Arab Strap

Half-Told Tales

Aidan Moffat and Malcom Middleton go big with an album of disco-inflected rock and stadium-filling tunes, but it’s the smaller, more vulnerable moments that make their music special, finds Zara Hedderman

Half-Told Tales by Arab Strap

To name an album filled with fourteen hyper-detailed narratives, Half-Told Tales is something of a misnomer. If anything, a hint of vagueness wouldn’t go amiss – see the pungent: “He examines his excretions, the brown piss and yellow shit,” in ‘Gape’. Perhaps it’s Celtic modesty creeping in. And yet, fans of Arab Strap will be well-versed in knowing nothing is done in half measures when Aidan Moffat and Malcom Middleton have something to say in their always inventive, immersive and undeniable material. As with…

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Hidden In Pieces Live At The Royal Albert Hall includes a cover of Björk’s ‘Hyperballad’

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have released a live album, Hidden In Pieces Live At The Royal Albert Hall.

Recorded at London’s Royal Albert Hall in June 2025, the album features live versions of 12 tracks from across the band’s back catalogue, including classics like ‘Maps’ and ‘Zero’, in addition to a cover of Björk’s ‘Hyperballad’. It also takes in recordings captured in San Diego, Chicago and New York during their intimate 25th anniversary theatre tour in 2025.

Announcing the release, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O said the tour “was born out of a need to commune with our band and fan family in 2025, after the election. In the past, YYYs haven’t…

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Directed by Caroline Catz, Art Sex Music doesn’t yet have a release date

A new feature documentary on the life and work of Cosey Fanni Tutti, Art Sex Music, has finished production ahead of a currently unannounced release date sometime in the future.

Directed by Caroline Catz and produced by Andy Starke, the film is based on Fanni Tutti’s 2017 memoir, which was also titled Art Sex Music. As Deadline reports, it will trace her upbringing in Hull, early work with COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle, and her later solo material and collaborations with partner Chris Carter.

The film tells the story of Fanni Tutti’s life through personal archives, covering decades of diaries, costumes, photographs, visuals, artwork and more. It also takes a…

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Watch the video for lead track ‘Steve’s Pool’ exclusively via tQ below

Shit And Shine is set to release a new album with Riot Season, titled 0 aa Riot.

Spanning four extended cuts, the new record is compared in a press release to the rhythmic work of Can, if made with modern technology. It marks Craig Clouse’s 11th release under the Shit And Shine moniker for Riot Season.

Ahead of the album’s release, you can watch a video for the 10-minute lead cut ‘Steve’s Pool’ exclusively via tQ below.

Riot Season will release 0 aa Riot on 23 October 2026.

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Haruomi Hosono, Ryoji Ikeda and Suzanne Ciani are among the artists who feature on No Bad Memories

The Avalanches have shared the full list of collaborators for their new album, No Bad Memories.

The 31-track record features a wide cast of guests, such as Haruomi Hosono, Ryoji Ikeda, Suzanne Ciani, Panda Bear, Carly Simon, Mike Patton, John Glacier, Vegyn, Jessy Lanza, Jamie xx and Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo. Curiously, actor Haley Joel Osment, famed for his appearances as a child in films such as Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense, also appears on two tracks.

No Bad Memories is The Avalanches’ first album in six years. A press release at the time of the record’s announcement said it explores the “simultaneously magical and insidious”…

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The October event will feature film screenings, talks and music

London’s ICA is hosting an event in honour of the 50th anniversary of Throbbing Gristle’s Prostitution exhibition at the venue.

Scheduled for 18 October, TG50 will take place exactly five decades on from the group’s controversial live performance at ICA, which led to tabloid furore and Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn standing up in Parliament to declare them “wreckers of civilisation”. It will feature film screenings, talks and music.

Part of the day will be free to attend, while separate paid tickets are available for the screenings and talk. The latter will see Throbbing Gristle’s Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti sit down to speak with tQ’s own Luke Turner.

TG50 will also mark the…

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MAXI takes in elongated versions of tracks like ‘Moskow Diskow’ and ‘Rock Around The Clock’

Photo by Xavier Lambours

Mute is releasing an album of extended versions of songs by Telex.

MAXI features 13 elongated takes on classic songs by the band, such as ‘Moskow Diskow’, ‘Rock Around The Clock’, ‘Euro-vision’ and ‘Twist À Saint-Tropez’. The new record was put together after the band’s surviving members – Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers – revisited the original tapes to create new versions of some of their best-known work.

The release comes after Telex called time on the project in 2008, following the death of one-third of the trio, Marc Moulin. In 2021, the group launched a partnership with Mute with the release of This Is Telex, featuring…

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Santiago post rock sextet Hesse Kassel speak to Cal Cashin about celebrating and subverting their national identity to create a quintessentially Chilean kind of rock music

All photos by Max Nadjar

With a population of almost 7 million crowded into a large Andean basin, Santiago is a metropolis isolated by the world’s longest mountain range. If you look up from the Chilean capital’s main drag, you will see a sky pierced by a patchwork of mountains and skyscrapers – but all the more remarkable is the tremors from below: the sound of the underground.

There are very few music scenes more exciting or inexplicable than what has been dubbed La Nueva Escena Chilena (“The New Chilean Scene”), a vibrant musical community converging in…

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The Swedish sound sculptor enters the backrooms with an album of unstable electronic textures united by their uncanny, reality-warping potential

It all starts with a burbling texture. The sound is quilted from what appear to be typical ambient tropes: the hum of water and droplets of static pattering against whispering ash. But things are not as they seem. The cut’s quietly droning flesh, which had seemed so familiar and clear a heartbeat before, suddenly reconfigures itself into a mimicry of traffic. A dim chord pushes through the fabric. It’s muted and oblique at first, like the sound of an orchestra in the middle of a tuning ritual, heard from the outside in. But when the melody comes alive, its birth is…

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Lawrence English

The Rest Is My Ghost

Lawrence English sets out to critique nostalgia’s grip on the future

The Rest Is My Ghost by Lawrence English

Lawrence English’s recent work often engages with philosophical and political ideas. The Rest Is My Ghost is accompanied by an extended reflection on what he terms “Acid Nostalgia”: a form of nostalgia stripped of lived complexity and repurposed as a political instrument, flattening history into comforting images while limiting our ability to imagine alternative futures. It is a compelling proposition, and one that promises a record concerned less with memory itself than with the ways memory can become a mechanism of control.

The music occupies a familiar territory within English’s practice. Vast drones, dense brass, choral voices and slowly…

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