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Ultracrepiderian Words: Resident Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp etc Noises: monthly Night Terrors mix for No Bounds Radio https://pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/writing/
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It would have been rude not to use this shot of the nerd reich representative.

"It’s like Hokusai’s Great Wave – he created a version when he was 33, a version when he was 40, another when he was 50, and finally, the image that everyone knows when he had turned 70" Ben Frost – You, Me, And The End Of Everything from Steel Wound - The Strange World Of Room40 buff.ly/3Qr55B8

I had a lovely natter with @room40.bsky.social where we spoke about the temporal nature of music, hat theft, vibrating lungs, and the 25th anniversary of his label. Check it below 👇👇👇

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'To brush up against a state of superhuman excess with half a leg over the threshold of transgression, you’ll need something with edge, something that’s locked eyes with the abyss, you'll need:' Decius - Vol II: Splendour And Obedience. A Quietus Album of the Month buff.ly/4hf56E8

"The horny court of the swollen Roman emperor": I commend this review of Decius' Splendour & Obedience (a record I love) by ‪@pacificbeliefs.bsky.social, "Party music for those frazzled by three consecutive nights consuming the hair, the tail, the whole of the dog" thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

I dropped into the grotty pump of Decius' new record and tried not to lose my head... Some words over at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @theleaflabel.com

New horny tin foil hat thriller takes place at 69 o'clock.

Reported in the FT: "OpenAI says it has evidence China's Deepseek used its model to train competitor"

April just got a little bit better...

Fuck. David Lynch going was always going to hurt. He's been a constant yet elusive companion since I saw Lost Highway at 14. He changed what I understood about narrative, about mood, tone, sound, image... Just about everything I knew that film could be.

2 buses per week?! In Shropshire? What luxury dream world is this? (Thanks for the genuinely insightful words Jon! DC is out TODAY) deepcabaret.bandcamp.com

My reviews of Wrong Speed Records are like buses. But only if you live so far out in the sticks that there are just 2 buses per week. Here's what I wrote about this Deep Cabaret reissue for @thequietus.com : thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

My arms couldn't be wider apart - this new moniker/record combo on Wrong Speed is well worthy of your time. And if you've got a spare 5 mins to read a review, you can find mine here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

New year, new me. I've written a review of James Blunt... Documentary by an Unknown Artist. Don't worry. It's a noise tape, shredding the mawkish crooner sonically (if not literally). You can read the review in the latest edition of Boulderdash Zine boulderdashzine.bigcartel.com/product/boul...

I'm not sure my in-laws are taking my increased culinary interests all that seriously.

Top 25 Records of 2024. Good lord there’s been some music. Here are the 25 releases of 2024 that had the biggest impact on me. (Plus some compilations and near misses) Have a read, if you like: pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/articles/top...

Cissbury to Chanctonbury engulfed in fog (with added horse guardian).

"You'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits:

Merry Christmas ya adequately scrubbed characters

Big up @difficultart.bsky.social for this unexpected yuletide delivery... I'm very much looking forward to gorging upon this haul.

My last radio show of the year has been archived. If you're here looking for Christmas cheer, you're fresh out of luck. What you'll find instead is a set of atmospheric concerns, remembrance, discombobulation, disturbances, and a wordless ode to fleas. Listen: www.mixcloud.com/noboundsradi...

Listen in here, if you like: www.mixcloud.com/live/nobound...

Back haunting the radio waves from 7pm tonight...

Cracking night at the Bee's Mouth courtesy of Duncan Harrison/Adhuman, last night. Started off with Irritable Bowel...

What useless superpower do you have? I fractured my heel after jumping off a stage about 30 years ago (nowhere near as rock & roll as that sounds) and now, when it's cold, my foot aches to let me know that, yes... It is cold.

give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

'Tall Trees straddles the wave-lapped, gold-lit beach of your most halcyon mornings while also plunging into the wonky degradation witnessed on last night’s grotty dancefloor' #KemperNorton - Tall Trees (And Other Tales) https://buff.ly/4fa9RNa #ZonaWatusa