last four and a half weeks!

Baker's Dozen

Embedded In The Skull: Colin Stetson’s Favourite LPs

As the experimental multi-instrumentalist prepares to release an envelope-pushing solo album and play the Quietus-partnered Big Ears Festival in Tennessee, he takes us through 13 LPs that have shaped the journey so far.

News

Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson Unveils First Album As The Lord

'Forest Nocturne' is out on Southern Lord later this month

A Quietus Interview

Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre

Helping create extreme metal as we know it today as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says John Doran after talking to frontman Cronos

Black Sky Thinking

An Eastern Spring: Memoir Of A Second Generation Immigrant Part Three

In Part Three of his memoir of life growing up as an immigrant in Coventry, Neil Kulkarni recalls the experience of returning to his parents' home

News

FESTIVAL REPORT: Fort Process

Ben Graham heads to a concrete fort in Newhaven, Sussex for a one-day arts festival. Featuring reports on NeuroHarp, Ex Easter Island Head, Daniel Alexander Hignell and more. Photos by Agata Urbaniak

Baker's Dozen

Learning Through Listening: Shabaka Hutchings Favourite LPs

In anticipation of the release of Sons of Kemet's latest LP, Your Queen Is A Reptile and their appearance at this year's Field Day Festival, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings detailed the thirteen albums that shaped his experiences as both a man and a musician to Olamiju Fajemisin

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Most Popular

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Species turns 30

“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for July Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

The Perfect Beat: Arthur Baker’s Baker’s Dozen

Previously Read

Cult Arthur Russell Record To Be Reissued

Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone Not Just A Clever Name…

Distant Worlds: One By S t a r g a z e

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

Baal: Paul Burston On David Bowie’s Goodbye to Berlin

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: September 2020

Embedded In The Skull: Colin Stetson’s Favourite LPs

Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson Unveils First Album As The Lord

Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre

An Eastern Spring: Memoir Of A Second Generation Immigrant Part Three

FESTIVAL REPORT: Fort Process

Learning Through Listening: Shabaka Hutchings Favourite LPs

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