As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the yearWe’ve recently been running a sale on subscriptions to The Quietus that highlights one of the paradoxes of trying to keep our operation going in 2024: it’d take just 1% of our readers joining up to secure the future of the site beyond our sixteenth year. I imagine similar maths work for many of the artists who feature in our halfway chart. Many, if not most, of them are the inverse 1% to those hoovering up all the coin at the top of the current musical ecosystem. Many must look at their streaming figures and think if only 1% paid for our music, life would be a lot easier. With that in mind there is a little lean to remind you that directly supporting tQ, or the artists we write about, has a huge impact on what we, and they, are able to do. Yes, we have this beautiful new website that you’re reading this on, but to continue supporting the kind of artists...
