The part-concert film, part-documentary will debut on MUBI later this year

Pulp have shared the first trailer for their upcoming film What Do You Do For An Encore?

The 90-minute part-concert film, part-documentary is directed by Pulp’s longtime collaborator Garth Jennings, and narrated by frontman Jarvis Cocker. It combines footage from the UK arena that the band did last year in support of their album More, as well as archival film that documents the band’s history.

What Do You Want For An Encore? is set to debut on MUBI sometime later this year, though a specific worldwide streaming date hasn’t yet been revealed. Viewers in the UK, Ireland and North America can catch one-night-only previews in September, however. In the UK and Ireland,…

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The prolific Human League, Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation co-founder Martyn Ware takes Siobhan Kane through 13 favourite records, from Northern Soul and glam to encounters with Tina Turner and the still-unreleased track he was sent by Prince

Martyn Ware’s decades-long career is rich and storied, after co-founding the Human League and Heaven 17, he went on to form the British Electric Foundation, as well as evolving a compelling production career, working with artists such as Billy Preston and Mavis Staples. His interest in what he regards as “retrofuturism” began early on, as many of his explorations in sound design attest to. 

A recent project with Sophia Space Agency (Melpomeni Kermanidou) – The Turning Blue, saw Ware mix the album in…

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As caroline’s Magdalena McLean and The Umlauts’ Annabelle Mödlinger announce their dazzling debut EP as Curbside Lambsear and gear up for this year’s Green Man, they tell Cal Cashin about pre-destiny, self-education, and the vulnerability of venturing out from large ensembles

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The Umlauts’ Annabelle Mödlinger and caroline’s Magdalena McLean will be familiar faces to anyone attuned to the frequencies of London’s many underground music scenes, but their latest project is a delightful left turn. As vital cogs of much larger ensembles, the duo’s new project Curbside Lambsear gives them a chance to spread their wings, and soar to bold creative heights. 

Curbside Lambsear is a project that attempts to bottle the sparks that fly when you’re creating music…

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Tyla

A*Pop

The Grammy-winning South African artist’s second album is peppered with bangers, but does it hang together as an album? asks Emily Thomas

In an era governed by hyper-ephemeral virality, converting TikTok fame into genuine cultural longevity remains a notorious challenge. Tyla, however, is far more than a fleeting anomaly. Her breakthrough single ‘Water’ packaged South Africa’s township club sound into a universally magnetic blend of amapiano, pop and R&B. Now a two-time Grammy winner, the ‘popiano’ pioneer’s sophomore album APOP arrives with a clear mission: to redefine what an African pop star sounds like on the global stage. Yet as a full-length statement, APOP proves a messier proposition. While its lead singles continue to do historic lifting for African music worldwide,…

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The four albums had previously only been available on cassette tapes distributed to members of the Sai Anatam Ashram in the 80s and 90s

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Four previously unavailable albums of devotional music by Alice Coltrane are to be reissued by Matador.

Known collectively as the Ashram Tapes, the records will be released in full with restorations of Coltrane’s original mixes and artwork. The albums – Turiya Sings, Divine Songs, Infinite Chants and Glorious Chants – were originally released on cassette tapes distributed to members of the Sai Anatam Ashram in the 80s and 90s. Coltrane founded the Ashram after she withdrew from the mainstream music industry.

The albums combine elements of gospel, traditional Indian chants and the avant-garde jazz that she…

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The all bells and whistles (and piano with screws between the strings) reissue of Richard D. James’ 2001 album is due to be released in multiple formats this October

Warp Records has announced a 25th anniversary edition of Richard D. James’ 2001 album Drukqs.

The new edition of the fifth Aphex Twin studio album will be available in quadruple vinyl, double-CD, double-cassette and various digital formats, while there will also be a limited-edition remake of the notorious ‘chocolate box’ four vinyl record box set. At present, there are no plans to release extra archival material but this does now signal that all of Aphex Twin’s albums are back in print and available on vinyl.

For those who want the ‘chocolate box’, pre-orders are…

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David McKenna considers the appeal of listening to rap in a language you don’t understand, and reviews 10 essential new French records, from jazz-inflected sophisti-pop to noise folk for gargoyles, and an album that asks, at last, how we can connect with the living world through our flatulence

Anadol & Marie Klock, photo by Eda Arda

Several years ago I was trying to recommend some French rappers to a Brit, only to be told that they weren’t interested because they couldn’t speak the language. The argument was that, since lyrics are such an integral part of rap, listening to it in an unfamiliar language would be to accept a particularly diminished appreciation of the artistry involved – more so, anyway, than would…

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Quiet Husband

The Architecture of Perception

Richie Culver’s fourth release of 2026 takes the listener to some dark places (and a fair few pretty ecstatic ones, too)

Shoving into the world in 2021 with the intense Blackhaine collaboration ‘Did U Cum Yet / I’m Not Gonna Cum’, Hull-born sonic and visual artist Richie Culver (AKA Quiet Husband) has been feverishly recording and releasing music like a man possessed ever since.

His 2024 outing for Drowned By Locals, Religious Equipment, claimed the album of the week slot here at the Quietus. There was something insular and paranoid about that record. Like it was trying to keep the world out. The Architecture of Perception (only his 4th release since the start of this year, the slacker),…

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While for some people, the sub-50 second fragment, sketch, or interlude on an album has them reaching for the skip button, for Mary Chiney, it’s often the main attraction

Every serious listener eventually commits the same quiet disloyalty. You buy the record for the singles, the song with the video, the one that got playlisted, the one your friend sent you at two in the morning — and then, three or four plays in, you find your affection has quietly migrated somewhere it wasn’t supposed to go. Not to the obvious peak but to the dip beside it: 50 seconds of something half-finished, a voice you don’t recognise, a piano that starts and then thinks better of it. You begin skipping…

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Charli XCX

Music, Fashion, Film

Its authors may be busy denying that this is the ‘rock’ album expected by some, but perhaps it is still the best punk album of the decade, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

“I don’t feel embarrassed even if I suck / I’m always craving an experience that feels dangerous / And maybe this is it, maybe it’s what I need / Cus it’s the only way to feel like I’m not actually me.”(from ‘Camera’)

When Charli XCX released Brat in 2024 (twice), its hectic success, its transformative cultural heft, the size of that impact crater, was a real surprise. With hindsight it feels totally natural. The outcome was a liberation for artist and maybe audience too. XCX became mainstream famous and,…

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