The Quickening is a collaborative studio album by Australian drummer Jim White and American guitarist Marisa Anderson, released May 15, 2020, by Thrill Jockey.

The former is said to "harken back to Anderson's playing with the improv-heavy Evolutionary Jass Band, carrying a sense of perpetual motion", while the latter "is an abstraction of the old folk song "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor", trickling out with molasses-like waves of subtle melody and brushwork.

writer Daniel Sylvester says that "Although Jim White and Marisa Anderson never seem to give themselves enough time or space to truly stretch out, The Quickening nonetheless captures two masters at their most free.

Their "synergy leads to plenty of exciting moments" such as when opening track "Gathering" "achieves a lush, purifying climax through the dense interplay of Anderson's hazy, watercolor guitar drones and White's skittering drums."

In contrast, "Last Days" is "a bit tighter and more focused", fully displaying "Anderson's roots in Americana ... as she plays with a ramshackle, country-fried twang" and the duo "sneaking in a surreal, almost Beefheartian edge, with some discordance here and there and a jarring, angular drum pattern.