It's been a while since Discovery offered anything interesting. Probably something to do with AI feedback loops. Anyway found this by Dave Gahan's (Depeche Mode) daughter Stella Rose. Eclectic 2023 album of PJ Harveyesque moody rock with riot grrl inflection on the vocals and strong songwriting.

Nowhere even close to conversational, but on the upside I can say "My tailor is rich and my mother is in the kitchen"

Random delve into the CD shelves brought this up from Swedish post rockers Jeniferever. It somehow manages to be both glacial and cuddly, Explosions in the Sky meet Boards of Canada via Bungle from Rainbow playing a tuba.

This is UNHINGED

First decent release of the year comes from The Twilight Sad. Maybe 2026 won't be so bad after all.

lol, have only just twigged why I'm seeing so many posts about the January 6th insurrection :D

Very good. It focuses on latin america, but the biggest erosion of US power will come due to antagonism to Europe. Post-war security was to keep Europe peaceful, rich & demilitarised. Trump is ensuring a powerful military and economic adversary will eventually emerge. www.patreon.com/posts/147222...

Lol, what the hell reddit? My profile pic has been flagged as NSFW, which as you can see from the second photo, must be because it contains Dick.

Something about her cameras suck the horror out of monochrome night photos, but they can still be a bit hammer

The only lesson to be learnt is with no veneer of rule of law, there's no point bringing countries into your SoI if the government can be toppled and replaced by a US governor. If might makes right then better off spending money on the military than in the belt and road.

Abaddon loving his Christmas present. Only a 10 panic when we thought the dog had eaten him. Let's just say he IS VERY good at hiding

Eschewing Bing, Maria etc al for a bit of Lorn whilst Xmas cooking. This is a mini tour de force, Anvil an outright masterpiece. No idea why or if this is significant but my mind always conjours up Tombs of Atuan for some weird reason when listening to it.

Christmas Gantt chart complete.

Cor, 4 particles and two verbs. It's only taken 3 years 😅

You will be visited by three spirits

Oooh, Purity Ring on KEXP, with Corin on...ermmm...teeth? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG84... #musicsky

Got to love those Honest Government Ads. I mean, heaven forbid governments legislated for anything found to have mental, social and physical harm, we don't want to upset the tech bros do we. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRB...

Now that the Santa thing is revealed to all, the boys have taken over Elfie. Eldest excelled himself last night.

Ok, AOTY list, not in any particular order. In ten minutes time it'll be a different list, but I guess gotta commit to paper at some point. #aoty

Very much enjoying Alan Moore's The Great When. Guffaw per page quotient is very high.

A big welcome to the latest member of the family, Abaddon

Not the trickiest of questions

Beaming lad snaffles last remaining of @alexpaknadel.bsky.social 's latest issue from Gosh!

@seanmacgabhann.bsky.social saw this and thought of you (whilst mouthing the words "good grief" in my best Charlie Brown fashion)

nice video essay by @damiengwalter.com Echoes my usual drunken pub rants that our money can keep reality at bay but it won't help when the inevitable societal collapse comes. Build community and resilience now. Oh, and read William Gibson, he's not wrong about him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6cz...

A fine set of albums topping my leader board. Emily Wells my most listened to artist. Do please give her a listen, she is very very good.

The master of projection with an expression that screams "what, me farted? No, YOU farted"

it randomly dawned on me that the Victorians romanticised a white christmas at the tail end of the little ice age, whilst simultaneously sowing the seeds of brown christmases for the next 700 years. Bastards.

Gosh, I haven't listened to a Beirut record for the best part of 20 years. Seems he has matured like a fine wine. A study of Losses is an absolutely girgeous record.

I thought "the fear" was a combination of not being able to hack booze anymore, hangovers that eke out for days and continued overindulgence at weekends. Having been sober all november, turns out existential dread is my standard operating mode.

Is KEXP a national treasure in the US? It should be! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD24...

Hannah Frances' Nested in Tangles cropped up. I wasn't aware of her work but sorely tempted to commit this one to a vinyl purchase. At first aural glance rootsy americana, but there're so many layers, with quite proggy, folk and even post rock elements folded in. Glorious #musicsky

If you've not listened to any of @hannahpeel.bsky.social's prolific output then go do yourself a favour and start now. This album is a sublime electronica tinged cosmic symphony to the stars via Barnsely that somehow evokes the open deserts of Morricone as much as the celestial spheres of Holst.

Amazing stuff that shuffles up. A pre-moustache Teri Gender-Bender and Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López (among others) combine to great effect. The result a little inconsistent, but the highs are so very very high.

Yeah, I don't want you to be alone down there To be alone down there, to be alone But the devil's apprentice, he gave me some credit He fed me a line and I'll probably regret it I don't want you to be alone down there To be alone down there, to be alone

Belonged gutted to hear the news about Mani. Absolutely soundtracked those bright, technicolor, coming of age years. RIP

Getting old is seeing a tenth anniversary edition of something you swear came out the other day #musicsky

another great post from @chrisgrey.bsky.social This is so obvious it should almost go without saying. That it needs pointing out shows just what a terrible job Labour are doing. Why they keep attempting to outflank the unflankable when Reform have glaring vulnerablities elsewhere is a mystery

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... So basically gammons, alt-right, radicalised-by-the-facebook, fools and edgelords.

I'll be very surprised if this doesn't do a clean sweep of every AOTY list of 2025, and deservedly so. #musicsky open.spotify.com/album/3SUEJU...

this is literally never not accurate

Accidentally did a short drive in my office glasses with no longer distance vision. Was amazed that everything in the wing mirror was in perfect focus. For some reason this has shaken my fundamental understanding of life, the universe and everything. I am but a mewling baby, born anew.

The US administration is, literally, evil. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

A couple of old codgers in our 50s (one of us in dog years). Buster definitely weathering years the better of the two

@ythos.bsky.social was just listening to this 2007 album and thought it'd be up your street as there's definitely a Denny influence open.spotify.com/album/03zTwA...

You know its time to buy brown corduroy trousers when you're at the point in life that you're thinking of saying that buying a leaf hoover is the best money you ever spent.....sooooo..I better get myself some new trousers then....

I suspect i love Halloween simply because orange is a fecking cool colour

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

I suppose if Hhitler is your hero then invading Norway is the logical next step