ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Showing up to work on time is *hard* -- no, scratch that, showing up to work *at all* is difficult.

Just arrived courtesy of my old friends at Souffle Continu in Paris 🥹

Grumbling Fur / These New Puritans / Quade summer

An 424 (Expanded), by Trá Pháidín 15 track album

For everyone losing their mind over the caroline record, highly recommend this reissue of Trá Pháidín record by the ever reliable Hive Mind. trawfawdeen.bandcamp.com/album/an-424...

This is the most perfect review I’ve ever read

An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

An urgent message from The Wire magazine

Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit Graham Latham chats with the Montreal drone rock outfit about the "left turn" that brought them even closer to themselves.

As if Big | Brave weren’t already my favourite active band, I just read this interview newfeeling.ca/2025/04/30/w...

The Foel Tower, by Quade 6 track album

Idk when @ad93rec.bsky.social became a band label, but I’m 100% here for it. This Quade record is somehow both sweeping and understated all at once. quadebanduk.bandcamp.com/album/the-fo...

Bury me at the nearest asian supermarket

Everyone’s DJing wobbly distorted bass and I’m listening to drone metal and post-rock again, feels like 2009 rolled back around

I don’t ask for much, just a record store on the Iberian peninsula with a good mail order service that stocks the Thrill Jockey, Drag City, and Kranky catalogues.

Violence, by Truck Violence 8 track album

Psyched that @southernlordeu.bsky.social have pressed the Truck Violence album to wax. Loud, violent and tender music to rage/laugh/cry/howl along too. truckviolence.bandcamp.com/album/violence

Might be a hater but Bladee's voice sounds like the old depressed robot text-to-speech tool on Apple computers.

I’m trying to make Jungl-ish a genre, who do I need to hit up?

The way Jason Isaacs said Boooddism in a southern drawl

Refs on that last drive.

FRANKIE LUVU

Frankie Luvu is a maniac, I love him.

The broadcast cutting to The Way You Move after Jayden Daniels just juked the Eagles defence out of their souls.

Full length audio recordinge coming next year on Ideologic Organ.

I had a terrible week, and the only way to explain it is the fact that it started with me buying a really horrific cardigan.

There's an article to be written about that one independent venue in every city that everyone agrees needs to exist, but actually hates going to shows or events at.

Music tells the story of our lives – and trusty old Last.fm does it better than gaudy Spotify Wrapped The music tracking site runs a reduced service these days, but still offers an alternative to AI-generated slideshows and made-up genres that’s useful – and genuinely revealing

This lovely, thoughtful article by Laura Snapes has made me wish I hadn't abandoned last.fm all those years ago. Maybe time to crank it up again for 2025? www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...

I Have But One Heart, by SLIM0 from the album FORGIVENESS

Track of the year alert. SLIM0 decided to set Dido's Thank You to majestic drone metal. Moving, in a very particular strange way. Reminds me of Harvey Milk - that same mix of weird humour and bizarre sadness.

slim00.bandcamp.com/track/i-have...

Sónar 2025 - SonarMix 054: Shannen SP - Seductive grooves and wildly inventive club music from the cutting-edge UK DJ, artist and curator The first mix from our 2025 lineup comes from UK DJ and curator Shannen SP. Recorded between Venue MOT and Ormside Projects - “two of the clubs with the best soundsystems in London” - it finds on...

Oh, and for my day job got to commission a mix from maybe my favourite DJ of recent years. Mix and some words by me here: sonar.es/en/news/sona...

Boundary, by SARA PERSICO 6 track album

On a different tip, been really into this Sara Persico EP. RIYL Aïsha Devi, that same cybernetic outernational vibe here, with a touch of Coil's uneasy sound design in the mix. karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/boundary

Дарен Дж. Каннінгем, by Actress 1 track album

Speaking of Actress, can't stop playing this - feel like he's captured the same magic on that Splaszh - R.I.P.
- Ghettoville run again with this and Statik actress.bandcamp.com/album/-

tender, exit, by 96 Back 12 track album

Definite AOTY contender from 96 Back.

Expressive, emotional, confused, intricate electronic music that fries my brain. Makes me think of the first time I heard Splaszh by Actress. I'm in love with it, haven't heard anything like it in years.

svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/tender...

missed heaven, by Toma Kami 9 track album

Few things I've been listening to these past weeks.

This Toma Kami mini album pulls the curtains back and lets the daylight stream in. Short, delicate sketches that float around your head for days, w/ nods to jungle, hyperpop and Fuck Buttons.

tomakami.bandcamp.com/album/missed...

Happy new year