BDSM meets industrial beats on the new album from the sex-positive Swedish singer-producer

In the past couple of years, I’ve often found myself cycling through the city with a buoyant feeling in my chest, imagining myself dancing at summer festivals to darker, more underground-tinged lyrics and harder beats than ever before. There’s something completely mesmerising – almost hypnotic – about the current wave of experimental pop provocateurs. And when trying to understand how Cobrah commands this so brilliantly on her debut album, Torn, I find myself drifting into a parallel universe – one that is difficult not to fall in love with.

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Ragger

Euphonic Sounds

Los Angeles duo play ragtime with Gameboy sounds, at once comic and oddly disquieting

Euphonic Sounds by Ragger

Ragger’s Euphonic Sounds is a temporal anomaly tripping over itself and tumbling out your speakers. The LA-based duo, Jon Leland and Marc Riordan, create gleeful anachronisms, playing ragtime tunes with synthesizers and an electronic drum kit. A musical form timestamped to the turn of twentieth-century USA is delivered in plastic timbres and colours reminiscent of video game soundtracks from close to a century later. But Ragger are more than a curious retro-futurist homage. They don’t just replay old repertoire, they reanimate it.

An ancestor of jazz, ragtime’s name comes from ‘ragged time’, referencing the complex syncopation that makes the music so propulsive. It evolved…

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Wilco, Mogwai, Four Tet and Wolf Alice will headline this year’s festival

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Green Man has shared the full lineup for its 2026 edition.

This year’s festival, taking place at its usual Bannau Brycheiniog National Park home, will be headlined by Wilco, Mogwai, Four Tet and Wolf Alice. There will also be key appearances from the likes of The Beta Band, Sparks, Cat Power, Anna Calvi, Cate Le Bon and Aldous Harding.

The lineup for the sold-out festival is rounded out by Baxter Dury, Tricky, Maria Somerville, Dry Cleaning, Daniel Avery, Smerz, Marie Davidson, ML Buch, Prostitute, Tony Njoku, Insecure Men, Joanne Robertson, Ben UFO and Jennifer Walton, among others.

Green Man will take place from 20 to 23 August 2026. Find…

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Sol.Hz is described as the group’s ‘dub’ album

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Seefeel are set to release their first new album in 15 years, titled Sol.Hz.

Comprised of nine tracks, the LP is described in a press release as the group’s ‘dub’ album, and follows on from 2024’s mini-album Squared Roots. As with past Seefeel material, it centres around the deep, IDM-indebted production of Mark Clifford and vocals of Sarah Peacock.

Watch a video for the album’s lead track, ‘Ever No Way’, below.

The band will head out on a tour of Europe this spring, playing shows in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Oslo and other select cities from late April into May. Find more information here.

Warp will release Sol.Hz on 1 May 2026.

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It features Alan Sparkhawk, Tirzah and more

Loraine James has shared details of her fourth studio album, Detached From The Rest Of You.

Due for release via her long-time label home of Hyperdub, the 12-track record features contributions from Alan Sparhawk, Tirzah, Anysia Kim, Miho Hatori, Le3 bLACK and Fyn Dobson. New York-based artist Sydney Spann also provides vocals on lead single ‘In A Rut’, which you can listen to below.

Describing the record as her “IDM pop star album” in a press release, James said: “I’m using my voice a lot more, and putting it higher in the mix than I usually would. I guess I’m growing some confidence.”

The glitch-ridden music of Japanese artist such as Aoki Takamasa and Ryoji Ikeda is…

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Self-hobbled and confined to a wheelchair, Luke Haines dug deep into middle England’s psychic hinterland to produce the definitive anti-Britpop album. Joe Banks reflects on a “monsterpiece” that still resonates today

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As an opening track, ‘Light Aircraft On Fire’ is a vicious, lip-curled statement of intent. After a brief tease of melodic guitar, Luke Haines crashes into a furnace black riff, hissing his words out like a man rapidly running low on oxygen: “When you cut your lover slack/ You’ll get a monster back”. Haines will return to this theme of unleashing monstrous thoughts, but for now he’s sticking with self-immolation and hints of a “dark premonition”, with “a pre-science preacher in the cabin”. The…

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Ahead of this month’s BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, Sherelle takes Alex Rigotti through 13 albums that provide escape and energy, from DJ Rashad to Justice to Janelle Monae

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For Sherelle, the perfect album is one that can soundtrack all the moments of your life. “I think the sound of a good album is one that, whilst cooking or on a train journey and you’ve accidentally fallen asleep, you don’t turn it off,” she tells tQ. “A certain album can be very aggressive, or have lots of different elements – but when you listen to it when you’re all rested, then you start to pick up certain elements.” 

Music has often provided an escape for the footwork and…

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GENA

The Pleasure Is Yours

A collaboration between Liv.e and Karriem Riggins proves sweetly seductive (perhaps even a little too much so)

The Pleasure is Yours by GENA

There has been no shortage of fruitful duos within the realms of jazz, R&B and soul through the decades: from Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway’s beautiful coming-together in 1972 to Roy Ayers cutting it up with Fela Kuti to Stacy Lattisaw and Johnny Gill’s Perfect Combination. Where once the pattern tended to be of two signers, duetting on ballads; in the post-Aaliyah era, the formula took notes from hip-hop’s full-length-collaborations between a producer and an MC and shifted the balance somewhat: introducing a raft of collaborative albums not between two singers but a singer and a…

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Hey Colossus

Heaven Was Wild

A new record from the noise rock stalwarts will always have us pricking up our ears at tQ towers, but despite a newfound sense of joy and even a certain swagger, this latest album is far from the group’s peak, finds Laviea Thomas

Heaven Was Wild by Hey Colossus

When Hey Colossus released their debut album Hey Colossus Hates You in 2004, they turned heads, as one of the few bands experimenting with a sound that was both psychedelic and hardcore. Planting themselves at the heart of the noise rock scene, the group made it known that they were a product of roaring guitars and hellish screams. Their sound was raw, completely authentic and oozing with pure passion.

Now over…

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Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip takes us through the musical influences on his multifaceted new solo record Paris In The Spring, with the results compiled into a playlist exclusively for tQ Subscriber Plus tier members

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Music journalists love to tell you they know all the influences that has gone into a new album, but a lot of the time the artists responsible themselves are left baffled by these comparisons. We thought, why not go straight to the source?

Alexis Taylor is best known as the frontman of longstanding electro-pop favourites Hot Chip, whose new solo album Paris In The Spring blends cosmic country and leftfield pop via collaborations with The Avalanches, Green Gartside, Air’s Nicholas Godin and many more,…

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