Steffen Rayburn-Maarup
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. Day 42. #9. *11 points* Amber Mark: What It Is (2021 ๐บ๐ธ) It's a little early in the day for irresistibly sultry r&b, but there you have it. At 26.3 millions, the most streamed song that, so far, I'm the only one to pick.
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Wow. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985) is a cinematic masterpiece. At turns surreal and realistic, beautifully staged and shot throughout, and oh, harrowing. *Not* a pleasant film.
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. Day 41. #10. *11 points* Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kฤผava: Aletheia (2024 ๐ฑ๐ป) (composed by ลฝibuoklฤ Martinaitytฤ, 2022) Big, intense, evocative, all done with voices. At just under 4000, my least streamed pick.
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I can't fathom why the phrase "6โ7" is even remotely funny. "40โ45" however makes me snort with laughter.
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Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse THE DOCTORS 40....45...40 years. HD resolution
YouTube video by The Pure Truth
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. Day 40. #11. The Necks: Causeway (2025 ๐ฆ๐บ) Pull up a chair: this takes its time. At 26 min the longest of my picks; the shortest on its 4 track, 3h9m album. The oldest artist on my list (discography begins 1989); the newest track: 12 Aug '25.
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Read: Lissa Evans's Small Bomb at Dimperley (2024). Colossally charming, funny, moving book set in post-war England. A feel-good book for readers who don't go for feel-good books.
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. Day 39. #12. The Soft Pink Truth: Sunwash (2022 ๐บ๐ธ) A bandname whose awfulness rivals that of Jockstrap โย but it's a great dubby ambient/electronic workout from one half of Matmos.
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. Day 38. #13. Jane Paknia, Hagop Tchaparian: Alice in Orchidverse (2024 ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ฌ๐ง) And we're back on the dancefloor.
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4 days ago
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George Monbiot
4 days ago
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes. On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales. On the right is the UK prison population. ๐งต1/8
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. Day 37. #14. The Tubs: Wretched Lie (2023 ๐ฌ๐ง) This sounds straight out of the mid 80s British folky jangly scene, and it's a TUNE.
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5 days ago
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Your weekly slowly hibernating bit of outside.
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6 days ago
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Alright so the orange president still isn't in jail, but at least some pub quiz cheaters have been stopped. Let's take that win.
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. Day 36. #15. Kelly Lee Owens: Dreamstate (2024 ๐ฌ๐ง) A relentless, chugging anthem. KLO's second of two slots on my list.
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A panel from the most overrated comic ever. Also one of the best comics ever.
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7 days ago
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Rose Ruane
7 days ago
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliverโs Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it
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Justin Lewis
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When I was on
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I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
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Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss&list=RD4JWwOzEDGss&start_radio=1
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. Day 35. #16. Grace Ives: Shelly (2022 ๐บ๐ธ) HERE'S A RIFF.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWO...
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. Day 34. #17. The Staves: Satisfied (2021 ๐ฌ๐ง) Pour this into my ears.
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. Day 33. #18. Sofi Tukker, Tuckโs Dad: Larry Bird (2022 ๐บ๐ธ) Not really my thing, but I just cannot sit still to this one. Also: nice and short!
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Read: Sam Leith: The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading (2024). Wonderfully alive history of children's (and adjacent) books. A big fat brick I could almost have read in one sitting.
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. Day 32. #19. Floating Points: Birth4000 (2024 ๐ฌ๐ง) Yesterday's producer is back and does the bare minimum, very efficiently.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWLp...
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In The Guardian's listicle of stuff they gave 0 stars is a "play" that my wife* and I attended 17 years ago. We often chuckle at how absolutely terrible it was. We walked out.
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Theatre review: An Audience With the Mafia / Apollo, London
(no stars) Someone hire a hit man and put this dire mafia mismatch out of its misery, says Lyn Gardner
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2008/jan/28/theatre2
11 days ago
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I'm quite disappointed. I found the Rude filter and switched it off this morning, but still I only get urbane, funny, interesting, fascinating tweets in my timeline.
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. Day 31. #20. Hikaru Utada: Somewhere Near Marseilles (2022 ๐ฏ๐ต/๐บ๐ธ) Nice to see this house banger picking up momentum. The producer will be back on my list very soon.
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11 days ago
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Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
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. Day 30. #21. Magdalena Bay: Hysterial Us (2021 ๐บ๐ธ) An irresistible piece of sugary pop, endlessly hummable.
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12 days ago
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Rooks and crows overhead, tits in the trees. A light rain.
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13 days ago
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. Day 29. #22. Yeah Yeah Yeah feat. Perfume Genius: Spitting Off the Edge of the World (2022 ๐บ๐ธ) Some nice and slow rock music.
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. Day 28. #23. SAULT: Wildfires (2020 ๐ฌ๐ง) Ah, Lockdown 2020, when SAULT was an unknown bunch of people who put out great song after great song. They will appear on this countdown again.
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. Day 27. #24. Carmel Smickersgill: Questioning (2022 ๐ฌ๐ง) Pretty, playful electronica in the vein of Art of Noise.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MCR...
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15 days ago
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Now back to our regularly scheduled
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. Day 26. #25. Fyfe, Iskra Strings, Kelly Lee Owens: Spirographs (2022 ๐ฌ๐ง) Soaring piece balanced between breakbeat and ambient, somewhat reminiscent of the 90s in its construction. Owens will be back later.
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Wocco
17 days ago
Halloween Haunted House
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17 days ago
Birds but they get spookier each time. ๐๐ป Enter if you dare...๐ช
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October reading [โ] Favourite: all good, but McKee a bit longwinded, Smith a mixed bag, Morrison great (but not as great as in other books), so I guess new-to-me James whose classic ghost stories were pretty much perfect.
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HM5 Gavin Bryars, The Crossing, Donald Nally: A Native Hill (2021 ๐บ๐ธ) Voting for the whole 68 minutes long work or this beautiful bit from it. Either way I'll be the only one nominating ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ
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Read: M.R. James: The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral (1904,11,25). A collection of six ghost stories. I'm not the biggest horror fan, but tonigh's All Hallows' Eve, and I had never read James. I really liked the understated eeriness of these short stories. This won't be my last M.R.
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Radley Balko
17 days ago
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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HM4 Poor creature: An Draighneรกn Donn (2025 ๐ฎ๐ช) Again with the Irish folk. This time with a haunting, droning, MBV-ish quality.
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18 days ago
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Okay, I have a frightening tweet prepared for All Hallows' Eve. You are warned.
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Still some lovely yellows out there, desperately hanging on.
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HM3 Alanna Thornburgh: Mick na mBrรฉag (2025 ๐ฎ๐ช) Gorgeous irish harp, v. lovely debut album this year.
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19 days ago
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Gearing up for the spooky season.
20 days ago
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Matthew Noe
20 days ago
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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HM2 Lia Kohl: Airport Fridge, Self Checkout (2024 ๐บ๐ธ) A slooow start and then a mini techno workout.
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20 days ago
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HM1 Commander Spoon, Miss Angel: Flock: Episode 4 (2022 ๐ง๐ช) Belgian jazz hip hop.
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Flock: Episode 4 (feat. Miss Angel)
YouTube video by Commander Spoon - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMoAFQv6xeI
21 days ago
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Finally Connections acknowledges its theft.
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Recently there was a 'What's social media ever done for you?' thing. Well, my Lord Peter Wimsey collection is now *complete* thanks to Bluesky doing lovely, helpful retweets, finding lovely, helpful people willing to part with the missing books. The world isn't all bad.
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Day 25. #26. Oren Ambarchi: III (2022 ๐ฆ๐บ) (from Shebang) Who doesn't enjoy a bit of driving motorik-like Australian jazz?!
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