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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: May 2021

For tQ subscribers, here's all the ace new music we've covered on the site this May, compiled into one handy mega-playlist!

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As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we’re compiling a specially-curated playlist for our readers every month.

Across this May’s six and a half hours of noise you’ll find razor sharp relentless bangers from Loraine James and Rochelle Jordan, fantastic left-field pop from CHAI, audiobooks and Glüme, all-out power from GNOD, plus the picks from our punk and hardcore, French, Irish, cassette music and jazz columns, and plenty of the completely uncategorisable, as per.

In order to listen to the playlists, you’ll need the link – you can become a Quietus Low Culture or Sound & Vision tier subscriber here. And FYI, the playlist is but one of the perks you could receive as a Quietus Subscriber.

Our latest Low Culture podcast features Dale Cornish on Soft Cell’s This Last Night In Sodom and is live now, as are exclusive essays on subjects such as Olivetti Typewriters, Arthur C. Clarke, the occult history of Accrington Stanley FC, Julian Cope and John Cale. Subscribers will also receive the brand new VÄLVĒ LP, which would be among our albums of the year even if we weren’t releasing it. More is being announced very soon indeed, and rest assured it’s not to be missed. Access your playlists below the Steady paywall here:

You can access the playlist on Spotify here.


You can access the playlist on Apple Music here.


You can access the playlist on TIDAL here.


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