🎶 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… 🎶

I can usually argue with myself in a closed room, but I can’t argue with number 1. It’s 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I still love the thrill of just buying a record without having heard anything about it before. Here's this week's from @beartreerecords.bsky.social. Awesome percussion from Uganda on #NyegeNyegeTapes

First pair since they replaced my Roclites. Felt good today on their first outing.

It's like how much more black can my new @inov8.bsky.social Trailtalon's be? And the answer is none; none more black.

Badly darned hole in a beige jumper

I just darned a hole in my jumper. Don't let people tell you that you can't fulfil your potential.

Still thinking about last night's immense @chatpileband.bsky.social gig in Leeds. Partly because it was the best gig of the last year, but mainly about whether there's a Pieminister in Birmingham. Hope so, as they deserve it...

#NowPlaying @chatpileband.bsky.social Live at Roadburn 2023

🔥🔥

Can not wait for Leeds next Thursday.

chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Go and see #BlackCountryNewRoad. Now.

Fucking Hell, by Fashion Tips 4 track album

Two more tapes for making the tea to this evening:

Fashion Tips - Fucking hell
fashiontipsband.bandcamp.com/album/fuckin...

And

Cut a Lonely Figure - Requiem for a Haunted Starship (not available anymore so you'll just have to imagine it (unless you own it))

LEFT BEHIND, by LIKE WEEDS 4 track album

#NowPlaying Distopian noise from Like Weeds. Perfect Monday evening music...

likeweedsnoise.bandcamp.com/album/left-b...

Out in the sun today doing some #FieldRecording for the first time in ages. It was lush.

Spellbound: Hexed! by Aya is our Album of the Week | The Quietus On her thrilling second album, Aya's abrasive mix of techno, UK bass, noise and industrial becomes a surgical tool for explorations of trauma and identity

@thequietus.com are always on the money...

The new #Aya album, Hexed!, is really magnificent. A hard core banger with a human touch. 'Time at the Bar' is the best track I've heard this year.

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Daily reminder

The Barkley Marathons summed up in one post... #BM100

blue forty-seven, by Minaru 7 track album

#NowPlaying Bedtime sounds from @bluetapes.bsky.social

I just love this. It feels both organic, like a forest, but filled with 1950s sci-fi.

bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

#NowPlaying

@alabasterdeplume.bsky.social A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole.

A proper honest record with heaps of integrity and beautiful tunes. Just lovely.

Destino Scifosi, by France 2 track album

New France album is bloody good eh?

standard-in-fi.bandcamp.com/album/destin...

Such a great record!

Conman Mokasin. Blond hair. Pencil moustache.

Next up. A lovely warbly old favourite from #ConnanMockasin

#NowPlaying

Black and white album cover. Mostly black. Brutalist structures.

#NowPlaying Yet another black album cover for this morning. The dark cover belies the beauty within.

johannjohannsson.bandcamp.com/album/and-in...

Biiig fan of #TheBody and loving their latest slice of glitchy heavy noise screaminess.

#NowPlaying

The oldest rivalry in world football may not be where you think

#Sheffield home of #Football in the @nytimes.com. Well I never...

www.nytimes.com/athletic/603...

#NowPlaying

Miyamoto, Naosuke Sextet - STEP!

A bit of Japanese hard-bop to keep the January blues away.

Something in the Room She Moves, by Julia Holter 10 track album

#NowPlaying

Most underrated album of 2024 for me. The space in this record is mindblowing. Should be in many more #aoty2024 lists.

juliaholter.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

Zen and Zennor, by Slomo 3 track album

#NowPlaying

Next up... A nice bit of druid electro drone.

soundsofslomo.bandcamp.com/album/zen-an...

#NowPlaying

Next up:
strut.bandcamp.com/album/balka-...

Funky bass, jangly guitars and skittering percussion. Love it!

MO LÉAN, by RÓIS 9 track album

#NowPlaying Mo Léan by Róis.

Been listening on digital for weeks. Vinyl arrived and it was worth the wait. Cracking stuff.

a black and white photo of a man with a hat on and a scary face . Alt: a black and white photo of a man with a hat on and a scary face.

#NowPlaying Robin Carolan's immense #Nosferatu soundtrack. If the film is as scary as this, I may not sleep for a week.

I have heard FGTH The Power of Love at least five times in the last 24 hours and I still have to stop everything I am doing when it comes on. It is a masterpiece.