Your May Subscriber Playlist is here

Catch up with hours of the music we wrote about last month

Firstly, a warm welcome to anyone who has signed up to become a Quietus subscriber during our spring sale, but whether you’ve just joined or have been one of the faithful since 2020, thank you for your support in helping us provide the antidote to the algorithm in all we do. Just a quick catch-up on the subscriber perks for last month. In the Low Culture Podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran discussed subversions of masculinity, magic and the death of the 60s in 1970 cult classic, Performance (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre). Our Organic Intelligence newsletter (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) was on the fertile underground scene of the US west coast during the early 00s, while the Low Culture Essay was by Mary Chiney on Stanley Okorie’s astonishing soundtracks for the Nollywood film industry (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre). That article came accompanied by a special playlist for Subscriber Plus tier members – they also received exclusive human-made playlists of music from the Baker's Dozens by Kurt Vile, Fire Toolz, Mark Leckey and Olof Dreijer, plus the best of the contemporary Chicago underground, and Marisa Anderson guiding us through the inspirations for new album, The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music. You can find all these here. (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre) Your look back at May playlist is below. All best wishes for the month of June to you all.