The Quietus

Listen to '30 Degrees' here The Fall at the Cambridge Junction, November 2011 by Valerio Berdini A new song by The Fall group has appeared online today, part of a planned album of previously unreleased material under the name Post Script. Former Fall manager / accomplice Ed Blaney announced the news via Facebook last week, saying “Have spent most the afternoon today listening to the final mixes of the official final studio album by The Fall, without any doubt I can say it’s an absolute brilliant

YHWH Nailgun Magazine Angry upstart Philadelphians prove brevity to be the soul of… well, something In his 1886 work Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche questioned whether or not life is “a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves”. Well, Zack Borzone, Sam Pickard, Saguiv Rosenstock and Jack Tobias of YHWH Nailgun answer Nietzsche’s comparatively long-winded question with a comically brief album. Magazine comes in at a mere 11 minutes long. It’s over almost as soon as it’s begun.

It features vocals from UK MC CASISDEAD Photo by Anna van der Velde Actress has shared a new song, 'Live By You'. A collaboration with UK grime MC CASISDEAD, the brief new cut marks Actress' first release with Ninja Tune for three years. Listen to the song below. 'Live By You' arrives off the back of Concrète Waves, Actress' collaborative album with Suzanne Ciani that came out in March. 'Live By You' is out now on Ninja Tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIvZvO8sGLY&list=PLYVGrDapR5Ic0lPBY3ID

The album has been remastered 26 years on from its original release Mclusky's debut album My Pain And Sadness Is More Sad and Painful Than Yours is to be reissued by Beggars Banquet. Arriving 26 years on from its original 2000 release by the Fuzzbox label, and after a 2003 reissue via Beggars imprint too pure, the album has been newly remastered especially for its updated release. The reissue will get a digital release, as well as a vinyl pressing that retains the original artwork. My Pain And S

It's the second preview to new album Pure Devotion Photo by Jamie Shipston-Mourn Overmono have shared a new track, called 'Even Angels Ghost'. Featuring vocals from Tennessee-based singer Kindora, the song arrives as the second preview to forthcoming album Pure Devotion. The duo first announced the LP last month with lead track 'Lockup'. The connection to Kindora came about after the duo discovered her music while digging on Bandcamp. They later sampled her vocals on the tracks 'Gunk' and 'Cold

Baltimore avant-rock group propose a revolution in everyday life, reconstructing American vernacular traditions from the ground up Credit: Kasia Zacharko Often, a single sentence can say more than a manifesto spanning several pages. Especially when it is repeated, rewritten, and allowed to take on a life of its own. A phrase written two centuries ago can suddenly sound like a commentary on the present. A handful of words can become a refrain, an axis around which entirely new meanings begin to a

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Auden Alsop praises the rappers and producers drilling into the essence of contemporary New York MIKE and Wiki by Ryosuke Tanzawa In Jem Cohen's 1996 film Lost Book Found the narrator, a pushcart vendor in New York City, meets a man who survives by fishing treasure from the rivers that run beneath the sidewalk grates. The man loans him a book containing cryptic lists of events, addresses, and prices. This haunts him, causing him to question whether ther

Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti Almost Waking A brilliant collaboration between the American guitarist and Guatemalan cellist Almost Waking by Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti Let it never be said that brevity and depth are antithetical to one another. Thirty minutes is all Orcutt and Fratti need to weave together an intricate, resplendent body of work. From start to finish Almost Waking utilises essentially only three elements, yet renders each of them enormous: Orcutt’s precise guitar work, Fratti’s airy,

The show, which features input from Thom Yorke, will run at Barbican Theatre from October through to January A theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet set to Radiohead's 2003 album Hail To The Thief will get its London Premiere later this year. The work of stage designer Christine Jones, choreographer Steven Hoggett and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, Hamlet Hail To The Thief will run for almost three months at Barbican Theatre. It follows on from previous presentations of the adaptati

Music Sets You Free: A Memoir will collect the late musician's two autobiographies, which had previously been published in Japanese only An autobiography by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto is to be published this September. Music Sets You Free: A Memoir collects the English translations of the late musician's two previously published Japanese language memoirs Music Makes You Free and How Many More Times Will I Watch The Full Moon Rise? The book is described as "an intimate, contemplative account of h

The Berlin-based musician said the name changes reflects her "renewed sense of personal and artistic alignment" The artist formerly known as Lyra Pramuk will now be known as Alif Hilal. Writing on Instagram, the Berlin-based artist said her new name follows her conversion to Islam, and better reflects her "renewed sense of personal and artistic alignment". The name Alif combines the first letter of the Arabic alphabet with Hilal, which is the crescent moon that signifies the beginning of the lu

The US artist's fourth album is out in August Photo by Mackal Sharp L'Rain, the alias of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, has announced a new album, titled fata morgana. Spanning 13 tracks, the new album marks the culmination of a quadrology of records that began in 2017 with L'Rain, and later included 2021's Fatigue and 2023's I Killed Your Dog. The new LP spans ballads, all-out rock music and elements of dancehall, according to a press release. It also explores themes of resili

Located in Brussels, the first edition will take place this September Nyege Nyege Festival is launching a European sister event in Brussels, called MIRROR WORLD. The two-day festival's programming, which will be announced at a later date, will span DJ sets, live performances, exhibitions and screenings. It will be split across three stages at Brussels venues Studio Citygate and La Fabriek. The festival, a press release said, will not simply look to export the model of its flagship Ugandan event,

The eight-track record is only available on limited-edition vinyl for now Four Tet has surprise released a new album under his Wingdings alias. Limited to 2000 copies, it's only available on vinyl for now. It features eight tracks according to Bleep, one of the sites that received stock of the record. Other stores such as Rough Trade, Juno and Red Eye also sold copies of the LP, but it now appears to be sold out everywhere online. While the full tracklist hasn't been confirmed and copies of the

As a resurgent Converge gear up for their second album of 2026, the band's frontman Jacob Bannon takes Dan Franklin through the 13 records that have defined his life and work Photo by Nick Fancher Converge, the most important hardcore band of the 21st century, have unleashed their second album in six months. Hum Of Hurt follows Love Is Not Enough, released in February, a scalpel-sharp record marinated in its own darkness. 25 years since Converge’s near-unlistenably intense genre classic, Jane Do

Joel McIver celebrates the 30th anniversary of an album so all-encompassing that it requires an entirely different kind of key to unlock it Sing To God Vol I & II by Cardiacs The idea of music that prompts strong unbidden cinematic images when you listen to it has never been explored, as far as I know. Accordingly, I’ve minted the word ‘cinemaesthesia’ – as opposed to cinesthesia – in order to write about the fourth Cardiacs album, Sing To God, released 30 years ago. I could have coined the alte

Vince Staples Cry Baby Nearly a decade and a half into his career, the Long Beach rapper delivers his most explicit political statement yet Cry Baby by Vince Staples Vince Staples’ catalogue has never wanted for visceral moments. In the opening of his 2013 mixtape with Mac Miller (the aptly name Stolen Youth), Staples describes a drive-by in his native Long Beach in his droll, matter-of-fact flow. It’s a familiar vignette, but Staples lingers on the moment longer than others would. 911 don’t res

The former Daft Punk man played tracks by Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream and more in the 75-minute mix Thomas Bangalter guested on New York-based The Lot Radio yesterday (8 June), and the recording of his DJ set has now been shared online. Across 75 minutes, the former Daft Punk member played tracks by the likes of Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream, Sonic Youth, John Carpenter, Flying Lotus, Iannis Xenakis, Burial, Boards Of Canada, Oklou, Nala Sinephro and Richie Hawtin's Plastikman alias. Bangalter als

The organisation run out of the famed Berlin venue will offer educational programmes on running a club for a group of people hailing from around the world for the first time The Tresor Academy of Subcultural Understanding, the training and education programme run out of famed Berlin club Tresor, is launching an educational programme for international applicants for the first time. The organisation has been running masterclasses for future club operators on how to run a venue since 2024, and is n

Kampire, Ecko Bazz and more have joined the bill for the Berlin event this summer Kampire Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days has shared the full music programme for its 2026 edition. Kampire and Ecko Bazz, both close associates of the Nyege Nyege label and festival collective, are newly confirmed to play the event this summer. There will also be sets from DJ collective Pili Pili Girls; Algerian group Tissilawen; and Afrobeats and dancehall vocalist Jokwiz. They join the previously announced like