Featuring #SoftCell's proto-remix classic Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing reissue at number two no less. Thanks @thequietus.com and @paddyclarke.bsky.social 💙
"not just Soft Cell’s greatest individual recording, but one of the greatest in the wider history of dance music."
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tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 graphic, with several of the artists featured in the chart.
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
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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
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Bardo Pond Melt Away album cover. Clouds over mountain tops with a figure emerging from a cloud.
'Any Bardo Pond fan worth their salt knows that the group’s compilations and jam-sesh series are as equally majestic as their studio LPs proper. This one’s no exception.'
#BardoPond - Melt Away is No 76 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of 2024
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Pixies At The BBC, 1988-91collected radio sessions cover. An eyeball in a spoon with a sepia-tinted effect.
'Arranged chronologically, across 2CDs or 3LPs, we finally have the complete John Peel/Mark Goodier appearances from The Beatles of alt-rock.'
#Pixies - Pixies At The BBC, 1988-91 is No 94 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of 2024
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Cuntroaches S/T debut album. An illustration of a radioactive-green toilet against a red and blue background
'Like an ungodly, Cronenberg-esque fusion of early Beherit, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks and thumping overdriven Berlin techno, Cuntroaches is genuinely disorientating in the best possible way'
#Cuntroaches - S/T is No 10 in The Best #HeavyMetal of 2024
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Xiu Xiu - ‘Common Loon’ cover. A rainbow effect on a reflective background with crossed stiletto daggers.
'A change is as good as a rest suggests this peerless Xiu Xiu single – the cream of the year’s rock music – from a new home in Berlin.'
Xiu Xiu - ‘Common Loon’ is No 10 in The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024
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Cover of Wu-Lu EP, Learning to Swim on Empty. A yellow and teal pattern against a black background.
‘Daylight Song’, a muddy and yet totally transfixing cut of meditative alt-rock, is the record’s centrepiece, shimmering like an opal.'
Wu-Lu - ‘Daylight Song’ is No 10 in The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024
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'Back In The Hole isn't just an exercise in nostalgia, seamlessly updating the trademark Toadliquor dirge with unsettling synth sections and an even more psychedelic undercurrent.'
#Toadliquor - Back In The Hole is No 9 in The Best #HeavyMetal of 2024
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Album cover. Persher - Sleep Well is number 53 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024.
'From soup to nuts, the debut album proper from Blawan and Pariah’s Persher project is a curdled morass of spoiled riffage. A fucked, cursed, post-whatever-the-hell heap of derangement'
Persher - Sleep Well is No 53 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024
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The Cure Alone cover image. Some crumbling rocks in grey.
'Everything is so perfectly in its place; a pure example of impeccable late style for the post punk, alternative rock generation. Let’s just hope it’s not as final as it sounds.'
#TheCure - ‘Alone’ is No 3 in The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024
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D’En Haut - D’En Haut is at number 86 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024. Tapestry-style religious artwork.
'Weirdly hooky, vigorous and, in moments, rapturously psychedelic, D’En Haut might well be this year’s French folk masterpiece.'
D’En Haut - D’En Haut is No 86 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024
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White Noise - An Electric Storm is Number 78 in the Quietus Reissues Etc. of 2024. A black and white cover, white lightning against a black background.
'It remains incredibly influential – the BBC Radiophonic Workshop being an endless mother lode for hauntological projects like Ghost Box.'
White Noise - An Electric Storm is No 78 in tQ’s Reissues Etc. of 2024
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Quietus tracks of the 2024 image. Mica Levi, Charli XCX and Robert Smith with a tQ logo stamped ontop.
'The list spans grudge-fuelled hip hop, bright Amapiano-referencing R&B, bizarro alt-pop, dynamic techno, DIY punk, some of the year’s biggest chart hits, and much more besides...'
The Quietus Tracks of the Year 2024
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Album cover.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere is at Number 1 in The Best #HeavyMetal of 2024. Two red pyramids in an extra terrestrial scene.
'Denver death metal outfit Blood Incantation’s ascent into full-blown prog madness was undoubtedly 2024’s biggest event in terms of metal albums, and with good reason'
#BloodIncantation - Absolute Elsewhere is No 1 in The Best #HeavyMetal of 2024
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Kez Whelan salutes one of the best years for metal in recent memory, and forces himself to pick just 20 of the best heavy releases from 2024
Columnus Metallicus: The Best #HeavyMetal of 2024
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The album Brama by Brama. Number 85 Quietus Albums of 2024. Impressionistic flowers in fuchsia and red against a green background
'A rollicking power trio fusing folk with 70s hard rock, psych, krautrock and luminous three-part harmonies, and Hurdy gurdy used to drive their trancey energy'
Brama - Brama is No 85 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024 Chart
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Tristwch y Fenywod - S/T. Number 2 in Quietus Albums of the Year 2024 chart.
'Tristwch Y Fenywod forge a combination of primitivism, musical minimalism and hypnotic trance, with a slightly tantric, almost disco flavour.'
Tristwch y Fenywod - S/T is No 2 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024 Chart
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Quietus Albums of the Year 2024 nine-hour playlist. Image: a mythically bearded figure whose headphones are sprouting bat wings
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Graphic - Quietus albums of the Year 2024
The Quietus Albums of the Year are here!
Try to resist jumping straight to number one. And let us know which of your favourites made the list.
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