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Bill Orcutt

A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner’s August Punk & Hardcore Column!

In this month's column on the best in punk and hardcore, Noel Gardner bastes his ears with new music from Snõõper, Landowner, Parallel Worlds, Gimic, Fashion Change, Piñén, Spirito Di Lupo, Motorbike, JFA, as well as a reissue from early 90s Glaswegian group Dawson

Dig it: Mining The Deep Horizons Show In Middlesbrough

John Quin burrows away at a collaborative show in MIMA featuring work by Martin Creed, Theaster Gates, Hannah Rullmann and Faiza Ahmad Kahn

LIVE REPORT: The Human League

Touring in support of the kind of retrospective that the band, and their fans, truly deserve, Ian Wade finds the Human League showcasing their versatility and their steadfast commitment to being — as the record says — "a very British synthesizer group." (Photos by Maria Jefferis.)

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores momentarily prises himself away from web-based lexicon challenges to bring a fresh batch of psych. Home page photograph: 50ft Wave

Hulubalang

Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal

An album of maximalist electronica from Indonesia proves an ambitious, if difficult listen for Alex Rigotti

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan's latest dispatch from the zone features an extraordinary compilation from a Shenzen label and bookshop, archival recordings of one of the greatest Māori singers of all time, and a special album from Cheri Knight

Betrayed By Our Nature: Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth

In a world where our relationship to safety is changing beyond repair, Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth offers a bombastic psychedelic escape. But, asks Kiran Acharya, are we emerging into heaven or hell?

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For October By Daryl Worthington

Singing devices, an almighty snare drum rucus, and a council estate reimagined through an echo chamber. Daryl Worthington dives into this month’s cassettes

Electrifying Lady: Janelle Monáe At The Roundhouse

The Kansas-born Q.U.E.E.N. shows London she's the torch-bearer for a dying tradition of life-changing pop, says Simon Price

Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release

Spatial, No Problem arrives almost five years on from the dub pioneer's death

Sarah Nixey

Night Walks

Third solo album from former Black Box Recorder vocalist is a triumph of hallucinatory avant pop

Praise Be! The Quietus’ Favourite Religious & Spiritual Records

Ahead of the Easter weekend, the Quietus writers select a huge list of their favourite religious and spiritual records, from across the spectrum of belief systems, denominations and musical styles

North-South Divide: In Conversation With David Peace & Luke Haines

Stuart Evers speaks to the rock 'n' roll auteur and Faber's superstar author about the role of the outsider, the shadow history of music and mining nostalgia

How Rosalía’s Music Is A Journey To The Heart Of Divided Spain

Rosalía has been one of pop's standouts in recent years and, says Ben Cardew, her music provides a way for outsiders to understand the complexities of contemporary Spanish politics. Photo thanks to Primavera Sound / Sergio Albert

Low Culture Essay: Harry Sword On The Flashman Papers

In this month's Low Culture essay, commissioned exclusively for tQ subscribers, Harry Sword makes the case for George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series of novels being a fine lesson in the grim reality of British history, and the literary equivalents of the music of Throbbing Gristle and Iron Maiden