Happy new year & all that jazz! ICYMI here are 25 albums I loved from 2025. There were loads more too but hey, you gotta stop somewhere... Thread complete with details & links in case you wanna check any for yourself

So why was I today years old before I heard this great Leo Cuypers album? #NowPlaying #JazzSky Leo Cuypers: Heavy Days Are Here Again (1981) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#NowPlaying Nurse With Wound: An Awkward Pause (1999) nursewithwound1.bandcamp.com/album/an-awk...

Did a Boxing Day painting just for you. It is "Offering Day" after all. Couldn't be arsed to think of a title, mind 😉 "Untitled" (acrylic on white A4 mix media paper) #TalksyArt #Painting #Abstract #Art #Expressionism

Bloody hell, it's reached that time of the evening...

#NowPlaying #jazz Brötzmann Graves Parker: Historic Music Past Tense Future (2022) The trio of titans recorded levitating CBGBs in 2002. All three are on astonishing form but Graves' drumming reaches almost mythical status! Essential. milfordgraves-blackeditionsarchive.bandcamp.com/album/histor...

Went to bed very stoned last night, listened to Eliane Radigue's Kyema from Trilogie de la Mort, my fingers & toes developed complex root systems, burrowing down thru my bed, & I realised all of us are the earth, we share one life force; death is not the end but rebirth, part of life's eternal cycle

And what Xmas night would be complete without a bit of LSD... #NowPlaying Coil: Love's Secret Domain (1991)

A bit of Christmas Cure... The first LP by them I bought the year it was released (vinyl long lost along the way) so will always be a favourite

Merry Xmas all. Keep it real...

Getting into the festive mood watching The Lair Of The White Worm

Alice Coltrane, Dorothy Carter, and now Dorothy Ashby... it's a holy trinity for xmas... #NowPlaying #vinyl The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby (1970)

And another from the very heavens themselves... #NowPlaying #vinyl Dorothy Carter: Waillee Waillee paltoflats.bandcamp.com/album/waille...

Well, Xmas is a time for the divine... #NowPlaying Alice Coltrane: Ptah The El Daoud (1970)

Board games are popular at Christmas, I understand. But be sure to read the 'rules of playing to begin'... youtu.be/81ONgCu1kbs?...

Anyhow, I'm sat here getting high & listening to 'Dart Drug' so who's winning now?

This year's been a bit shit for me going out wise due to mental & physical health issues, missing Acid Horse due to a CFS flare-up being a particular lowlight. But I did volunteer at the amazing Supernormal where I met some fabulous people & saw tons of great performances, so not all bad 😁

#NowPlaying #vinyl Gerald Cleaver: The Process (2024) Couldn't mention Cleaver without giving this masterpiece another spin... positiveelevation.bandcamp.com/album/the-pr...

#NowPlaying Griot Galaxy: Live on WUOM 1979 Recently unearthed extended live radio performance from Faruq Bey's cult Afro-futurist jazz group, performing here as a double sax, drums & double bass quartet. A wonderful find! griotgalaxy.bandcamp.com/album/live-o...

This is a wonderful album, made my Top 10 Favorites list of 2022! If it's passed you by then I would highly recommend 😁

Great record, crazy price. You know what to do 👇

Friends, the doors are open. Performance starts in ten minutes. Come join us...

The last #Cassunday before xmas so here are 20 of my favourite tapes released this year... All can be found on bandcamp. Thanks to all involved 🙏 #TwentyTopTapes #AOTY25 #2025Tapes

Listening again & oh my days, this would have been troubling my #AOTY25 list if I'd heard it in time! Stunning...

#NowPlaying #2025Albums Anna Högberg Attack: Ensamseglaren Had missed the new album by the wonderful Swedish free jazz collective til I belatedly read The Wire piece; a superbly crafted suite of soaring blow-outs, hushed eerie ambience & mind-expanding magic annahogberg.bandcamp.com/album/ensams...

Yes, LOTS of films / books COULD be shorter / lose 20 mins but you could also just wait for the Wikipedia summary or get a mate to tell you the best parts… and what essence might you miss if you don’t just let the authors / filmmakers take you away for a while? We don’t all need to be editors…

#NowPlaying #2025Albums Karen Willems: A Fool's Guide To Reality Thanks to Boomkat's EOY charts (& particularly Valentina Magaletti!) for alerting me to a new Karen Willems LP; a wondrous wonky world of found sounds, oddity & multi-instrumental creativity permanentdraft.bandcamp.com/album/a-fool...

#NowPlaying #2025Albums Lea Bertucci: The Oracle Catching up with some albums I'd missed this year, starting with this hallucinogenic dreamlike gem...field recordings, manipulated vocal polyphony, sublime ambience & woozy tripped-out mysticism leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/the-or...

"Salome's Gift" (acrylic on small white card, 12cm x 9cm) #Abstract #Painting #Miniature #Art #TalksyArt

I'm sorry, but 'yer da shouts at hotels' is the best sticker ever made

Now with completed thread of descriptions & links... #25for25 #AOTY25 #2025Albums

But now they only block the sun. They rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

A quick solo run around Europe & the UK. 9/4 Barcelona Casa Montjuïc 10/4 Lisbon Zdbs 11/4 Braga gnration 12/4 Bristol The Cube 13/4 London Bush Hall 14/4 Glasgow Glad Cafe 15/4 Belfast Sonorities Festival 16/4 Dublin Bello Bar 18/4 Rome Miniera TICKETS — tr.ee/8z680LXQi6 photo by Alec Pugliese

Ever since the Community Care Act & the purchaser/provider split in social care, social workers have been sold each new piece of legislation & technological 'advancement' as a benefit to them & service users, yet every time it has actually been about profit, managerialism & labour discipline.

Watched the Tish Murta documentary on i-player, highly recommended if you're interested in art, photography, class & socialism 💯 More info on Tish & her remarkable work here... #photography #socialism www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

#OtD 16 Dec 1871 teacher and revolutionary, Louise Michel, was put on trial in France after the crushing of the Paris commune for trying to overthrow the government and other offences. She was sentenced to exile in New Caledonia. More about the commune: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/voi...

Ok folks, it's The Golden Hour #25for25 time... My favourite 25 albums of 2025. In alphabetical order natch. Enjoy / ridicule / ignore Thread to follow with links in due course 😁 #AOTY25 #2025Albums #NewMusic25

Bored of all the #AOTY25 lists yet? Never fear, the one you've all been waiting for is nearly here! 😉 The Golden Hours #25for25 drops this evening, my favourite 25 albums of this year. Keep 'em peeled from around 7pm... #2025Albums

#NowPlaying #2025Albums #Vinyl Sophie Agnel: Learning (Otoroku) Raved about Agnel before, stunning solo piano improvisation & ingenuity, recorded live on two dates at Café Oto. One of my very favourite albums of the year ❤️ sophieagnel.bandcamp.com/album/learning

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cardiacs 'Secret Bull & Gate Concerts", the Alphabet Business Concern have kindly sanctioned the broadcast of the full concert videos via YouTube. Gather the family for a true Xmas treat, guaranteed to be worthy of laudation... #Cardiacs

#NowPlaying #2025Albums Revisiting 'For Translucence' again & stand by my feelings from the summer ❤️

Listening once again to that Eliana Glass debut album & it really is something else. Intimate, sultry, jazzy; perfect late night gear. Comparisons to Annette Peacock, Carla Bley & Sibylle Baier are not pure hype. #NowPlaying #JazzSky #2025Albums elianaglass.bandcamp.com/album/e

#art #abstract #abstractart #contemporaryart #modernart #abstractartist #digitalart #glitch #glitchart

To celebrate getting into the Monolith Cocktail Albums of the Year list, you can until the end of the month, get 50% off the album. Use the code: monolith for a 50% discount on the album. audioobscura.bandcamp.com/album/as-lon...

My #2025Albums revisit today has focused on the fabulous French Shelter Press label... wonderful albums from Judith Hamann, Eliana Glass, JJJJJerome Ellis, Felicia Atkinson, John Also Bennett...❤️ shelterpress.bandcamp.com

Happy ACAB day 🖤 We end our #12DaysofACAB series with a significant ongoing court case: the Filton 24, many of whom have been on remand, pre-trial, for well over a year. For information on how you can show your solidarity and write to the prisoners see prisonersforpalestine.org/writing-to-p...

Happy ACAB Day to all who celebrate! netpol.org @netpol.org

The barren track, unchanging To the horizon. But wearily, I trudge on.

Today's #TalksyArt... 'I Woke Up Knowing Everything' (acrylics on A4 black card) #Painting #Abstract #Art