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Hear Feaster's new psychedelic groover, "Hold It On" - Treble New album 'Big Super' is out in May

Hear a new psychedelic groover from Philadelphia's Feaster, "Hold It On"

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Portrayal of Guilt : ...Beginning of the End | Album review | Treble Though no less aesthetically evil on '...Beginning of the End,' Portrayal of Guilt offer up their most accessible album to date

ICYMI: Our Album of the Week is Portrayal of Guilt's '...Beginning of the End'

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This was also released on this day in 1998, and I wrote this one. One of my finest, I think, but I'm probably not the best judge of my own work.

Love this @desperatehours.bsky.social joint on 'Mezzanine', which came out today in 1998.

And probably a good thing to listen to roughly 16 minutes from now

I think it's some polling/survey outfit, really got their finger on the pulse

Being in journalism for the better part of two decades will get you on some really ridiculous press release lists.

Today I got one that said "Studies reveal that Californians like rock music".

OK, cool. Good to know. Glad we heard it from the people instead of making assumptions.

The new Portrayal of Guilt album is an absolute ripper, and I wrote about it for @treblezine.bsky.social

Boards of Canada : Music Has the Right to Children | Treble 100 On their 1998 debut album Music Has the Right to Children, Boards of Canada created a psychedelic journey of memory and illusion

'Music Has the Right to Children' captures the warm and imperfect glimpses of things we can no longer touch but still somehow feel.

Outtakes: The best hip-hop albums of the 21st century

The albums we cut, the blurbs we wrote and our reasons for making the swaps. Read it on Patreon! www.patreon.com/post...

I sympathize

You'd be so stressed out at my inbox right now.

But to your point, yes, it's actually really heartening to see that so many people are making music right now and that a pretty significant chunk of it is really good! (Maybe not a higher portion than before, but by sheer volume, seems like a lot!)

It is, and I think maybe people just aren't being honest with themselves about whether or not it's a priority. Hint: If you're not willing to put in any effort, then it probably isn't.

Not trying to be an asshole, I do this too, but if we’re gonna rail against AI all day then we have to do people shit like actually reading the article

My dude Michael isn't on The Timeline but he wrote an article about 'The Disintegration Loops' that I think is quite good

yeah, probably

sincerely, someone who's been writing about music for 20+ years and somehow keeps hearing people talk about how nobody is able to discover new music anymore

My general feeling about the manipulation of the algorithm for marketing purposes is that everyone loses simply because of the existence of the algorithm

Ride, Nirvana, and leaving a musical legacy Plus: Ibibio Sound Machine, King Sunny Ade, and Gold Dust

Finally back to the record collection deep dives!

In this installment: One of the shoegaze GOATS, which yung gazers don't rip off nearly enough

Plus Nirvana, Ibibio Sound Machine and more

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Ride, Nirvana, and leaving a musical legacy Plus: Ibibio Sound Machine, King Sunny Ade, and Gold Dust

Finally back to the record collection deep dives!

In this installment: One of the shoegaze GOATS, which yung gazers don't rip off nearly enough

Plus Nirvana, Ibibio Sound Machine and more

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The 10 Best Ambient albums of Winter 2026 - Treble KMRU, Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick, Midori Hirano and more

The best ambient albums of winter

featuring Midori Hirano, KMRU, Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick and more

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maybe?

yeah, what's weird is that they seemed to be pretty open about it until now!

But a few articles have mentioned some of their clients: mk.gee, Dijon, Oklou ...

Everyone on Chaotic Good's roster owes Geese a fruit basket for taking all the heat on this one

New Genghis Tron!

Also how'd I not know that their vocalist now is Tony from The Armed? (A band who for a long time was fucking with people on the internet to wildly entertaining effect)

Psyop is short for psyence opfficer. Like on Star Trek

the rules being: I have to write about them in the order I got them. I did this to myself.

I need to pick up the pace with my Autobiographical Order posts because there are a lot of records that'll be yesterday's discourse soon, but I can't break the rules!

The debut from My New Band Believe is a wildly ambitious prog folk album that does a lot in under 40 minutes

My review...

So far so good!