The strange comfort of being future isotypes

I went to see OMD last night and they played Isotype, which is one of my favourites of their post-reformation output. I’ve written about it before, because it was part of a #TimsTwitterListeningParty just after Dan Martin and Seb Patrick…

Friday Reading S13E09

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The Bug Brain Check-In page on perceptions.couk.com as it appeared during the 2000s.

I felt a real pang of sadness the other day when I went to a corner of the internet I’ve visited intermittently for two decades to find that it had disappeared. It has stirred up a complicated bundle of emotions….

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Wet Leg at the 100 Club

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours, I guess. It’s a monthly series now. Links go to the artist website. Maybe your interest will be piqued by one of the reviews. Maybe you’ll scroll…

Déjà Vega are my #1 discovery from the last three months of #TimsTwitterListeningParty

Nobody has asked for this. It is more for my benefit than yours. It’s a (usually) monthly series. I’ve marked LPs that I’d never heard the whole way through before with a brand new NEW SPARKLES! icon due to weird…

Mark Lanegan

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Friday Reading S13E06

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Friday Reading S13E05

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Friday Reading S13E04

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