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Our chart rundowns continue with The Quietus Reissues (etc.) of the Year. The (etc) covers everything else that’s excited our ears this year, including compilations, live albums, posthumous releases, DJ mixes and box sets. Dive in! #tQCharts. tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025. @normanrecs. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts. What have been your top picks of the year?@normanrecs. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

@thisisjuderogers reflects on Penelope Farmer's novel Charlotte Sometimes, its influence on #TheCure, and how it captures the fraught time between childhood and adolescence that we perhaps never leave. Jude Rogers on Charlotte Sometimes - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

'Deafkids paint a present already broken by its impending future. But through the noise, they also situate flickers of traditional music into their histories of struggle and defiance, offering escape routes and places of resistance through the deluge.' Deafkids - Cicatrizes Do Futuro is a Quietus Album of the Month for May 2026. @deaf_kids @neurotrecordings. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

'The final stretch feels like a return to the cocoon, a desire for an incubation preceding selfhood, reconciling Music Has The Right To Children’s “cult of childhood” with the eschatological temper of BoC’s later catalogue.' Boards of Canada - Inferno. @warprecords @boardsofcanada. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

'Lavender Networks feels like the archetypical Fire-Toolz record, a shapeshifting alien of an album, but with a softer, personal side.' Fire-Toolz - Lavender Networks is a Quietus Album of the Month for May 2026. @fire_toolz @warprecords. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

'The entire Kid A / Amnesiac project could be seen to be as ornery as it was original, a tantrum in response to popular triumph.' Happy Birthday to #Radiohead's Amnesiac, which turns 25 today! @radiohead. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

@sapphire_goss talks with Bernie Brooks and @k_gallerneaux about the materials, magic, and catharsis at the heart of her debut album, Light Sensitive Materials. Chemical Romance: The Light-Sensitive Materials of Sapphire Goss. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

'The deep occultism and ancient Ireland unearthed throughout Crone, is inspired by Irish myth and prehistory long before the coming of St Patrick. One of the finest releases of this cursed spring.' One Leg One Eye - Crone is a Quietus Album of the Month for May 2026. @ad93rec. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

"Roxy Music very much defined that space between art and pop music that I think is still very vital: the whole idea of 20th century pop music may be exhausted, but that space between music and art is still vital." @mark.leckey on #RoxyMusic - Roxy Music. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered

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'Lorena Quintanilla has always worked within spaces where dream-pop haze curdles into industrial unease, whether through Lorelle Meets The Obsolete or her solo work, but here the balance feels newly severe. The album moves like a process of extraction, each track scraping away another psychic layer until only pulse and residue remain.' J. Zunz - Obsidiana. @rocket_recordings. Read further via link in bio. #thequietus #culturecountered