Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Autechre’s Quaristice
C.D. Rose hails the reissue of this 2008 album as a perfect and playful introduction to the full range of Autechre
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Saint Etienne
International
The final album from Bob, Pete and Sarah. And they're going out with a bang, finds Ian Wade
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Electronic
Hyperspecific: The Best Dance Tracks from Summer 2025, Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
As autumn approaches, tQ's electronic music columnist Jaša Bužinel compiles the tunes that have had the greatest impact on this summer's festival dancefloors, from progressive bangers to nostalgia triggers
Album of the Week
See It, Say It, Sorted: Antidepressants by Suede
Suede's painterly new album takes the raw energy of its predecessor and twists it through layers of distortion and high drama
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne
After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album
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Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne
After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album
A Quietus Interview
“Being Different isn’t Something to Take Lightly”: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed
Pulp are back with their first new album in nearly a quarter of a century; Jarvis Cocker joins us to talk about More, but also outsider art in America, an attic full of wonder in London and revolution versus violence in Sheffield. Words by Darran Anderson. All portraits by Tom Jackson
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Anniversary
American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40
Legacy Of Brutality conveys much of what is magnificent about the band, and much of what is exasperating about Glenn Danzig, says Andrew Holter, as he assesses the compilation – and Danzig’s complicated legacy – 40 years on
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Books
Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out
In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good
