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Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For April With Tristan Bath

The space between sound worlds dominates the month’s best cassette releases as reviewed by Tristan Bath. Includes musical tributes to Dundee’s architecture, Burrougshian jungle mixtape collage, sound art from Calcutta and just intonation explorations from Hungary. Live photograph of Iku by Jiří Šeda

Lost Harbours

Towers Of Silence

Lost Harbours return with another beautiful, sombre missive beamed out of the dark underworld of Southend-on-Sea (via Riga, Latvia).

WATCH: New Insecure Men

The third track emerges from Insecure Men's forthcoming debut LP. Watch 'I Don't Wanna Dance' below

Reissue Of The Week: Nate Scheible’s Fairfax

Neil Kulkarni talks to composer Nate Scheible about the timely reissue of his captivating Fairfax tape on vinyl and about the compelling power of the female voice it contains

tQ + Houndstooth At The Great Escape

Check out a playlist featuring music from the acts joining us at the Brighton festival later this month

Mekons Film Director To Fund Film Online

Full details of how to contribute to Revenge Of The Mekons here

Full Clip: This Month’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez returns to his monthly rap reviews beat armed with an ultralight beam and a laser sight

Insecure Men

A Man For All Seasons

Co-founder of Fat White Family manifests transition through love songs

A Certain Ratio’s ‘Live In America’ to be Reissued for 40th Anniversary

The live LP captures the Manchester band's tour of America with New Order

Bad Lieutenant

Never Cry Another Tear

The Strange World Of… The Legendary Pink Dots

Lovers of the strange! The Legendary Pink Dots are back with brilliant new album The Gethsemane Option. The band's Ed Ka-Spel runs through the strange world of their history

L’Rain Unveils New Album, ‘I Killed Your Dog’

It follows her 2021 tQ favourite record, 'Fatigue'

Renu

They Dance In The Dark

Composer, producer and percussionist Renu Hossain produces her richest work yet, a gift from a citizen of everywhere to “all the witches, weirdos, queers, femmes and nerds of this cosmos”.

The Strange World Of… Julius Eastman

In spite of a gradually accelerating reappraisal, a full portrait of composer Julius Eastman will most likely never surface, says Aimee Armstrong. Instead we’re left to track him through anecdotes, odd photographs and his politically charged and aggressively honest personal composition. A preview for this year's Intonal Festival.

Tony Scott RIP

Andrew Stimpson remembers filmmaker Tony Scott, who died on Sunday at the age of 68