Nearing the halfway mark of 2026 we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile this chart of our top 100 albums released so far this year. This chart was compiled by John Doran, and built by Patrick Clarke and Christian Eede
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A lavish box set doesn't just re-endtroduce us to Shadow's early work, it restates the long-neglected case for hip-hop as art, Angus Batey argues
Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go
Canadian composer makes a tour of the church organs of Newfoundland and finds a surprising index of the changing of the climate
A disintegrating Specials were part of the sound of July 1981 as unrest flared up in Handsworth, Toxteth, Southall, Moss Side, Hyson Green & Brixton, as Ghost Town hit #1 45 years ago today, writes Wrongtom
With an exclusive introduction by writer and film programmer Gareth Evans, the Quietus presents 'Off With His Head', an extract from a new collection of short stories by the author of Penda’s Fen, The Ash Tree, and Artemis 81
Scrambled DIY pop as temporal anomaly, multiple accordions in one band, a duo piping urban noise into tranquil marshes and a Tokyo-Manchester collaboration that both crushes and levitates, Daryl Worthington roams through the tapes of this infernal summer
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Nearing the halfway mark of 2026 we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile this chart of our top 100 albums released so far this year. This chart was compiled by John Doran, and built by Patrick Clarke and Christian Eede
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