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Guest Playlist: Dis Fig
From her deep roots in choral music to the "fucking queen" Mariah Carey, Dis Fig takes us through the vast range of influences behind new LP What To Make Of These Mortal Hands, and compile them into a special 20-track playlist available exclusively for tQ Subscriber Plus tier members
Monthly Playlists
Specially curated sonic bulletins to accompany tQ’s essential editorial
Monthly Playlists
Subscriber Exclusive Playlist & Perks Round-up: September 2026
Catch up with all the music we wrote about last month
Low Culture Essay
Illuminating treasured cultural artefacts
Low Culture Essay
The Low Culture Essay: Jon Buckland on Dumb & Dumber
This month’s subscriber essay looks at a film that presented a far more complex view of male friendship than most buddy films of the 90s
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Our editors John & Luke bring their insight to an essential album, book, film, etc.
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The Low Culture Podcast: Betty Blue
In this month’s edition of the pod, Luke Turner and John Doran discuss Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1986 film of lust and mutual destruction
Organic Intelligence
Head further into the musical margins
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence LX: Nigerian Alté
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Mary Chiney introduces tQ subscribers to a subculture that thrived on the fringes of the Afrobeats explosion
