'If their reunion offers us a chance to escape from the grim reality of modern Britain, it’s also true that the things we’re escaping from have been shaped by social and cultural forces that Oasis helped usher in.' Why #Oasis’ Reunion is the Soundtrack to Britain in 2025 buff.ly/JyOWrW8

'With ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)’, Gojira delivered one of the best, if not the most insane, performances of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. That evening, Gojira set death metal ablaze in front of the Conciergerie...' Gojira, the French Wild Children of Metal buff.ly/tneVzMQ

“The difference with what we’re doing is that we’re earnest about where we’re pulling all that from, and postmodernism is doing that as a distancing effect. Our interest in all this different kind of music is almost more from seeing a through line with it" Agriculture Interviewed buff.ly/FL0LGwj

'Not just to stand in the other’s shoes but to “feel how it feels”: to be the other—In ‘Hounds Of Love’, such openness isn’t just frightening but thrilling, vulnerability as potency, as self and other, subject and object, hunter and hunted combine.' #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love at 40 buff.ly/B1GSAn1

'The wonder of finally getting LSD over the finish line transcends its melancholy shadow. With Jim Smith clear about his desire to tour the album with a new lineup, this feels more like a new chapter than a swansong.' Posthumous LP of the Week: #Cardiacs’ LSD buff.ly/L8n39xK

'Jude and Luke talk about how the film was much-abused by 90s lad culture, when Chris Evans bought Withnail’s coat at auction, and the film was released on DVD with extras including a tawdry Withnail drinking game.' Low Culture Podcast: Withnail & I buff.ly/WpIOK7N

'Sysivalo transcends binaries of ugliness and beauty, or lightness versus dark. Instead, it glides elegantly from one to another, drawing out the tension between them and the way one can emerge from the other.' Sound Hunting: Sysivalo by Ø is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/btIShrT

Our interview with #Agriculture is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define their career Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks) buff.ly/FL0LGwj

In this first and only book dedicated to Gojira, journalist and author Jean-Charles Desgroux looks back on the seven studio albums and thirty-year career of France's biggest metal band Ah! Ça ira: Gojira, the French Wild Children of Metal buff.ly/tneVzMQ

'Six tracks feel exactly right for this kind of concentrated mood study. Push distils how emotional life functions under constant digital translation – accepting the terms of our era while maintaining just enough distance to examine them' NEW YORK - Push buff.ly/NhyJr68

'Dopethrone is Electric Wizard’s masterpiece, made almost despite themselves, and it killed the entity that created it. And so it remains, like a cursed child wandering the earth...' The Destructive Legacy of #ElectricWizard’s Dopethrone buff.ly/dsjLGU6

'Ganser still know how to rock - in a way that can be dubby and angular yet accessible rather than fiddly or overrefined. ‘Discount Diamonds’ is part-Fugazi and part-Sonic Youth, with bonus synths' Ganser - Animal Hospital buff.ly/lJhpFkA

Finished towards the end of last year by a dedicated group of Tim Smith's closest comrades, Cardiacs' LSD is a triumph of creativity and friendship over adversity, and a testament to the enduring uniqueness of Smith’s artistic vision Posthumous LP of the Week: #Cardiacs’ LSD buff.ly/L8n39xK

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

London tQ people, our LT is interviewing Rob St John at his National Gallery free-in Friday night live performance, all welcome!

A new compilation is set to celebrate the legacy of legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop co-founder #DaphneOram Listen to #CoseyFanniTutti’s contribution to the compilation, ‘Tributum’, here: buff.ly/vTB7V5g

More than 400 artists and record labels, based around the world, have signed up to a new boycott campaign aimed at musicians geo-blocking their work on streaming platforms in Israel buff.ly/z7FA3Z5

A final posthumous release from Mika Vainio finds rich beauty, deep in the windswept sublime of the late Finnish producer's sometimes harsh digital soundscapes Sound Hunting: Sysivalo by Ø is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/btIShrT

'Agriculture don’t transcend black metal as much as inhabit its spirit so thoroughly they also become its mirror image; an anti-black metal band. That is where the ecstatic moment is achieved.' Cut the Crop: Agriculture Interviewed buff.ly/FL0LGwj

Luke Turner and guest Jude Rogers go on holiday by mistake to discuss masculinity, England, and myths of a healing countryside in Bruce Robinson’s masterpiece Low Culture Podcast: Withnail & I buff.ly/WpIOK7N

'For all its apparent celebration, the narrative of ‘Cloudbusting’ recounts the repression of utopianism: #WilhelmReich would die in prison within a year of his arrest, his machines destroyed and writings burned by the US government' #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On buff.ly/B1GSAn1

Our Strange World Of #SaintEtienne article is now accompanied by a curated playlist of 20 essential tracks that define their career Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks) buff.ly/fsRuyai

Remixes by #TheBug, KMRU, Lucy Liyou and others transform the Kazakh violinist's 2024 album of reflections on the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site Galya Bisengalieva - Polygon Reflections buff.ly/AeJump7

Dopethrone says Dan Franklin is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard's most notorious album The Destructive Legacy of #ElectricWizard’s Dopethrone buff.ly/dsjLGU6

#MobbDeep are releasing a new album, Infinite—the first record to emerge from the project since Prodigy, one-half of the group, died in 2017 You can listen to lead track ‘Against The World’ here: buff.ly/6rtUOgS

Geoff Barrow, of #Portishead and Beak>, has launched a new film company, Invada Films, and produced and co-written his first feature film, GAME, which stars Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson alongside Marc Bessant, and is set in the 1993 UK rave scene buff.ly/26RAa9X

#Stereolab have released a new double A-side single, featuring the tracks ‘Fed Up With Your Job’ and ‘Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown’ You can listen here: buff.ly/ZKfi3FJ

#SleafordMods have released a new song, ‘Megaton’. All profits from sales of the release will go to War Child, as part of Sleaford Mods’ ongoing partnership with the charity. You can watch a video for the release here: buff.ly/aKqiPeP

"It’s so Black, so steeped in African-American culture. It’s so, so deep. But it still feels new to me. When I put it on now, it still feels like I’ve never heard before – it just can’t get old." #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #CharlesMingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady buff.ly/NQqERiN

'Amidst all the commotion, there’s a sense of ecstatic release in this music, one that reflects an understanding that the chaos of living and breathing in such a fucked-up space and time carries its own liberatory potential.' Rian Treanor and Cara Tolmie - Body Lapse buff.ly/z1nhdL3

Developed at Stockholm's EMS studios and first presented at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, the Swedish sound artist's latest is filled with an expansive sense of exploration #MarjaAhti - Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth buff.ly/yn3KCSk

"It was our manager’s idea to put Deepak [Khazanchi, santoor] and Dinesh [Pandit, tablas] on ‘Living On The Ceiling’ even though it’s a Middle Eastern melody. It’s a geographical nonsense!" R.I.P. Stephen Luscombe of #Blancmange buff.ly/22haNPK

As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial No Greater Wonder: #KateBush’s Hounds Of Love, 40 Years On buff.ly/B1GSAn1

“One of my eyes pointed this way, the other pointed that way. Miles [Davis] didn’t know which way I was looking. He thought I was looking at his right side. I focused my eyes and punched him in the face.” R.I.P. #HermetoPascoal buff.ly/o2NrOsL

"I love Herbie Hancock. That 70s jazz-fusion era, a lot of people think it’s really corny. But I love it – incredibly virtuosic playing, squeezed into pop music structures? That’s my whole shit." #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #HerbieHancock - Magic Windows buff.ly/FvpLdpA

'Several years establishing themselves as one of the most exhilarating live bands in the UK underground, Human Leather have finally unveiled their first full-length album, and it was certainly worth the wait.' Human Leather - Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body - #HeavyMetal buff.ly/YN2ETp2

In an exclusive extract from his new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3, author Pete Crighton explores the backdrop to the making of the Athens, Georgia band’s mainstream breakthrough How Cosmic Thing Became the B-52s’ Horniest Record in Years buff.ly/m5zmcfi

"I remember this incredible, euphoric feeling when he played ‘Sign O’ The Times’. And then, 31 days later, he died. It was one of the last shows he ever played, and I feel very grateful that I got to have that experience" #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #Prince - Sign “O” The Times buff.ly/DiMMhhH

"A seed doesn’t know where to grow, it just happens, it goes towards warmth and sun. It just has a life push. When you go through hard times, the life push is what pushes you through to the other side.” The Life Push: An Interview with #UrsulaSereghy buff.ly/OGkgLFx

"That album changed my life. I didn’t know you could rap like that. It is so lyric-dense, and so fun, and so moody and scary, and still funky, and so personal, but it still works at the party." #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #AesopRock - Float buff.ly/3GBmneb

'Massilia Sound System makes for a great introduction to the genre. Blending French lyrics with Occitan, the band was founded in Marseille in the 1980s as a reaction to Marine Le Pen’s right-wing politics.' Massilia Sound System – 3968 CR13 - The Multinational Music of Occitanie buff.ly/kzL1yJa

#ArmandHammer, the duo of #billywoods and #ELUCID, have a new album, Mercy, on the way, made entirely with producer The Alchemist buff.ly/N0pcbkU

Skaņu Mežs has shared the complete lineup for its 2025 event. Among the final artists added to the bill for the Riga-based festival are SHAPE+ act R3YWYA, KAVARI; Laura Ortman; John Butcher & Bill Nace; and Matthew Biederman & Pierce Warnecke buff.ly/LZfhkQx

'The Body Hammer dishes out all the caveman grunts, lightspeed blasting and stop-start chaos we’ve come to expect from the band, whilst also taking their established powerviolence sound on a few intriguing detours.' Endless Swarm - The Body Hammer - #HeavyMetal for September buff.ly/YN2ETp2

"I had to have a Parliament album and a Funkadelic album. This one’s a gospel album, almost – it’s a creation myth, and it ends with ‘Funkin’ For Fun’, which is one of the greatest songs ever written." #DaveedDiggs of #Clipping on #Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein buff.ly/I8qq4qH

'The self-proclaimed Nylon Panther is back and this time he’s shown up with a wingman. Backed up by super producer Paul Epworth, the latest from Dury Jr finds the singer at his rawest – and perhaps most exposed' #BaxterDury - Allbarone buff.ly/tZpnjDz

'Right to the end David Bowie was uniquely creative, with lessons still to impart: concern over the world we’re bequeathing our children, reassessing life from the vantage of middle age and, at the end, how to face death' #DavidBowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016] buff.ly/JE3HHuG

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Anna Mahtani tracks the revival of a long neglected language, and the diverse music it has inspired across southern France and beyond Organic Intelligence XLVIII: The Multinational Music of Occitanie buff.ly/kzL1yJa

'Kayo Dot throw us another curveball, delving headfirst into ominous drone and eerie ambient territory on what could be the weirdest, most experimental record in their incredibly weird, experimental discography' #KayoDot - Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason - #HeavyMetal buff.ly/YN2ETp2

'The ‘Free Angela’ sticker within this prohibitively expensive set, nestled amongst trading-card style Lennon collectables, epitomises something peculiar about the 21st C: the packaging up, sanitising, and selling of the past.' #JohnLennon & the Gutting of 60s #Counterculture buff.ly/4bHhp7I