I'm doing the 1001 albums generator / listen to an album from it every day in the hopes of shedding light on some classics I wouldn't otherwise listen to again in my life. Fun fun fun The list of 'worst rated albums' on the aggregator site is very funny to me.

Last day in Warsaw 🌞

Britain needs a national dumpling that can compete with the fire they have on the continent

Cal has a good one here, weed420 and Alpha Maid up top is so good to see. This list got me to listen to Quade, even tho I love spacious post-rock and keep up with AD 93, I'd missed this one. Happy to have found it here!

Happy new year Bluesky friends. More freak musick on this feed in 2026

the world needs jazz fusion

'Russell’s music contains a lot of very deep emotions, often several at once, and like no-one before or since he is the absolute master of evoking them for the listener.' #ArthurRussell - Open Vocal Phrases Where Songs Come In And Out is No 9 in tQ's Reissues etc of 2025 Chart buff.ly/xJbzKlj

NOT READ THIS BUT IF IM NOT IN HERE THEN ITS FUCKING BOLLOCKS

That Daniel Avery album deserves so many flowers, I keep coming back to it

“Cal Crushin more like”

Both proud and disgusted of managing to wrap the last present with three sheets of offcut wrapping paper

Lou Reed and John Cale

One more thirteen hour work day youtu.be/9mEVzJrC0po?...

A bit of Future Days as a treat, for having approx 33% of my Christmas shopping done by Dec 23rd

Some words by me, on a record I struggled with a bit

When someone commissions me to write my aural history of post-rock, this is exactly where it will begin. Year zero a whole manner of things

With this in mind, I'm trying to come up with some sort of gimmicky diaristic challenge to do through 2026. A few years ago I listened to an album from every country, and I'm drawing a blank for something that beats that. Maybe something with microgenres, maybe something else

I just listened to Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom for the first time and I loved it so much

I wrote those words

Was reading excellent review of new Fat White Family live record by @calcash.in for @thequietus.com & I couldn't remember who sung 'Honk if you're lonely tonight' (the FWF album title is a play on words of it). I thought Warren Zevon & googled it & I got this shit. Can no one just be wrong anymore??

Actually, no, I am listening to Deceit through a good set of speakers and this is the tuffest thing ever recorded

At one point in time, The Fat White Family were the most exciting and incendiary live band on the circuit, and a live album would have been essential. However, is that really the case in the year of our lord 2025? I found out, for tQ thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Hearing ‘Rubber Room’ by Porter Wagoner on this exploded my mind

Sonemic Interview: Daniel Avery @danielmarkavery.bsky.social discusses the post-industrial dreamworld of 'Tremor,' the enduring influence of 'Loveless' and Andrew Weatherall, a steadfast commitment to the album format, and more in this interview with @calcash.in. rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

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About to interview an absolutely bona fide hero of mine. I am so deeply, genuinely nervous about an interview for the first time in a very long time

Two of my selections are in the top ten here ... a very stellar and definitive list! Keep an eye out as you read and listen to the whole damn thing

Portfolio updated; it's been a busy December on the writing front. A very fun interview with Daniel Avery, a bunch of album reviews and End Of Year bits. Easiest place to keep track of my writing is here www.calcash.in

The Angolan-Portuguese producer's first foray on an international label provides a perfect entrypoint – not to just to one artist's sound, but to the thrilling, pulsating, grinding world of batida DJ Narciso - DENTRO DE MIM buff.ly/qlJoVGE

I think I like this more than This Heat y'know www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhhH...

I wrote about DJ Narciso's ace new EP/mini-album/actually-full-album-length project for The Quietus. Muggy electronic grooves. His music is the heaviest and often the slowest of the current wave of Batida producers in Portugal, and the results are pretty psychedelic thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Writing a review of a very mediocre album, and realising this is the first time in a while that I've written about something that isn't Really Great

Honoured to have written about Dean Blunt for L&Q’s best albums of the century (so far) alongside some really moving writing by some amazing writers loudandquiet.substack.com/p/the-best-a...

I am listening to some of the Sonic Youth albums I have somehow missed in my life. They are all so good. How did they keep doing this

I wrote about 3 albums for this list! Seek them out! By reading every single entry!

Best album of 2025 according to Pitchfork. Absolutely crazy and psych noise collage mixed with Latin American sounds. Who’s going to release it on vinyl as soon as possible? Quite a remarkable discovery.

Found myself watching the World Cup Draw. The programme and the ceremony are possibly the most evil, disgusting, sycophantic thing I have ever seen broadcast on TV

This interview with Good Night & Good Morning about their glacial one-shot slowcore masterpiece album 'Narrowing Type' epitomised why I love writing about music. The energy and love the trio had for each other moved me so much rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...

JOE ROOT!

Always looking for the Cal bylines on the list, I call those Calbums

It's the honour of a lifetime to help, in the most minor way possible, with the Rolls Royce of End of Year Lists. Love and support The Quietus always and forever

Hark! The Quietus Albums of 2025 chart is here! Prepare to be astounded, thrilled and (potentially) perplexed. tQ subscribers can also dive into selections from all 100 albums in our bumper 9-hour playlist. #tQCharts What have been your top picks of the year? buff.ly/sltLcA7

Maybe I'm ... entering my midwest emo era ... ?! This has floored me thejimyoshiipile-up.bandcamp.com/album/its-wi...

2025, what's been the deal with that? A glorious year for experimental rock, jazz, and folk. These are my favourite 75 albums of the year. bentarcana.substack.com/p/2025-my-fa...

someday a real Black Friday will come and wash all the scum off the streets

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All my end of year blurbs are done and I am once more rated above 1800. Seizing the day so hard right now

Putting the finishing touches to an interview I am so genuinely happy with

Well excited to dig into the new Butch Kassidy EP. Good to have something substantial from them music.apple.com/gb/album/asc...