My relationship with music has changed/deepened massively this year. I'm buying more physical records, relying less on streaming, reading more, trying to go to more gigs... and it's been a good year (on that front). One thing that hasn't changed is my love of tQ. Please support them!

Because I am both a graphic designer AND a bit of a twat, I’ve made a graphic of my favourite records of 2025

At the trampoline park with the kids and some absolute legend has interrupted the relentless Disney songs to play Enya at full blast.

Picking up Nine Inch Nails’ With Teeth based purely off the cover art, falling down the rabbit hole and getting obsessed with @rob-sheridan.com’s world-building

This looks pretty cool – a face-to-face videogame console that mixes board game play with videogame interactivity. board.fun

JUST IN! 'Ace Of Swords' by Thought Leadership Ambient pop, art rock, left-field post-punk, dream pop, and jazz styles including ECM and fusion influences meet on the Stockport multi-instrumentalist and producer's 2024 LP. @bewithrecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2119...

I have a show on lovewillsavetheday.fm this Sunday, 8–9PM, as part of their Open Air weekend. I'll be playing a mix of downtempo, IDM, dubby stuff and a few other related bits. Experimental, textural music to decompress to.

Can vouch for JR Moores’ scribbles; I have an excellent Perfect Drug era Trent Reznor sketch inside my copy of Electric Wizards and it was only after I read the book that it dawned on me how much it must have pained him to do it.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

a comic about fishing (1/7)

An easy story for reporters in tech and extremism right now might be to ask major music streaming platforms why they quietly let Skrewdriver back on some time this year

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

FINALLY got round to reading/devouring @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social’s autobiography. What a life. What an artist. What an inspiration. I’m off to go make something.

Can we not, please. (It takes <1 min to sign this!)

Yessssssssssss

The new @worriedaboutsatan.bsky.social is rhythmic, dubby and droney in all the best ways; I've been playing it lots over the past couple of weeks to drift away and clear my head. All proceeds go to Cancer Research UK. Get on it. worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com/album/subtle...

I miss when the internet was basically just dumb shit like this

Just imagining Mr William Emmanuel Bevan in a recording booth singing "You huuuurt me" over and over, clearing his throat in between each take, to get it sounding juuuuuust right.

The trans rights stitch-up: How the government plans to silence parliamentary debate on the most far-reaching restriction of minority rights in our lifetime open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Few singers ever have possessed this quality. And few voices have ever made me so emotional. Even the Sabbath and Ozzy songs that aren’t necessarily deemed emotional can set me off. I associate Ozzy’s voice with being working class, with being bullied for being weird, with just fucking going for it.

This, from John Darnielle’s 33 ⅓ book on Master of Reality, is as perfect a description of Ozzy’s voice as you’ll ever find. He sounded like he was from the street. He sounded like the everyman and yet like no man ever has before or ever will again. He sounds like me and yet nothing like me.

Neighbour sent me a photo of a sheep playing football in our back garden. Wondering if there’s a better sheep-based football pun to be made than Demba Baa.

In danger of stating the obvious here, but there are a lot of bucket hats and Oasis t-shirts in central Manchester this morning.

Very proud of my pals getting featured on Bandcamp (and—shameless plug—I did the artwork)

This past weekend I was at my friend’s stag do, where we rented a manor house and threw him his own festival. We all took on DJ names (mine was Brian Emo) and did sets, and we designed merch, including this slipmat that I’m very proud of.

Music indoctrination update: my 3.5yo daughter likes Godflesh.

An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Music is so good.

Big fan of the new Veikkausliga (Finnish football league) identity, and the custom typeface inspired by the folding and movement of football scarves. Especially with how club colours can be applied to it. More weird type like this in branding, please. www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bon...

@record.club hey! i don't seem to be able to follow record labels on RC – i tap the follow button and it immediately goes back from "following" to "follow" – is this a known bug?

Starting an artist bio with "J.G.G. began making music under this name in 2013, after a dream in which he discovered a melody capable of bringing about the end of the world." is certainly one way to get me to listen to someone's music unjenesaisquoi.bandcamp.com/album/bombolla

Just got an ergonomic chair. Life is different now.

The Bug is one of the people I missed hearing from when I moved here from Twitter, especially his music recommendation posts. This one’s a corker. Give it a go if you’re into the abstract direction trip-hop has been heading into.

If you like Radiohead and enjoy being reminded of the terrifying, unstoppable passage of time, then you'll be thrilled to know that The Bends turns 30 today. To mark this harrowing milestone, I sat down with @stanleydonwood.bsky.social to talk about the creation of its artwork for Creative Review.

Happy New Satan Day to all who celebrate 🙏

Tonight I got down on all fours to sniff some dropped bolognese thinking it was poo, in case you’re wondering how parenting is going this weekend

Brian Eno's "Ambient 1" only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it went on to start an airport.

Aphex Twin – drukqs (2001)

If you're not on Record Club yet, get involved. Like Letterboxd, but for rating/reviewing/documenting what music you're listening to. My profile: record.club/vizzee

What this piece lets out of the bag is, whatever is driving the far/right's hatred of trans people it is absolutely, positively not a desire to protect women from sexual violence. They are happy to celebrate a perpetrator of sexual violence, so long as he shares their hatred of trans people.

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Really enjoyed working with the @jitty.com team on another feature launch video ✨

Remember the AI / copyright consultation? I'm having dinner with one of its principle authors on Friday. What should I say to them? Bear in mind, they aren't responsible for govt policy, but are involved in its execution, and they can frame how the response to the consultation is received.

Being back in London, solo and kid-free for a couple of days, is such a strange experience. I remember exactly why I loved this place, and simultaneously why I was ultimately done with it; the buzz and excitement of it are unmatched, but I don’t want to raise my kids here.

This is important stuff on Boxing Day night, please stop what you’re doing and read

Another Wednesday, another freelancer check-in! Drop in for a quick chat with other creative freelancers, chat about work, life, whatever. Kind of like a stand-up that we'd have if we were perm employees somewhere. Sign up to be sent the Google Meet link: lu.ma/dod5o7l4