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Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for April Reviewed by JR Moores

JR Moores peruses the latest new psych rock releases, including a surprising new cut of filthily heavy noise rock from none other than Miley Cyrus

A Quietus Interview

Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed

tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns'
Reviews

Driving Him Nuts: Squirrely Years Revisited Is Ministry’s Best Album In Decades

Al Jourgensen's latest is a startling proposition – re-recordings of material that he outright despises, with a raging squirrel phallus displayed on the cover. It's also, says JR Moores, the best material the band's put out for years
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Fugazi

Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether
Reviews

Mogwai

The Bad Fire

Longstanding post-rock quartet move fast and break things, bringing together the quiet bit-loud bit dynamics of their early material with the more melodic material that took their previous record to the top of the album charts
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Paul McCartney in the 1990s

Drawing on his new book, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s, JR Moores explores Macca’s breadth of activities in what he argues was the most important decade of his post-Beatles career

Columns of the Year

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock of 2024

That was the year that was, in psych rock terms, remembers JR Moores, picking out his 10 top releases of 2024
Reviews

Papa M

Ballads Of Harry Houdini

Having worked with Slint, Tortoise, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dave Pajo is still searching for new paths through the guitar
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for November Reviewed by JR Moores

Freshly dressed for Comic Con, JR Moores gets stuck into the latest psych and noise rock releases 
Reviews

Primal Scream

Come Ahead

With Bobby Gillespie virtually the sole surviving member, Primal Scream offer diminished returns, writes lapsed fan JR Moores
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for September Reviewed by JR Moores

Before getting stuck into the latest avant rock releases, JR Moores pins his colours to the mast of Macca
Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese

As Ween's 1994 classic gets an expanded rerelease, JR Moores finds it hard to imagine the oddball's oddballs would've thrived at any other time 
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for July Reviewed by JR Moores

In his first psych rock roundup to take place under a Labour government, JR Moores welcomes a bright new era 
Music Downloads

tQ Subscriber Release: Hitiloma & Nat Sharp

J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse
Film

Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed

JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films 
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For May Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection
Mahti
Mahti
Remember Them…

“I Hope I Leave A Mountain Of Shit Unfinished” – Remembering Steve Albini 

Two Quietus writers, JR Moores and Alex Maiolo, pay tribute to Steve Albini who died this week, remembering him not only for his innumerable contributions to music, but his humour, his generosity, his self-awareness, and his impact on keeping communities alive. Main photograph by Maria Jefferis
Reviews

Obey Cobra

Mwg Drwg

From South Wales via Hell, bringing the rough distortion, the electronic disarray and the bottom-kickers
Reviews

A False Ending? Fat White Family’s Forgiveness Is Yours Reviewed

Each Fat White Family album feels like their last, says J R Moores, but if this one genuinely is, here are some ideas for singer Lias Saoudi
Black Sky Thinking

Why Prince Andrew Drama Scoop Won’t End Britain’s Royalist Bootlickery

This retelling of Prince Andrew's cringe-inducing Newsnight appearance overestimates its importance, says JR Moores

Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For March Reviewed By JR Moores

Hoping to entice more readers, JR Moores pivots to showbiz psych rock reporting

Reviews

Soma

Burning is Learning

The New Jersey collective play Indian kirtans turned up to eleven, recorded and mastered by members of Monster Magnet
Reviews

Liam The Resurrection: Liam Gallagher John Squire Reviewed

This demonic joining of forces between the former Oasis vocalist and Stone Roses guitarist doesn't irk JR Moores as much as it probably should
Album of the Week

One Foot In The Grave: Celestial Devastation By Cower

Featuring members of Pet Brick, The Ghost of a Thousand and Silent Front, the new Cower is giving goth for grown-ups, finds JR Moores
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For January Reviewed By JR Moores

Before casting his ears over 2024's first few psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores throws himself into the deep end of music making

Organic Intelligence

Organic Intelligence XXVII: A Psych Rock Christmas

In this month's antidote to the algorithm cosmic Santa JR Moores rides his riffin' reindeer around the globe to bring you a selection of seasonal psychedelic rock treats
Reissue of the Week

Old Man Look At His Life: Neil Young’s Before And After

Neil Young's new album of old songs gets JR Moores thinking about the musician's outlook from the start

Columns of the Year

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock Of 2023

JR Moores surveys a year marked by AI barrel scraping, sociopathic governments and interstellar transmissions, and revisits his favourite psych rock records of the year

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Therapy?’s Semi-Detached

Forget OK Computer, says JR Moores, Therapy?'s fourth major label album, Semi-Detached, which is finally getting a standard vinyl release, tells us more about the late 90s and beyond
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October Reviewed By JR Moores

Our intrepid reporter, JR Moores, investigates the latest psych and noise-rock offerings, reviewing new releases from King Gizzard, Silver Apples and Makoto Kawabata, Carlton Melton and more

Reviews

Get Off Of My Loud: The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds Reviewed

This is what happens when you employ the fan of a certain terrible group to produce your new album, says JR Moores; although he also has a theory for who's really responsible…
Reviews

Saucer Full Of Sour Milk: Roger Waters’ DSOTM Redux Reviewed

If there is one thing that ruins Roger Waters' rerecording of Dark Side Of The Moon – Roger Waters' Dark Side Of The Moon Redux – then it's Roger Waters, finds JR Moores
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