Ahead of a show at the inaugural New Ruins festival, Joe Murray talks manipulating dictaphones to produce his vast discography as Posset, and his place in the North East's longstanding countercultural lineage Music-Making is Always Happening: An Interview with Posset buff.ly/8efFANe

"I’m very fortunate that Cosey has come into my life as a friend and mentor. Through her own unique artistic vision she’s explored vulnerability in a way I’ve tried to reach with costumes and shifting my identity." #GazelleTwin on #Throbbing Gristle: #ThePortal buff.ly/hq0PDPK

'Fast-paced, colourful, and fun, Hikarigasashikomo only occasionally congeals into something that might move a dancefloor. The tracks are bursts of hyperactive digital fidget, tiny slices of abstracted sound bumping against each other.' Foodman - Hikarigasashikomo buff.ly/mEYZ13n

"During my teenage years, Portishead was one of the few bands I engaged with. Like many of my peers, I’d had a Nirvana phase and liked the Cranberries, but nothing compared to my infatuation with Portishead." #GazelleTwin on #Portishead - Dummy - #ThePortal buff.ly/CKkWXRY

'Curbside Lambsear is a project that attempts to bottle the sparks that fly when you’re creating music with your friends. Each song takes the form of a tilted collage, where fleeting ideas and daydreamed doodles are front-and-centre.' An Interview with Curbside Lambsear buff.ly/RB2glcY

"We became very close friends, still are. I put my heart and soul into that album. I think Andy’s on record as saying it’s his favourite. I’m a bit of a jack-of-all-trades, but my strongest suit is vocal production." Martyn Ware on #Erasure - I Say I Say I Say buff.ly/Uimnets

'The instrumental Dis Fig unleashes on ‘The Account’ is dub at its most claustrophobic, cloying, heavy. It’s a level of barometric pressure few vocalists could survive' Dis Fig, The Wind Between - ‘The Account’ is a Quietus Track Of The Month For June & July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P

'Bovell’s artistic vision, songwriting talent and a knack for diplomacy resulted in successful collaborations with artists including I Roy and Fela Kuti, The Slits, Orange Juice and The Pop Group...' The Strange World Of #DennisBovell - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/oPKLN0R

This Rum Music follows hot on the tails of the previous edition, and it will be my last for a while, because I am taking a sabbatical from Rum Music until early 2027... Rum Music for August by Jennifer Lucy Allan buff.ly/V5CWmzU

'A recording is captured time, and each listen, at each stage of life, becomes a layer in a grand palimpsest. Records allow us to relive long-past moments of life over again at will; in other words, to break out of linear time.' Quick Smart: In Praise of the Shortest Albums buff.ly/CN4mQnu

Working with a diverse array of producers and composers—Toumba, Konduku, Slikback, 33EMYBW, Jung An Tagen and Lemna—the Dutch percussion ensemble, fka Slagwerk Den Haag, foreground rhythm across a suite of six compositions HIIIT - SIIIX, Vol. 3 buff.ly/2xdtgtP

From aliens, immortality and the early electronica of sci-fi films, to the sublime, immersive harmonies of devotional music, Gazelle Twin talks about thirteen albums that influenced her #GazelleTwin’s Favourite Albums - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/c4jHX23

Almost four hours of music featuring the likes of Dis Fig, Tara Clerkin Trio, Sophia Space Agency, Kelela, Charli xcx, Tyla, Arca, Quiet Husband, Tricky, Nuhara, Madonna, Luke Haines, Insecure Men, Tommi Iommi, Boy Harsher and Dinosaur Jr. The July Catch-up Playlist is Here! buff.ly/mTgbwp8

'As L’Rain's music intensifies, soft guitar arpeggios metamorphose into a skittering groove, into a properly mindblowing psychedelic rush, all with the deftest touch.' L’Rain - ‘Borderline’ is a Quietus Track of the Month for June and July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P

'On Friday, Elastica posted a cryptic message on their Instagram saying that they were “back”... This weekend, Marc Almond and Gary Numan play the Crystal Palace Bowl...' #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/iDHbEnC

After last week's investigation into the shortest songs, Auden Alsop asks us to consider brevity and the album; and presents us with '30 under 30' Quick Smart: In Praise of the Shortest Albums buff.ly/CN4mQnu

"Inspired by the tale of the hellhounds of the region—Gabble Ratchets—packs of spectral dogs let loose across the Northern counties on Halloween to hunt the souls of the newly dead...' Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra - Gabble Ratchets is a Quietus Album Of The Month for July buff.ly/9yaz69P

A supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Jobs, Skeleton and Deerhoof, make a wild freeform sound collage with just enough bright flashes of melody to hold it all together Highsigh - Once Bend buff.ly/eemqB7a

'What about the music, man? MacKaye conceived the project as “The Stooges with reggae”. Other influences were dub, funk, metal, punk, pre-punk, post-punk, hip-hop, jazz, Captain Beefheart...' The Strange World Of #Fugazi - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/NV8IDpM

'Vast landscapes of masterfully arranged synths and layer upon layer of vocalisations that are glacial not only in their movement but in their sense of scale and beauty.' Sophia Space Agency - The Turning Blue is a Quietus Album Of The Month for June and July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P

"We used to listen to John Peel every night. He said that the new Bowie album was so incredible he was going to play it without interruption. It was like it had just dropped in from an alternative universe... It felt like the future." Martyn Ware on #DavidBowie - Low buff.ly/jnMZjW6

'Bloom achieves a near-supernatural feat of consistency by channelling Tim Smith’s muse with exactly all the right sounds whilst still bearing the imprint of the departed #Cardiacs’ leader’s spirit.' Spratleys - Bloom is a Quietus Album Of The Month for June and July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P

From foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom... Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/s9ak8po

'The additional long tracks included with this edition, both demos from 1975, have the pulse of Kraftwerk, the dynamics of Heldon and the chutzpah – if not the wit – of very early Human League.' Reissue of the Week: Mar-Vista’s Visions Of Sodal Ye @bornbadrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/omeTpq7

Jennifer Lucy Allan rewatches the infamous rave episode of the 90s TV detective drama, and discovers that while Morse might have preferred lunchtime ale to nocturnal pingers, the Oxford detective knew all about a comedown On Inspector Morse’s Rave Episode - #ThePortal buff.ly/EAxt2TF

"Our gigs became celebrations of everything we loved. Disjointed fuzzy pop, fanzines, vinyl, cartoons, manga and pop-culture. If I hadn’t been in the band I would have come to see us, and would have loved it." Kitten Frenzy, Urusei Yatsura & the 90s Scottish Indie Scene buff.ly/NTCtKsv

'According to Jon Poole, the original Panixphere: “was a release—we could go out and make a racket.” Here the racket is resurrected by Bic Hayes, Poole and Bob Leith across 13 original tracks.' Panixphere - Gods And Zeros is a Quietus Album Of The Month for June and July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P

"I duck and I dive and I’m too fast to catch and I’ll always be pretty." Peter Murphy discusses Bauhaus, Dali's Car and his status as the Godfather of #Goth Bauhaus' Peter Murphy Interviewed - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/cYXaIpO

"I saw some of this record being played with an orchestra a few months back. It is in my top three gigs of all time. I also love the Sound Of Philadelphia stuff, which he was the main arranger for." Martyn Ware on Dexter Wansel - Life On Mars buff.ly/BeJfGoY

'EarthBall play a transcendent version of free rock. Their gigs are full of decisive, urgent passages that appear and melt away in front of us, to make way for something else.' EarthBall - Actual Earth Music – Volume 3 & 4 is A Quietus Album Of The Month for June and July 2026 buff.ly/9yaz69P