Visible Cloaks

Paradessence

Portland, Oregon duo amplify the creaks and cracks between the many different styles in their toolbox

Paradessence by Visible Cloaks

Paradessence spotlights the innate surrealism of Visible Cloaks shimmering, digital-powered exotica. Since 2014 the duo, Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile, have forged a borderless space where echoes of globally dispersed music converge in a glimmering zone and the periphery between synthetic and otherwise is porous. Their albums bring to mind Yves Tanguy paintings, filled with impressions of familiar forms contained in unusual contours and doused in hyperreal sheen.

Visible Cloaks’ first full length since 2017’s Lex, Paradessence amplifies the portals and colourful intrusions generated by their crossing of streams. Opener ‘Apsis’ begins with slithers of synth that mutate between elegant brush strokes…

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£1.2 million of £6 million raised to support small music venues appears to have been lost to “stealth” charges

The UK government has been accused of using “stealth” VAT charges to extract a significant portion from a £6 million fund that was raised to support grassroots music venues.

The funds were raised via a voluntary ticket levy that the LIVE Trust established in January 2025. The £1 levy on tickets sold for gigs at arenas and large venues in the UK was created so that the money could be redistribute to smaller venues that were facing uncertain futures.

The Telegraph reports, however, that HM Treasury is believed to have used VAT charges to extract £1.2 million from the £6 million that was raised by the ticket…

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Two compilations from 1994 and 1995 have been remastered for the new release

New Order are reissuing their compilations The Best Of New Order, from 1994, and The Rest Of New Order, from 1995.

The new combined release will be available in multiple formats, with both compilations having been remastered for the new edition. A four-CD edition will come with an additional disc of remixes, including previously unreleased versions and rarities, while there will also be a standard CD release and double and triple-vinyl sets.

Included on the release are are Shep Pettibone’s remix of ‘True Faith’, as well as CJ Bolland’s version of ‘Temptation’ and reworks by Richie Hawtin, Sabres Of Paradise and Hardfloor, among others.

Warner Music will release The Best &…

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Algiers members team up with Kyle Kidd AKA Motherboard for righteous banger ‘You Betta’

Ryan Mahan and Lee Tesche of long-time tQ favourites Algiers have teamed up with Kyle Kidd for a new project called Saint Just. Kidd, who goes under the musical name Motherboard, is part of the Mourning [A] BLKstar collective, and has collaborated with Moor Mother and Irreversible Entanglements, joins Mahan and Tesche in the group named after a Jacobin who perished at the guillotine alongside Robespierre during the French Revolution. The trio came together in 2025, writing material at a residency at Colorado’s Music District, before studio sessions with Bartees Strange and Brendan Canty in Baltimore. The first fruit of this endeavour is new track ‘You Betta’ – if…

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Stanley Okorie’s thousands of songs defined the Nollywood film industry, becoming “the vocalisation of the collective id” of a fast-changing Nigeria. Words and Subscriber Plus exclusive playlist by Mary Chiney

The power cuts out. It is a Tuesday evening in Lagos somewhere near the turn of the millennium, and the sudden, suffocating silence of the ceiling fan is immediately replaced by the collective groan of the neighborhood, followed seconds later by the violent, coughing roar of a diesel generator. The heavy, sticky humidity of the Nigerian night immediately begins to press against the windows. Inside the living room, a heavy CRT television screen flickers back to life, the static clears with a high-pitched whine, and a VHS tape resumes its rotation…

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Magic Tuber Stringband’s first LP as a trio is a work of unruly beauty that doubles as a cautionary tale, says Bernie Brooks

Magic Tuber Stringband by Dani Smith

Probably it’s best to start with Ellenton, South Carolina. This once-was-a-town and its fate are at the heart of Heavy Water, Magic Tuber Stringband’s latest and arguably best LP. Now an accumulation of concrete scars near the Savannah River, the meagre remains of an infrastructure lacking structure, Ellenton was, like many rural places in the States, a railroad town. Settled in 1870 as the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway was being cut through the landscape, Ellenton is now mostly remembered for two things: it’s erasure, which we’ll get to shortly; and a bloody…

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Seefeel

Sol.Hz

Five years on from their EP, London’s Seefeel continue to plough that fertile furrow between ambient shimmer, dub oomph and the silences in-between

Sol.Hz by Seefeel

The cover of Seefeel’s latest album Sol.Hz seems to stare back at you. A piercing blue eye gazing through your soul to foreshadow the contemplative nature of the record inside, while the surrounding void simultaneously introduces one of the integral themes of the album: use of space.

Throughout the record, decrescendos and silence are used to suck you in and ease you out of the music, whilst simultaneously dousing the listener in welcome dub flavours. Seefeel, currently consisting of Mark Clifford and Sarah Peacock, might have halved in size since its inception, but is still just as…

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It’s their first release under the name since 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down

Dexys Midnight Runners have announced a new album, titled LOVE.

Marking their first release under the Dexys Midnight Runners name since 1985’s Don’t Stand Me Down, a press release notes that it may be the final chapter in the group’s musical journey. The record collects stories from across frontman Kevin Rowland’s life, covering his second generation Irish childhood and family relationships, as well as late-life romance, loss and reconciliation.

To mark the record’s announcement, the group have put out lead track ‘My Life In England Pt. 1’, which you can watch a video for below.

In a statement about the song, Rowland said: “We put out a version of this song…

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The filmmaker and composer’s latest record was made with longtime collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies

John Carpenter is to release a new album, Cathedral.

Made alongside longtime collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, it sees the filmmaker and composer continue his longstanding partnership with the Sacred Bones label. The album will arrive alongside Carpenter’s graphic novel debut of the same name, with the two designed as a fully immersive, connected project.

Each track on the album aligns with a chapter of the novel, with liner notes guiding listeners through the story. “It was so cinematic and vivid,” Carpenter said in a statement about the dream that inspired the story. “I thought, ‘I have to score this.’ It’s kind of our first heavy metal album.”

Collaborator Davies…

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The previously digital-only 2016 series will be made newly available as a 5xCD box set

Autechre are reissuing 2016 release elseq 1-5 to mark its 10th anniversary.

The previously digital-only series of music will be made available physically for the first time in the form of a limited-edition 5xCD box set. It will be housed in a 12-inch printed hardback folder, alongside a 64-page book featuring the original album and track artwork, as well as previously unseen images.

Pre-orders are available here, with Warp Records encouraging fans to put orders in before the final manufacture quantity is confirmed on 10 June.

The first-time physical release of elseq 1-5 coincides with Autechre’s upcoming European tour later this year, which will see them play Prague’s…

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