'With previous albums everything was full force as much as possible, bringing everything back and then full force forward, this time there was no feedback, no heavy drums.'

B I G▐ B R A V E – A Chaos Of Flowers is a Quietus Album of the Month for April 2024

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'For all the abstraction inherent to the arrangements of the album’s two longest songs, ‘Land Of Stories’ and ‘Sweet Boy’, a song framework is clear, and solidified'

The Dengie Hundred with Gemma Blackshaw - WHO WILL YOU LOVE

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“When we are onstage, it’s our territory and we want to deal with it how we like. We are willing to do things that may not be seen as rock or punk, or what we are expected to do.”

An Interview With Tramhaus

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'Just as its 3 predecessors may have been great despite the lamentable sabotage they were subject to, so The Pretty Toney Album is a gem where the flaws arguably help make it dazzle.'

Long Game: Ghostface Killah's The Pretty Toney Album 20 Years On

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We still have a few weekend camping tickets left, but please do book soon if you want to come as we're expecting to sell out...

John Francis Flynn, Teeth Of The Sea And More To Play Acid Horse 2024

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'Their music is repetitive while never fully repeating. Similar frames persist, but they’re containers for variation rather than consistency.'

Ghosted II By Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin is tQ's Album of the Week

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As they release remixes of each other's work exclusively for tQ subscribers, alex rigotti speaks to Catherine Backhouse, aka Xylitol, and Sculpture's Dan Hayhurst

An Interview With Xylitol And Sculpture

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Dan Hayhurst/Sculpture

'The Pet Shop Boys are the poets of meek adjustments. Besides, who else in pop would allude to A Hard Day’s Night? Artists who’ve scrutinized their adulthood lit by the glow of the mirrorball, that’s who'

Pet Shop Boys - NONETHELESS

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The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will next week honour Solange Knowles and the producer and arts advocate Mikki Shepard via a multi-genre evening of performances

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'Tillmans retains his endearing sincerity on ‘Regratitude’, where his homespun take on a Moroder stomper is more reflective and weathered by time'

Wolfgang Tillmans - BUILD FROM HERE

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'Still House Plants embrace sounds absorbed from childhoods spent in working-class environments, integrating skeletal post rock with soul and jazz'

Still House Plants – If I don't make it, I love u is a Quietus Album of the Month for April 2024

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'Inspired by the Greater Manchester-born musician's move to London, it captures the city's great overwhelm in all its beguiling brilliance, volatility, fitfulness and flux.'

Kiran Leonard – Real Home is a Quietus Album of the Month for April 2024

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'The 'heritage act' industry is indebted to Cash, but the wonder of the American Recordings series is that it both sought and achieved the antithesis of money-spinning back catalogue regurgitation'

Johnny Cash's American Recordings turns 30 today

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'Megan Osztrosits remains the band’s ultimate weapon. To call her voice ‘caustic’ just doesn’t do it justice: each flinch-inducing vocal scrape is like having hot bleach injected into your eye'

Couch Slut - YOU COULD DO IT TONIGHT

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'Revolver blows you away and takes you somewhere else, especially, without harping on about it, if you have discovered different states of consciousness.'

Michael Head Official on The Beatles – Revolver

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'The last-day-on-earth blues meets echo-treated beats of ‘Night Crossing’ are more chilling than chillout in the same way as Brian McMahan’s post-Slint project The For Carnation'

The Dengie Hundred with Gemma Blackshaw - WHO WILL YOU LOVE

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'An illustration of progress over reinvention. It's invigorating to see an artist hit her stride more that two decades on from her first solo release.'

Jane Weaver – Love In Constant Spectacle is a Quietus Album of the Month for April 2024

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'Suchy’s building, wheezing synths and electronics meet Sajanova’s delicate, poignant vocals. There is austerity to the sounds here but there is also a maximalism'

Eva Sajanova & Dominik Suchy – Decision Paralysis - Inner Ear: Slovak Music April

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'The pandemic forced us all to confront our inner vulnerabilities, to realise that in this alpha male, cocky world, nobody is superhuman.”

Charles Hazlewood, Brett Anderson & The Paraorchestra Interviewed

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'DJ Mayhem’s ‘Inesse’, cited as the track that began Lost Paradise’s assembly, is rhythmically haywire for its time or any since'

V/A - Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991​-​94 - New Weird Britain In Review For April

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