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Spool’s Out: The Best Cassettes of 2025

With AI on his mind and joyous sound in his ears, Daryl Worthington dives into his 20 favourite cassettes of 2025, finding the world’s tape conveyed eccentric undergrounds remain in brilliant form
Reviews

Kibrom Birhane

Lisané Bahir

Ethio-jazz meets modular synths on this thrilling record from the Ethiopia-born, LA-based musician
Reviews

Kara-Lis Coverdale

Changes In Air

The Canadian composer's third album of 2025 is all about material textures and subtle variations
A Quietus Interview

The Life Push: An Interview with Ursula Sereghy

Ahead of an AV performance at Lunchmeat Festival this month, Prague’s Ursula Sereghy tells Daryl Worthington about how post-humanism rewired her brain, the themes of safety (and lack of it) explored on her new album Cordial, and why playful music can still be deadly serious
Reviews

Sunik Kim

Formenverwandler

The writer, filmmaker and musician explores time and memory on an album of music that sounds ferocious, ecstatic, and at points playfully absurd
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for July by Daryl Worthington

From improvisations that capture the archaeology of the internet to werewolf inspired black metal played with Cajun instruments, roaming synths, sidewinding freakouts and clipped nails, Daryl Worthington dives into the latest cassette releases
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for May by Daryl Worthington

Retching punk, ecstatic pummelling, rhythms made from paper and VCRs, time-bending loops and a wonderfully off-piste post punk reissue – Daryl Worthington peaks into May’s cassette releases
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Editions Mego

It started with the sound of a fridge... Daryl Worthington studies the tributary network of connections that make up Editions Mego via ten of their crucial releases
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington

Daryl Worthington speaks to Turmeric Acid about telepathic collaborations, and reviews tapes of free-wheeling hardanger and Andean flute improvisations, sat nav fall outs, ecstatic noise and more in March’s dive into the cassette scene
Reviews

Nikolaienko

Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye

Ukrainian cassette archaeologist and Muscut records boss melts into a dubby ooze
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for January by Daryl Worthington

A new year finds the tape scene as vibrant, weird and wonderful as ever. Daryl Worthington dives into water tapestries, time-folding folk and hip-hop, vibrant electronic noise and an album of online product reviews
Columns of the Year

Spools Out: The Best Cassettes of 2024

Daryl Worthington rounds up his 18 favourite tapes from 2024, and his favourite cassette label of the year. From heavy metal choirs to radical turntables, revolutionary bagpipes and hooligan trombones
Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Rythmetic – The Compositions of Norman McLaren

Though best known as a pioneering animator, a new compilation shines an overdue light on the parallel brilliance of Norman McLaren's sound work, says Daryl Worthington
Reviews

Claire Rousay

The Bloody Lady

A new soundtrack for an old Slovakian animation finds Claire Rousay at her most dreamy
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for October by Daryl Worthington

A mixtape of Indonesian horror movie sounds, a doom metal supergroup from Beijing, the return of Felinto and a pair of artists embracing the sounds of insects. Daryl Worthington reports from the ever vibrant tape underground
Live Reviews

Augmenters of Reality: tQ’s Highlights of Semibreve 2024

From field recording as provocation, to new constructions from the wreckage of club music, Daryl Worthington returns from a haunting edition of Semibreve with his picks of this year’s performances
Live Reviews

Unlikely Intersections: tQ’s Highlights of Skaņu Mežs 2024

At this year's edition of Riga's Skaņu Mežs , Daryl Worthington finds an eclectic and boldly-curated lineup that offers glorious discombobulation, and picks out six of the very best
Reviews

Richard Skelton

The Old Thrawing Crux

The Lancastrian electroacoustic composer weaves a web of sonic fictions around his latest exercise in epic ambience
Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Susumu Yokota’s Acid Mt. Fuji

Acid Mt. Fuji was an anomaly in Susumu Yokota's back catalogue, says Daryl Worthington; a glorious anomaly that forges psychic links between Japan, Chicago and Detroit
Reviews

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Night of Fire

More Eaze and Seth Graham return (joined this time by recovery girl), turning rage at systematic oppression into surreal beauty
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for September by Daryl Worthington

In September’s report from the cassette fringes, Daryl Worthington explores Beirut-founded label Ruptured, and reviews tapes of blistering noise, slinky punk-funk, library music and the self-proclaimed best producer in the Middle East
Reviews

Etelin

Patio User Manual

Alex Cobb's third Etelin album finds beauty in the mundane, evoking a virtual space where bird calls and electronic glitches merge
Reviews

Laurie Tompkins and Max Syedtollan

The Tank

A radio play about ufology by two absurdist British composers becomes the occasion for free-wheeling vocalisations, spacey synths, and some sdar
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for July by Daryl Worthington

Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes
Reissue of the Week

Various Artists – Tránsitos Sónicos: Música electrónica y para cinta de compositores peruanos (1964-1984)

Daryl Worthington relishes tQ's Compilation Of The Week: an anthology of electronic and tape music made by Peruvian composers
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for May by Daryl Worthington

Hooligan trombone, microtonal synth-wave, time-dilated dub and sweathouse drone. Daryl Worthington finds worlds within worlds in the cassette scene this month

Album of the Week

Long Nows: Ghosted II By Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin

A second album from the improvising guitar-bass-drums trio will change your concept of time, finda Daryl Worthington
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For March By Daryl Worthington

Tradition defying bagpipes, failed field recordings of frogs, shimmering post punk and deep electronics from a hair salon in this month’s cassette reviews
Reviews

NPVR

33 34

The final collaboration between Nik Void and the late Peter Rehberg will mess with you on a deep neurological level, finds Daryl Worthington
Album of the Week

To Hear Hearing: Spectral Evolution By Rafael Toral Is Our Album Of The Week

Drawing together the threads of three decades’ patient exploration, the Portuguese experimental composer invites you into a teeming world of sound
Album of the Week

The Extreme South: Último Sosiego By Benjamín Vergara & Amanda Irarrázabal

An album of improvised music for trumpet and double bass draws on the emotional resonances of Chile’s southern tip
Cassettes

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For January By Daryl Worthington

Achingly raw spoken word, achingly raw vocal contortions, dungeon synth from an abandoned church, and a whole load of duos in this month’s Spool’s Out

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