Guess which one of these four corkers I bought as my ‘buying my first ever music from a shop with my own money’.

Happyend! This film is so good, sort of dystopian John Hughes but with Sakamoto rather than Simple Minds. Highly recommended. youtu.be/LkPTH_gKZxw?...

Great album!

Not long until Bandcamp Friday in the morning - we've got recent releases from Allo Darlin' and Mirrored Daughters still available, and August releasing pre-orders from Stanley Brinks and Sekunderna available. Plus 100+ items of back catalogue for you to delve into! fikarecordings.bandcamp.com

Four upcoming gigs from us in Sep/Oct: Sep 13: Fortitude Valley + adults + Lanny at New River Studios Oct 9: Allo Darlin' + The Wave Pictures at EartH Hall Oct 24: The Ballet + Evripidis & His Tragedies + Panic Pocket at The Betsey Trotwood Oct 28: Withered Hand + Mirrored Daughters at The Victoria

They've been waiting for the UN to declare a genocide is happening so this won't affect their market share

Press emails going out for new TLL-related things this week. Let me know if you want to hear it for your show/zine.

I had no idea there was someone else involved in the Sgt Peppers sleeve.

It’s Literally Raining Today

The kid has clearly been paying attention.

Absolutely fascinating, warm Doug Yule interview here: www.furious.com/perfect/yule.... Lovely stuff.

Are we still #CDFriday -ing? Here’s this week’s dispatch from the study.

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Someone's found time out from endorsing the best pal of the world's mist notorious pedophile, rolling back the rights to peaceful protest & hosting a man who signs bombs whilst aiding & abetting the genocide those bombs are being used in, to offer some thoughts on political violence

Long term want list find. “This is 1976, we don’t want no more war…”

New List of Assholes just dropped.

Right, let’s get this party started.

Be ungovernable, go floppy

1 copy left of this run, it would appear…

New solo album up for preorder via @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social. Thanks to everyone that’s bought one of these already! waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...

Then late last year we partnered with Objects Forever in London to release this collaboration between Fukuoka's Sea Level and @matthewjashton.bsky.social's Sun Drawing project, which you could take as the rural or leafy 1st part of the journey: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...

This is a fantastic album, I'm beyond honoured to have inspired the track title which kicked it off.

Very excited to say I’ve got a new album up for pre-order today, via the wonderful @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social. It’s the first ever physical release by my Form Group project (despite that starting back in 2004) and it’s called Provincial Echo. digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/provin...

I have not heard this yet but I am going to buy it and am 100% certain it’s awesome.

My favourite Saint Etienne albums in order (having thought about it for a whole five minutes): 01. Sound Of Water 02. Foxbase Alpha 03. Continental 04. Tiger Bay

Patience my children, your moment is almost upon us…

You can protest your arse off as a left winger and never be mentioned in the papers, but turn up for a few tins as a group of fifty racists and they’ll call you a ‘movement’ on the front page.

I made a grumpy middle aged person meme.

For fans of all things kraut, post-punk, vaguely Durutti Columny squelchy retrotronic and avant-pop, made by a mad scientist in his bedroom. Fans of aggressive stereo panning also advised to pay attention. I created the artwork for this and I'm quite pleased with it.

Every time I get it wrong going through a door I say, “Midvale school for the gifted” in my head.

This is pretty essential (if uneasy) listening: soundcloud.com/resident-adv... Still a bit agnostic about heavy words over soft music, but I think it works here as it heightens the cognitive dissonance of this whole awful situation, rather than it just being 'hey, it's chill time'.

I've just woken up face down on the deck of the Portsmouth-Le Havre ferry in someone else's clothes, with the letters STEL YDAN tattooed across my knuckles, so... yeah?

Do you reckon these 32 year old tabs are still good?

Bilbo the golden retriever isn’t hearing any hits here.

The new @anewlinerelated.bsky.social is so good. Highly recommended: anewlinerelated.bandcamp.com/album/crewe-...

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Thanks Gareth, nice description! Glad you're enjoying it.

The Pissintegration Loops

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

This @kieranmahon.bsky.social on @castlesinspace.bsky.social is helping a great deal. kieranmahon-cis.bandcamp.com/album/mornin...

Twenty years ago today, Jean Charles de Menezes was assassinated at Stockwell station. Head of the Met Police, Ian Blair, was made a Lord. Cressida Dick, who led the operation, was promoted to Blair's position.

なかなかユニークというか不思議な試みの作品。今の時代ならではとも云えるかも。 ロンドンのドローン・ポップのバンドThe Leaf Libraryのメンバーによる別プロジェクトSun Drawingと、福岡を拠点に活動する日本のバンドSea Levelによるコラボ・アルバム。 まずSun Drawingがフィンランドの図書館でアルバムのトラックを録り、その音源にSea Levelが重ね録りした作品であるとのこと。 どの音がどちらかは詳しいところまでは解らないが、アンビエントな響きが染み入ってくる。 music.apple.com/jp/album/aft...

What words remain for a government that goes to court to insist it be allowed to continue selling weapons to a state committing genocide, then sends a letter of complaint when those weapons are used?

Unlikely you'll see a more melancholy 2 minutes of film this week. Just needs a Herzog narration and it'll be complete: nos.nl/collectie/13... (thanks @levparikian.bsky.social)

Just remembered a short comic I made several years back for a @themagfields.bsky.social illustration project Jules Scheele was doing. Here’s my attempt for Love In The Shadows. howfuckingromantic.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/l...

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