Hay no banda! There is no band… just two fine looking gentlemen of a certain age resplendent in their seasonal knitwear. John ...

As is now traditional on tQ, we combine our round-ups of the last two months of the year into one playlist and feature, to ...

Eagle-eyed tQ readers will have spotted that there was no best-of-November round-up last month, in order to make room for our Albums of the Year chart. Nevertheless, it’d be a shame to let those ...

Many Quietus readers will no doubt be familiar with Time Team, the archaeology programme broadcast by Channel 4 for a decade between 1994 and 2014 and recently revived online. Presented by actor Tony ...

In an effort to familiarise myself with the inspiration for Blarke Bayer’s The King in Yellow, the proto-Lovecraftian collection of short stories of the same name by gilded age goth Robert W. Chambers ...

As Cave himself slides into his establishment artist era, a live set recorded in Europe in 2024 sounds best when you can still hear the old grime and the seediness, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey With last ...

The penultimate track on Kibrom Birhane’s Lisané Bahir, ‘AMEN’, has the voices of Ethiopian elders giving blessings over a slow swinging drum machine. A sequencer bubbles out a rubbery pattern beneath ...

One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster.

Aphex Twin has shared two new songs via his user18081971 SoundCloud account. The two tracks are titled ‘Zahl am1 live track 1’ and ‘Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd’, and are alternate versions ...

Perhaps taking a leaf from Johnny Marr’s Fever Dream playbook, the Paris-born, Chicago-based drummer and producer Makaya McCraven released a double-album called Off The Record in early October: on the ...

With his score for Yorgos Lanthimos’s gothic fantasies Poor Things and Kind of Kindness, Joscelin Dent-Pooley (aka Jerskin Fendrix) has proven that his skills in sonic storytelling are excellent. His ...

Spooky season is upon us, and The Plan have made an album filled with songs suitable to soundtrack a B-horror film. Returning almost a decade after the Rebecca Gillieron-led project’s warmly received ...