Hope you’re feeling better soon ✊✊✊

Hope you’re ok Wayne.

Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

New BoC track Tape 05 up on YouTube

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Ian Penman · I’m just a sound: Back to the Beach Boys To an extent rivalled only by the Beatles, the Beach Boys have become the tales told about them, the ever expanding...

Alert for Penman fans.

New piece on the Beach Boys up on the London Review of Books site.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mike Garson - Aladdin Sane (Isolated Piano Track) YouTube video by CHANGES - A BOWIE ODYSSEY

You’ve probably seen this before but just in case you haven’t. Mike Garson’s isolated piano. Amazing stuff.

youtu.be/IOcyVsu9WmU

UNSOUND 2025 ARTIST TALK: JIM O’ROURKE YouTube video by Unsound Festival

Unsound have just uploaded a great interview with Jim O’Rourke from last year.

youtu.be/ZfoJIkarV_o?...

Hi Rich,

Hope you allow my #1 - obviously a collab but their debut one.

1 Lotta sea lice - Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett

2 Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think

3 Kathryn Joseph - Bones You Have Thrown Me

4 Craven Faults - Netherfield Works

5 Floating Points—Elaenia

#5DebutAlbums1519

If I wasn’t driven by some weird compulsion to keep making music I would definitely think “What is the fucking point?”.

Well that certainly makes me feel better about my < 1000 listens 😉

Enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Silly but a big heart and looked/sounded great.

David Bowie - Warszawa (1978) LIVE | Musikladen YouTube video by Musikladen

Beautiful footage of Bowie doing Warszawa on Musikladen in 1978

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As Barnsley supporters we used it a lot. 😉

You don’t know how much ‘fuckin boo’ means to me. It became a catchphrase of my late best mate after hearing it during coverage of a Scottish League game when you could briefly watch them on English TV. From then on, we used it to indicate general displeasure regardless of context. Fuckin boooo.

GAYNGS - "Cry" (Official Video) YouTube video by SecretlyJag

Much as I love the original I think this is the better tempo.

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Hi Richard, my #5debutalbums0509 are

1 Hildur Guðnadóttir - mount A

2 Burial - S/T

3 Sol Seppy - the bells of 1 2

4 Peter Broderick - float

5 LCD Soundsystem

Near misses - Fleet Foxes, Twilight Sad, The Longcut, Battles, AM

Bold retrospective take.

I know it was the album where ‘serious’ music journalists (Morley) stopped ridiculing them, and yes it does contain Ghosts & The Art of Parties, but as a whole Tin Drum isn’t as strong as either Quiet Life or Gentlemen Take Polaroids.

It’s a fair point even though I am guilty myself. I would extend the antipathy to YouTube modular bro’s. Of course the Eurorack rigs look fabulous but has anyone actually heard anything worth listening to again?

Quiet Life is (still) a great album. Some wonderful stuff on there but as Barbieri says in the piece I linked, the band was already moving in that direction and would have got there without the Moroder single.

Life in Tokyo - Japan An article exploring Japan's 'Life in Tokyo', recorded with Giorgio Moroder who had just won an Oscar and whose work with Donna Summer was much admired.

You might find this interesting

sylvianvista.com/2023/09/01/l...

Strong disagree. At the time the prospect of Moroder producing was very exciting but the end result was (for me) a disappointment. Lacked the chug and repetition of the best Moroder and lost any of the bands character. The band don’t particularly like it. Quiet Life was the real step forward.

You’re probably right. Unfortunately I don’t think the modern world does ‘treading carefully’ or nuance any more.

Yes, and I agree there probably was nuance in his response that was easily misunderstood. However in the past he has said ‘all film is political’ so it sounded like a cop out. He argues that filmmakers should primarily show empathy. Which itself is a political act at the moment, why not say that?

Love Wim, who always seems like a decent, thoughtful man who has made some of my favourite films. But I’m disappointed in that response, which manages to contradict his own statements in the recent and distant past. It was even worse than just saying “I don’t want to answer that”.

Letterboxd last for watched films. The Zone of Interest Mirror Sinners No Other Choice

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Cheers, I loved Tokyo Ueno Station and have had End of August on the ‘to read’ pile for ages.

Olga Tokarczuk ‘Flights’

Next up

Olga Tokarczuk ‘Flights’

Was going to go for The End of August by Yu Miri but couldn’t face 700 pages at the moment - lightweight I know.
#BookSky

T’internet seems to class Progress Reform as an EP. I do prefer that one tbh

First pass at #5DebutAlbums0509

Yay - I’ve also got Peter Broderick in my draft list. And the Field is a good choice.

Hildur Guðnadóttir’s debut Mount A was 2006 too.

Aye and they are one of the few sides who are actually playing better than usual.