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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?

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"I first saw it 25 years ago. It had that same kind of impact as a weird Bunuel surrealist sort of film. I love the idea of Jodorowsky shoehorning his own mad music into his own mad film"

Stephen Mallinder on Holy Mountain OST (#CabaretVoltaire will tour for the last time in 2026)

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Holy Mountain OST album cover. The Alchemist walking along a thine line towards the sorcerer.
January 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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The prolific and consistently brilliant US horror author #RonaldMalfi (who came in at No 5 in our recent survey of 21st C horror fiction) releases a new novel, The Hive, on 14 April 2026

Revisit a Quietus interview with Malfi here:

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January 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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"I think for a lot of us who love pop music that has psychedelic overtones, that was the record that really showed you what you could do with delay and with reversing the tape..."

Bob Mould on The Beatles - Revolver (Sugar play New York and London this May)

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The Beatles - Revolver album cover. Black and white photographs mixed with detailed but non-realistic drawings of the Fab Four.
January 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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#MyBloodyValentine are playing Japan in February, London's Royal Albert Hall in March and Primavera in Barcelona in June

Revisit a Quietus piece that focuses on the band's rhythmic invention here:

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January 10, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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"The role that women played in [early] electronic music was so important. Daphne Oram, Suzanne Ciani, Delia Derbyshire..."

Stephen Mallinder on Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson – The Legend Of Hell House (#CabaretVoltaire will tour for the last time in 2026)

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Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson – The Legend Of Hell House album cover. A photograph of a woman dressed in black with a silver crucifix around her neck. The photograph also has some intentional, psychedelic distortion.
January 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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'Deemed a commercial misfire, at some point since its release, Mulholland Drive has gone on to become widely considered one of the best films of the 21st century so far...'

Low Culture Podcast: #DavidLynch's Mulholland Drive

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Still from Mulholland Drive. Naomi Watts superimposed against a shot of some palm trees lining the road against the sky.
January 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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"It had some of the similar elements [to Loveless]– the density, the droning, the real pop structure but it was a little bit more mechanical. A great album, a really fun record."

Bob Mould on Garbage - Version 2.0 (Sugar play New York and London this May)

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Garbage - Version 2.0 album cover.
January 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Looking further ahead into 2026, #CabaretVoltaire will play their final tour, with some European dates in March and June and UK dates in October.

You can revisit a science fiction, horror and fantasy film soundtrack themed Baker's Dozen with Stephen Mallinder here:

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January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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"Oh my god, what a period of time. Two of my favourite bands were also on Creation at the time [alongside Sugar] – the Valentines but also Swervedriver..."

Bob Mould on My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Sugar play New York and London this May)

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My Bloody Valentine - Loveless album cover. Close up of a guitar being strummed rendered in fuzzy pink light.
January 9, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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#Devo and the B52s will play The O2 in London on 20 June 2026

You can revisit an archive Quietus interview with Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale here:

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Photograph of Devo dressed in matching white uniforms with dark square sunglasses in a room that looks like a control centre in a cheap science-fiction film.
January 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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'That was one of those records where the instant I’d heard it, by the end of side one I was like, "This is it, this is what we’re gonna do with music now."'

Bob Mould on #JoyDivision - Unknown Pleasures (Sugar play New York and London this May)

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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album cover. White lines mapping peaks in the centre, against a black background.
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Luke sends his apologies to Quietus subscribers for forgetting to include the promised photo of @jahduran.bsky.social's incredible wedding cake jumper knitted by his partner Maria with the Mulholland Drive podcast, but here it is now for your delight and warmth:
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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#Kraftwerk will be on tour throughout the UK (plus a date in Dublin) in May and June

Find out Ten Things You (Possibly) Didn't Know About Kraftwerk here:

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A Kraftwerk robot at its keyboard.
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Sugar, the trio formed by Bob Mould in the wake of #HüskerDü, return with their first live dates since January 1995 this May

Discover Bob Mould's favourite music here:

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January 8, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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#Gorillaz will release new album The Mountain on 27 February 2026

You can revisit an archive Quietus piece on the band's debut here:

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January 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Altin Gün will release new album Garip on 20 February 2026, via Glitterbeat

tQ reviewed their 2021 release, YOL, here:

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January 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Is it ultimately, a genuinely spiritual film about the possibility of redemption? John attempts to explain his grand narrative of what the hell he thinks is going on in the film, but will Luke be satisfied?

Low Culture Podcast: #DavidLynch's Mulholland Drive

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January 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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'The Turin Horse is an apocalyptic tale of unrelenting nihilism, suggesting an unholy union of Miklós Jancsó, Antonioni and Beckett. It makes Waiting For Godot seem like an episode of Teletubbies'

R.I.P. Béla Tarr

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Bela Tarr's The Turin Horse black and white still image. Two people sat at a large wooden table, breaking bread.
January 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Charli XCX's Wuthering Heights OST will be released on 13 February 2026, to coincide with the premiere of Emerald Fennell's film of the same name

You can watch a video for 'House' (featuring John Cale) here:

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Charli XCX & John Cale colour photograph.
January 7, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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"I like it because it’s beautiful and sad and everything about it is just exquisite, but also because it reminds me of a time in my life. It’s been like a friend to me."

Mary Lattimore on #TheCure - Disintegration (Barwick and Lattimore release Tragic Magic on 16 January 2026)

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The Cure - Disintegration album cover. Robert Smith's face projected against a backdrop, some flowers swirling in the mix.
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Peaches will release her first album in 10 years, No Lube So Rude, on 20 February 2026 via Kill Rock Stars

You can revisit an archive Quietus interview with the artist here:

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Peaches - No Lube So Rude album cover. Hands covering genital area. Skin is wet with water, as if in a shower.
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Sugar, the trio formed by Bob Mould in the wake of #HüskerDü, have confirmed their first live performances together since January 1995, including a pair of shows at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town in May

Revisit an interview with Mould on the making of Copper Blue here:

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January 6, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"We believe our energy, and we believe our fantasy. We don’t have reason to be sad or depressed or to be waiting for the darkness because that’s what THEY want – to push you to the dark..."

R.I.P. Béla Tarr

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Black and white photograph of Bela Tarr, Hungarian film director.
January 6, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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"Her solo records are very much about a kind of mystical or black-hearted self-annihilation. I have such respect for her fearlessness."

Jamie Stewart on Nico - Desertshore (Xiu Xiu release Xiu Mutha Fuckin' Xiu: Vol. 1, on 16 January 2026)

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January 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland will release Laughter In Summer on 6 February 2026

Discover the artist's favourite music here:

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland Laughter In Summer album cover. Close up of the artist's hand, poised to pick a pink rose.
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM