On Thursday we’re announcing some changes to our subs system to mark our seventeenth birthday – keep your eyes peeled to find out what they are. In the meantime, our Subscriber and Subscriber Plus tier members can access over four hours of music connected to everything we were writing about in the long, long month of August 2025. Here’s what everyone in the state of mind that is tQHQ though were the best of the month in our round-up column, you can get stuck in to the rest below. So that’s music from the likes of Amaare, Water From Your Eyes, Nourished By Time, Rún, Saul Williams, Darren Hayman, Blood Orange, Leo Chadburn, Deftones, The Worm, Junior Brother, Mondo Lava, Chicago Underground Duo, Dale Cornish, Babymetal, Tony Njoku, Ethel Cain, Bendik Giske, Spoon, Brian Eno with Beatie Wolf, Klein, FKA Twigs, Ata Kak, Microcorps, Hamish Hawk, Burial and so much more. Thanks as ever to all of those who do subscribe for keeping us alive, if you’re not a member but want to help fund fully independent, guaranteed human-made writing, you can sign up here. Subscribers – your playlist is below the paywall.
…tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: August 2025
Catch up with everything we wrote about last month
