lost the way of myself earlier in the year and wrote a way-too-long piece towards the same point. bigger models won't fix the fact that it's a profoundly cynical way to think about making music in the first place, and all AI for "creative work" suffers a version of it www.fourth.best/music-is-wha...
As promised a long time ago, I will be making the photos I take over the course of the Fourth Best project available for public use under CC BY 4.0 through Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special...
all together now festival: Good (...and 3,985 more words)
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can we make tiktoks without resorting to slop? an investigation www.tiktok.com/@fourth.best...
maybe we should do merch
ode to gigs of various shapes and sizes www.fourth.best/the-rooms-iv...
NOT BAD
oh so that's why this has been getting clicks again huh
Cover artwork for Mineral Stunting - Come Rain Come Shine The cover features a small square with a video still of a first person perspective of someone riding a jetski. you can see the person's hands and in the corner is the symbol indicating this is from an Instagram reel. The word "Sacrifice" is superimposed over the Jetski. This small square is on a much larger square of dark green that is otherwise completely blank besides the artist name "Mineral Stunting" in the top left corner and the album name "Come Rain Come Shine" in the top right corner
An image of the musician Mineral Stunting. They are photographed from the shoulders up and in an angled profile from the camera. They are wearing a black jacket and a green hat. There is a slight blur to the photo. Image credit: Izabela Szczutkowska
Handdrawn logo for Drift Ritual. The logo is black on a white background. The logo also contains two drawn candles
A picture of the artist Mineral Stunting. They are facing the camera and looking beyond it. They are photographed from the chest up. They are wearing a beige t-shirt, glasses and a green hat. They are in front of some rocks and the sea. The photo is brightly lit by the sun which reflects light in the water Image credit: Izabela Szczutkowska
Announcing the new album by Mineral Stunting, ‘Come Rain Come Shine’ on Drift Ritual
two singles, ‘Sink Dub’ and ‘Chasm’ available to hear now
full album releases on April 8th, available as Digital and CD
mastered by The Bastard
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next year with the w
bitb!
only one person has posted the Choice winner on BlueSky so we could totally take over with a disinformation campaign that says it's actually Curtisy right
writing this drove me genuinely insane. I don't ever want to think about this ever again. if you listen Jason by O Emperor instead of reading this article I'd be equally happy
MAYBE WE LIKE THE MISERY
chats with @nialler9.bsky.social and AI artist "Kawaii Hoe"! north kerry noise! a björk quote! a @peretsky.bsky.social shoutout! a trading card game! indonesian tiktoks! the choice music prize! techbro scum! charli xcx! JPEGMAFIA! father ted!
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five years of listening to music and scribbling about it in a google doc in this site's first guest post www.fourth.best/guest-post-o...
in the Whelan. straight up "watching it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. Ones
When the likes of Hozier and Fontaines DC play the 3Arena, do they owe us an Irish support act? For the Fontaines, it might settle an ancient score. My latest: www.fourth.best/fuckin-diddl...
In October I shot another interview with Ahmed, With Love. The footage ended up being... pretty unusable, I'm still new to this. It still ended up being one of my favourite things I've written for the site though. www.fourth.best/im-a-silly-w...
also from the River Runs Round files; Fourth Best planted an old sony handycam propped up on a can of Zyns to record the first ever AVH live show. it's listed as a movie on letterboxd for some reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmi4...
From this September: an hour-long chat with Dylan Murphy at River Runs Round about the future of Irish music media: www.fourth.best/fourth-best-...
From this August: thoughts from the ground at Féile na Gréine, a festival that made me rethink festivals www.fourth.best/feile-na-gre...
Fatboy from the band Bricknasty hits a "rock on!" pose while crowd surfing at their headline show in the Academy. He is wearing a balaclava. Their drummer stares into the crowd from the stage. Lilac light bathes the subjects.
dudes rock
haven't posted here in a minute let me get you up to speed
new issue of the newsletter on journeys, trad, jazz, "psychogeography" and my pick for the most underrated band in the country
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hey! we're keeping the Irish focus for now but would be open to guest features in the future.
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windows movie maker 360p synthpop bomb from another decade comes to life today. plus a look behind the curtain as an emerging musician steps into the role as a solo artist www.fourth.best/premiere-lxv...
two bits from Fourth Best this weekend.
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a story about the tension between art and industry. a (re)introduction to the two Irish rap albums of the year. a labour of love called the Irish Hash Mafia.
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