2024年12月2日 · There was a week in mid-October when The Quietus’ release schedule spreadsheet was overflowing with bounteous goodness, with over ten albums by artists we’re partial to out on the same day. This was a fantastic problem to have – we reviewed some out of release week and squeezed out extra budget from our Subscriber revenues […]

Books Blue Lights Gleaming & Walls of Flaming Orange: The Lost Novels of Elaine Kraf. As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s

2025年1月2日 · As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we’re compiling a specially-curated, playlist for our readers every month. Given that last month’s playlist was handed over to the Albums Of The Year playlist, and that it’d be a shame to brush over the wealth of excellent music that came in throughout […]

6 天之前 · You can hear this tension in an interview The Locust gave to San Diego TV show Fox Rox on Halloween of 2002, where bassist/vocalist Justin Pearson brushed aside the stereotype of “a fast drumbeat and some snotty kid with a mohawk and a guitar” to describe punk as “more like an ethical thing of where the band is coming from, socially, politically, economically”.

Baker's Dozen Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community

2024年12月4日 · What a year it’s been for psych rock, noise rock and other largely guitar-based music that doesn’t strictly fit into either of those categories but JR Moores likes to crowbar into these columns because he likes the sound of it. There’s been so much going on, in fact, that there were loads of stories that […]

2024年10月31日 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …

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2024年11月18日 · Having previously worked with Dan Carey and Hot Chip’s Al Doyle and Joe Goddard, this is the first time they’ve self-produced. It has seemingly allowed them to lean more into their afrobeat-influences and expand their sound.

2024年12月16日 · Tracks of the Year Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2020. These are our favourite tracks of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Ella Kemp, Fergal Kinney, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington.