Q's staffers welcome in a new year of music with their favourite albums and tracks released in 2025 so far It used to be that midwinter was quiet when it came to new music. Artists and labels seemed ...

Angherr Shisspa by Kōenjihyakkei is 20 years old, has just been reissued and is arguably the greatest Zeuhl album of all time ...

The third and final part of the Polish artist's "alchemical trilogy" feels increasingly confined by its own concept, but ...

Marking her return to Hyperdub, the label that released her 2021 debut LP, im hole, the record takes in 10 tracks and makes extensive use of aya’s own vocals. It explores the “desperation and ...

It was a telephone call that was both anticipated and dreaded. The summer of 1996 found me living and working 3000 miles away ...

Room40 boss calls in a cavalcade of collaborators – including Jim O'Rourke, Claire Rousay, and The Necks' Chris Abrahams ...

Snapped Ankles are back with a revitalised sound and energy preaching healing and resistance through cutting a groove ...

“He watched the pale, speed-driven teenagers shiver around the dance floor. Droplets of light sprayed onto their faces and T-shirts. In alcoves, couples were frozen in the trance of foreplay. The beat ...

Check out sets from Damo Suzuki & Mugstar, Future Of The Left and more at this year's WRONG Festival in Liverpool, as captured by IMPATV Liverpool's greatest new addition to the festival circuit is ...

Sandwell District were the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of austere techno, appearing and disappearing in a haze of bad vibes, Berlin drugs, and imperious, hard-to-find releases. Kiran Sande offers a ...

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During the Covid pandemic many of us have had to start working from home. But how does the music we listen to affect our labours? And what impact can it have on creativity? Dale Berning Sawa ...