Brainiac

The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the middway point of 2023, we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile the top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Martin Creed

Mind Trap

Quietus Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes and etceteras of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck

Brett Anderson’s Guide To Black Rainbows

Brett Anderson's fourth solo album Black Rainbows sees him reinvigorated by the return of Suede. Here he guides Luke Turner through the record

Poacher Turned Gamekeeper: The Critic’s Guide To Being In A Band

Andrew Mueller is a travel writer, foreign correspondent, columnist, pundit and author. He has also been a rock critic for donkey's and has been in a country rock band The Blazing Zoo for nigh on a decade. We asked him if the former had given him any insights into the latter...

Low Culture Essay: Manu Ekanayake On Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!)

The Weirder The Better: Buzz Osborne Of Melvins’ 13 Favourite Records

Melvins founder King Buzzo takes tQ through a list of his thirteen favourite records, from Tom Waits to Butthole Surfers via PiL, Pixies and The Who

Still Lives: Hannah Starkey’s Pictures Of Women

The Hepworth in Wakefield stages an impressive mid-career show from an artist whose images invite narratives without a trace of theatricality, finds John Quin

Mills And Doom: 2000AD Founder Pat Mills Interviewed

2000AD founder Pat Mills talks to Joel McIver about an evil empire in which satanic overlords crush their minions into hopelessness. Moving on from the publishing industry, he also talks about the fictional world of Judge Dredd

Richard Milward On France Gall’s 1968 & The Death Of Yé-Yé

In this month's subscriber essay, novelist Richard Milward travels back 55 years to the cobblestone-strewn streets of Paris, the release of France Gall's album 1968, and discovers how a time of political upheaval had a profound impact on the happy-go-lucky genre of yé-yé

Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop’s Saint Omer

The fiction feature debut of documentarian Alice Diop reveals a searing amount about Black trauma and mass media exploitation, finds Blaise Radley

Rum Music for July Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

From the limbo of publication week for her new book, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns to Rum Music with a selection of chaotic harmonica incursions, frantic recorder flourishes, raw and serrated hurdy gurdy, and much much more

Årabrot – Årabrot: Track By Track Review

Årabrot are currently one of the best heavy rock bands in the world. Here core member Kjetil Nernes talks (to John Doran) about inspiration

Mark Jenkin

Enys Men (Original Score)

Director Mark Jenkin offers up a sinister take on the haunted sound of post-millennial electronica for his new film, Enys Men

A Love Like That: Vince & Andy Of Erasure On Vince & Andy Of Erasure

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde this weekend and next year's mammoth UK tour, Vince Clarke and Andy Bell open up to Luke Turner about the history of the wonderful synth duo... and each other.

Veterans Of The Trenches: A Look Back At Battle Comic

Steve Earles reviews the best of Battle and talks to creator Pat Mills