🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… 🎶 I can usually argue with myself in a closed room, but I can’t argue with number 1. It’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I still love the thrill of just buying a record without having heard anything about it before. Here's this week's from @beartreerecords.bsky.social. Awesome percussion from Uganda on #NyegeNyegeTapes

It's like how much more black can my new @inov8.bsky.social Trailtalon's be? And the answer is none; none more black.

I just darned a hole in my jumper. Don't let people tell you that you can't fulfil your potential.

Still thinking about last night's immense @chatpileband.bsky.social gig in Leeds. Partly because it was the best gig of the last year, but mainly about whether there's a Pieminister in Birmingham. Hope so, as they deserve it...

#NowPlaying @chatpileband.bsky.social Live at Roadburn 2023 🔥🔥 Can not wait for Leeds next Thursday. chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Go and see #BlackCountryNewRoad. Now.

Two more tapes for making the tea to this evening: Fashion Tips - Fucking hell fashiontipsband.bandcamp.com/album/fuckin... And Cut a Lonely Figure - Requiem for a Haunted Starship (not available anymore so you'll just have to imagine it (unless you own it))

#NowPlaying Distopian noise from Like Weeds. Perfect Monday evening music... likeweedsnoise.bandcamp.com/album/left-b...

Out in the sun today doing some #FieldRecording for the first time in ages. It was lush.

@thequietus.com are always on the money... The new #Aya album, Hexed!, is really magnificent. A hard core banger with a human touch. 'Time at the Bar' is the best track I've heard this year. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Daily reminder

The Barkley Marathons summed up in one post... #BM100

#NowPlaying Bedtime sounds from @bluetapes.bsky.social I just love this. It feels both organic, like a forest, but filled with 1950s sci-fi. bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

#NowPlaying @alabasterdeplume.bsky.social A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole. A proper honest record with heaps of integrity and beautiful tunes. Just lovely.

New France album is bloody good eh? standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/destin...

Next up. A lovely warbly old favourite from #ConnanMockasin #NowPlaying

#NowPlaying Yet another black album cover for this morning. The dark cover belies the beauty within. johannjohannsson.bandcamp.com/album/and-in...

Biiig fan of #TheBody and loving their latest slice of glitchy heavy noise screaminess.

#Sheffield home of #Football in the @nytimes.com. Well I never... www.nytimes.com/athletic/603...

#NowPlaying Miyamoto, Naosuke Sextet - STEP! A bit of Japanese hard-bop to keep the January blues away.

#NowPlaying Most underrated album of 2024 for me. The space in this record is mindblowing. Should be in many more #aoty2024 lists. juliaholter.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

#NowPlaying Next up... A nice bit of druid electro drone. soundsofslomo.bandcamp.com/album/zen-an...

#NowPlaying Next up: strut.bandcamp.com/album/balka-... Funky bass, jangly guitars and skittering percussion. Love it!

#NowPlaying Mo Léan by Róis. Been listening on digital for weeks. Vinyl arrived and it was worth the wait. Cracking stuff.

#NowPlaying Robin Carolan's immense #Nosferatu soundtrack. If the film is as scary as this, I may not sleep for a week.

I have heard FGTH The Power of Love at least five times in the last 24 hours and I still have to stop everything I am doing when it comes on. It is a masterpiece.

a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date

Consistently, the best end of year list of them all. Agree or disagree it's always a pleasure to delve into...

Went to see this earlier today at @yspsculpture.bsky.social. Big recommend. It's beautiful and scary and moving. ysp.org.uk/whats-on/exh...

I absolutely love this. Missed fhe physical when it first came out. Time for a "repress".

Returning to work after a year on strike 🙏

This has to be the worst top ten of the ninet... oh, hang on #totp

I appreciate this is the new non-combative, non-controversial place, but I will fight anyone who disagrees that The Nephilim is the best #goth album ever made and Last Exit... is the best goth song.

The Best Field Recordings on Bandcamp, November 2024 Source: Bandcamp Daily. Bandcamp hosts an amazing array of field recordings from around the world, made by musicians and sound artists as well as professional field recordists. In this column, we highlight the best sounds recorded outside the…

Tonight's dark and snowy 10k #trailrunning

Free Download Friday 10 years ago we released 'Ghost Of A Hurt' by The Sinister Insult. An obscure slice of 'white noise folk' horror which remains their only release. Take a step back in time wxza-54x3 eqtg-7aes brny-57rd dxdz-7ehh seqz-vup5 srru-65ur 7mxs-eptz vbep-3r36 9v7b-cllk zf5w-wep8

Snowy Intervals in Sheffield last night! #trailrunning #darkpeakfellrunners #fellrunning

Happy birthday to Peter Kember and Jason Pierce, who were born on the same day in the same hospital. Here they are together in Spacemen 3 - this raw clip from Mike Mason's video for Revolution is included in an excellent library of footage of the band at spacemen3.co.uk/tv/

This. Always this. As good now as it was on my 9th birthday...

I feel seen.

It would have been Jeff Buckley's birthday today. This one feels appropriate after the move from that other place. youtu.be/zD7e-eQuhJM?...

bird sounds

Finally made the move off Twitter to @bsky.app today having had a dormant account for ages. Is anybody out there?