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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Noel Gardner |Bobby Barry |Miloš Hroch
South London-based dancer, producer and choreographer Bianca Scout likes switching characters. While last year’s album Pattern Damage saw her as a ballerina trapped in time, haunted by the joy and trauma of her discipline; the new album Now You See Me, Now You Don’t (under the name Marina Zispin, in a duo with Martyn Reid), is suited for goth ravers with a dark heart.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Patrick Clarke |Noel Gardner
Come all ye to the village of Pewsey in Wiltshire, home to all manner of bespoke festivities in its history no doubt. But forget everything you know about village fetes when it comes to Acid Horse, because this three-day kneesup in and around Pewsey’s Barge Inn will be a sonic dazzlement spanning rock, dance, folk, noise and things defying even those classifications.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Noel Gardner |Luke Turner |Christian Eede
Lucy Railton has shared details of the first release to document her solo cello works, titled Blue Veil. Due out via Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label, the seven compositions featured on the record clock in at around 40 minutes in total and were captured at Église du Saint-Esprit in Paris. You can preview the new record via lead cut ‘Phase III’ below. Ideologic Organ will release Blue Veil on April 18, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
thequietus.com | Noel Gardner |Patrick Clarke
Feel like it’s been long enough that a column such as this one can shout out a couple of ‘weird grime’ releases without it being all cringey, or like it’s going to undermine ‘real grime’ or something. Besides, the people involved here have put in the graft! So let’s have a look at Adventures In The Otherworld (Living Ornaments), the debut by Jack Williams and Nick Denton as 11:11.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Noel Gardner |John Doran
Ta2reeban released their debut EP in digital form last September and have just given it physical immortality via a cassette release. So far, so typical. That initial drop, they note, was “the day before Israel blew up thousands of pagers in Lebanon”: one of a literally incalculable number of crimes against humanity which continue to fire the spirit of punk bands like them worldwide.
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2 months ago | 
thequietus.com | Noel Gardner |John Doran |Darran Anderson
Britain’s only desert. Steam from a train passing by. A nuclear power station dissolving in the mist. The lighthouses, vast sentinels. Maritime objects, scattered. A ship graveyard. The shingle tumbles underfoot towards the shoreline. It would be actual suicide to swim. You thought you knew the sea but it is moving like you’ve never seen before, sideways, violent, completely deranged. Sea deities are often the gods of sunken treasures.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Noel Gardner |Bobby Barry |Jon Buckland
Recently, a friend generously shared a fairly rank video in a group chat. It featured an open manhole cover with a length of blue piping descending into an underground tunnel system. After a moment or two of faint gurgles and twitching hosing, a huge stinking brick of toilet waste sludged its way through the narrow duct like a giant faecal slug. It clogged up the entire opening, causing mud-coloured discharge to rise to the brim and threaten to spill out into the road.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Tristan Bath |Jennifer Lucy Allan |Noel Gardner |Patrick Clarke
Anticyclonic gloom isn’t a dungeon synth project from 2024, but someone should patent the name if they haven’t already. It’s what the Met Office called the wave of relentless grey weather across the UK in early autumn, when skies stayed the same colour as the roads. That explains early November, but what about the rest of the year? 2024 has been bleak on levels more than climatic, although the prospects for the climate’s future are also pretty depressing. War, violent oppression, far-right thugs.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Noel Gardner |Patrick Clarke
There will probably never be another year in punk music where its last two digits end up serving as stylistic shorthand, in the way that 1977 and 1982 are.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thequietus.com | Jennifer Lucy Allan |Noel Gardner |Patrick Clarke
Another year flies by. The best year in the garden yet. Three years ago it was a paved rectangle, at its peak in summer I felt like I was in one of Rousseau’s jungle paintings among the lilies and crocosmia. The rewards of cabbage whites eating baby plants are the butterflies that come later; the ‘woodland zone’ (a single tree stump planted with ferns) looked lush and the moss pots survived the summer.
