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 ...

“There is a cosmic force at play with this band!” Hey Colossus – never doing anything the easy way – have just announced their new album on Christmas Day, via a mini documentary, streaming above, ...

A December afternoon, and I’m watching the afternoon sky turn from light to dark grey to black. An overgrown holly bush waves vigorously at me through the window. It is a stark backdrop, but one ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stewart Lee and EarthBall synthesise alchemical gold out of the base materials of a confusing and badly planned conversation.

Shackleton has a new album on the way. Marking his first solo release for AD 93, the 10-track Euphoria Bound follows last year’s collaborative record with Holy Tongue, The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now, ...

Although the band’s early career was characterised by a revolving cast in the rhythm section, the departures of founding members Saul Adamczewski and Nathan Saoudi between third album Serf’s Up and ...

Every year, when we publish our round-up of the year’s best albums, the default reaction on social media and certain corners of Reddit – yes, I have scanned them on occasion I’m afraid – is to assume ...

“Not long now before I can review bands whose members are younger than this column,” I wrote back in summer, implicitly begging to be respected for a 15-year stint writing Noel’s Straight Hedge on ...

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 ...