Lethal Bizzle

Blur

The Ballad Of Darren

In a year that has already seen the releases of a Gorillaz album, a solo record from Dave Rowntree, and the debut from Graham Coxon’s the Waeve, a new Blur album was an unlikely addition to the docket. With so many outlets for their work, what creative impulse drives their ninth album?

INTERVIEW: Chelsea Wolfe

We catch up with the L.A. singer-songwriter following this year's excellent Pain Is Beauty, her darkest, most electronic album yet

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Bon Voyage

Melody Prochet returns to music with a collection of widescreen, windswept psychedelia

The Gallows Pole By Benjamin Myers: A Playlist

With his alternative history of the North out in shops now, author Ben Myers puts together a sonic accompaniment for the dark and sprawling wilderness he has conjured and reflected in The Gallows Pole

My Music Is Whatever People Want To Call It: Loraine James Interviewed

“Just out on the street, my partner’s having to act like she’s not my partner. It isn’t fun.” Elizabeth Aubrey meets Loraine James, the creator of For You And I, tQ's album of the year

Collision Course: Karl D’Silva Interviewed

Ahead of his Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur), Michael Brooks talks to multi-instrumentalist/composer Karl D’Silva about his new solo work, his formative musical experiences, and what it was like performing with the likes of Thurston Moore and GNOD

Approximating A Cyber World: An Interview with Black Rain

New York duo Black Rain have just reissued some of their lost soundtrack work from the mid-nineties, music that feels stunningly current despite its age. Joseph Burnett caught up with Stuart Argabright to chat NYC history, no-wave, meat cleavers and science fiction

The Rhythm Divine: Running Up That Hill By Kate Bush

'Running Up That Hill' may finally be at the top of the charts, some 37 years after it was first released, but how was it made, what does it mean and why has it connected so strongly with a younger generation? Matthew Lindsay has some answers

LISTEN: New BMB (British Murder Boys)

OOF! Surgeon and Regis reunite - hear a track from their upcoming 12" below

An American Nightmare: Lana Del Rey Live By John Calvert

This week The Calvert Report attempts to understand Lana Del Rey live, "chart music where death is a 'dark paradise'". Live photo by Katja Ogrin

Gary Numan

Intruder

Numan Prime returns with his nineteenth album, a reliably impressive package, finds Marc Burrows

Reissue of the Week: Berserker by Gary Numan

If there is one Gary Numan album left to be rediscovered and reassessed from his mid 80s through 90s doldrums, then it is the commercial but not creative misstep Berserker, says Jeremy Allen

Reissue Of The Week: Edan’s Beauty And The Beat

On 2005’s Beauty And The Beat, Edan produced the best psychedelic album of the decade, and the most fleshed out fusion of hip hop and psychedelia ever put to wax. Eden Tizard explores what makes it such a cult classic

WATCH: New Courtney Barnett

Premiere of video for new single Anonymous Club ahead of English tour

Tengger Cavalry

Blood Sacrfice Shaman