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The QuietusRetirer le filtrePhoto by John Sturdy Brokeback, the band led by Tortoise's Douglas McCombs, have announced their first album in over a decade. Spanning eight tracks, Colder, Milder sees the quartet refine their post-surf rock sound, prioritising simplicity
Spydergum Featuring Concepción Huerta and Luka Aron among others, this large improvising ensemble contains multitudes Spydergum by Spydergum It is sticky and it penetrates the skin. That tingling feeling is tortuously triggering. Attentive
Make it easy on yourself: brew a fine mahogany-toned cup of tea, fetch a virgin packet of garibaldis from the pantry, nudge the thermostat up another degree centigrade and recline on the cushion-festooned couch… you will have no regrets! Th
Credit: Archie Finch In the film, The King (2019), we see a stubborn Dauphin of France attempting to end the Battle of Agincourt through a duel with King Henry. Heavy rainfall has left the ground entirely sodden, and before a single blow is
Abdullah Miniawy Tehran Contemporary Sounds Festival is taking place in Berlin this week. Stretching out across six days, the seventh edition of the event brings together live performances, film screenings, talks and audiovisual presentatio
Armand Hammer, the duo of billy woods and ELUCID, have released a surprise new album, Snakes & Ladders. Featuring 16 tracks, it follows on from last year's Mercy LP, and features guest appearances from DJ Haram and $ilkmoney. There is also
Coachella has revealed its full 2027 lineup. The California festival will be headlined by SZA, Dua Lipa and Tame Impala, while Madonna is also listed to play a special set in the Sahara dance music tent, following a 2006 appearance she did
Photo by Dave Smith Radie Peat is rightly known as a generational talent in traditional folk music. With all-conquering Lankum and doomy supergroup ØXN (with Katie Kim, Eleanor Myler and John 'Spud' Murphy) she has proved herself as dazzlin
Gold is the Metal (with the Broadest Shoulders) Assembled from the discarded off-cuts from Horse Rotorvator and the group's unused Hellraiser score, Coil's third album proves far more than the sum of its parts Gold Is The Metal (With The Br
On Portland Punk Live At The Earth 10-29-79, a live-on-the-night document of local bands released warts'n'all by Wipers' Greg Sage on his own label, Trap, Sage can be heard introducing his band's 'Same Old Thing'. Overwrought with stage adr
Valley and Structure The latest from Mari Rubio builds complex scaffolding from the simplest of motifs valley and structure by more eaze Over the last few years, I’ve seen More Eaze (aka Mari Rubio) twice. At Rewire in 2022, she performed a
Bethlehem's Lawrence Sammour, photo by Maarten Mooijman We start Le Guess Who? 2026 with Tortoise, who draw an enormous crowd in the cavernous Ronda space within Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg complex. They offer a masterful display of how the
Photo by Caroline Sanfran Squid have released a live album, titled CROWDS. Recorded over the course of their UK headline tour for 2025 LP Cowards, the 11-track album features live renditions of songs from that record, as well as previous al
Photo by Seb Gardner London festival RALLY has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2027 edition. Returning to Southwark Park for its fifth edition, next year's event will take in a headline set from Kelela. It will mark her only Lon
Funeral, photo by Satanist Madness Welcome (back) to what many are calling “the tersest column on the Quietus dot com”, not because of the windbag who writes it but on account of the belligerent barkers the windbag chooses to feature in it.
The Bruise The folk horror Sandy Denny sees the horror of it all all too clearly The Bruise by Claire Cronin “Female singer songwriter” is a designation packed full of dated assumptions male singer songwriters have not had to contend with s
Dirty Projectors have released a new song, called 'Jumbotron'. It comes amid a flurry of activity from the project, which is led by David Longstreth. They've newly signed to Indiana label Joyful Noise, and launched their own imprint, Well-T
Photo by Venetia Scott Nick Cave has announced an extensive tour of North America for 2027. Conversations With Nick Cave will offer up a night of talk and music from the Australian artist, refreshing the concept for a popular tour run that
Khudgarzi by Sheherazaad “There’s this fantastical, romanticised thing of being in grief and being dark and depressed, and then doing your best work,” American composer and theatre artist Sheherazaad tells me. A mere two months ago, she los
Devagar Que A Vida É Curta Portuguese singer-producer draws on Zeca Afonso and modern digital production techniques to produce a thrilling call to action Devagar Que A Vida É Curta by Ana Lua Caiano Devagar Que A Vida É Curta translates loo
It’s last autumn, 12 months back. I’ve just completed my last research trip to north-east England where I’ve been delving deep into the life and times of Prefab Sprout for my book Truly Gifted Kids. Now it’s time to leave County Durham, to
Cecil Sharp House The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has formally changed its trading name to Folk England, a decision it says aligns with a mission to "make folk music, song, and dance inclusive for all." The organisation was
One Trip by Factory Floor What catches Nik Colk Void’s eye is not the dramatic landscape itself but evidence that somebody has been there before her: tape torn from a wall, scratches in a surface, cables worn through years of use. She finds
A lazy but widespread criticism of the English synth pop scene of the early 80s was that it was soulless or lacking in human warmth. While there certainly were acts who came across as detached or alienated (Cabaret Voltaire, The Normal, Joh
Symphony Natura by Henning Christiansen and Lorenzo Mammi "The zoo", wrote John Berger in a 1977 essay called 'Why Look At Animals?', "cannot but disappoint". The purpose of the visit is to see the animals, to look at them, but the animals
Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi (ما وراء الشعبي) / Beyond Shaabi On his third solo outing, Syrian keyboard king Rizan Said preserves regional musical traditions by driving them forward Ma Waraa Al-Shaabi (ما وراء الشعبي) – Beyond Shaabi by Rizan Said De