I'm lukewarm on that one, but Reach For The Dead is okay and pretty much archetypal BoC.

I think my summary would be "They pioneered a very influential sound/vibe in electronica, but subsequent work was pretty much repeating themselves."

But even Music Has The Right To Children was a grower for me - took me quite a while to fully appreciate it. I still occasionally listen to tracks from it now.

Very much an "it depends what kind of thing you like" question. I was a BIG fan of the early EPs and 1st LP at the time (1996-98! argh!), *some* of the second LP and that's about it. But I grew up with the FBoC docs they based their sound on, so I'm kind perfect target audience.

There is another fly. And so it goes.

Me : "So, whatcha got for me today?"
Spotify : "Mate I'm completely stumped, no idea, here's a list of songs you've listened to before or whatever the next track on the album is."

You know how in the story of Asimov's "Foundation" (well, the TV show anyway) a character keeps going into suspended animation and emerges in a different era to continue as though no time had passed at all?

That, but it's Boards Of Canada.

The battle is over, and contrary to established cartoon convention, I have emerged victorious.

1. A glass tray held in a person's hand. On it are five preserved bird specimens with labels tied to their feet. 2. A bird enclosure at a zoo. It is a wire cage with a painted backdrop and a strip light on the ceiling. Birds are sitting on some bare branches.

Birds, Bristol. 2016, 2022.

I thought I had successfully swatted it but NO, like in the cartoons and in the words of Withnail : "Fucker's alive". Time to go and unpack that ACME BAZOOKA.

There's a fly in my room and it's like one of those flies in cartoons that won't leave the main character alone, and in trying to get rid of it is the root of their own destruction.

This, all the way into my 50s. Me watching birds in my garden is Homer watching squirrels. Delighted little chuckles every few seconds.

vsync issue, I've read somewhere

Dungeness ☢️

That sign is still kicking in April 2026

King Tuff - Stairway To Nowhere (Official Music Video) YouTube video by King Tuff

As a child of the 70's (to 80s) I'm a sucker for anything that sounds like it's from that period, and this puts a big smile on my face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWM... Channeling t-rex via various other 70's AoR.

a man and a woman are dancing in a room with the words we 're future sailors written on the wall ALT: a man and a woman are dancing in a room with the words we 're future sailors written on the wall

Very much enjoying the return of Tiga on HOTLIFE. Some of the vocals do have a distinct "Future sailors!" vibe to them, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing....?

(Case in point : IAMWHATIAM is an absolute banger that feels like it should be from the soundtrack of Nathan Barley)

The problem with any given hobby is that there just isn't enough to say about it to satisfy the required pipeline of engaging shortform videos.

1. An upsidedown house, part of a novelty golf course. 2. A forest wallhanging in a house window

Windows, 2025

✷✴ 🎀 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒾💗𝓃 𝒾𝓈 𝓇𝑒𝒸😍𝑔𝓃𝒾𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝓇💙𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝒶𝓃 🍩𝓃𝒸𝒽𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓇𝑒𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓁𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓇 🎀 ✴✷

Mate, you're forgetting that "the cannabis industry hasn't changed in decades"

It crossed my mind that all the viral videos you see of people being kind to delivery bots that have fallen over might not be entirely organic content.

Ken the Bluetooth Guy would have been all over this.

"Nine years ago you signed up for an account with our service because your client was using it, and never used it since. Due to the fact we make it nigh-on impossible to remove yourself from our database completely, there is now a metaphorical picture of your junk on the dark web."

ArtSpeak is nothing new, I know, but it drives me crazy. And this isn't even a particularly egregious example! It's not just photography. So much of it I read, when you've stripped it down, is saying something that could be explained in much clearer language - but they choose not to.

And man, does Aloy do a LOT of breathless telling....

*pauses for a moment*
"Maybe I should try that ledge up there!?"
I WAS THINKING, GIVE ME SECOND HERE

I'd love to see someone like @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social subbing this stuff.

"We take the pictures out of the book, and hang then around the gallery in an interesting way - Think of all the different, interesting ways you might think about the stories the pictures tell!"

"...photobooks will be exhibited as expanded spatial experiences—inviting viewers to engage with them as both objects and narratives unfolding in space..."

It's a constant source of gear grinding for me that art orgs continue to write like this. Often, it just pseudo-intellectualises something that's pretty straightforward to explain - as though straighforward is inherently a shallow thing.

A window in a shop door, whitewashed out in swirling brushmarks. Someone has scratched the building number 20 twice in the whitewash. There is a rectangle of tape on their door where a sign as been removed.

Bath, March 2026