I can not comprehend that this is not already a requirement. Like, who else gets use vast amounts of electricity & not pay for it?!

Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"On Wishing a Happy Birthday to my Ex-Boyfriend". A poem I wrote, yesterday.

#nowplaying New music arrival… The most excellent new 7” release from @danielland.bsky.social … everything about this is ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️….the music, artwork & accompanying booklet… I’ve recommended Daniel’s work before, if Roxy, Sylvian & Blue Nile did shoegaze… ❤️

So pleased to receive my copy of the new Daniel Land 7”. Comfortably my favourite track of the year so far. #shoegaze

Not sure if any of my followers are into physical merch from a marginal shoegaze artist (😅) but just in case! New T-shirts up now at Bandcamp, inc. the "Dream Pop Cult Hero" fan-favourite. Some are tour leftovers, others are pre-orders (window closes Monday!) Link: danielland.bandcamp.com/merch

deary have just delivered a stellar debut album in the form of “Birding”! It’s full of little surprises, come on over to the blog and I’ll explain more! staticsoundsclub.com/2026/04/11/d...

‘I mean, I think Socrates was a bit more prescriptive than Virginia Woolf’s hostesses – but still not dominating, but guiding.’ Jonathan Rée on 𝘛𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 as a philosophical novel, in an extended free extract from our Close Readings subscription podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

My new single, ‘Snowdrops’ is out today. It's a very personal song about mental health, recovery, and a turning point in my life. It’s also the first single from what will be my next album. All proceeds go to Intercom Trust, supporting LGBTQ+ people in the South West. 🎧 Links to listen below

“Snowdrops” — a new single about mental health and recovery. All proceeds to charity. Out tomorrow (10 April) on Bandcamp + all streaming platforms. For the full story when it drops, join my mailing list or follow me on Bandcamp—links below.

‘In the first years of Donald Trump’s first presidency, I wrote about Harold Pinter’s ranting poem ‘American Football’, and the way it anticipated the language of the president. Now more than ever, Pinter’s poem speaks to the Trump idiocy.’ Inigo Thomas on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

Not sure how many Dream Pop / Shoegaze fans are on here, but in case you’re nearby: I’m taking my full band out for two shows in April—Holt, Norfolk (Saturday 18) and Manchester (Sunday 19). Tickets from danielland.co.uk — I'll post some links to my music below!

‘The scandal lays bare the entitlement felt and impunity enjoyed by the powerful and crass – an impunity so well captured by Trump’s advice to “grab them by the pussy”.’ Susan Pedersen on Epstein. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Really happy to share my new song "Snowdrops" gets its first play on BBC Introducing South & West tonight ⭐️🥳 8pm on BBC Radio Cornwall, Devon & BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... A deeply personal track—the first glimpse of my next album. Huge thanks to BBC Introducing for the support ❤️

‘The shot silk shimmer in his music of major and minor modes suggests the lability of thought, whereby a happy certainty can turn, at the drop of a semitone, into sadness or misgiving. He was not given to ecstasy.’ Nicholas Spice on Schubert’s imagination. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

are you an oil tanker? because you dress like you're trying to pass with the straights

A wee personal reflection on the album "Milk & Kisses" by Cocteau Twins, which turns 30 today (at least in the UK), and on what Elizabeth Fraser’s lyrics meant to me as an isolated rural gay man in the mid-1990s: danielland.co.uk/home/blog/77... #CocteauTwins

For any shoegaze fans: happy to share my new concept single "Pearl Daddy", out today 🎶 Two companion tracks with a subtle Moroccan twist, pressed on white 7″ vinyl, with a 12-page booklet. Any listens gratefully received! And downloads available too of course! danielland.bandcamp.com/album/pearl-...

THIS.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

‘With the villainous Gore Vidal (said with utmost respect), there was never a falling out because there was never a falling in. He and Updike were never destined to compare notes on lady gardens.’ @jwolcott.bsky.social reads John Updike’s letters. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wrote about an unexpected side-note to giving up booze like a thousand years ago. open.substack.com/pub/statesof...

I'd been thinking of writing something like this. Chinese audiences were mostly responsible for my previous album outselling x4 anything I've released before, and a handful of my tracks have racked up 1.2+ million streams on Chinese streaming services, all totally without promotion in the territory.

Second of two ambient albums I announced this weekend, and something for the Eno fans out there: a longform, 15-hour variation of the generative "A Secret Cove" composition that I released last year under my ambient side-project, riverrun. Details here: riverrun.bandcamp.com/album/a-secr...

For any ambient fans, I announced a couple of ambient albums this weekend: first up is the latest album by my droney guitar alias "Alan Lidden" (an anagram of my name!) here: alanlidden.bandcamp.com/album/the-no...

One of the best podcast episodes I've listened to in a good few years

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show #441 is now available for your listening enjoyment - anytime night or day. www.mixcloud.com/CobwebsAndSt...

‘Harris claims she was bubbling with ideas to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. Yet most of the specific proposals she mentions relate to government positions and the people who might occupy them.’ David Runciman reads Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

‘Auden, like Yeats before him, had begun to feel guilt over lines he himself had written, lines that began to haunt him – what he called “false emotions, inflated rhetoric, empty sonorities”. He strove instead to trust his gift.’ Colm Tóibín on Yeats, Eliot and Auden: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@authorsmstevens.bsky.social shares her novel Beautiful & Terrible Things about a diverse cast of friends, social justice activities living in today's America. Plus a free short story & novelette cut from the book for you. buff.ly/m209fTg #booktalk #bi #queer #black #latino #filipino #socialjustice

Grammar nerd thought: perhaps once a month I smile thinking of how Leonard Cohen followed his album "Death of a Ladies’ Man" with his poetry volume "Death of a Lady’s Man". Quite envious of that: the sly humour in that apostrophe change. I often wish to do something similar with two of my releases 🙃

TONIGHT, and all weekend, we're spinning up Callière, Whitelands, Waving Blue, ghost girl in my bed, Sleep Keeper, Scorche, Daniel Land, Winter Sun, mariin k., Crux of Faith, Glister and more! 🥂

I can genuinely highly recommend any release from Daniel, this is no different ⭐️

Daniel Land returns to share his concept single: Pearl Daddy. He wrote two singles that compliment each other and tell a love story with each track from one lover's perspective. We also discuss the North African influences that ghost into the music. buff.ly/UWTkBBj #music #gay #pearldaddy #bilal

For any shoegaze fans out there! I’ve just announced my latest release: a limited-edition 7-inch "Concept Single", exploring desire and queer middle age, inspired by writers like Forster, Burroughs & Ginsberg in North African locations, particularly Tangier: danielland.bandcamp.com/album/pearl-...

Be gentle… my @theguardian.com debut. All about levenslied.

Rehearsals, birthday edition, and band Christmas gathering. What a lovely day.

Keyboard sessions by the sea

There are worse places in the world to be putting the finishing touches to an album, that's for sure 😊 In all the many years I have been coming to West Somerset, this has been the sunniest and loveliest autumn I can remember.

‘A succession of prime ministers persuaded themselves that their country was somehow different from the rest: it could pick and choose from the menu of European options in the way that suited it best. They were all mistaken.’ David Runciman on the road to Brexit: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Excited to see this lovely bunch again tomorrow for rehearsals ❤️

‘Although she is now routinely mentioned in histories of modernist Paris in the 1920s, only Hemingway seemed to read her with any understanding – Eliot and Joyce and Woolf had no idea what to make of her.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The truth: under a third of American adults are Trump voters. He is much less popular than he wants you to think. Read this today: https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-powerful-people-just-dont

Cozy season

‘What we saw in the last US election was the rise of this very individualistic politics and this idea that a real man doesn't need a social safety net, that he is the agent of his own destiny.’ Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere, on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

One of a series of atmospheric photos shot by Naishu Shah of myself and the band performing live at the Victoria, Dalston, London, on our spring tour last year. Not long until we announce some more shows 😉

Not sure if there are any ambient fans among my followers, but just to say that today I've released an album by my side-project, riverrun 🌊 It's a 60-hour generative piece; each CD copy contains a unique slice. Streaming/download available too. General mood: "On Land"-era Brian Eno. Details here 😊

Lyric revisions/ Finishing touches / New textures Excitement levels building as I get towards the end of a large project 😀