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It's here! The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025.

What's at Number One? How many have you heard?

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Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 graphic. Composite image made of several of the top ranking artists.
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'Brian Eno once said that deadlines and small budgets are the formula for a good record. Though Re-Semblance is unlikely to hit the pop music charts, it does a good job at reconfiguring what matters: music and the connection that it makes.'

Jugaad - Re-Semblance

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Jugaad - Re-Semblance cassette album cover.
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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'This came out before David Byrne and Eno did ‘Jezebel Spirit’. Tony Wilson always used to say, ‘They ripped you off’ [laughs] but we were just doing similar stuff at the same time."

’Sluggin’ fer Jesus’ - The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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Cabaret Voltaire 3 Crepuscule Tracks cover. An altered photograph in light blue and magenta.
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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As one of the BBC’s most extraordinary series returns to iPlayer to mark its fortieth anniversary, Jude Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically minded crime thriller

Why #EdgeOfDarkness makes so much sense in 2025

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November 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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'From the vantage point of the present, watching the MTV documentaries about the Moscow Peace Festival on YouTube is akin to entering a parallel universe...'

#OzzyOsbourne at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival

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Ozzy Osbourne at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival. Title page of a YouTube video.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access a playlist of #GeorgeClinton's favourite music (amongst many other wonderful perks)

Sly & The Family Stone, Cream, Marvin Gaye, Eric B & Rakim... find out what else the Parliament and Funkadelic founder picked here:

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Colour photograph of George Clinton.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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'Before Aksak Maboul is a playful and engrossing trawl through time and a tantalising glimpse into the methods and the madness that helped birth a counterintuitive success story.'

Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)

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Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 69-77) album cover. A collection of tapes and small instruments.
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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'#TheStoneRoses were built on Mani’s tiptoe-light touch – something delicate but propulsive, an anti-rock energy that had heart, and was dreaming of something, borne of an internal rhythm and beauty that burnt a trail from itself outwards.'

Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes

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Mani and the author in 2012, photo courtesy of Gordon Moakes.
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"It was partly inspired by ‘Do The Strand’ on the Roxy Music album, For Your Pleasure, and we thought that was quite funny. In our own mad world, we created a dance which was obviously anti-fascist'

’Do the Mussolini (Head Kick)’ (1978) The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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Methodology '74-'78: Attic Tapes by Cabaret Voltaire album cover. A pair of sunglasses with one lens missing resting against a wooden door.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification

Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany

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Black and white still of four people emerging from the sparse remains of a bombed out building.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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'Insecure Men is a channel for Saul Adamczewski’s softer and more melodic material, in contrast to the eclectic and genre-bending #FatWhiteFamily. This veil of a romantic relationship album, nevertheless, hides a darker experience.'

Insecure Men - A Man For All Seasons

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Insecure Men - A Man For All Seasons album cover. Naive painting of a revolutionary holding a tiger cub in one hand and a gun in the other, with balaclava clad men in the background.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This icy, minimalist split between The Bug and Stuttgart-based producer Ghost Dubs conjures an oppressive Ballardian soundscape from menacing industrial textures and obliterating low-end

#TheBug vs Ghost Dubs - Implosion

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November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#Overmono have released a new standalone single, ‘Paradise Runner’

You can listen to it here:

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Colour photograph of electronic duo Overmono. A passenger plane can be glimpsed far off in the distance in a blue sky.
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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The musician Gordon Moakes remembers the late Gary "Mani" Mounfield, the bass player’s bass player whose delicate but propulsive anti-rock energy was The Stone Roses’ life and soul in microcosm

Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes ( @moakesy.com )

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November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Geoff Travis at Rough Trade said,:'We need to make sure this single is the best it can possibly be.” And [the producer] Red Krayola’s Mayo Thompson had kind of become connected with Rough Trade...'

‘Nag Nag Nag’ (1979) The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 7" back cover. Black and white shot of the band on stage with some back projection.
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Although they went to the same primary school, Duncan Wheeler knew little about Ozzy Osbourne until Jon Bon Jovi led him to a VHS of a gig that counts as one of the strangest live events in rock history

Duncan Wheeler on #OzzyOsbourne at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival

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Moscow Music Peace Festival poster.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'

Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)

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Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 69-77) album cover. A collection of tapes and small instruments.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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With one of the great rhythm sections of our time, the free jazz quartet take the pan-Islamic music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik to far out places – without sparing an ounce of its propulsive energy

Sama’a (Audition) by [Ahmed] is tQ's Album of the Week

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Cover photo ‘Arteries, New York, 1964’ courtesy of the Estate of Evelyn Hofer.
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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'So many bands I’ve seen over the years clearly have this album in their collection. So many that I’ve seen absolutely practiced these songs or that delivery or looked for that volume. It’s almost a literal feedback loop now.'

The JAMC's #Psychocandy at 40

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The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy album cover with Japanese Obi strip.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Our Strange World of Early #CabaretVoltaire piece now comes with an exclusive playlist of deep cuts from the band's career

Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member for access (to this and many other wonderful perks):

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Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag single cover. A black and white image of the three band members on stage with textural images projected over the top. Cabaret Voltaire – Eddie's Out / Walls Of Jericho single cover.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#DavidByrne has shared a new song, ‘T-Shirt’. Released as a standalone track following recent album Who Is The Sky?, the electro-pop cut was co-written by Byrne and longtime friend and collaborator #BrianEno

Listen to it here:

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Photograph of a silver-haired David Byrne, wearing a white shirt, with his left palm held up and facing the camera.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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R.I.P. Gary ‘Mani’ Mounfield, bassist of #TheStoneRoses and #PrimalScream

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Mani of The Stone Roses
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#AlanVega’s first two solo albums, Alan Vega and Collision Drive, are being reissued by #SacredBones. There will also be an additional companion record, Alan Vega Deluxe Edition, which will include unheard demos, unseen photos and new artwork

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Old colour photograph of Alan Vega, wearing a black and red leather (?) jacket.
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We've got #JohnCale’s Baker’s Dozen, an archival interview with #Björk on the intersection of her work with environmentalism, and with #MyBloodyValentine on the road, there’s an essay on the power of their rhythmic invention

#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of John Cale, with a string of coloured beads wrapped around his head. Colour photograph of Bjork, with a mass of fluffy red hair.
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Jeremy Allen talks to Stephen Mallinder about The Cabs' first decade, the eternal struggle to find the right drum machine and inventing anti-fascist dance routines.

The Strange World Of… Early #CabaretVoltaire

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Old black and white photograph of the early Cabaret Voltaire.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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'Half Life, explores post-punk through a different lens. Over ten beautifully and oddly orchestrated pieces, the group explore a synth-heavy and hypnotic alternate universe where the power of instrumentals is enough to tell moving stories'

Kling Klang - Half Life

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Kling Klang - Half Life album cover. Brutalist concrete pillars.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM