Arca, photo by Bryan Berrios

Arca has remixed Robyn’s recent single ‘Sexistential’.

Pushing the original cut further into club music territory, the Venezuelan artist’s take on the song features her own vocals. You can listen to it below.

In a statement, Arca said: “I’ve loved Robyn’s music for years, and am psyched to offer my support and encouragement to her. I want her sense of humour – bold vision and sense of melody is so important! And this track I’ve remixed, ‘Sexistential’, deconstructs pleasure, play and motherhood in such a refreshing way. Purr!”

‘Sexistential’ is the title track from Robyn’s forthcoming album, which is her first in eight years. Announced last month, it will be released via the Swedish artist’s new label home of…

The post Arca Shares Remix of Robyn’s ‘Sexistential’ appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/news/arca-shares-remix-of-robyns-sexistential/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arca-shares-remix-of-robyns-sexistential

Your Rum Music roundup returns for 2026, where Jennifer Lucy Allan presents early AOTY contenders from Silvia Tarozzi, Tashi Dorij and more

Silvia Tarozzi, photo by Giorgio Giliberti

January feels like it’s been three months long. I made few resolutions. I will be writing half a book’s worth of words before my birthday at the end of March, which feels enough of a goal. I did pitch myself a target for reading (52 books) and wrote the word “FLOSS” in the front of my diary. It’s going to be a busy year, and it’s already in full swing, with releases already dropping that I feel are solidly in the running for my AOTY list, namely by the increasingly prolific Tashi Dorji, and…

The post Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/rum-music/rum-music-january-2026-silvia-tarozzi-tashi-dorij/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rum-music-january-2026-silvia-tarozzi-tashi-dorij

Bloody Head

Bend Down And Kiss The Ground

Nottingham quartet drag noise-rock and psych into some dank, unwholesome places

Bend Down And Kiss The Ground by bloody head

Bloody Head have been lurking at the fringes for some ten years now, occupying a greasy, hard-to-clean crevice where noise-rock and psychedelia begin to intermingle. In this time they’ve tottered, threatened, collapsed and cajoled, their unexpected incursions akin to having a mysterious, slightly cracked ‘character’ glom onto you at the pub. Like said pub weirdo, they charm and bemuse and recount tall tales, all while a violent sense of mania flickers intermittently behind the eyes.

Bend Down And Kiss The Ground comes hot on the heels of last year’s excellent Perpetual Eden, and hews close to that…

The post Bloody Head – Bend Down And Kiss The Ground appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/bloody-head-bend-down-and-kiss-the-ground-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bloody-head-bend-down-and-kiss-the-ground-review

Dispel the winter gloom! Our subscribers can catch up with all the music we wrote about last month

Even though January’s always a bit of a quiet month for releases we’ve still got a fair wedge of music for our Subscribers to kick off 2026, with the playlist featuring the likes of MPTL Microplastics, Knats, Denzel Curry, Dry Cleaning, The Soft Pink Truth, Craven Faults, Qasu, Peaches, Jane Weaver, Zu, Sleaford Mods, Lightning Bolt, Megadeth, Thundercat, Bruce Springsteen, Robyn and Shackleton is below. Our Subscriber Plus members also have access to bonus playlists – the music from Peaches and Mike Dirnt of Green Day’s Baker’s Dozens, artist guides to go with the Strange Worlds Of David Berman and Toumani Diabaté, the…

The post The January Subscriber Playlist is Here! appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/subscriber-area/monthly-playlists/your-january-playlist-is-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=your-january-playlist-is-here

Ahead of the release of debut album Domestic Bliss and an appearance at Acid Horse festival in May, the amniotically-linked trio speak to Archie Forde

London trio Voka Gentle have been playing music together in some form “since the womb”, their guitarist, William J. Stokes tells me. Which might be why their latest album, Domestic Bliss, works so well. Composed of identical twin sisters Ellie and Imogen Mason, and William, Imogen’s husband, the band craft left-field, mercurial pop that’s as hard to box into a genre as it is easy to enjoy. 

Recorded at London City University, where the band taught sound workshops in exchange for studio time, their latest LP is a tour-de-force in this synergistic mode of music-making, which yields some sporadically…

The post Phone it in: Voka Gentle Interviewed appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/interviews/voka-gentle-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voka-gentle-interview

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…

The post Geologist – Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/geologist-can-i-get-a-pack-of-camel-lights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geologist-can-i-get-a-pack-of-camel-lights

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…

The post Ain’t Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie: The Suburban Origins of De La Soul appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/culture/books/austin-mccoy-de-la-soul-living-in-a-d-a-i-s-y-age-extract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austin-mccoy-de-la-soul-living-in-a-d-a-i-s-y-age-extract

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

Screenshot

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…

The post Laurel Halo to Release Soundtrack for Film ‘Midnight Zone’ appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/news/laurel-halo-to-release-soundtrack-for-film-midnight-zone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laurel-halo-to-release-soundtrack-for-film-midnight-zone

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

xr:d:DAE39iP3VgU:3340,j:7078943332719261553,t:23112812

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…

The post Simon Reynolds Documents the Rise of Shoegaze and Slacker Rock in New Book appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/news/simon-reynolds-documents-the-rise-of-shoegaze-and-slacker-rock-in-new-book/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=simon-reynolds-documents-the-rise-of-shoegaze-and-slacker-rock-in-new-book

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…

The post Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu appeared first on The Quietus.

source https://thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/reissue-of-the-week/the-style-council-cafe-bleu-review/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-style-council-cafe-bleu-review