The Quietus Highlights Guttersnipe, Deafkids, and One Leg One Eye in May 2026 Roundup

The Quietus just dropped its monthly roundup, picking the best albums and tracks from a sweltering, anxiety-ridden May 2026. The piece frames the selections through a lens of intensity, the kind that hits harder when you’re roasting alive in a city and bombarded by climate warnings. Guttersnipe’s ferocious Extinction Burst! and Deafkids’ monumental Cicatrizes Do Futuro both land like soundtracks to an apocalypse you can feel through the pavement. These records aren’t singled out as abstract high points, they’re described as music that cuts deeper when the world outside is fraying.

Further down the list, One Leg One Eye’s Crone gets a detailed nod. The project, born from Ian Lynch of Lankum and George Brennan, draws from Irish myth and prehistory long before any saints arrived. The writing pulls you straight into a cavernous dread, describing tracks that shift from unholy echoes and swarm-like drones toward a funereal dirge with spoken word from actor Olwen Fouéré. It’s placed alongside acts like Tristwch Y Fenywod and Moundabout as part of a broader fascination with the ancient and otherworldly across the Atlantic archipelago, far from any tweeness. The whole roundup is framed as a deliberate curation for a particularly cursed spring, with everything compiled into a subscriber-only playlist for those who want to dig deeper.