Alex James

Sounds Behind The Power: Lotic’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of their appearance at this year's Unsound Festival, Lotic speaks to Aimee Armstrong about the 13 records that inspired them through life and music

Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu Reveal New Single, ‘Persona’

The original trio have now also added raster-noton artist Jesse Osborne-Lanthier to their lineup

Tim Hecker Unveils Remix For Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu

The Canadian artist has taken on 'Lead Sister' from Davidson and her band's 2020 album 'Renegade Breakdown'

Build Back Better: Greatest Heads by Al Karpenter

Born out of the febrile Basque Country experimental music community and infused with the weirdness of the early 00s New York noise scene, the former solo project of Bilbao’s Alvaro Matilla (now joined by Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini, and multi-instrumentalist, serial collaborator Mattin) sounds wild and untamed and bursting with possibility

WHITE HILLS Detail New Album, ‘Splintered Metal Sky’

The album, which is preceded by new track 'Illusion', will be released by God Unknown Records

Lust For Music: Irvine Welsh’s Favourite Albums

With Filth recently released on DVD and a new novel due later this year, the Edinburgh author places a long-distance call from Miami to give Joe Clay the rundown of his top albums

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of September 2025

tQ's staffers have sifted through the stream of September's music, and returned with a selection of shiny golden nuggets

It’s A Kind Of Magick: Grumbling Fur Interviewed

Grumbling Fur's Glynnaestra, released next week, is one of the Quietus' favourite albums we've heard for quite some time. Ahead of its release next week, the duo tell Luke Turner how the complexity of nature, Blade Runner and a UFO sighting came together to inspire the record

Straight Talking: An Interview With LIINES

The Mancunian trio meet up with John Freeman to find out how their ferocious post-punk was inspired, in part, by time spent on Alien Sex Fiend's tour bus and a collective desire to "stop screaming in the dark"

Straight Hedge: The Best Punk & HC Of 2016 With Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner brings you his top ten punk and hardcore records of the year and another top ten of juicy cuts he missed the first time round

Could A Long-Lost Neil Young Album Be Coming?

The album was originally recorded in 1976

The Heads

Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (Reissue)

Post-Wounded: On Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams

Daisy Lafarge examines the ideas of empathy, accountability and the reality of immateriality as they present themselves in the contemporary experience of, both, women and men via Leslie Jamison's collection of essays, exploring - bodily and textually, physically and metaphorically - the concept of the wound, The Empathy Exams. (Image: Doris Salcedo)

FESTIVAL REPORT: Elevate 2015

Tristan Bath heads to Graz for the eleventh Elevate festival, and spends a weekend in at the frontlines of experimental music, political discourse, and Central Europe.

From Eden With Love: Everything But The Girl Interviewed

Ian Wade sits down with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt to discuss the new Everything But The Girl reissues, and why they don't need to do a reunion

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits