Graphic Adventures Of The Epic & Banal Kind: An Interview With Steve Tillotson

After the publication of his first full length graphic novel with Avery Hill, Steve Tillotson talks to Jenny Robins, and reflects on the journey of a creative through collaboration, disillusionment, perseverance and lashings of deadpan surreal humour

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: November and December 2024

Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus in the final two months of 2024, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers

Everything’s Connected: Omar Rodríguez-López Favourite LPs

Former At The Drive In and Mars Volta member Omar Rodríguez-López speaks to Stevie Chick about the records that shaped his life, from Latin traditionals to how Janet Jackson got him into punk

“A Burst Of Dirty Thunder”: The Rise And Fall Of Grebo

Joe Banks speaks to Rich Deakin about his new book, *Grebo! The Loud And Lousy Story Of Gaye Bykers On Acid And Crazyhead*

How Vic & Bob’s Mulligan & O’Hare Got Me Into Experimental Music, By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan explains how a childhood love of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's avant-folk duo Mulligan & O'Hare opened her ears to the avant-garde, and realising that the most 'serious' music can often be a total hoot

The Anchoress

The Art Of Losing

With guest vocals from James Dean Bradfield (and drumming from Sterling Campbell, it's nonetheless Catherine Anne Davies's own production skills that make her second Anchoress album so special, finds Marc Burrows

Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes Of 2023

After the cassette celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2023, Daryl Worthington looks back on a year where it reinforced its role as pivotal to the present of underground music. From deep-fake ecosystems to post-sense Dictaphone freakouts, dolphin impersonations, and cutting edge beats

The Weather Station

Ignorance

From the end of the affair to the end of the world, The Weather Station's fifth album is rich and full, finds Zara Hedderman

Aziza Brahim

Soutak

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Collaborate On New Album

Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto's latest collaborative project was recorded at Philip Johnson's Glass House in Connecticut

PREMIERE: John Foxx And The Maths Share New Track, ‘Howl’

John Foxx And The Maths return with a new line-up for their fifth studio album

A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

On the fortieth anniversary of the death of Alfred Hitchcock and under Coronoavirus lockdown, Adam Scovell finds new meaning in the filmmaker's use of confinement and enclosed spaces