Crushing Death & Grief are to celebrate two decades of their “gigs in Cambridge, gigs in East Anglia. No messing" ethos by holding a multi-venue festival in Cambridge between Friday 7 and Sunday 9 November Find out more here: buff.ly/BWuGvnD

'With a contact mic taped to her throat, the Australian vocalist expands the very concept of vocal music. It's an explorative and open approach, one that focuses on musical evolution.' Charmaine Lee - Tulpa buff.ly/cRFSfcL

'A consensus pick among fans, Tri Repetae marks a stylistic peak for Booth and Brown, the best representation of their work during that early period' Many Happy Returns to #Autechre's Tri Repetae, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/1Wl68Zh

"The first record I had of hers was Nina Sings The Blues, but it’s just the genius in everything she did. She can’t help but be truthful, it’s just so deep in her, through all of her demons and the mistreatment she had." #TanitaTikaram on #NinaSimone Sings The Blues buff.ly/pCBf22J

On their seventh stellar album in a row, the unbeatable duo of Elucid and Billy Woods find space for small, everyday joys amongst the horror of contemporary geopolitics. Mercy by #ArmandHammer and The Alchemist is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/JJNZ1le

'Following two exquisite instrumental records, Woods returns to song form – and to her voice – using it as both compass and invocation. She builds an intimate ecosystem of sound: an act of re-inhabiting the body' Hilary Woods - Night CRIÚ buff.ly/cO4fIKe

'Voices are mangled and obscured throughout SickElixir. Their messages teeter on the cusp of comprehension but rarely tip over, shrouded utterances scrape across the battery of mutated and fuzz-strewn synths' Blawan - SickElixir is a Quietus album of the Month for October 2025 buff.ly/MM6hDfC

"It’s such a New York-sounding album! In my head it’s like Cagney and Lacey, it’s a safe sound, and I love her voice because it’s not a sensationally acrobatic voice, but it’s a very maternal voice" #TanitaTikaram on Odyssey - Odyssey buff.ly/2VUNoez

'Glaswegian grrrls in the garage Lung Leg have been back gigging now and then for a few years, but their side of this split on Errol’s Hot Wax is their first new music of the millennium' Lung Leg & Unmarry Me - Second City Static 004 - New Weird Britain in Review for November buff.ly/trgLTUN

'A stunning collection of dark fantasy tales that at times recalls Jorge Luis Borges, the American magical-realist Steven Millhauser and occasionally Mariana Enriquez' Attila Veres - The Black Maybe is No 3 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st C buff.ly/C4B49ZM

Ahead of this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, #TanitaTikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles Good Tradition: Tanita Tikaram’s Favourite Albums buff.ly/yrAt0cQ

Lee Adams of the legendary LGBTQIA+ techno night KAOS discusses next week's anniversary event, the Athens experimental arts and music scene, and noice as political resistance Catching up With KAOS: Politics & Powerful Electronics at 22nd Anniversary buff.ly/s5lygO4

'The Denver Death Sludge trio let a sliver of light in, testing genre limits to create a monolith of heavy art. Taking the time to construct and refine this album has produced their finest work – and they know it.' Primitive Man - Observance buff.ly/eXQGX3a

Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access a playlist of Richard Dawson's favourite music (amongst many other wonderful perks)... Sun Ra, Circle, Nina Simone, Mr Bungle... find out what else the Geordie bard picked here: buff.ly/lddHOqL

'The instrumentation fits perfectly with the otherworldly, thoroughly non-jazz sounds of Toral’s guitar pedal wizardry and the absence of an expected dissonance between the two feels strangely hypnotic' #RafaelToral - Traveling Light is a Quietus album of the Month for October 2025 buff.ly/MM6hDfC

'There’s blood aplenty among the absurdity. Feito herself asked recently: “What if the evil psychopath were female this time? What does that mean?”' #VirginiaFeito - Victorian Psycho is No 4 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st C buff.ly/C4B49ZM

'When David Bowie turned up and singled out some of the clientele for his Ashes To Ashes video. Everyone was hilariously trying to play it ice cold while the bloke who unsuspectingly put his name to Bowie Nights wandered around the joint.' Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties buff.ly/8qW9QLM

From weighty out-jazz poetry to a dream pop / post rock wormhole, via mutating synth grids, a record fuelled by hatred of the ‘the music industry’ and more – it can only be Noel Gardner’s latest guide to the best of New Weird Britain New Weird Britain in Review for November buff.ly/trgLTUN

The drummer-producer’s four-EP project blends live performance and post-production tricknology into a new kind of superstrong musical compound Makaya McCraven - Techno Logic/Hidden Out!/The People’s Mixtape/PopUp Shop buff.ly/fPkrHoP

'The design of the novel is inextricable from its meaning: a visual analogue of the experience of those lost within the house’s potentially infinite walls.' Mark Z. Danielewski – House Of Leaves is No 6 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st C buff.ly/C4B49ZM

“This festival is a celebration of improvisation as a global, inclusive, and transformative art form.” Stewart Smith looks forward to a celebration of the gamelan at the seventeenth instalment of the Scottish festival Preview: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s GIOfest buff.ly/QM9uFi9

'4.5 hours of music, including Rosalía’s stunning collaboration with Björk and Yves Tumor, Lankum’s cover of ‘Ghost Town’, The Soft Pink Truth, Hey Colossus, Bruise Blood, and much more.' tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: October 2025 buff.ly/WuE0I5V

'Working off of Bitches Brew, Gibbs uses the insular creative framework that Miles and producer Teo Macero mastered in the 70s as a jumping-off point for an entirely different planet of strange' #MelvinGibbs - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 is a Quietus album of the Month for October buff.ly/MM6hDfC

The Chicago-born singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and a record producer is like a coiled spring on this spacious yet claustrophobic follow-up to 2020's brilliant Forever, Ya Girl KeiyaA - Hooke's Law buff.ly/OokV4Cv

'A book concerned with the transmission of the ineffable via the mouths of stuttering children, whose ‘disability’ acts as a cut-up of language through which the dead can speak' #ShelleyJackson's Riddance is No 14 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st C buff.ly/C4B49ZM

"To watch #Nirvana and The Offspring and Green Day and #Pixies blow up was crazy. I think it’s great they got paid and went on to have amazing careers, but… It’s like we were professional athletes before all the TV money came in and contracts exploded" #HüskerDü Interviewed buff.ly/k3f6SEV

'The titles clue you in, acting as something like emphatic punctuation on tunes already overflowing with character. They also belie the keen-yet-puckish intellect responsible for these rough-cut gems.' Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Ragas is a Quietus album of the Month buff.ly/MM6hDfC

'Nevill excels at creating an atmosphere of ever ratcheting dread. I was so caught up in the ending when I first read it that I found myself exclaiming loudly on public transport' #AdamNevill - The Ritual is No 2 in The Quietus' 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century buff.ly/C4B49ZM

'Neil Charles’ Dark Days suite captures both the darkness and liberatory energy of #JamesBaldwin’s writing, with the bassist-composer transforming his prose into music that is graceful, fiery and free'. The EFG London Jazz Festival preview: Dark Days: Neil Charles Quartet buff.ly/3bU0Obc

'An effective and disturbing modern spin on the myth of demonic possession in which an architect’s life is taken over by a supernatural entity.' #SaraGran - Come Closer (2003) is No 11 in The Quietus' 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century buff.ly/C4B49ZM

'Like her astounding new record Hexed! it’s an engagingly messy affair, Aya is restless in sound – switching between heavy electronics, hardcore noise and high-tempo doof, her labyrinthine vocals shifting in and out of different treatments' Highlights from #Semibreve 2025: Aya buff.ly/kuNSDyf

'Cisco’s 800-page dark fantasy novel is like the mutant offspring of Stanislav Lem’s The Futurological Congress and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow' Michael Cisco - Animal Money is No 9 in The Quietus' 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century buff.ly/C4B49ZM

'Lurches along like the undead son of The Stooges to an incendiary climax worthy of late period Butthole Surfers, before devolving into what sounds like a broken fairground calliope organ. It’s great to have them back' #HeyColossus - ‘Hey Zombie’ is a Quietus track of the Month buff.ly/MM6hDfC

'Both a figurative and tangible triumph: dense, changeable, vaporous and easy to get lost within - a piece of work that can fuel wispy, carefree musings one moment and prompt a brow-crunching migraine the next' A Theory of Cloud by Shrine Maiden is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/xC6aZSM

'Horror fiction flies off the shelves in times of real-life anxiety. It’s too early to put precise figures on 2025, but if the IRL anxiety-meter tracking the current state of world events is anything to go by, it’s going to be bumper year' 25 for 25: The Best of 21st C #Horror buff.ly/C4B49ZM

A new book by Robert Elms returns the reader to a bygone London of squats full of future popstars and cans of Red Stripe to recall the nightclub that birthed #SpandauBallet and #Visage and might just have invented the future Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties buff.ly/8qW9QLM

'A Berlin based musician who makes music like an alien who has been tasked with back engineering lounge, exotica and late 60s style psychedelic pop music using only IDM mid-90s recordings for reference' CV Vision - Release The Beast is a Quietus album of the Month for October 2025 buff.ly/MM6hDfC

'The Fall in the 1970s and 80s were never particularly concerned with what was yet to come, but The Unutterable presents an electronic, forward-looking iteration of the group that is ominous and menacing as they had ever sounded.' Reissue of the Week: The Unutterable by #TheFall buff.ly/Ysp8a6T

'Combines aspects of classic horror such as Stephen King or Clive Barker, with elements more usually found in authors like Roberto Bolano or William Burroughs.' #MarianaEnriquez' Our Share of Night is No 1 in The Quietus' 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century buff.ly/C4B49ZM

Podcasts with #GazelleTwin on the Enfield Poltergeist and John & Luke on M.R. James. The long simmering debate over Disintegration vs Pornography comes to the boil & much more can be yours immediately Treat yourself to spooky culture with a Quietus Subscription this #Halloween buff.ly/82bu8FZ

“#SST was not a label you could pigeonhole. They had #Minutemen, they had #SaccharineTrust, they had #MeatPuppets. None of the bands on SST sounded like Black Flag, except for #BlackFlag.” Plans That They Made: #HüskerDü Interviewed buff.ly/k3f6SEV

Mike Bourne of Teeth of the Sea and Hirvikolari takes us on a dystopian synth-wave journey replete with industrial crunches and stabs of sub bass Bruise Blood - You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor buff.ly/bWWL3tX

'Everything you’ll find here, as well as all the other excellent music we’ve covered at tQ this month, will also be compiled into an hours-long playlist exclusive to our subscribers...' Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of October 2025 buff.ly/MM6hDfC

Authors Catriona Ward, Michael Cisco, Greg F. Gifune & Leila Taylor join tQ writers Sean Kitching and Mat Colgate to bring you what they consider to be the best novels, short stories and graphic novels in the genre The 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st century so far… buff.ly/C4B49ZM

The best Fall album of the 21st century, or ever? @fergalkinney.bsky.social makes the case for a dark and heavy masterpiece made up of ketamine, Pete Tong and pumpkin soup Reissue of the Week: The Unutterable by #TheFall buff.ly/Ysp8a6T

Kevin Richard Martin, AKA The Bug, has remixed a track by US composer and multi-instrumentalist Rafael Anton Irisarri You can listen to both remixes here: buff.ly/ZsC5Ves

#CabaretVoltaire have outlined plans for their final tour. The 11-date run will see Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, who co-founded the project with the late Richard H. Kirk, play shows across the UK buff.ly/wQQ61tm

'The group's loose, kosmische indie pop enacts its own quiet, day-to-day revolutionary practice. Slacker sounds like what might happen if Can’s rhythmic investigations were filtered through Thee Oh Sees’ scuzzy psychedelic drive' Oruã - Slacker buff.ly/2niMzWr

'The brilliance of Pulp was always to embrace the darkness of sex, the ooze and the horror, the guilt and the shame, the power and submission...' Many Happy Returns to #Pulp’s Different Class, which turns 30 today! buff.ly/w09aeU0

'“An exploratory electronic music festival” who place particular emphasis on site-specific performances, Braga is particularly blessed when it comes to interesting interiors...' The Sublime to the Meticulous: Highlights from #Semibreve 2025 buff.ly/kuNSDyf