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The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far chart is here!

But who is at number one?

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Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far graphic, made up of sliced portraits of five of the musicians who feature high on the list. The image is in black and white, apart from the title in the bottom left, which is dark gold and white.
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'Everything Frankie did was writ large, and their failure, encapsulated within these 44 minutes, was somehow suitably spectacular.'

Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Liverpool turns 40 today!

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Liverpool album cover. Photographs of the five band members.
October 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Dis Fig kindly talked me through the guest playlist she's pulled together for @thequietus.com

There's madcap electronics, heady noise, some genteel folk, and "the fucking queen" Mariah Carey.

Check it out: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

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October 20, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Reminder: I'm taking part in a Q&A about this film, the mass crab deaths of 2021 and the political fight afterwards at this screening at Stockton ARC on Saturday.

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October 20, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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In this brand new essay, Ian Winwood looks back 40 years to his first contact with an imperial and imperious #Slayer and their third album's "frenzied scream of wall-eyed mayhem"

An Evergreen Lodestar of all that is Abominable: How Reign in Blood Changed Metal

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Slayer - Reign In Blood Ltd edition picture disk with four swords lined up to form an inverted pentagram, the band's logo in red and a white section of vinyl with a black centre.
October 20, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Claire Sawers talks to director Jeanie Finlay about her hard-hitting, emotionally resonant documentary about toxic pollution of UK waters, which doubles as love letter to the north east

Fisherman’s Blues: The Damning Indictment cast by All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea

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Fisherman taking a break. A man in bright orange waterproof bibs and a life vest sits on a working fishing boat deck, holding a mug and gazing toward the ocean horizon under a clear blue sky.
October 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Your latest guide to the British underground comes with bananas mashcore from a huge crew of Rotherham children, a demonstration of the discombobulatory potential of the human voice, and much more

New Weird Britain in Review for October, by Noel Gardner

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The Double by Flora Yin Wong & Jerzy Mączyński album cover. Ornamental looping knot formed by a white ribbon of negative space running horizontally across a densely stippled black-ink oval background. Sonic Allies / Vocal Others by Nicola Woodham album cover. Abstract monochrome watercolor depicting a pale gray circular wash with a darker haloed center above five small black ink blotches whose vertical drips trail downward, suggesting a bleeding moon or melting figures.
October 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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'The music and worldview of the Cabs is resonating again in the current moment. “In society, sadly, those issues are still there,” Mallinder says. “Like ‘Sex, Money, Freaks’, like 'The Crackdown', those things have meaning.”

Northern Mantra: #CabaretVoltaire say Goodbye

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October 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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"Duane Pitre used to be a professional skateboarder, which I think is really cool. Then he got really into just intonation and started working as a composer. Feel Free is an amazing record."

#KaliMalone on Duane Pitre - Feel Free

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Duane Pitre - Feel Free album cover. Layered blue-gray chevron zigzags that create a repeating gradient wave pattern across a square field.
October 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"Every song of mine is like a syringe of a memory. If you can imagine this syringe being jabbed into you and [mimes pressing plunger] you get flooded with these emotions from the memory..."

#KristinHersh On Her Favourite Tracks #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Black and white photograph of Kristin Hersh playing guitar and singing, against a black background.
October 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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The British producer (fka Doctor Rockit, Wishmountain) returns to the politics of food with an album that doubles as a direct call to action

Matthew Herbert - The UK Has More Food Banks Than Branches Of McDonalds

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Matthew Herbert - The UK Has More Food Banks Than Branches Of McDonalds album cover. Black and white photograph of metal shelving units stocked with cans, with white lettering covering much of the area.
October 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Dis Fig takes us through the vast range of influences behind new LP What To Make Of These Mortal Hands, and compiles them into a special 20-track playlist available exclusively for tQ Subscriber Plus tier members!

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Colour photograph of Dis Fig, lying in some long grass.
October 19, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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The Cabs are in the middle of their final UK tour, having just returned from a series of dates in the US. Derek Walmsley asks Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson some big questions before they hang up their hats

Northern Mantra: #CabaretVoltaire say Goodbye

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Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire, portrait by Paul Heartfield.
October 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Our #KaliMalone Baker's Dozen comes with an exclusive playlist of the American composer and organist's favourite music

Cocteau Twins, MBV, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Russell, Grouper... find out who else Malone picked here:

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Colour photograph of Kali Malone stood on a beach with a small fire and the ocean behind her.
October 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Loraine James and Puce Mary are among six artists who’ve produced new orchestral works to be performed at London’s Barbican next year on 24 January

The Unsound-presented event will see Sinfonietta Cracovia perform new pieces by Warp Records’ Providenza Ensemble

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Black and white photograph of Loraine James with shadow cast on the background wall.
October 18, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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"I was exhausted. All the lotus juice, nepenthe, bananas and blow, moly, acid and wild wine were beginning to wear off. I was coming down harder than Sisyphus’s rock..."

Boognish Provides: A #Ween Odyssey

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October 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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'If it’s riffs you’re after, Greg Wilkinson has a surplus of them; not only has he released two excellent albums with Autopsy, he’s also found the time to release 3 albums with Autopsy vocalist/drummer Chris Reifert as Static Abyss'

Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt #HeavyMetal

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Static Abyss - The Dying Hunt album cover. An alien, overgrown battlefield with a twisted green landscape with towering spiky rock formations, tangled yellow cables and glowing orbs around a central sinkhole.
October 18, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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JPEGMAFIA talked to Tara Joshi about journalism, Throbbing Gristle and his forthright track, ‘I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies’

JPEGMAFIA Interviewed #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, aka JPEGMAFIA, wearing a white, light green and blue baseball cap, with foliage in the background.
October 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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'The electronic pulses of ‘Club Gris-Gris’ attempt to support his wistful horn before clicking metallic percussion picks up the cadence. It’s the stomping blues as told by industrialised catering in the back of a jazz bar.'

#JonHassell - Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume 3)

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Jon Hassell - Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume 3) vinyl edition with disk and both front and back cover showing.
October 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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"I first heard this when I was 19. It has directly influenced my perspective of timing with my organ music: making things a little bit more unpredictable by using mathematical matrix systems..."

Kali Malone on #ArthurRussell - Tower Of Meaning

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Arthur Russell - Tower Of Meaning album cover. Simple illustration of a pink kite with green lines and green lettering against a sky blue background.
October 18, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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“You guys think you’ve got it bad? I’ve heard three renditions of ‘The Blarney Stone’ this morning and I’ve got several more to go. I’m in danger of becoming completely desensitised to its zesty fusion of Irish folk and pirate sea shanty.”

Boognish Provides: A #Ween Odyssey

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Ween - The Mollusk album cover. A composite sea animal floating in the sea.
October 17, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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'Dave Lombardo continues to have the most interesting post-Slayer musical trajectory. Now he’s joined forces with dark ambient titan Lustmord, having been introduced at a Fantômas show by Buzz Osborne'

Lustmord Lombardo - The Pulse Of Atoms #HeavyMetal for October

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Lustmord Lombardo - The Pulse Of Atoms album cover. High-contrast black-and-white basalt cliff face with angular columnar fractures, overlaid at top-right by a beige square reading "LUSTMORD LOMBARDO" and "THE PULSE OF ATOMS."
October 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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"It was a major honour to use her ARP 2500 synth when making Living Torch. It’s kept at the GRM in Paris, kind of just for safekeeping. It’s not really allowed to be used. But I asked, and I got special permission."

Kali Malone on Eliane Radigue - Vice Versa, etc.

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Eliane Radigue - Vice Versa, etc album cover. Black and white photograph of Radigue's face, looking towards the viewer's right.
October 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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'In the middle of the 20th Century, as modernism smashed its way into popular culture, literature was at the cutting edge; as alluring as bebop and the Beatles, as shocking as punk and no wave...'

#WilliamBurroughs As Musician #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Coloured in black and white photograph of David Bowie and William Burroughs.
October 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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'If the initials of their name emphasise the grounding elemental quality at the heart of their process, the energy of their playing creates room for the evanescent. The music vibrates with life.'

Parallel Commutator by CZN is tQ's Album of the Week

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Parallel Commutator by CZN record sleeve. Black with the centre hole filled with a dark gold circle that contains two red circles positioned horizontally opposite each other.
October 17, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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'Sade are synonymous with sonic opulence – an aspect that has seen them dismissed by those who cannot comprehend the value of any sort of smoothness – but this has always been in service of emotional richness.'

Beyond The Hits Of #Sade #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of Sade.
October 17, 2026 at 8:00 AM