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The Quietus’ 2020 Albums Of The Year Playlist

As we bask in the glory of our top 100 albums of 2020 list, here's an eight-and-a-half hour end of year mega-playlist taking in the entire chart, exclusively for subscribers

The Music Machine: Alan Jones’s Top Ten Disco Movies

Was disco the hated antithesis of all that was punk? Not according to OG punk rocker, Vivienne Westwood collaborator and Sex Pistols DJ Alan Jones. With his new book Discomania recenly published, here he picks his all-time top ten celluloid stompers

Amphibians And Others: Between The Lines Of The Shape Of Water

Guillermo Del Toro's magical realist fantasy, The Shape Of Water, is a love letter to cinema – but its romance is not without its thorns

The 20th Century Dies: David Bowie, Scott Walker and the 1990s

Looking back at Bowie's Outside and Walker's Tilt, both released 30 years ago, Ned Raggett says the pair might not have met but the energy of respect and influence travelled between them in strange ways

Secret Weapons: Luke Una’s Favourite Music

As he prepares for the second volume of his É Soul Cultura series, Luke Una takes us through 13 of his favourite tracks, from his secret dancefloor fillers to the beauty of Pharoah Sanders

French Music Column: dÉbruit’s Breton Groovy

In the latest edition of our French music column, David McKenna chats to dÉbruit about the hyperreal funk of his new album From The Horizon, and casts an ear back over reissues of music by France Gall and Jean Rollin

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Hits For October

Winter is coming, says Louise Brown, give in to the darkness. With just Amenra, Bell Witch, Audn, Batushka, Hällas, Mork and your own shrivelled soul for company.

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Ren Schofield’s latest goes all in; Jon Buckland feels queasy…

Shit And Shine

Some People Really Know How To Live

The kind of album that jerks and staggers through your dreams and lingers into waking life.

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2013 (In Association With Norman Records)

Here is the Quietus' main albums of the year list for 2013, in association with Norman Records for all your record buying needs. Thanks to Sophie Coletta for assistance in building the behemoth

Murk in High Def: Demilitarize by Nazar

Five years after his thrilling 'rough kuduro' debut, the Angolan-born / Manchester-based producer returns sounding more introspective, more ambiguous and more weird than ever, finds Eden Tizard

Secret Little Places: A Crying Poem By Bloodz Boi, Claire Rousay & More Eaze

For the emo-ambient Wrecking Crew, pop songs become augmented reality – and all the more poignant for it, finds Daryl Worthington

From The Shout to Bait: Listening to the Sound of Movies about Sound

Darran Anderson relishes hearing Rupert Hine's soundtrack to Jerzy Skolimowski's 1978 psychological horror, The Shout and discovers a sonic gateway in the process. Contains mild spoilers for films The Shout, Berberian Sound Studio, Blow Out, and The Conversation

Simulation Dismantled: Beside Myself by DJ Haram

The New Jersey-born, New York-based 'multidisciplinary propagandist' weaves non-Western sounds into a potent critique of the West's exoticising gaze, finds Aydin Khalili

Life is a Jumble Sale: Dale Cornish’s Favourite Albums

From to getting his grandma into Björk to the golden years of electroclash, Dale Cornish takes Jennifer Lucy Allan through the soundtrack of his life via 13 key albums