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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for September by Daryl Worthington

From gnome-inspired computer music to dancing incandescent lightbulbs, dungeon synth soundtracks for imagined RPGs and apocalyptic drum solos, Daryl Worthington dives into early-Autumn’s cassette releases

Compilation of the Week: Broadcast’s Distant Call

Distant Call is Broadcast’s most intimate and revelatory release, says Irina Shtreis, who delves into a new collection of the band’s demos 

The Drums

Portamento

Tortoise

Touch

Chicago post-rock pioneers return with their first album in nearly a decade, but have they lost the ease with which they once melded disparate styles and transgressed sonic boundaries?

London Event Series Luminate Returns to Kings Place in October

Drew McDowall, Eli Keszler, Forest Swords and more will play across nine nights at the King's Cross venue next month

A Droning In The Eire: Jennifer Walshe On The Irish Avant-Garde

A new project has begun to explore and document the wealth of experimental music in Ireland's past. Ian Maleney speaks to the Aisteach Foundation's Jennifer Walshe about ecclesiastical drone, bog-dwelling noise musicians and a hitherto uncelebrated group of queer composers

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: September 2024

Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers

My Bloody Valentine Confirm First Live Show in Seven Years

The band will play Dublin's 3Arena in November 2025

Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’

In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory

Lucrecia Dalt

A Danger to Ourselves

Joined by David Sylvian and Juana Molina, Lucrecia Dalt finds wild abandon in minimalist electronics and eerie soundscapes, finds Lina Adams

Oh Sees

Face Stabber

Whether its Oh Sees, Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees, or Thee Oh Sees, John Dwyer's records can be an enjoyably discombobulating experience, finds Nick Roseblade

LISTEN: David Lynch – Are You Sure

First play of new track from The Big Dream, out next month

Jon Hassell To Reissue ‘Vernal Equinox’

The 'Fourth World' pioneer's 1977 album has been fully remastered

The Strange World Of… The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Julian Marszalek tries to talk to Anton Newcombe about the ten highlights of his musical career but ends up discussing the note the Earth vibrates at and his English family crest