Japanese band Oavette shares a jazzy/post-rock gem 'Neus'; Lingua Ignota takes a turn into Appalachian Gothic with ‘Repent Now Confess Now’; Deafheaven are keeping their stylistic U-turn with their latest, melancholic single ‘In Blur’; Martina Topley Bird shares ‘Topic’, produced by Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja; one of the highlights on Nas' new album is ‘Nobody’, which sees him reuniting with Ms. Lauryn Hill.

Lee Buford of The Body, Kristin Hayter a.k.a. Lingua Ignota and Dylan Walker of Full of Hell have formed a supergroup Sightless Pit, and have recorded an album, 'Grave of a Dog', out February 21. The first single is 'Kingscorpse' - dark, powerful, haunting, noisy. Listen to it below. Grave of a Dog by Sightless […]

The Quietus made a selection of best albums and songs from the month of July. They chose: "the miraculous" 'Dolphine' by Californian folk singer Mega Bog, sludge punk 'No You' by Rainbow Grawe, the electro folk horror soundtrack for 'Midsommar' by The Haxan Cloak, the intense record 'Caligula' by Lingua Ignota, Berlin house-meister Barker, grime's new girl Nadia […]

It's hard to listen to, raw and sometimes vulgar in language, very serious, and - worth listening to, ambitious and thought through. Not everybody is going to like it, but everybody should listen to it, as there is beauty behind it's brutality. The Quietus says "it is an album of baroque intensity and gothic flamboyance […]