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 […]

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The Strange World Of... Ladytron | The Quietus

From a conceptual start mid-DJ set in Liverpool to a global TikTok sensation, it's the Strange World Of Ladytron!

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Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall | The Quietus

Excellent Fall reissue with lost album shows why the band were on a high, while making it clear that things couldn't last.

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Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński – Nocturnal Consolations | The Quietus

Širom’s banjo and balafon player joins the Polish guitarist and composer to create a map of the folk unconscious, treating tradition as a field of forces in which sound drifts between memory, matter, and imagination

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Actress and Suzanne Ciani Unveil Collaborative Album, 'Concrète Waves' | The Quietus

Actress and Suzanne Ciani are releasing a new album together, titled Concrète Waves. Marking the first joint release of music by the two artists, the record was born from a live collaboration between the pair last year, which was co-commissioned by London’s Barbican and Barcelona’s Sónar festival. The two performed together at both last year, […]

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Symphonies from Destruction: Kinshasa in Action by KinAct | The Quietus

Congolese collective build sonic starships ouf of the scrapyards of Africa, transforming ritual into auditory assault

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Taupe – Waxing | Waning | The Quietus

Glaswegian trio summon a lurching, many-limbed beast in a state of restless permanent flux

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Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal | The Quietus

Jimmy Martin traces the precise moment that hard rock gave way to what we now think of as Heavy Metal with Judas Priest at the helm

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Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher | The Quietus

Tim Burrows talks about how a conversation on a park bench led to an experimental film about the philosophy of Mark Fisher

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Natalie Marlin on The Chemical Brothers' Hanna OST | The Quietus

Hanna does not live with music to guide her, at least at first. Her life is scored solely by the openness of the tundra, the crackling of fire. The stillness of open air, of onyx-drenched night. A dwelling shared only with her father, far from any others, from any chatter or clamour. No incandescent hums […]

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