On the day that the US and Israel started bombing Iran a shortwave radio station began broadcasting numbers – a technique commonly used by spy agencies to transmit orders in code. A strange, compelling listen – thanks @scannerdot.com for the heads-up
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Gelbart-TK-745 by Gelbart cassette cover. A reel to reel tape machine, a hollowed out egg and a tall mirrored building collaged against a yellow background.
'Genuinely eccentric, casually mind-blowing, DIY with a boundless sense of imagination, TK-745 is the sound of a one-person pocket pop-symphony traversing the confines of the home studio.'
Gelbart – TK 745 (Kitchen Leg Records): Cassette Reviews for March
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Our Sherelle Baker's Dozen comes with an exclusive playlist of the DJ and electronic musician's favourite music
Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member for access (to this and many other wonderful perks):
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With Bad Brains frontman H.R. in tow, serial collaborators New Age Doom fuse metal, hardcore, punk and reggae into new forms of spiritual music
New Age Doom featuring H.R. – Angels Against Angels
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DJ Rashad - Double Cup album cover. Detailed white on black line drawing of a cityscape with the artist's name and album title in off white above the left hand side.
"This album is one of the most forward thinking, career defining albums of our century, because he shows what footwork can be for the future. I don’t think we’re ever going to get an album like it again."
Sherelle on DJ Rashad - Double Cup
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No other artist articulates the tension between city, suburbia and LGBT+ lives quite so beautifully as Pet Shop Boys, says John Grindrod
How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
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Pat Place, Kiki Smith, Adele - black and white photo on the NYC subway.
'Bertei writes about No Wave’s music with acuity, its sexist shortcomings with clarity, and its women with care. There is no mud slung at Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, or Lizzy Mercier Descloux, only tenderness.'
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
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Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God box set image.
'“With my art I am the fist/ In the face of God”. Darkthrone’s art is the resistant force; the negative entity. If black metal is the devil’s fuel, we should treat it with caution, care, and not a little reverence.'
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
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Daft Punk - Discovery album cover. The duo's name, in silver lettering as if from liquid mercury, against a black background with little hints of coloured lights around the silver lettering.
"When I was younger, I would watch a lot of MTV and VH1. Because of Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555, a lot of my earliest memories are watching ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’ and ‘One More Time’".
Sherelle on Daft Punk - Discovery
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Adele Bertei at CBGBs. Photo: Julia Gorton
From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise and melody
Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
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Joanna Duda – Regina Silva cassette release image. A green cassette decorated with images of purple and green plants.
'In Kenya in 2024, Duda began collecting field recordings of animal vocalisations, which she translated into the rhythms and melodies, using digital and acoustic instruments...'
Joanna Duda – Regina Silva (Pointless Geometry): Cassette Reviews for March
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New Blackpool festival THE BLACK LIGHTS logo. Sigil made of the letters t, b and l, with the said lights barely visible in the distance.
Manchester venue The White Hotel has added 30 acts to the lineup for the debut edition of its new Blackpool festival THE BLACK LIGHTS, including Kali Malone, Klein, Valentina Magaletti, Russell Haswell, Lee Gamble, Jennifer Walton, Afrodeutsche and Iceboy Violet
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Kelis - Tasty album cover. The artist with a fake looking tattoo on her left shoulder reading 'tasty'.
"My mum and my sister loved D’Angelo, Aaliyah, and Lauryn Hill, but with Kelis, I felt like that was my album which I could listen to front to back."
Sherelle on Kelis - Tasty
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Colour photograph of what will now be known as The Rex. The old venue has the words 'Zap Space' in pink lettering above pink doors set into an orange wall.
A new music venue will open in East London in late 2027. The Rex will be housed inside the defunct Stratford theatre of the same name, and will have a capacity of 2,300 people.
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Black and white photograph of Radiohead.
Radiohead have hit out at the US’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), after the Department of Homeland Security used a choral rendition of their song ‘Let Down’ in an Instagram Reel
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Colour image of Aldous Harding from her video for the song 'One Stop'.
Aldous Harding has a new album on the way, titled Train On The Island.
You can watch a video for lead track, ‘One Stop’, here:
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Carla dal Forno. Colour photograph of the artist, sat outside a front door, with a partially eaten apple in her right hand.
Carla dal Forno has a new album on the way, titled Confession.
You can watch a video for lead track ‘Going Out’ here:
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Black and white photograph of Fugazi.
#Fugazi have shared a collection of previously unreleased recordings that they produced alongside Steve Albini in late 1992, to be released in aid of Letters Charity
Listen here:
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Nine Inch Nails have released a remix album for their TRON: Ares soundtrack.
The 20-track TRON Ares: Divergence features originals from Nine Inch Nails, in addition to remixes by Arca, Mark Pritchard, Lanark Artefax, Danny L Harle and The Dare, among others
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Justin K. Broadrick will no longer perform live as Godflesh. The UK artist has been forced to call time on the project as a live entity after undergoing abdominal surgery three weeks ago to treat an inguinal hernia.
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Justice - Cross album cover. Line drawing of a cross in a brownish yellow against a black background.
"I was able to see Justice at Glastonbury, and from speaking to Pedro about being a massive fan, I got a Justice jacket. I remember seeing ‘D.A.N.C.E’ and watching that video and being like, that’s amazing, and other videos the jacket had been in."
Sherelle on Justice - Cross
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Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God box set cover.
Though it's almost impossible to separate 90s Norwegian black metal from the controversies surrounding its progenitors, a new box set offers an opportunity to reappraise Darkthrone’s superb body of work on its own terms
Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
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Shabaka - Of The Earth album cover. The artist wearing a hat and black, red and green scarf, glancing skyward.
'Thoughts of exploration are never far from the mind when immersed in this remarkable record. It lives up to its title, sounds apparently sprouting from the seeds of ideas, climbing through the creative consciousness’s soil...'
Shabaka - Of The Earth
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Loraine James has shared details of her fourth studio album, Detached From The Rest Of You
You can listen to lead single ‘In A Rut’ here:
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4hero - Two Pages album cover. A triangle and some images of crystals forming.
"What they’ve done for dance music, jungle music, breakbeat, broken beat… all these various genres that they’ve been a part of, created or enhanced in some way, it’s so important to me. I would love to have a legacy like 4Hero."
Sherelle on 4hero - Two Pages
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Photograph from a previous edition of Green Man Festival, showing the main stage.
Green Man has shared the full lineup for its 2026 edition, including Wilco, Mogwai, Four Tet, Wolf Alice, The Beta Band, Sparks, Cat Power, Anna Calvi, Cate Le Bon and Aldous Harding
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Seefeel, photo by Jeff Pitcher. Black and white image of the duo about to walk down some stairs.
Seefeel are set to release their first new album in 15 years, titled Sol.Hz. Fhe LP is described in a press release as the group’s ‘dub’ album, and follows on from 2024’s mini-album Squared Roots
You can Watch a video for the album’s lead track ‘Ever No Way’ here:
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One week to go! Come! Am also currently editing a wonderful essay by @grindrod.bsky.social on the relationship between suburbia, sexuality and the music of the Pet Shop Boys to run on @thequietus.com next week 🏠🏠🏠🏠🍆👀🏠🏠🏠🏠
Ragger - Euphonic Sounds album cover. Two figures in a canoe as part of a colourful landscape with vivid pink flowers and much greenery.
'LA-based duo Jon Leland and Marc Riordan create gleeful anachronisms, playing ragtime tunes with synthesizers and an electronic drum kit. But Ragger are more than a curious retro-futurist homage. They don’t just replay old repertoire, they reanimate it'
Ragger - Euphonic Sounds
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Torn by Cobrah image.
'Although part of a broader wave of innovative, sex-positive, and intense female and queer artists, Cobrah’s debut album creates a slightly softer universe of empowering electronic beats and escapist release for those who dare to join her.'
Torn by Cobrah is tQ's Album of the Week
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