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Tide Pools

Daryl Groetsch submerges the listener in warm pads and playful jazz harmonies, music that ebbs and flows and washes over you in appropriately satisfying waves

Madonna Unveils ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ LP Sequel

The new record was produced alongside Stuart Price, who worked on the first Confessions... offering

Why Labour’s Proposals to Ban Ticket Touting don’t go far Enough

While music biz expert Eamonn Forde welcomes government plans to close the exploitative "secondary ticket" market, he argues that more needs to be done to help consumers and artists alike

Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025

Jakub Knera rounds off the year in Central and Eastern European music with a reflection on how the region's complex ecosystem is reflected in its cultural output, and a selection of 2025's key albums and reissues

Catching up With KAOS: Politics & Powerful Electronics at 22nd Anniversary

Lee Adams of the legendary LGBTQIA+ techno night KAOS discusses next week's anniversary event, the Athens experimental arts and music scene, and noise as political resistance

The Strange World Of… Ladytron

With their eighth album Paradises out this week, Simon Price asks Ladytron founder Daniel Hunt to shed some light (and magic) upon ten entry points into the Scouse-based synth lords' (and ladies') pristine body of werk. And for top tier subscribers revelation is at hand via an essential playlist

The Strange World Of… Ed Kuepper

Chris Pugmire offers us ten entry points into the back catalogue of Ed Kuepper of Australian iconoclasts The Saints, Laughing Clowns, and solo and collaborative renown

New Weird Britain: 2025 in Review by Noel Gardner

From avant folk to post-post-club computer music, via several doses of Cornish soundsmithery and a tribute to former Tottenham defender Ledley King, Noel Gardner presents his 10 favourite releases from New Weird Britain in 2025, and rounds up 10 more that got away

How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50

John Quin presents a hormonally loaded take on Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s classic of male alienation. For top tier subscribers to this site, click below for a 'Quietus Essentials Playlist' guide to the cinematic music of Bernard Herrmann

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Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains

Silver Jews' David Berman is back with his first new music for over a decade. Purple Mountains' eponymous debut is a fine and moving addition to his oeuvre, finds Noel Gardner

Demolishing the Outmoded Society: Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber

Reissue of the Week: Hüsker Dü’s 1985: The Miracle Year

Julian Marszalek relishes a live box set that captures a band at the moment of transition – in invention and reinvention – but, he asks, were they the Beatles of hardcore?

Ricardo Villalobos, Underground Resistance and More Rework Sun Ra Arkestra on New Compilation

When There Is No Sun draws on the Arkestra's 2022 album Living Sky, as well as a 2023 release celebrating Sun Ra's poetry

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Lisané Bahir

Ethio-jazz meets modular synths on this thrilling record from the Ethiopia-born, LA-based musician

Robyn Details First Album in Eight Years, ‘Sexistential’

Following last year's comeback single 'Dopamine', the new record marks the Swedish artist's first LP since signing with Young