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 ...

Hey Colossus announce their 15th album in 22 years, Heaven Was Wild via the Christmas Day launch of a mini-documentary ...

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 ...

Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Depeche Mode have put out official releases covering the vast majority of their tours since the mid-1980s, whether via film, live album releases or more often than not both, so the release of Memento ...

In another fine year for French releases, it’s been heartening to note that music heads in the UK and Ireland are becoming increasingly aware of how vital the French underground scene is, and just ...

New Jersey rapper and South London drummer team up and tear it up over nine tracks of deep beats and mangled melodies Back in 2023, From The Other (the creative bods behind Fat Out Fest) invited ...