Thank you @resident-music.com for selecting 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE by @keithcameron2.bsky.social as your #1 book of the year! And for choosing @danielrachel.bsky.social, @audreyjgolden.bsky.social, @liaminscoejones.bsky.social, @reversediorama.bsky.social + Budgie on the best of 2025 list 🙏

I reviewed the new twigs

I reviewed the new OPN for tQ

Really loved putting this together with Chal, a true legend of the game

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist @liaminscoejones.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

For the last month I’ve been listening to little else but the new Danny Brown and Armand Hammer albums. With the albums finally dropping tomorrow, I went long with some thoughts over on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/thesixth...

I wrote about the new Armand Hammer for The Quietus, clocking up dangerous numbers without a miss now

Almost every acclaimed music book, year after year, is about the music of the 20th century, often about the *same* music from it. A quarter of the way into the 21st century, it’s getting a little concerning…

Jon is doing god’s work, beautifully written and this album is insane

This time next weeks Jacqueline Crooks - women’s prize shortlisted author of the phenomenal Fire Rush - and I will be in conversation at the legendary radical bookshop Housmans, talking music and literary writing… if you’re near kings cross, come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/liam-insco...

I reviewed the new Rochelle Jordan

The path forward begins in the workplace. We must advocate for a society built around collective strength, industrial cooperation, and democratic control. Read Eddie Dempsey on unions.

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

I wrote some words about the new Blood Orange album for The Quietus

my book gets a lil mention in this new review of the new blood orange album theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

3) I keep hammering on about Liam's book, but with good reason. It embodies new ways of tracing the nature of artists' influence and position in the ecosystem, suited to the more fluid 21st century. To this conversation, it points out how real subcultures - skate, dancing, sex work - feed in.

Sorry not sorry to link to my own review, but Liam's book really crystallised a lot of this for me recently.

I remember in 2013 when I started making lists I struggled to fill a list of 50, now i’m past a list of 100 albums I liked this year and it’s august, perpetually astounded by the quality and quality of new music in the atmosphere

I’m in this! Spoke to Chal Ravens about newness in music 15 years on from Retromania, AirPods, the new Niontay album and other things, I’m really proud of how it came out

agreed, MIKE hasn’t dropped the ball once since 2016 and this is a joy to see. In the back of my book I list ten essential listens from each year and ‘Burning Desire’ is there but I’d go further, that’s easily one of the best albums of the decade so far

this 1 by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social

the way time and writing works is amazing, you can spend hours working on something and become convinced it’s the best it can possible be, leave it for two weeks, come back and it’s immediately apparent how to make things 10x better, it’s sick

that’s me. wholesome.

Wrote about more music of the ambient variety in column format for popular music web store and streaming platform @bandcamp.com's editorial arm 💯 daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient...

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.

Feat. Jim Legxacy, Blood Orange, Geese, John Glacier, Maruja, Deftones, Titanic, underscores, Che, Lupe Fiasco, Princess Nokia, rRoxymore, Nightcrwlr, Soul Wax, Sudan Archives, Ana Frango Eléctrico, Alice Glass + more… These are the best songs of July 2025 music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

This is the main thing people don't know about books. The success of a book is largely governed by how many get INTO bookshops in the first place. If they don't order them in from the publishers, the majority of potential buyers will never get as far as seeing a copy.

#podcast I spoke to author Liam Inscoe-Jones about his new book Songs in the Key of MP3, that focusses on artists of Sophie, Blood Orange and FKA Twigs and how they emerged. How streaming/Socials have changed music, #playlists and the #charts and more www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/05/16/i...

hesitant to express that i agree with joe expressing his disagreement with the broad-strokes cultural collapse premise by co-signing an agreement expressed through the medium of my own disagreement (a reiteration of a reiteration, oh no), but I *do* agree with his disagreement, predictably

Millennials too. This book really was timely. Every time I see otherwise intelligent people going "oh god yahhh so true" on yet another video of that Meditations For The Anxious guy explaining how young ppl culture just just a facade of a performance of a simulacrum of a photocopy I die a little.

the post-Napster way of things is turbulence, with the past stirred in to the present and the unevenly distributed future. I'm a stopped clock on this currently but this book sums a lot of this up... my review... bsky.app/profile/liam...

My playlist for June asks a vital question... is “indie" back? Alex G, Ethel Cain, Ben Kweller, Wednesday, Blood Orange, HAIM, Big Thief, US Girls and Drugdealer seem to answer in the affirmative… music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...

on my substack I wrote some words about England and the new Blood Orange song open.substack.com/pub/thesixth...

I reviewed Annahstasia's debut. It's sterling pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

OK pet topic of mine, and this book, which Liam has reposted my review of, really sharpened my thinking on it. He holds that his faves - SOPHIE, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt, Devonté Hynes, FKA Twigs - absolutely need to be considered on a par w/ Bowie, Kate Bush, Lou Reed or whoever but

fancy uplifting any of the genuinely innovative artists of the last decade, or at least ones who have made spectacular music and introduce them to your readers? nahhh let’s talk about AI www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

this article is so incredibly short sighted and clearly written by someone who only listens to artists like prince and then modern, label-constructed pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter… what about all of the rest of the music? 1/

Great to be involved in Sound Affects last night in Brighton with @liaminscoejones.bsky.social and Erin James. Cheers to Jak for organising and @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social for flogging a few more books.

Flattered to have some very kind words appear about my book in issue 497 of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social @joemuggs.bsky.social thank you 🙏

'In one passage, Inscoe-Jones directly challenges Mark Fisher’s contention that a great deal of contemporary music would not shock a listener from previous decades by listing a host of sounds which would simply not have been possible to make before.'

In The Spotlight: Episode Seven: Liam Inscoe-Jones (author of Songs in the Key of MP3) For the seventh episode of In The Spotlight Bill Cummings is joined by music journalist and author Liam Inscoe-Jones, he is a music and fiction writer who has written for The FADER, Crack, Clash, Rolling Stone,…

I have a substack now substack.com/@liaminscoej...

“It likely goes without saying that these artists are not household names.” Essential weekend reading by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social ☀️

Very excited that the audiobook of Songs In The Key of MP3 is out today. Like the music, it’s a group effort, read by the brilliant Gemma Lawrence, Rori Hawthorn, Sam Crerar. It was a joy to hear their voices bring the stories to life www.audible.co.uk/pd/Songs-in-...

Wild month. Turned 29, released my first book, launched it in one of the coolest spots in London, appeared in a bunch of magazines, dropped a zine, went on the BBC twice, saw pals, sat on social media for many hours… time to check out for a bit now

You can catch my appearance on Lauren Laverne’s BBC Radio 6 show for one more week www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Crazy month for music. From pulp to niontay, here are the best songs of april 2025 (the final 15 are extra special btw, listened to them in the sun yesterday and it was pure bliss) open.spotify.com/playlist/3Rs...

Friday really was an amazing day for new music

So it turns out having a new book out means doing absolutely no writing at all, who knew