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Supersonic 2024 – Your Quietus Essential Picks

With this year's Supersonic just around the corner, Claire Biddles picks her must-see artists, raves and panels from the festival, including Tristwch Y Fenwod (pictured)

No Buzz, Just an Anxious Hum: Insect Decline and 2024’s Wet and Silent Spring

In the latest instalment of our new column about sound and life, Luke Turner reflects on the lack of insects in the wet, warm spring of 2024 as worrying evidence of a fast-changing climate

DJ Rashad

Double Cup

WATCH: New Algiers Video

Group confirm debut album with Matador

No Ordinary Thing: The Momentous Life & Times of Dory Previn 

On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her head, despite societal and institutional pressure to ignore them, and whose experiences demonstrate how female artists can seek a fulfilled creative life against the odds

The Normal: TikTok Tics & the Crisis in Psychiatry

Writer and physician John Quin reviews No More Normal: Mental Health in an Age of Over-Diagnosis by Alastair Santhouse

Factory Floor Sign To DFA

Richard H Kirk & Perc remix EP

Even The Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 

Reviewing a new Light In The Attic compilation of Ukrainian music, Richard Foster explores how artists were able to find a voice and sense of identity against the strictures of Russian communism

Taking a Left Turn: Leftism Turns 30

Commonly viewed through the lens of progressive house, Julian Marszalek looks at Leftfield's towering 1995 debut through the prism of dub reggae

Organic Intelligence XXXV: Soak in Hellish Spas – Noise in mid-2020s Tokyo

In the latest antidote to the algorithm that is the Organic Intelligence newsletter, Miranda Remington guides you through the hectic sounds of Tokyo's wildly diverse and noisy underground