Debt Rag

It Is Clear What’s Going On

Three Los Angelinos make Sesame Street no wave, a new kind of absurdist bubblegum avant-garde with the energy of a perpetual motion machine and not a guitar in sight

It Is Clear What's Going On by Debt Rag

There is something pointed about calling your record It Is Clear What’s Going On in 2026 and then responding with lyrics that show no interest in meeting the listener halfway. Debt Rag are not being glib. Or rather, they are, and that’s precisely the point.

Glasnost, the late Soviet-era principle of saying the thing plainly because the pretence had become untenable, is a useful way in. When the word entered circulation, the world felt as though it was shifting…

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Ahead of the paperback reprint of her memoir You Had To Be There, the DJ, drag queen and author takes Alex Rigotti through her favourite albums, from growing up on Grace Jones to touring with Kylie, via formative experiences with Madonna and more

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Before accidentally becoming a drag queen and DJ by the name of Jodie Harsh, young Jay Clarke dreamt of being a journalist. “All the nightlife and music and drag, all these extra things that have filled the last few decades of my life are like bonuses,” Harsh tells us. “I wanted to interview people, write reviews… I always wanted to write”. 

Harsh’s memoir You Had To Be There is about to be published in…

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Truck Violence

The Weathervane Is My Body

A cathartic blast of blaring noise rock from the Montreal four-piece

The weathervane is my body by Truck Violence

Two weeks before their debut Violence hit the shelves, Truck Violence’s home burned to the ground. Despite losing everything the Montreal-based four-piece picked themselves up and carried on doing what they do best: playing blaring noise rock with a folksy edge as hard and as loud and as weird as they can.

It won’t surprise you to learn that ‘House caught Fire’, the fourth track on follow up record The Weathervane Is My Body, broaches this subject. What is surprising, however, is that it’s lacking the fury that you might expect from a band renowned for channelling rage into…

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David Katz navigates ten entry points into the back catalogue of the King Tubby, the enigmatic Jamaican audio engineer who devised the dub art form

Fifty years after the release of magnum opus King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown, the work of King Tubby still beguiles and inspires. Operating out of a converted bedroom in Waterhouse, western Kingston, Tubby was an integral force in the development of dub, the abstract reggae subgenre defined by its bass-heavy remixes and echo-shrouded disappearing vocals, the idiosyncratic audio treatments tailored for sound system events. Utilising an obsolete MCI console with a built-in high-pass filter and a homemade tape delay, Tubby’s sonic alchemy yielded a distinctive sound that was totally unlike that of his peers, making his…

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Our subscribers can tune in to nearly five ours of music from the past month

There are nearly five hours of music for our Quietus subscribers, based on what we wrote about in the broiling month of June. This stretches from Converge to The Cure, Bob Smith’s top pop pal Olivia Rodrigo, Julia Holter, Luft, Soft Cell, DJ Plead, Marie Delprat, Earth Ball, Gamut Inc, Marisa Anderson, Alison Cotton, Tara Clerkin Trio, Kelela, Actress, Suede and much more.

Playlists are of course not all our subscribers receive. Also in June 2026, the Low Culture Podcast featured John and Luke discussing the impact that seeing the evolution of Sunn O))) had on the early years of The Quietus, Robert Barry wrote a Low Culture Essay on…

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Following the release of his metal-influenced ambient music album Pareidolia, LA-based producer Jake Muir discusses the importance of conceptualising his records, his gradual appreciation of the metal genre, and the creative conundrums that he and other experimental musicians are left weighing up amid a need to make ends meet

Across a decade of releases, Los Angeles-born Jake Muir has demonstrated a firm commitment to shunning the more conservative corners of modern ambient music. On 2018’s Lady’s Mantle, he contorted samples of Beach Boys records around serene field recordings to produce a breakthrough LP that meshed the worlds of surf rock and ambient. Three years later, he pushed his sound into darker territory, plumbing the dubbed-out depths of the 90s illbient scene…

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Ahead of an appearance at Heroines Of Sound Festival in Berlin next month, Marie Delprat speaks to Claire Biddles about the worlds that will collide in her live expansion of her latest EP, the questions of identity it confronts, the inherent sexuality of both pop and Baroque music, and much more

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Marie Delprat is interested in creating unlikely meetings in her music. “I listen a lot to Eartheater, and at the same time I listen to Bach,” explains the Basel-based French musician, whose EP What Remains After Desire is released this summer. “I’m classically trained, but I love pop music. My motivation was to find how these two worlds can meet.” In previous projects Delprat has thoughtfully merged…

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Jaša Bužinel consider’s techno’s resistance to – and resistance to deal with – AI, and delivers new goodies from various electronic music realms, including new releases from DJ Plead, Beatrice M, Yushh, Will Hofbauer and others

Yushh

Did I miss it, or has anyone else noticed there has been little to no discourse around AI on the techno music scene? Like, you know, the music scene whose founding principles were based on the new technologies introduced in the 80s and 90s? In an idealistic, teleological view of cultural history at least, one might imagine the emergence of a new generation of techno artists who would see AI-music making tools as something fit to be radically subverted for the critique of the system….

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Pomelo

Loreless

Dutch duo make a woozy kind of pop, full of muffled rumbles and icy desperation

LORELESS by POMELO

On their debut album, Pomelo seek to strip themselves of context. Before sinking into what Wynnm Murphy (on a later track) will describe as “amnesia haze,” the singer attempts a sweeping personal introduction by drawing up their place in the family tree. “Don’t need much light / To map out all that transpired,” they sing on ‘Little Boxes’. The Amsterdam-based duo prove comfortable in that shadowy world, but just as quickly Murphy gets lost in the poetic stream of metaphors, uttering “Fuck” as if just having spilled ink all over the sketched outline. This is just the beginning of Loreless, a mesmerising close-up of…

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James Harrington and David Moats submit to complete dissolution of context while speaking to the London-based transhumanist artist, digital rubble sifter and brain-frying YouTube manipulator

After the music winds down at Oxfordshire’s Supernormal Festival, people normally congregate around the campfire, swig mystery booze, dip into the magic sack and cackle through the night. But in 2024, we were drawn by a mysterious force to the Vortex Stage, a peculiar structure resembling a German Expressionist shed.

It was nearly empty inside, just a few punters splayed out on the rough floor. A giant LED-panelled crucifix was inexplicably slung from the ceiling, bisecting the projector screen featuring two adjacent browser windows with roughly thirty YouTube tabs a piece playing a relentless avalanche of abject,…

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