Refugium

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Daryl Worthington

Among drone-folk trips and joyously messed up noise jazz, Daryl Worthington finds the cassette scene has taken a political turn, whether immersive electronics fighting for free time, nostalgia-busting collages, or colonialism attacking text-sound compositions

Mogwai

As The Love Continues

With their tenth album, Scottish post-rockers Mogwai are still finding little corners to experiment with, finds Tom Coles

Joseph Burnett On Shackleton’s Sferic Ghost Transmits

In Sam Shackleton's latest offering, Joseph Burnett finds a record occupying two spaces simultaneously – pushing both the legacy of Coil's post-industrial pagan folk tradition and testing a sense of "what might have been" for mid-to-late 00s dubstep

Why I Wanted To Fuck Donald Trump* (*Apologies To Ballard)

Pondering JG Ballard's essay on Ronald Regan, Philippa Snow looks at the post-apocalyptic and entirely bleak entertainment of Donald Trump hitting the internet

BLaB: A Conversation With Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce speaks to Ryan A Diduck in a frank conversation about his filmmaking, gay conservatism, technology, writing, bad trips and why he thinks he might have been abducted by aliens

Cabaret Voltaire to Mark 50 Years of Live Shows with Special Sheffield Show

The October gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project's discography

Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni

Hyperspecific: September And October’s Electronic Music

The latest round-up of the best new electronic music focuses on recent releases emerging from Copenhagen's techno scene

Jlin

Akoma

Collaborating with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet, the pioneering polymath from Gary, Indian, redefines ideas of genre and expands everyone’s musical horizons in the process

LISTEN: Stream New Four Tet Album

Morning/Evening on Bandcamp now, with physical release coming in July

Something Fun: Donna Candy Interviewed

Ahead of their set at Counterflows Festival, the Marseilles experimental rock trio Donna Candy speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their bludgeoning, eccentric debut album

Lee “Scratch” Perry’s ‘Final’ Album, a Collaboration with Mouse On Mars, Set for Release

Spatial, No Problem arrives almost five years on from the dub pioneer's death

Jenny Hval

Innocence Is Kinky

Another Planet: The Quietus’ Top 20 Favourite Cinema Memories

As the UK finally prepares to reopen its cinema doors, tQ contributors remember their most precious memories that could have only happened in front of the big screen

Spectacular Spectacular: On Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis

Baz Luhrmann returns to Cannes with a film about Elvis Presley, but it says much more about the filmmaker than the king of rock and roll, finds Ella Kemp

Dawn Of The Living Dead: Electric Wizard’s Dorset Roots

This June sees the publication of Come My Fanatics: A Journey Into The World Of Electric Wizard by White Rabbit. Here, author and tQ writer Dan Franklin explains the genesis of the book and gives us a glimpse into the crepuscular Wimborne, the town in Dorset where 'The Wizard' first coagulated into a rural world of biker gangs and drugs...