Cole Pulice

Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver’s sax man goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

Land's End Eternal by Cole Pulice

Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental saxophone player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion. As wayward as the weather, the LP’s seven tracks morph and elongate constantly. Late in, a human voice is added, ascending through the mists like whale song from the depths. 

Suffused in a drowsy ache, Land’s End Eternal is frozen in that eternal moment of calm before the storm – it comes as no surprise that one of the…

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Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.

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Every few days we get a new headline discussing the fate of club culture, (see here, here, here and here). It’s hard to argue against socio-economic factors and unstable politics, as scrutinised in such thinkpieces, as being among the main driving factors for clubs’ ongoing decline, but these articles often lack an important extra detail – the fact that contemporary club culture is also struggling to offer the truly transformative experiences that once defined…

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Performance in Sheffield this autumn

Early Cabaret Voltaire performance, by Pete Hill

Today, 13 May 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the first performance by Cabaret Voltaire, at Sheffield Students Union Refectory. This will be commemorated in October by a live collaboration by founding members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder. We’re told that “The intention for the performance in Sheffield is to curate this essential work and to acknowledge the timeless energy and to mark the continuing significance and power of what Cabaret Voltaire achieved. Original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are committed to stay true to the enduring vision of Cabaret Voltaire. The performance will cover the arc of their formidable output – from early experiments, and the first Rough…

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Billy Woods

Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

GOLLIWOG by billy woods

At nine, Billy Woods was already creating worlds; he penned a story about an evil golliwog. His mother, a Jamaican professor of English literature, described it as derivative. His father, a Marxist exile from Zimbabwe, carried the scars of political warfare. These ghosts aren’t just part of his past; they’re woven into the very architecture of his music. They don’t speak; they’re felt, haunting every line.

Here we are, decades later: older, sharper, more haunted, still in conversation with that shadow. Golliwog isn’t just a return to that early story; it’s a reckoning with the symbols we inherit and the selves…

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Live version of ‘Antidepressants’ online now

Suede live by Christophe Dehousse

Three years ago, Suede’s Autofiction was roundly praised as being the finest album of the band’s second incarnation, pushing the distinctive blueprint into grittier territories. On the evidence of the first non-live outing of new material, it seems that this might be a direction that the band are continuing in with what seems likely to be their tenth LP. ‘Antidepressants’ was recorded live at their triumphant Alexandra Palace gig in the summer of 2024, and can be heard below – tQ is excited to note that it at points has a heaviness that makes us think of The Fall group’s 2007 belter, ‘Fall Sound’. There seems to be a flash of…

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Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts “‘n’ Roll” to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker

Three Album Run is a series of tQ essays where we explore the best unbroken run of LPs in different genres. We’ve already looked at Krautrock but if you want to suggest a genre for a future essay please email John@theQuietus.com under the heading Three Album Run. The full rules are at the foot of this feature.

Once upon a time, during what was not so much a “golden age” as an ejaculatory age of denim and leather (and occasionally lace), there was no higher human aspiration than to…

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Quinquis

eor

Sung in Breton and quivering with modular synth sounds, the Ushant-based producer conjures the rippling of water

eor by QUINQUIS

Three years ago, Breton producer Émilie Quinquis decided, for pragmatic reasons, to learn to sail solo. Living on Ushant, an island with a landmass of six square miles off the cost of Brittany, she wanted to be able to come and go as she pleased. As she grew more confident at the helm, she graduated to travelling further out – to the Irish Sea, around islands off Scotland and north to the Faroes.

These journeys, a sense of Quinquis placing herself at the mercy of the elements and being amidst a world that ebbs and flows, rises and falls, came to shape her…

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Novelist, flim-maker, psychogeographer Chris Petit talks to Juliet Jacques about his new book Come In and Shut the Door and film D is for Distance

Ever since establishing himself with his films Radio On (1979) and An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982), novelist and director Chris Petit has remained one of the most fascinating and forensic voices within British counter-culture. He published his first novel, Robinson, in 1993, influenced by J. G. Ballard and Louis-Ferdinand Céline – its story about a man working in the film industry in Soho, becoming involved in pornographic productions, reaffirmed Petit’s place within the psychogeographic movement alongside Patrick Keiller and Iain Sinclair. His later novels have explored the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and the Second…

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Shows in Bristol and London have been cancelled following protest campaigns in solidarity with Palestine

Jonny Greenwood and Israeli collaborator Dudu Tassa have issued a statement in response to recent cancellations of their gigs, which were brought about after protesters linked to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) called on promoters to pull the events in solidarity with Palestine.

The Radiohead musician and Israeli singer are frequent collaborators, and have faced ongoing criticism of their willingness to perform in Israel amid the nation’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Tassa has also previously played as part of a band that entertained members of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) supported protests against UK concerts by the pair…

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It’s the Outkast member’s first new music since 2023’s flute-focused New Blue Sun LP

André 3000 has released a new instrumental project, titled 7 Piano Sketches.

As the name suggests, it features seven tracks that are centred around the piano. Each cut is introduced by himself, or collaborators Emmy Paalman and Fatima Robinson reading the song’s title. There are also occasional samples and vocal effects added across the record.

“The original title for it was The Best Worst Rap Album In History,” André 3000 said in a press release. “And here is an excerpt from the original liner notes: ‘It’s jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all. It’s the best because it’s the free-est emotionally…

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