Luke Turner

“We’re The Last Cult Band” These New Puritans Interviewed

As These New Puritans prepare for a major Barbican concert, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett speak to Luke Turner about their grand plans and how their relationship feeds into the band's resolutely DIY approach. B&W portraits by Guy Lowndes, other pictures George Barnett

New Names For Aerial Festival

Plus! Quietus Sunday afternoon takeover! The Dark Outside needs YOU!

Oooff, Ken! It’s John Shuttleworth’s Baker’s Dozen!

As he prepares to head off on a major UK tour, South Yorkshire's finest electronic artiste John Shuttleworth delves into his dusty loft to find 13 favourite records, from Harry Secombe to The Beatles, Mrs Mills and Leo Sayer

LISTEN: Brian Eno’s Election Song!

LIVE REPORT: Fat White Family

As Fat White Family bring their third album Serfs Up to EartH in London, Luke Turner witnesses a new-found professionalism that does nothing to dampen the band's sordid power. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Supergroup Formed For tQ Xmas Fundraiser!

Help us stay alive by coming to the final Quietus Social of the year - crackers supergroup! Regis!

A Roaming Suburban Boy: William Doyle Interviewed

William Doyle's new album is an ecstatic celebration of the neglected suburban estates of Britain. He speaks to Luke Turner about processing grief and coming to art in these complex landscapes. Photos by Matt Colquhoun

Invada To Release Bait Soundtrack

Music from underground hit to be released via Bristol label

A Feeling Called Love: Jarvis Cocker’s Favourite Albums

As he releases a compilation of music from his 6 Music Sunday Service programme, Jarvis Cocker guides Luke Turner through 13 favourite albums and tells stories of Sheffield clubbing in the 80s, getting bollocked by the BBC for mentioning Thatcher, and why you should never look for messages in musical presents from an ex

Gold Gold Gold Gold Fire Fire Fire Fire: Douglas McCarthy’s Favourite LPs

As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more

LISTEN: New Carter Tutti Void!!!!

Music's finest trio are BACK!

Richard Skelton

Border Ballads

Richard Skelton's album puts the natural world into focus, finds Luke Turner

The Watch Is Ended: Game Of Thrones Doc Director Jeanie Finlay Interviewed

Jeanie Finlay captured the epic task of making the final series of Game of Thrones in documentary The Last Watch. Here, she tells Luke Turner about bumping into the Night King in Spar and finding the human stories among cast and crew. ***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres

Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres

Indie has-been Pete Doherty has a new album out. Should we care? Probably not, finds Luke Turner

You’re Never Alone: Luke Turner On Suede Live

Suede bring their Blue Hour tour to a close on a Sunday night in Cambridge where, led by a sweaty and shirt-ripping Brett Anderson, they once again prove that their continued existence has nothing to do with nostalgia. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Masters Of The Ecstatic – Life Metal By Sunn O)))

On their eighth studio album, Life Metal, Seattle's Sunn O))) prove once again that the greatest art is often simultaneously deadly serious and utterly ridiculous, finds Luke Turner

LISTEN: New Helm

Luke Younger returns with new LP on PAN

Bloomin’ Marvellous! These New Puritans’ Inside The Rose Reviewed

You might think that These New Puritans could never follow the magnificent Field Of Reeds... but think again, says Luke Turner, for new album Inside The Rose is just a different kind of wonderful

Why Radio 3’s Cuts Are Wrong: 550+ Artists & More Sign Letter To The BBC

Hundreds of musicians, curators, academics and more, from Brian Eno to Nitin Sawhney, Shirley Collins to Stewart Lee and Roisin Murphy, sign an open letter to the BBC about their disastrous cuts to their scheduling

Test Department

Disturbance

With their gigs in the relics of Britain's manufacturing past, Test Dept took industrial music to its logical extreme. After a two decade wait, they're back with a new record that sees their political fire undimmed.

Sleaford Mods

Eton Alive

Sleaford Mods new album is a huge leap forward and a welcome exploration of the nuances of masculine identity, says Luke Turner

Ugly Songs For Ugly Times: Xiu Xiu’s Girl With Basket Of Fruit

Xiu Xiu return on the wonderful Upset The Rhythm label with another album of dissonant, angry songs about the current state of global awfulness

Wot No Jazz Funk?! Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Favourite Records

As Cosey Fanni Tutti releases one of the albums of the year thus far, she sits down with Luke Turner to discuss 13 records that shaped her, from the soundtrack to pre-COUM hippy days in Hull to the present day

Toy

Happy In The Hollow

After a few years in the outer reaches, Toy are back on fine cosmic form

LISTEN: New My Disco!

Australians My Disco strip back for next album

Depeche Mode & More For Mute 4’33” Box Set

PLUS! The first new solo work from The Normal since 1978!

This Is Not This Heat: Final London Gig

Charles' Hayward and Bullen reveal end plans

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2018, In Association With Norman Records

The Quietus albums of the year chart returns, with our favourite 100 records released in our tenth anniversary year. Read the countdown and find out how you can support us in our work bringing you the best new music

Slow Tree

Visitations Three

British Sea Power's Abi Fry and Neil Hamilton head to the Isle of Eigg and hatch a truly wonderful record

Bless My Homeland Forever: Laibach’s The Sound Of Music

How do you solve a problem like totalitarianism? Laibach have been asking that question for a long time, and this album – perhaps unexpectedly – is their most remarkable response yet

British Sea Power: Remembering Remember Me

Ahead of their set in Newcastle on Saturday to commemorate the end of WWI, we recall British Sea Power's brilliant Remember Me video

Lives Less Ordinary: Darren Hayman’s Thankful Villages

As Darren Hayman prepares to release the last instalment of his Thankful Villages project just before the anniversary of the end of WWI, Luke Turner sits down with him to reflect on commemoration, memory, and the celebration of ordinary lives