Our chart rundowns continue with The Quietus Reissues (etc.) of the Year. The (etc) covers everything else that’s excited our ears this year, including compilations, live albums, posthumous releases, DJ mixes and box sets. Dive in! #tQCharts. tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025. @normanrecs . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts. What have been your top picks of the year? @normanrecs . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
Eartheater is releasing a new album, titled Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message. @chemicalx.club . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
"'Graphic novels' is just a marketing term used to get comic books stocked in bookstores. Kind of like how New Wave was a term to help market Punk." Jeffrey Lewis On Watchmen And His Love Of Comics - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive. @jeffreylewisband . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
The UK music and events industry has reacted with disappointment to the government’s failure to include decisive action on ticket touting in this week’s King’s Speech. @_ukmusic . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
FKA twigs has been hit with a countersuit in the latest turn of a long-running legal saga between herself and The Twigs over the former’s artist name. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
'One hour and thirty minutes, long enough to fit onto two sides of a C90 cassette, and ideal for an extended ramble across areas of outstanding natural beauty or the hubbub of the city – with or without a dog.' Speedy J - Walkman. @stoorlab@speedyj_jochempaap . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
"I would sit and listen to it over and over. ‘Willie The Pimp’, with its Captain Beefheart vocals always made me smile, and Neil and I fucked around playing it and singing." Jennifer Herrema (#RoyalTrux) on Frank Zappa - Hot Rats. @therealjenniferherrema . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
The programming includes sets from Aba Shanti-I, Kelman Duran, Azu Tiwaline, Seekersinternational and The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, and Mad Professor. Le Guess Who?’s 2026 Edition to Feature 24-Hour Dub Marathon. @le_guess_who . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
"I’m a huge Oceansize fan. When I heard this record on Mike Vennart's YouTube channel, I just couldn’t believe it – it was just unreal. They got even more amazing and insane." Fire-Toolz on Oceansize - Self-Preserved While The Bodies Float Up. @fire_toolz@mikevennart . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
'The Eighteenth Day Of May is both a forwards- and backwards-looking record – one rooted in tradition, but with an expansive view of what folk music can mean in the 21st century.' Reissue of the Week: The Eighteenth Day Of May. @circuitryrecordings@alison__cotton . Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered
The countercultural gangster film Performance (1970) might be so endlessly quotable it ended up in songs by The Happy Mondays and Big Audio Dynamite, but there’s much more to it than that, as John Doran and Luke Turner discuss. Low Culture Podcast: Performance
