'I wonder what it was that first attracted Mike Patton to the billion+ streamers, The Avett Brothers? Hitching his wagon to their populist folk pop horse is surely just a peculiar coincidence, right? Let’s hope so because, musically, it’s a travesty.' AVTT/PTTN - S/T buff.ly/u1Yde1j

An appropriately scatological review of Mike Patton and “the Mumford & Sons of North Carolina.” 👇💩 @thequietus.com

Brutal review. What was Mike Patton thinking here?

Mike Patton has teamed up for an album with The Avett Brothers... Let's just say it's not all it's cracked up to be. Here's my review for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

'Based out of a similar neck of the Pacific Northwest’s woods that brought us Twin Peaks, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Mandy by Panos Cosmatos, Earth Ball navigate the lure of nature with a weird bit between their teeth.' Earth Ball - Outside Over There buff.ly/OSIh5dO

An unsettling, untamed rumpus has emerged from the woods of the Pacific Northwest... I had a crack at pinning down Earth Ball's latest for @thequietus.com. thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @upset-the-rhythm.bsky.social

In 4 weeks, Human Leather travel from Brighton to rip us an entire wardrobe full of fresh ones. Their recent debut nails down the turbo-charged, Lightning Bolt covering Electric Wizard aesthetic, even daring to throw a little “melody” into the melee. Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/dream-smothe...

Five tape labels to know and love from October.

Had a nice chat with Paul Moore of Acroplane Recordings for this month's @bandcamp.com Tape Label Report. Take a peek here: daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r...

Celebrated 6 months off the sauce at Autechre last night. It was like rush hour in an isolation tank. The textural assault built into what felt like fireworks trying to fuck my brain. Only the bambi-on-ice, regretamine'd dancing of nearby attendees took me out of the trance.

Here we fucking go!

I'm going in... See you in 1200 pages time. @markzdanielewski.bsky.social

Joseph Allred was in cosmic form yesterday evening, summoning entire worlds from the tips of his nimble fingers. @poorfaulkner.bsky.social

A good friend and I are taking the bold and perhaps slightly barmy step of putting on gigs in Worthing from next month. If you're in the South Coast locale and fancy getting the low down, give @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social a follow.

Thx Resident music for The Bug vs @ghostdubs.bsky.social write up "this deadly duo have 1 thing on their collective mind: total bass destruction. And they bring it in enormous, tsunami-sized waves of sonic weaponry. FFO: Burial / JK Flesh / Techno Animal / King Tubby / Sunn O))) / Rhythm & Sound"

Moin were in fine form the other night at ACCA... Like they were weaving a battering ram out of vibrating atoms.

Re-upping this as it's out this week and thoroughly deserving of your attention.

Jon is doing god’s work, beautifully written and this album is insane

To help work through the grief of losing her father, @annahogberg.bsky.social got her old ensemble back together for a sonic trip across mountain and sea. My review for @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

'It warns of an impending future, of the age of automation gone horribly wrong. When humans are deemed superfluous, tossed aside, and our new mechanical overlords party all night long to artificially intelligent dance music...' SickElixir by #Blawan is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/w3iT3i6

Blawan's got a cracking new record out so naturally I used up the word count harping on about Armand Van Helden, robotics, Transformers, AI, and maggots. Album of the Week action for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Fantastic word work from @spinal-bap.bsky.social here, on Richard Ashcroft's latest complete-lack-of-effort "You’d think someone who is a million different people from one day to the next would have more than a couple of ideas in that busy noggin of his." thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Huge billowing soundscapes formed with delicate poise by @k-lc.bsky.social at the ICA last night. Very much looking forward to her third(!) album of the year.

Cracking evening at Soho Electronic on Saturday. It sounded like there were some dazzling performances earlier in the day but it began for me with Noise Warfare at Farsight Gallery.

If you want to read about my wife's childhood aspirations, the League of Gentlemen, Shooting Stars, and Human Leather's weirdly beautiful form of mayhem, you'll click that link below.

Now we don't use X and are only active here (plus struggling upstream agains the algorithms on Instagram and Meta), the best way to keep up-to-date with tQ is via our newsletters: The Digest (a breakdown of the last week) and The Portal (our weekly archive dive). Sign up: thequietus.com/newsletter/

"the autism problem" "the migration problem" "the trans problem" Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

Hand-modelling, Crème Brulé, stolen land, and snare pummelling. Sounds like Human Leather have a new album out! Here's my review for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Accompanied by pals Elvin Brandhi, Phew, Justin K Broadrick, Karl D’Silva, and Karl O’Connor, the latest from Alexander Tucker merges the digital with the tangible, the futuristic with the ancient, ritual with freedom #Microcorps - Clear Vortex Chamber buff.ly/qhTL8ua

Penelope Trappes (@penelopetrappes.bsky.social) AND Midwife? What a delightful combination!

That @alexandertucker.bsky.social has a new record out under his Microcorps moniker. It's a doozy. Here's my review for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Some thoughts on 'This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll' by @danielrachel.bsky.social due out next month through @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social A thread 1/9 A vital, chilling, and impactful documentation of pop music’s incessant obsession with Nazism and the culture's willingness to look the other way...

“I’m constantly on the hunt for something interesting. And I guess when you keep doing that long enough, you eventually come across harsh noise.” For @bandcamp.com's Tape Label Report, Vilho Koivisto of Satatuhatta Tapes kindly answered some of my questions daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r...

'Raymond can conjure detailed imagery with little more than carefully plucked strings and dexterous fretboard scurries. The mantle that once belonged to #JohnFahey now belongs squarely to Raymond.' #GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark buff.ly/6FfDe9e

To celebrate turning 70 and raise money for a charity very close to my family’s hearts, my Dad has decided to hurl himself down the side of the Spinnaker Tower. Somehow he's roped my cousin into it too. We'd be immensely grateful for any donations: www.justgiving.com/page/paul-an...

Gwenifer Raymond is in exceptional form on her new record. I banged on about occultists, rocking chairs, and marionettes in this review for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @gweniferraymond.bsky.social

Happy 500th birthday @thewiremagazine.bsky.social!

And then some cracking insight from @soundsofslomo.com, @stephenomalley74.bsky.social, @jjstannard.bsky.social, @matthewmshaw.bsky.social on heavy drone masterpiece, 'The Creep'

Just @alexandertucker.bsky.social conjuring magic from a few strummed strings last night @stoneclub.bsky.social

Jackie-O Motherfucker in mesmerising form at the Rose Hill last night.

Well worthy of your ears...

A worthy challenger for my own nightmarish artwork high/low point. I present to you the girl who kept watch over us as we slept in a Rochester hotel:

Gonna be slinging merchandise at this tonight. Swing by, give us a wave.

'Like pulverising carbon until it transforms into diamond, Nolan takes his influences, lashes them to the tracks, and runs a distorted train laden with heavy-hitting industrial beats over them...' Andrew Nolan - Monochrome Vol. 2: Tentacles of Spiritual Contagion buff.ly/4qPK4Py

Andrew Nolan's a busy chap. He's pulled together a second batch of non-album tracks in the past few months. I had some thoughts here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @thequietus.com

Squealing bleeps, synthesized winds and melancholy themes evoke an arid desert soundscape on the latest album from the Iranian-born electronic music composer Farshad Akbari - Echoes of Nothingness buff.ly/gJ5VOQl

Take a trip into the scorching sonic sands with Farshad Akbari's latest. Full review over @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Shifting a few records over on Discogs, if anyone's interested: www.discogs.com/seller/Pacif... I'm open to offers/combining/arranging collection so feel free to drop me a line if anything catches your eye. Will be adding to it throughout the week too...

Myers provides a voyeuristic window into the mind of a megalomaniac (among many other things) on a night his artifices crumble. It's a rollicking and compelling piece cleverly counterbalanced with @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social’ own creative meta narrative. And it's a ripper of a read.

I was 14 when the nineties ended. It's surreal to see people 20 years younger than me now walking around with the hair cuts and dress sense of those who were 10 years older than me back then. I'm sure every generation goes through it, but it's no less discombobulating when it's your turn.