Circle Traps
Help Support The Quietus in 2025
If you’ve read something you love on our site today, please consider becoming a monthly or annual tQ subscriber – our journalism is mostly funded this way. We’ve got some bonus perks waiting for you too.
Subscribe NowMost Popular
Previously Read
Album of the Week
Brendan Telford On Hey Colossus’ Dedicated To Uri Klangers
The nihilistic bombast and bluster that is the noise of Hey Colossus showcases a disparate cache of men desperate to beguile, bewilder, and laugh at the demise of all around them – including themselves. Brendan Telford looks at this bludgeoning compilation that spans the band’s brutal, mystical history
Black Sky Thinking
The Byline: British Sea Power’s Noble On The Trials Of The Man U Fan
In the second of our series recounting independent musicians personal relationships with the beautiful game, British Sea Power's Martin Noble talks to Andrew Fenwick about eating crisps at Old Trafford, performing at an FA Cup Final and catching a glimpse of Sir Bobby Charlton's penis...
Film
Because The Night: The Timeliness Of Chantal Akerman’s ‘Toute Une Nuit’
One of Chantal Akerman's lesser known works feels singularly important during times of global isolation. Toute Une Nuit telegraphs the importance of human connection over one finite period of time and now plays like a foggy memory, finds Patrick Preziosi
Black Sky Thinking
Stop The Music: How Rocketing Business Rates Will Kill Small Venues
The Government's recent review of business rates will almost certainly put grassroots and independent venues across the country out of business. Patrick Clarke speaks to venue owners to explore the very serious repercussions.
