Mike Vinti

Shine On: Peter Frampton’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of his Roundhouse show tomorrow night, the singer-songwriter, former Humble Pie man and guitarist extraordinaire gives us a rundown of his top LPs

Medici Daughter

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London's Medici Daughter may hark back to early 00s braindance but their debut boasts an unhinged intensity which can't help but surge forward, finds Will Salmon

Love Songs And Monster Songs: Jad Fair’s Favourite Albums

As Half Japanese gear up for a brand new album this summer and a UK show in September, frontman Jad Fair takes Sean Kitching through thirteen favourite records from Howlin’ Wolf to Lord Invader

Confounding Found Sounds (Unfounded): Rum Music For November

Taking another rummage through modern music’s borderlands, Russell Cuzner reports back on Hawthonn’s audio scrying, a percussive Colin Potter, the ruptured rave of Russell Haswell and a bask in the latest batch from Baskaru

Nurse With Wound To Play TUSK

Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter and Andrew Liles will present a Nurse With Wound live show at October's TUSK Festival

Parallel Worlds: Peter Strickland’s Favourite Albums

On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites

The Uncanny Valley: Enya’s Watermark Revisited, 25 Years On

A quarter-century since the release of Enya's hit album Watermark, Luke Turner professes his entirely non-ironic love for a beguilingly strange mainstream record that sent his musical tastes along uncanny paths

WATCH: New Bloodgroup

Icelandic band Bloodgroup release video for Nothing Is Written In The Stars

How Air’s Moon Safari Made The World Take French Pop Seriously

Change was in the air in 1998 when a duo from Versailles released an album that did better internationally than it did in France. Jeremy Allen wonders if Moon Safari by Air was the point where Anglo Saxons stopped ignoring the surreptitious delights of French pop

Classic Album Sundays: Boards Of Canada

Playback of Music Has The Right To Children this Sunday, October 5, hosted by tQ's Joe Clay; win a pair of tickets and the album on vinyl

Thirteen Prayers: Kamasi Washington’s Favourite Albums

Before he embarks on a summer of touring following his excellent 2015 album The Epic, the saxophonist and bandleader makes some difficult decisions to give Paul Smith 13 albums that affected his musical approach

An Ocean of Atoms: Lord Spikeheart’s Baker’s Dozen

The experimental metal master guides Alex Rigotti through his thirteen favourite albums that explore heaviness, spirituality and love, and that shaped both him and his debut solo album The Adept

Alasdair Roberts

Alasdair Roberts

Lucky For Some: Alexander Tucker’s Favourite Albums

Dom Smith takes down Alexander Tucker's Baker's Dozen and chats to him about the personal experiences attached to the records

The Fall, EIY, Jon Hopkins For Beacons

Ace first wave of names for Skipton festival in August

Leonard Cohen Was Right: Songs & Years Of Wisdom Examined

Quietus writers Tom Hawking, Kate Hennessy, Julian Marszalek, Erin Lyndal Martin, Akira The Don, Chris Roberts, Cian Traynor and Luke Turner examine the lyrics of Leonard Cohen, and the truths both universal and personal that they carry. Thanks to Chris Carter for permission to use the image of Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson in his Leonard Cohen jacket. First published in 2014