Aerial photograph of Avebury Circle in Wiltshire.
"I got into walking in the UK, especially in Wiltshire, because I got turned on to megalithic information and sites through my friend Julian Cope – he introduced me to that mentality. It’s like going through a doorway."
Greg Anderson & Stephen O’Malley of SunnO))) on Hiking
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Hwxxng - K-Core album cover.
'Often the introduction of folk instrumentation into dance music serves to water it down... but On K-Core, Seoul-born, Berlin-based Hwxxng shows us exactly how it should be done with this techno meets ceremonial Korean music'
Hwxxng - K-Core: #FolkMusic For Spring
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Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To take Drugs To (1990) cover. Dark pink black and yellow trippy drawing made up of interlocking abstract doodles.
''Losing Touch With My Mind’ captures the band’s raw beginnings with an almost reckless abandon. You can still hear the hunger in the way they attack every line.'
‘Losing Touch With My Mind’ from Taking Drugs To Make Music To take Drugs To (1990) - The Strange World Of #Spacemen3
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Liszt – Totentanz musical score.
'Franz Liszt’s colossal 1849 work Totentanz sits at the frontiers of Iraemania. The piece is entirely based around Dies Irae, and Liszt imbues nearly every single one of his 531 bars with it.'
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture
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Paradises by Ladytron album cover. Computer generated image of two disembodied hands either side of a triangular pane of glass in a forest.
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands album cover. Different coloured liquids poured from test tubes into a beaker. A chemistry experiment.
Strange World primer playlists on Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Ladytron, Ed Kuepper, Shane Parish and more
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Akira OST poster.
'What an outstanding piece of cinema Akira is, its sources stretching from body horror to Stanley Kubrick, whose 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange leave stylistic and thematic fingerprints upon it.'
#Akira Revisited - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs album cover with Japanese Obi strip.
'Adam Yauch’s untimely passing brought an end to the Beastie Boys as an active unit, but To The 5 Boroughs stands as a joyful reminder of a time when they still sounded – like the city to which it paid tribute – unstoppable.'
Reissue of the Week: #BeastieBoys’ To The 5 Boroughs
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Spacemen 3 - Revolution single cover. Lettering with fire burning in the background.
'‘Revolution’ is pure propulsion, with a locked groove that feels both relentless and euphoric, with admirable discipline. A single riff, driven hard, becomes something ecstatic. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.'
‘Revolution’ from Playing With Fire (1989) - The Strange World Of #Spacemen3
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Lara Rix-Martin reclining on a black leather couch, with three framed paintings above her head, and a copy of Roadside Picnic, the book that was made into the film Stalker, in her hands.
Meemo Comma spoke to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the #Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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Black and white image of a person in a gallery, surveying a wall of mounted images. Photo by Juan Martin Lopez.
From Goethe to Novalis, 19th-C novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny?
Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
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Mark Fisher The Weird and the Eerie book cover.
Read an extract from Mark Fisher's book The Weird And The Eerie, where he gets to grips with 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stalker, Solaris and Interstellar
#MarkFisher On Kubrick, Tarkovsky & Nolan - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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Colour photograph of Kraftwerk on stage, with their robot avatars on a screen behind them.
#Kraftwerk have lost a decades-long copyright dispute with producer Moses Pelham over a two-second drum loop from the group’s 1977 track ‘Metall auf Metall’, which Pelham sampled for Sabrina Setlur’s 1997 single ‘Nur mir’ without permission
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Lyra Pramuk, photo by Frankie Casillo.
Lyra Pramuk is releasing a remix EP for her 2025 LP Hymnal, taking in six reworks of songs from last year’s album, Hymnal (Resung) with contributions from Djrum, Laurel Halo & John Tejada, and Verraco, among others
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Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation cover. Pink and blue/purple pattern of circles with gold lettering on top.
"This song was originally written & recorded by Mayo Thompson of the Red Crayola. Owen John’s violin took it to another level."
‘Transparent Radiation’ from The Perfect Prescription (1987) The Strange World Of #Spacemen3
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Abigail Snail - Rad Berms album cover. Simple illustration, as if presented on an Etch-a-Sketch, of a tree and some benches with the band's name underneath.
Members of Reciprocate and Sly & The Family Drone combine their considerable powers with stalwart James Allsopp on reeds to make a spontaneous and highly idiosyncratic racket
Abigail Snail - Rad Berms
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Judge Dredd vs Judge Death illustration.
2000AD founder Pat Mills talked to Joel McIver about an evil empire in which satanic overlords crush their minions into hopelessness. Moving on from the publishing industry, he also discussed the fictional world of #JudgeDredd
#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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The Beastie Boys’ To The 5 Boroughs album cover. A New York skyscraper cityscape etched in light grey against a slightly darker grey background.
When the grown-up, serious-minded hip hop trio released To The 5 Boroughs, a late-career album informed by the 9/11 attacks, it ought to have been a chore. Against all the odds, it wasn't. Simon Price reviews a new box set
Reissue of the Week: #BeastieBoys’ To The 5 Boroughs
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The Field - Now You Exist EP cover. A central patch of lilac in the centre of a field of green, both colours shot through with wave shapes, as if the entire image were vibrating.
The Field has shared details of a new EP, Now You Exist, marking the first release from the project in eight years
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You could, just like... not listen to it. I know I won't be. It's not for me. Might be for other folks though.
#MassiveAttack have collaborated with #TomWaits on a new song—‘Boots On The Ground’—which comes with a politically-focused video that draws on footage of recent US protests against the actions of ICE and military action being carried out by the government
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Boards of Canada Tape 5 video still. Broken parallel lines, like static from a video recorder.
Boards Of Canada have shared a new track, ‘Tape 05’, fuelling further speculation around the duo’s first album since 2013’s Tomorrow’s Harvest...
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Colour photograph of Madonna, wearing a silver coat, pale blue fingerless gloves and sunglasses, stood against a sparkling silver background. Photo by Rafael Pavarotti.
#Madonna is releasing a sequel to her classic 2005 album Confessions On A Dance Floor. Confessions II, sees her rekindle her partnership with producer Stuart Price, who worked on the original album
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Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair in a colour photograph taken during an interview.
Nick Talbot interviewed Alan Moore about his relationship with the writer, Iain Sinclair, perspectives on psychogeography, and the influence each has had on the other's work
#AlanMoore On Iain Sinclair - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux album cover. Treated image of some white flowers against a purple, pink and blue backgrounds, broken up into six bordered pictures, with artist name and album title in the bottom left hand corner.
'Listening, it’s difficult not to think of the soundscapes of hospitals. The feeling of being alive, but reduced to a monitored body. Of consciousness lagging in the wake of the technological processes that sustain it'
Life Day by Kristen Gallerneaux is tQ's Album of the Week
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ADULT. Kissing Luck Goodbye album cover. The duo's singer, apparently about to take a bite out of a metal horseshoe, suspended on a wire, with 'Kissing Luck Goodbye' engraved upon it.
'Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller have held onto rage with impressive poise for over twenty-five years. Kissing Luck Goodbye is another brutal helping of broken beats and snarling vocals, never curdling into total nihilism or defeat.'
ADULT. Kissing Luck Goodbye
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Come on BlueSky, it's a religious painting!
Last Judgement, a triptych by Hans Memling, painted between 1467 and 1471.
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Archie Forde examines how a 13th century apocalyptic plainchant has appeared everywhere from classical music to hip-hop and cinema soundtracks
Organic Intelligence LV: Dies Irae in Popular Culture
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Colour photograph of Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie, wearing a black and white western shirt with red piping and press stud fastenings, with black sunglasses.
#PrimalScream will play their 2000 album XTRMNTR in full in a series of tour dates later this year, kicking off with a pair of hometown gigs at Glasgow’s Barrowland on 3 and 4 September
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Dean Blunt has released a new EP under his Babyfather moniker
You can listen to icl track ‘Pop’ here:
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Oneohtrix Point Never has shared a new track called ‘Dim Stars’ alongside an extended version of 2025 cut ‘For Residue’
You can listen to them both here:
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