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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

A very Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, the woman who changed everything for the young me.

@stoatie.bsky.social : Songs mutate and evolve, improvised elements sticking and becoming part of the canon. #Swans evolve to such a degree that .. one of their songs is infinitely more likely to develop sentience than any fucking LLM. t.ly/Pr3qt pix: @davepettit.bsky.social #livemusic #gigreview

There’s not that many 80s bands I could still be arsed to see again now but The Butthole Surfers always seemed weirdly ageless, as if they’d crawled out of some thermal duct like a Cthulhu cult, or maybe Cthulhu himself.

Prolapse / Shoun Shoun / The Charlie Tipper Experience (live at The Golden Lion) The last night of a short UK tour for the rejuvenated #Prolapse found us making our way on a miserable evening up the Gloucester Road in Bristol to The Golden Lion pub, a proper […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

FREE CONCERT Join us inside a beautiful, subterranean chapel beneath Royal Berks Hospital, Reading for a special performance by Tim Hill on Sat 15th November. Signed copies of Tim's new album 'Leviathan Whispers' available on the night 🍂🔥🔈 buriedtreasure.bandcamp.com/album/leviat...

ICYMI: my take on the still-fresh new Tortoise LP for @freqzine.bsky.social...

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social writes: "Clocking in at mere thirty-six minutes, Love Chant certainly doesn’t overstay its welcome, which means inviting it back for repeat airings is not hard to do. .. a commendable regeneration for The #Lemonheads." #musicreview #altrock freq.org.uk/reviews/the-...

Laura Cole – Sky Chord / Haptic Space Laura's familiarity with the chosen tracks means that their transition from Axis pieces to #solo #piano affairs for disc one is absolutely seamless, retaining the initial seed, but taking it into a whole other realm.. the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Duo Reflections – La Tregua Their sound is one of communion and discovery and this latest album draws together eight originals and one cover of an old Denis Badault track, and further pushes their adventures beyond the realms of #jazz and into a silvery […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

David Bixler – Incognito Ergo Sum Sax man David Bixler has been playing for the best part of thirty years, be it solo or as a part of various different collaborations. For Incognito Ergo Sum, he has teamed back up with long time foils Fabio Rojas on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Mastermind 1970s suburbia may be unlikely soil in which an accomplished art thief might grow, but America’s most lackadaisical auteur Kelly Reichardt pulls on her apron and prepares a bijou little garden for him anyway, using the dichotomy of his ordinary […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Surprise! A new faux-soundtrack album from me on Spun Out Of Control (so there's a cassette to pre-order also!) Think Manhunter meets Maniac. but with a lower budget and you'll be halfway there. spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/deathg...

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: After conducting another targeted rummage through the #BBC’s archival strongrooms, @precrecs.bsky.social takes us back through some of the life and times of Glasgow’s The Primevals #musicreview #lpreview #indierock freq.org.uk/reviews/the-...

Savage Pencil’s Trip or Squeek strips have been appearing in The Wire since '02. The book contains over 100 comic strips collected together for the first time... Buy now via our website 💨 strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/trip-or-...

There had to be at least one #osborne1 luggable meme out there. #retrocomputing

Thanks to @michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social for this review. Read it @freqzine.bsky.social > the inimitable FREQ MAGAZINE, where else 🤩📢🙏

Another well-chosen but overlooked group reconvening with a release on Computer Students is Knoxville, TN's New Brutalism who, as the name may suggest, purvey a sharp modern high-intensity take on #punkrock that melds a kind of Chicago dynamism with LA ire. #musicreview freq.org.uk/reviews/new-...

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Venturing once more into the overflowing world of wires, elemental sounds and wordlessly channelled conceptualism #musicreview #electronica @thrilljockey.bsky.social @scholarspeak.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bsky.social @1sampre.bsky.social freq.org.uk/reviews/roun...

@kaukolampi.bsky.social: "Remember to think horizontally, not just vertically." Instead of a singular piece lasting an LP’s length, we are given the pleasure of listening through four variations of the soma-induced trance brought about by the brave new world of Synestopia freq.org.uk/reviews/kauk...

Bob Odenkirk's entertaining #action #comedy as Hutch Mansell, the retired government assassin who just wants a quiet life with his family, despite having a name so butch he might have climbed out of the womb with a scowl on his face and a knife behind his back #filmreview freq.org.uk/reviews/nobo...

Tristan Rhys Williams and Ob Od Æourth: Dylan Eil Ton is texturally resplendent in the lowercase clamber of nature, the hissy brush of branch and canopy, the leafy scrunch of wandering feet. #musicreview #ambient #experimental #cymru #wales #ynysmon #anglesey #psychogeography t.ly/_qjKU

Ari Aster’s bleak and self-indulgent #neowestern epic casts its Panavisual eye over a New Mexico town riven not only by the COVID-19 pandemic, but also by a mayoral election that divides and threatens to conquer its microcosmic society of cowboys and .. more modern stereotypes #filmreview t.ly/qTpBD

Gnod head out for a string of shows, starting tonight. Join them!

You know, I should thank Labour. There are times when I’m arguing against the idiocy and cruelty of the Tories/Republicans that I wonder, “maybe I’m just a partisan hack fighting for my team” Turns out I have values. I don’t like stupidity and cruelty no matter the party. And stand up and say so.

Lost #JGBallard #shortstory: Happy hour at the local Wetherspoons considered as a downhill motor race.

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: Evocative, enigmatic and enthralling throughout [Statues In Fog] is far more than just a digital cupboard clearance exercise, which should certainly be recognised as one of his finest curatorial creations to date. #musicreview #pianomagic t.ly/cd-aK

..there is a lot of space in the songs, but when you concentrate the variation in instruments and sensations is really quite broad and the combinations are endlessly inventive... a unique sound experience that seems to change each time you listen. #musicreview #avantgarde freq.org.uk/reviews/kaj-...

Michael Arbenz meets Andy Sheppard – From Bach To Ellington: Live -- This album has an exquisite touch and a warmth and generosity that only comes from familiarity and respect. [it] does find you hankering after the originals, just to compare #jazz #musicreview #piano #saxophone t.ly/Y9d7n

@jamesholden.bsky.social and Wacław Zimpel's The Universe Will Take Care Of You The Universe Will Take Care Of You is genuinely an album that gives you something more with every listen and a must for everybody with a sense of musical adventure #ambient #musicreview freq.org.uk/reviews/hold...

What a show — an evocative extension of their Time Machines release, the prismed tonality of which is best listened to with the lights off ... a tendrilling conversation with that elusive otherness #Coil always seemed to be able to connect with unsettling ease. #musicreview #livealbum t.ly/M2g7D

@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social: #Thighpaulsandra's Acid And Ecstasy [is] as sprawling as it is provocative .. an accomplished double helping that happily mingles menace with glitzy pop-tastics skewered in .. detours & atonal splurges ..grinning with mischievous intent. #prog #musicreview t.ly/VORJp

Next weekend in London, our yearly Glove party this year with Fracture, Forest Drive West, someone secret (and very good), @mueka.bsky.social , @datassette.bsky.social , Yushh, me playing live with Max, plenty of art in the basement, LOTS & LOTS MORE

It's kinda fun that in Decline of Western Civilisation Pt 2, they all come across as massive wankers except Alice Cooper, Lemmy and Ozzy. And even Alice is more "experienced showman showing the young 'uns the ropes" than Guy You'd Have A Pint With. Almost makes me feel patriotic.

There is care and consideration here and the pieces often feel as though there are dancers softly moving, wearing slippers so as not to disturb ... Aether II may seem cosy and soft but the little ripples that are scattered throughout give cause to reconsider. #mellow #jazz #musicreview t.ly/2Xge8

Italian trio She's Analog have an intriguing and atmospheric approach to instrumental #improv. With No Longer, Not Yet .. they attempt to create a space that is liminal, somewhere that movement and creation intersect with sound and it has to be said it is pretty successful. #musicreview t.ly/BwozZ

Silver Biplanes – Coming Up For Air EP / The Motorcycle Boy – John Peel Session 14.09.87 Precious Recordings is clearly in it for an Olympic marathon, albeit with a few sprints along the way. Hence, following on rapidly from a still-fresh trio of seven-inch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I Know What You Did Last Summer Belated sequel to the derivative and half-forgotten horror potboiler about a group of teens who cover up a deadly car accident, but are pursued a year later by their own collective guilt, and more immediately by a mysterious […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Beiggja – Morning ...the way the whole range of shades is filled in is quite a feat and one that makes the album very easy to return to. As a one-off it works perfectly; a chance meeting destined to live in the memory. #musicreview #jazz #quartet #norway https://freq.org.uk/reviews/beiggja-morning/

Landrose – Brut Capturing a year's worth of live performances in a visceral overload, Brut combines hectic speed drumming with obsessive looped samples and electronic slashes to create an intense journey that gives the sensation of a dancefloor wired up to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Reds, Pinks And Purples – The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed, the first release for Fire Records from Donaldson’s addiction-primed enterprise, which rounds-up a choice compendium of previously digital-only non-album cuts […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social: The Reds, Pinks And Purples' The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed [is] the first release for Fire Records .. which rounds-up a choice compendium of previously digital-only non-album cuts, inside signature ‘same-but-different’ packaging. #musicreview #indierock t.ly/vbETq

I've been answering questions in the DC Discord for a year now and the questions are noticeably getting worse

Here's a lovely picture of Ozzy ('Ossie') from an early Sabbath promo shot, printed in Disc & Music Echo following the release of their debut album (courtesy of @peterstanfield.bsky.social) He looks like an innocent waif, entirely unaware of what lay ahead...

.. while there's definitely lines that you'd maybe call monodic lines (that is, single notes), they're effervescent enough to never quite land like melody. If it's not clear, this is a lovely effect. #musicreview #avantgarde #microtonal #spectralism #composition @greyfade.bsky.social t.ly/FOT9r

@acloudtotheback.bsky.social @bartholomusic.bsky.social Subterranea @flcartographer.bsky.social Resplendent In The Light Of The Universe .. two epics-within-themselves .. expansive outings from creators and curators, from the scene that never sleeps #musicreview #electronica #berlinschool t.ly/s_087

@michaelrodhamheaps.bsky.social @exchangebristol.bsky.social ..caught up in the muscled savagery of it all. That all-in passionate and sweat-drenched prism of sharded lyrics and tons of wah-waded and drone-coated interest.. this wedging might of double drums #melvins #reddkross #livemusic t.ly/i5HRK

@davepettit.bsky.social @stoatie.bsky.social "the reason it works, always has worked and just keeps working is that #GuitarWolf, like Motörhead..take rock’n’roll, strip it back to its basics, and do it faster, louder and, most importantly, COOLER than anyone else. #livemusic #rockandroll t.ly/HD29O

The third Entropy Circus album this year is now available for free download. It's late, for a very stupid reason... #entropycircus #synth https://archive.org/details/unohm