Liturgy

Junk Shop Classical On Schubert: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record

For his second column on a single classical record bought for a quid in a charity shop, Phil Hebblethwaite unpicks a devastating twofer – the Alban Berg Quartett playing a pair of late Schubert pieces in which this most cultish of composers dares to contemplate his sentence of death by sexually transmitted disease

Merzbow Links with Iggor Cavalera and Eraldo Bernocchi on New Album for PAN

Nocturnal Rainforest is out next month

Take Four: EFG London Jazz Festival Preview

Stewart Smith picks highlights from this year's programme at the EFG London Jazz Festival, from supergroup [Ahmed] to new work by saxophonist Xhosa Cole (pictured below), unique collaborations and a night celebrating jazz on British telly.

Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Remembered

To coincide with the release of Mulholland Drive's 4K restoration, Robert Bright looks back at Lynch's masterpiece through the lens of film noir and the city of Los Angeles itself

Ansome To Release Album On Perc Trax

Perc Trax's first release in 2016 will be an album from Ansome; hear a track from it below

Horses 4K

Nina

Equine-themed album mixes country-style lap steel with some wild electronic processing

Fort Romeau

Insides

The Yoga Of Love: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) Revisited

Fifty years after its initial publication Eli Lee discusses the philosophical, political and cultural implications and ramifications of Huxley's utopian case study in psychedelics

Heartworms

Glutton For Punishment

Goth cardinal Jojo Orme turns in a well-crafted full-length debut with a distinctive military theme

tQ’s Subscriber Playlist: Our Top 100 Albums of 2024

This month's subscribers playlist is a special end of year edition, rounding up every single record in this year's best of 2024 chart (that we could find on streaming)

Outkast’s ‘Stankonia’ to be Reissued for 25th Anniversary

The new edition will feature unreleased tracks, alternate mixes, and a series of photographs from the original promo tour

Chrystabell & David Lynch

Cellophane Memories

The latest collaboration between the Texan singer and the surrealist film-maker shimmers with aching sighs and languorous guitar licks

Then We Take Berlin: Bridge Of Spies Reviewed

Robert Bright reviews Spielberg's new cold war thriller, out in cinemas now

Sigur Rós’ Jónsi Announces First Solo LP In A Decade

Liz Fraser and Robyn add guest vocals

The Chameleons’ What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40

This relatively obscure, nihilistic and resigned second album by a near forgotten Mancunian post punk group was released decades before the birth of writer Lina Adams in the early 00s; so why does it speak so clearly to her life today?

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal of 2024

Kez Whelan salutes one of the best years for metal in recent memory, and forces himself to pick just 20 of the best heavy releases from 2024