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Mark S Williamson – folklore, facts and fables 6: three days to find out

The Quietus 19 Dec 2025
Many Quietus readers will no doubt be familiar with Time Team, the archaeology programme broadcast by Channel 4 for a decade between 1994 and 2014 and ... It’s this human dynamic that Mark S Williamson pays tribute to here ... ....
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Blarke Bayer – The King In Yellow

The Quietus 18 Dec 2025
In an effort to familiarise myself with the inspiration for Blarke Bayer’s The King in Yellow, the proto-Lovecraftian collection of short stories of the same name by gilded age goth Robert W ... ....
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Fat White Family – Konk If You're Lonely: Fat White Family Live At Konk Studios

The Quietus 16 Dec 2025
Wikipedia puts the number for the members of the Fat White Family at 16 in 14 years, but frontman Lias Saoudi’s best estimate in 2019 was that there had already been 25. Of the original six-piece lineup, only Saoudi and guitarist Adam J. Harmer remain.
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The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2025

The Quietus 15 Dec 2025
Those polled were encouraged to avoid voting for overly complex or extended pieces of music, but that hasn’t stopped a track by Sunn O))) from slipping into the mix. It is tQ, after all ;) ... Your support is hugely appreciated ... More on ... More on ... ....
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Moundabout – Esker Hippy Bastard Blues

The Quietus 15 Dec 2025
Moundabout’s music feels more like it’s been summoned from the depths of the Earth than composed in any traditional fashion. Esker Hippy Bastard Blues is Paddy Shine and Phil Langero’s second album of 2025 ... offers an oasis in this green desert ... ....
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Reissue of the Week: Gary Numan's Telekon

The Quietus 12 Dec 2025
Gary Numan was treated by both the press and his synth pop peers as an upstart, a non-art school normie parodying the genre’s pioneers in craven pursuit of commercial success ... Becoming public property split Numan’s psyche into disparate fragments ... ....
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DJ Narciso – DENTRO DE MIM

The Quietus 12 Dec 2025
In countries with a bloody history, built on empire, it has long been the case that migrants, and the children of migrants, from formerly colonised countries are responsible for a disproportionate amount of cutting edge culture ... ....
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Live God

The Quietus 11 Dec 2025
With last year’s Wild God, Nick Cave continued his remarkable run over the past decade of highly praised Top 10 hit records ... Cave is now in what you might call his ‘establishment figure era’. A Cave who shows up at Royal events ... It’s the glue ... ....
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Wrens – Half What You See

The Quietus 11 Dec 2025
From its musical and linguistic phrases, even down its cover art, Half of What You See might be best defined as exquisite-corpse electro-jazz. Nothing is more easily contextualized by those with avant-garde proclivities than apparent cacophony ... ....
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Depeche Mode – Memento Mori: Mexico City

The Quietus 10 Dec 2025
Depeche Mode have put out official releases covering the vast majority of their tours since the mid-1980s, whether via film, live album releases or more often than not both, so the release of Memento Mori ... There’s a bit of a bonus this time out ... ....
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F.Ampism – The Vertical Luminous

The Quietus 09 Dec 2025
Throughout The Vertical Luminous, shimmering vignettes of celestial melodies morph into unexpected shapes without concern for the verse-chorus form ... Pulsing ethereal emissions drip from the walls of ‘The severed head is smiling’ ... ....
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Burnt Harbors – Blood High Star

The Quietus 09 Dec 2025
Burnt Harbors is the latest entity used by Richard Skelton to make music about the times we now find ourselves living in ... Alongside the music released under his own name, he has devised separate identities which he uses to record music about the USA.
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Retail Drugs – Factory Reset

The Quietus 08 Dec 2025
There’s a particular brand of madness that occurs when an artist gets bored of their own tricks. Jake Brooks didn’t experience some dark night of the soul; he just got sick of guitar and ran out of cassette tapes ... His two rules were simple ... ....
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Kibrom Birhane – Lisané Bahir

The Quietus 05 Dec 2025
The penultimate track on Kibrom Birhane’s Lisané Bahir, ‘AMEN’, has the voices of Ethiopian elders giving blessings over a slow swinging drum machine ... He recorded them as a reminder for a younger generation ... Tezeta, Anchihoye, Bati and Ambassel ... ....
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Charles Hayward x Dälek – HAYWARDxDÄLEK

The Quietus 05 Dec 2025
Back in 2023, From The Other (the creative bods behind Fat Out Fest) invited Charles Hayward and Will Brooks (AKA MC Dälek) to collaborate as part of their artist development programme Samarbeta ... He isn’t pulling any punches ... ....

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