Sonemic Interview: Maruja Manchester band Maruja discuss their improvisational chemistry, inspiration from Irish mythology and geography, building community through solidarity, and debut album 'Pain to Power' in this interview with @calcash.in. rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

I think “you get arrested and thrown in jail just for saying you’re English” would be a fine law actually

I got to talk to Maruja, Manchester’s moribund answer to Godspeed. Their debut album Pain to Power is one of the hardest hitting, most instantaneous punk albums in ages, and they are also a bunch of Jazz Fusion heads, so this was a real honour to do

I am pretty awe struck by the new Legss album ‘Unreal’. Possibly the debut of the year. Review here, Forza Legss www.clashmusic.com/reviews/legs...

Mandelson rest in piss

Buongiorno from Bologna

You can’t get a train from Winchester or Southampton straight through to London anymore. Because of Woking.

Getting ready for my trip to Italy by blasting Anima Latina by Lucio Battisti, and honestly. This might be the best sounding pop / rock album of all time. Genuinely sounds like it could have been made yesterday m.youtube.com/watch?v=po9_...

My latest column is out today, sub to Loud and Quiet if you want to know how much I love baile-funk, Ethel Cain, and scratchy guitar soundscapes by members of Gastr Del Sol

Hell yeah

I have had the perfect Sunday. I have done nothing I set out to do, but I have listened to Charlie Haden's Closeness Duets twice

I thought adding things to my discogs wishlist would make me Dream and Yearn but its just made me Pissed The Fuck Off

I can

So big for me when I was a depressed 16 year old

Idk probably because the only people that can write about music for a living are in their fifties

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

"The first Black Country New Road album" is fast becoming a micro-genre unto it's own. Some really nice bits here, but overall not entirely sure racingmountpleasant.bandcamp.com/album/racing...

Just watched. Stumbles around a bit as a work of art. Disjointed and meandering. Maybe that’s the point. Anyway, I loved it, a much needed reminder of the existence of a decade’s best band, so many genuinely amazing songs

I am listening to the first Arctic Monkeys album at work. This shit is so fucking good

RIP the realest. I don’t think anyone can boast anything as good as “slaying in both The Phantom Menace and Pasolini’s Theorum.”

Me and my gf are going camping in Dorset this weekend. Obligatory viewing of Nuts In May is happening tonight

I am about to have the longest and hardest work day maybe of my life. Send spiritual jazz and folk recommendations

I can’t believe there was a referendum on Brexit but we didn’t get to have a referendum on whether to keep the headphone jack

Alice Coltrane's version of A Love Supreme makes me think she'd probably be in my "dream line up of The Fall" www.youtube.com/watch?v=89c0...

Absolutely fucks youtu.be/21u45pTQihU?...

Combining the dream pop Americana of Preacher's Daughter with the drones and experiments of Perverts, the Florida-born singer-songwriter-producer may have come up with her most realised project to date #EthelCain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Love You Forever buff.ly/I03Tklq

I think to anyone that A) knows me and B) knows this song, it probably won't come as a surprise that this is my favourite country song www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxc4...

I have been obsessed with Ethel Cain since her drone EP 'Perverts' came out at the beginning of the year. Her new album is an eerie, bittersweet, emotional slowcore album that channels Lisa Germano, Codeine and Angelo Badalementi ... maybe nothing in the world could as "up my alley as this"

Big record haul from a li’l trip to Brighton yesterday. For the heads

Great review of one of the most exciting albums of the year... *Something* is happening in Brazil right now

Have reviewed the (*great*) new Galaxie 500 live album for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Hell yeah

Wednesday afternoon listening

My latest The Drift column is out today, subscribe to Loud and Quiet, and watch yr inbox loudandquiet.substack.com

Hell yeah. One of the most exciting artists in the world right now

One of the albums that I would genuinely say has changed my life

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I think, if I’m honest, after getting back into Test Cricket, I will just never care about any other sports ever again

Whoa www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSV...

I hate resorting to hyperbole, but also I think this is the best music ever made by anybody, ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipoh...

Vale Ozzy Osbourne. 🤘

SAY HER FUCKING NAME! 🤩 MICHELLE AGYEMANG!!! #engita

YES! I got to speak to McKinley Dixon about magic and Quelle Chris and the best rap album of the year. I loved this interview so much, I hope you do too

Treat day

Now playing. Haven’t heard this in a decade, but just get the feeling it might be *the vibe* I am on right now

Bought a handful of my fav songs as singles recently, and it made me realise i just don’t spend enough time listening to them. Rectifying now

On my third listen of this behemoth and it’s some of the most moving psychedelic music I’ve ever heard. Scrambles your head and rips at your heart. Chiquimanani-Condori is doing things with sampling no one else is, every bit as crucial as Los Thuthanaka

cooooooool www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtS...