Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026 | The Quietus
Last month there was a story doing the rounds about how, up until that point, it had rained every single day in the UK. It’s certainly felt like we’ve needed this particular spring quite desperately, although the flipside is that now that the sunshine has finally arrived, it feels that little bit brighter. It’s been […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of January 2026 | The Quietus
There was a time when compiling a best-of list for January felt like scraping the barrel, artists and labels holding fire on their best music until the blossoming of snowdrops and the renewal of post-festive energy. Not so in 2026, as already we’ve been treated to several records that will be best of the year […]
Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of November and December 2025 | The Quietus
Eagle-eyed tQ readers will have spotted that there was no best-of-November round-up last month, in order to make room for our Albums of the Year chart. Nevertheless, it’d be a shame to let those records that defined the final weeks of 2025 slip by without a spotlight. Proud as we are of the main chart, […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of October 2025 | The Quietus
We are fast hurtling towards end-of-year-list-ageddon, which means this October roundup is one of our last chances to zoom in to examine 2025’s music in relative microcosm. As you’ll see from our selections below, the last 31 days have been as fertile as any when it’s come to excellent music, whether languid ambient, mangled noise, […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of September 2025
tQ's staffers have sifted through the stream of September's music, and returned with a selection of shiny golden nuggets
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of August 2025 | The Quietus
It’s been a hectic summer here at tQ, with the expected festival season lull in new releases failing to materialise. It makes me think of last winter, too; where once both the industry and the underground would go into festive semi-hibernation, it now seems as if the stream of excellent new music never lets up. […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of July 2025 | The Quietus
Sometimes when compiling these round-ups of new music, I’m struck by how far the selection stretches across the musical spectrum. At others, it’s easy to find a common thread. July’s best-of is in the latter camp. There’s a certain chaos, an overstimulation and a fraying at the edges that seems to unite a host of […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of June 2025 | The Quietus
With the end of June comes the slew of 2025-so-far charts and its accompanying discourse, the first proper attempt to establish an overarching narrative of the year’s sonic output. tQ’s own round-up of 100 excellent and eclectic releases to have delighted us thus far is just a week away, but for now, there’s still the […]
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2025
Here are the albums and songs from the last month that we think you should hear, as selected by tQ's staffers
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of April 2025 | The Quietus
I’m penning this introduction to our latest best of the month chart beneath the blazing heat of May Day. It’s a date that I’ve noticed is being marked more and more within the music scene – I’ve had three nights in a row, in fact, of excellent live shows themed in equal parts around the […]
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