Thank goodness for Madonna and her vagina laser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJtc...

Don't worry, I'll get there.

Guys, have you heard about this new act???

"I’m hoping the title Inferno refers to Dante’s famous 14th-century poetry, and not to Dan Brown’s 2013 novel of worthless word fudge." ✍ Read my review of Inferno, the new album by Boards of Canada, released this week on Warp Records. fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/05/boar...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha no. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Guys, can anyone recommend an instrumental album, maybe released today, that's moody and sepia-toned but dead exciting and there's stuff about prophecies and hydrogen and capricorn and uuh oh never mind im just making stuff up

My laptop (pictured) is not booting up. I can't find the on button and I can't see how to plug it in. A bird keeps trying to steal it. Please advise.

The White Hotel is closing which is a real shame for Manchester, the absolute polar opposite to the other Manchester institution the warehouse project and a shitload more interesting

To anyone mildly concerned, I need to reassure you this a fairly normal day for @fatroland.bsky.social

Well, that's rubbish. I've spent some of my bestest fave nights at The White Hotel, including the Princess Diana funeral event which resulted in the Daily Star perusing me for a week. Very interested to see what Austin and gang plan next. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Right. Can limpet cooks PLEASE stop sending me free teapots. This is nothing to do with you. Anyone who isn't a whelk chef is getting blocked.

To the thousands of whelk chefs who messaged me this afternoon, you misunderstood. I do NOT fancy your teapots.

It's hotter than a whelk chef's teapot.

All music should sound like this old Mouse On Mars track. No exceptions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiP...

Just put my finger into the sun. Wow, it's hot. Like, really hot. And far away. I have a weirdly long finger.

Kraftwerk at the Apollo this weekend. I was sat right near the front, apart from the standing ovation bit where I was stood right near the front. And then we sat down again, so I was-- look, I shouldn't have to explain these things.

@filmci.bsky.social Took me ages to do this. Had to use a crowbar and everything.

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s cover stars are DOUBLESPEAK – VINCE CLARKE, NEIL ARTHUR and BENGE – and we’re bundling the magazine with a purple vinyl seven-inch featuring two terrific tracks by this exciting new synthpop supergroup. Order now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

Happy birthday, Eric Morecambe. You made me the fool I am. Two months older than my dad, dontcha know.

It'd be Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday today

Visiting a hospital: They had a poster about the importance of consulting doctors about skin care. It was headed with the acronym "ASKING". Except they squeezed in an extra S, so it said "ASSKING". Then someone had added a cartoon of a donkey. And the donkey was mooning. BEST. MEDICAL. POSTER. EVER.

Tonight at O Peste, music and words hump each other like a randy walrus befriending a beach ball. Join me at RE:SHAPE. I'm reading a story about a glowing orb because there aren't enough stories about glowing orbs. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reshapeiv-...

David Attenborough is 100 years old today, which is 100 in gorilla years.

Am I doing it right?

Dammit, failed again.

A new Boards Of Canada track. Play this loud. That drop at the 1m30 mark. The signature minor chords. The gentle acid. A terrifying robot god invoking the eternity of nothingness. Lovely stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Nl...

Why is the floor full of Boards of Canada kexagons?

▶️ Seefeel: Ever No Way. Minimal, dreamy dubby ambience that feels like a cloud floating on a cloud while giving a piggyback to a cloud. Taken from their first studio album proper for 15 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5E...

Got my secret code for the Boards of Canada album listening party in May... and realised I'm seeing Kraftwerk that night. Sausages. Hopefully the Düsseldorf boys will do a set entirely of BoC covers.

Orange vinyl. Orange vinyl! Plus my biggest feature yet for Electronic Sound magazine, but mainly... the vinyl! It's orange!!! electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/issue...

MONSTER CAPITAL LAUNCH! 🎉📚 📅 May 6 at 7pm 📌 The Black-E, L1 5EW 🎫 writingonthewall.org.uk/myevents/com... Join us as part of @wowfest.bsky.social for readings & discussion w/ Ra Page, Kiare Ladner, Ian Carrington @fatroland.bsky.social & @saraheschofield.bsky.social.

🎶🎶Wrong way down a one-way stree-eet🎶🎶

Thanks to all who came out last week & thx @cpxmcr.bsky.social for hosting such a wonderful evening celebrating #MarkFisher with 'We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher' & 'Monster Capital' ft @bronteschiltz.bsky.social & Ian Carrington @fatroland.bsky.social 📚🎬 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/monste...

A flipchart that never gets opened, held up by (I think) a mop. A table of oddities including a fly swatter, a tambourine and a toilet roll judge's wig. Guess the comedian.

It's official. Boards of Canada are releasing a new album. It's called INFERNO and it'll be out on 29 May 2026.

Cows? Geese? Buffalo? Pokemon?!

▶️ dgoHn: I Couldn't Remember So I Made Something Up. Bouncy breakcore drizzled in melty synths with a 15/8 time signature just to be awkward. What a delight. Newly signed to Planet Mu Records. dgohn-music.bandcamp.com/track/i-coul...

▶️ Madonna: I Feel So Free. Did not expect this. Justify My Love meets Giorgio Moroder and Lil Louis, with added acid. Warning: flashing graphics throughout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx83...

▶️ Clark: Relentless Opponent. This is a slamming industrial disco favourite from Clark's live set. That bassline drop at the 3-minute mark is ridonkulous. There will be a full Opponent Stims EP out in May. clark.bandcamp.com/track/relent...

"I used to befriend spiders on the way to school. I gave them names and counted their legs to make sure everything was in order. I wonder if Waits does the same with houseflies." ✍ Time flies – Massive Attack return and bring Tom Waits with them fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/04/time...

The dayvan cowboys have ridden back into town. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgh...

▶️ Massive Attack & Tom Waits: Boots on the Ground. The official video by Del Naja and thefinaleye. ICE raids, rise of the military, regimes turning to fascism, backed up with statistics and academic research. All in a day's work for Massive Attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

New Massive Attack track. New Tom Waits track. Pick your side. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVTV...

Happy 30th anniversary to The Box, a masterpiece of harpsichord electronica that had the sound of creaky old wood haunting our nightmares. Tilda Swinton starred in the video, and years later the track themed Mike Myers' enjoyably off-kilter The Pentaverate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cONv...

ANALOG HORROR 📹✍ Short Story Course w/ @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 📍 Online Via Zoom 📅 Wed 6-8pm: May 6, 20, Jun 3, 17 & Jul 1, 15. Explore the worlds of found-text and Analog Horror with author Brontë Schiltz, and get your work published in a Comma eBook. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/analog-hor...

Today's listening.

"It's so dang SNAPPY." A preview of Janus 'Kiasmos' Rasmussen's new album, out next month. ✍ Janus Rasmussen's snappy new album is super, super ert fatroland.blogspot.com/2026/04/janu...

The first word I ever had published in Electronic Sound magazine when issue one was released in July 2012 was "while". I wish it had been something more interesting, like "spatula" or "horsefly" or "gash".

"If we are what we watch, then what kind of monster does reality television consumption make of us?"... Writer Bronte Schiltz delves into the inspiration behind her story in Monster Capital. commapress.co.uk/blog/and-yet...

"One thing is for certain: Madame Doyle was not killed by a fish." Enjoying a bit of Saturday afternoon Ustinov Poirot.