Geologist

Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights?

Animal Collective member smashes multiple genres into dizzying, kaleidoscopic combinations

Can I Get A Pack Of Camel Lights? by Geologist

Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? is the phrase that Brian Weitz, the man behind the moniker ‘Geologist’ and one of the members of Animal Collective, repeated daily for over four thousand days. Now it’s been over five thousand days since he stopped.

In the opening of Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice there is a discussion on the impact of rituals, even the smallest ones, how over time they create something bigger, like a river eroding away at a stone or sediment layering into geological strata. Repetition shapes reality. Any singular thing done every day will change…

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The origins of hip hop may be indelibly associated with New York’s Five Boroughs – and the South Bronx, in particular. But in the 1980s, Long Island’s De La Soul – and near contemporaries like Biz Markie, Public Enemy and Rakim – brought a new suburban sensibility to the genre. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y Age, West Virginia University Professor Austin McCoy recounts the group’s early years

Although Posdnuos, Trugoy, and Maseo found each other while living on Long Island, none of them, including DJ Prince Paul, were born there. Their families, like many, migrated from New York City’s boroughs in the 1970s and 1980s. Kelvin Mercer was born in the Bronx, while David…

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The US artist’s score for Julian Charrière’s film is coming out through her own Awe label

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Laurel Halo is set to release her soundtrack for Julian Charrière’s film Midnight Zone.

Spanning nine tracks, the US artist’s original score was produced especially for the film, which follows the path of a lighthouse lens as it passes deep down into the Pacific Ocean. The visual itself formed part of a video installation that featured in 2025 exhibitions in cities such as Basel, Mexico City and Toyko, and will soon be presented at Wolfsburg’s Kunstmuseum.

Halo previously produced a film score in 2018, in the form of Possessed. In 2023, she released the album Atlas.

Listen to Midnight Zone lead track ‘Sunlight Zone’, which opens the…

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Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994 acts as a sequel of sorts to the writer’s 2005 book on post punk

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Simon Reynolds is releasing a new book.

Set to arrive via publishing house White Rabbit Books in June, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994 follows emerging underground guitar music sounds across the titular decade, looking into the rise of shoegaze, slacker rock, grunge and dream pop. It serves as a sequel of sorts to Reynolds’ 2005 book Rip It Up And Start Again, which was a history of post punk.

Drawing on Reynolds’ own writing and memories of the time – he first started working at Melody Maker covering these sounds…

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Andrew Holter praises Paul Weller for throwing down a gauntlet to fans via cosmopolitan eclecticism and for ceding a large amount of creative control to new collaborators

Imagine it’s Friday 16 March 1984. The National Union of Mineworkers declared a nationwide strike on Monday and you are ringing in the weekend with Café Bleu, the new LP released today by The Style Council. Something’s off, though: by the start of the tenth song on this record, you have heard Paul Weller sing lead vocals on only two tracks. This is, presumably, confounding.

Instead you have heard four instrumentals of varying genre, from a jaunty piano boogie led by Mick Talbot (‘Mick’s Blessing’), to whimsical bossa nova (‘Me Ship Came In!’), melodramatic guitar…

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With 2026 off to a flyer (musically at least), tQ’s staffers select the albums and tracks that stood out in January

There was a time when compiling a best-of list for January felt like scraping the barrel, artists and labels holding fire on their best music until the blossoming of snowdrops and the renewal of post-festive energy. Not so in 2026, as already we’ve been treated to several records that will be best of the year contenders come next winter, as you can find below.

Everything you’ll find below, as well as all the other excellent music we’ve covered at tQ this month, will be compiled into an hours-long playlist exclusive to our subscribers. In addition, subscribers can enjoy exclusive music from…

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Even within a genre increasingly filled with aberrations, Qasu’s debut represents an odd yet scintillating proposition

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A Bleak King Cometh is like a molotov cocktail casually tossed into the stave church of black metal orthodoxy. There might be tremolo-picked riffs, gnashed teeth and blastbeats aplenty, but the trio explode, expand and fragment their grainy, frost-patterned palette in order to incorporate a delirious mix of noise, electronica, ambient and industrial influences.

The band self-describe as “ancient future black metal” which is as helpful as it is not. It certainly gives a surface-level sense of how they blend gnarled primitivism with programmed electronics, synths and beats, but, as with Agriculture’s “ecstatic black metal” or Cryptic Shift’s “phenomenal technological astrodeath” it also pre-loads…

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The Soft Pink Truth

Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever?

Matmos’s Drew Daniel takes its furthest step yet from its roots in the club; still sounds absolutely joyous

Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? by The Soft Pink Truth

A common theme through The Soft Pink Truth’s records of the 2020s is music’s ability to build sanctuaries. As the world’s got harsher, SPT’s albums have got lusher. 2020’s Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?, recorded during the first Trump presidency, saw the project, led by Matmos’s Drew Daniel, blur propulsive deep house into velvety minimal composition. 2022’s Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?, made during pandemic lockdown, is a glimmering electro-orchestral record played by a…

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Prostitute, Milkweed and more will play the Birmingham event this April

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Supersonic has shared details of its stripped-back 2026 edition.

The Digbeth, Birmingham festival will take place earlier in the year, moving away from its usual late August date to two days in late April. Among the first acts confirmed to play are Prostitute, Milweed and Microplastics, a new live band comprised of aya, Jennifer Walton and 96 Back.

The festival will also welcome ØXN, Bong II, DJ Haram, Ameretat, GREET, MMM and Traidora. Further artists will be announced in the coming weeks, alongside a full programme of workshops, talks and guest DJ sets.

In a statement, Supersonic co-founder Lisa Meyer said: “When we first began, Digbeth was our wild frontier,…

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The record features A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala and more

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Thundercat has shared details of his first album in six years, titled Distracted.

The US artist’s fifth studio LP comprises 15 tracks and includes contributions from A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala, Mac Miller, Willow, Channel Tres and Lil Yachty. Flying Lotus, Kenny Beats and The Lemon Twigs also provide additional production touches across the record.

Speaking about what he wanted listeners to take from Distracted, Thundercat said in a statement: “Just enjoy it and have fun and just know that the struggle is real and changes shape, but just to keep pushing forward.”

To mark the announcement of the album, he’s shared lead track ‘I Did This To Myself’, which features Lil Yachty and co-production from Flying Lotus….

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