Cal Cashin

A problem that blights me, mainly at funerals, is that every time I wear a suit I look so wretchedly “Style Council” that it is just silly

The Drift: the month’s best in weird and experimental music Our first look at the world’s best new weird releases from the month of February, by Cal Cashin

My latest column is out and available over on Loud and Quiet. From the anti-folk of MPTL Microplastics, through the guitar experiments of Joshua Chuquimia Crampton and Shane Parish, it's been a bumper month loudandquiet.substack.com/p/the-drift-...

A really lovely album

Taj Mahal YouTube video by Gilberto Gil - Topic

They must have known they were making the best music ever when they did this. They just try a million things in a row and they all work www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekvV...

Circle X - Prehistory album front cover. Chalk on slate style illustration of a red human figure with an X in a circle over the right hand side of his chest, with some trees, one of which might be on fire.

Circle X - Prehistory album rear cover. Chalk on slate style illustration of a red human figure's legs, with 'Circle X' written at the bottom.

'It's unsurprising that Circle X’s material was reissued for the first time in the 90s by David Grubbs’ Blue Chopsticks imprint, as this deconstructed skronk would act as a scrawled blueprint for Grubbs’ own visionary Gastr Del Sol work with Jim O’Rourke'

Circle X’s Prehistory

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Pinback, by Pinback 12 track album

How has no one showed me this before? pinback.bandcamp.com/album/pinback

thank you! I know you will fuck with this

Prehistory, by Circle X 6 track album

RIYL: trying to imagine the album an American This Heat would make. circlex.bandcamp.com/album/prehis...

Sonemic Interview: Jim O'Rourke (@steamroom.bsky.social)

Prolific producer, performer, and improviser Jim O'Rourke speaks with insight and affection on music, noise, films, and frogs in this interview with @calcash.in.

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I am so excited to share this with you all! I spoke to Jim O’Rourke about EVERYTHING

Circle X - Prehistory album cover. Chalk on slate style illustration of a red human figure with an X in a circle over the right hand side of his chest, with some trees, one of which might be on fire.

Cal Cashin salutes the patchwork Goliath that is Circle X's Prehistory; a post punk, post rock, post-everything-else masterpiece

Reissue Of The Week: Circle X’s Prehistory

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A deep dive into the most grizzled and grotty artefact of the no wave era; a post-punk post rock edict from another time and place. Circle X’s Prehistory is one of the 80s’ best and most forward thinking albums and I got to write about it for tQ.

Autechre Guitar, by Shane Parish 10 track album

I’m not a massive Autechre head so I can’t speak for how these work as covers. But this is magical music. shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

‘AV IT

Getting through these, and planning to make some kind of compendium.

Any more sub 30 minute recommendations?

a hell of a ride!! The Camberwell Now album is one of my favourites for sure

Oooooooh, this sounds like it should be on my radar for sure!

Another bump for this, I spoke to a guy that made Deceit about the creative process. l m a o it’s a wonderful life

has to be James Blake. 🤢

Talking with Leather.head, one of the most underrated and fiery bands in the world right now. I loved their debut, 'mud again', last year, and they have a bright future

I talked to Charles Hayward about a career spent not behaving. One of the coolest guys alive. With Deceit hitting extra hard this Winter, for, like, reasons, there is no better time to read up on this

Sonemic Interview: Charles Hayward
This Heat | Abstract Concrete

Charles Hayward discusses his legendary work with This Heat through 'Blue and Yellow' and 'Deceit' and his fascinating life in music with @calcash.in.

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What a beautiful thing to say. So glad you enjoyed reading as much as I enjoyed writing

This is one of the best interviews I've read in a very long time. Not just insight into one of the greatest bands of all time This Heat, but a rare reveal of the artistic process at the highest, most conceptual level. @calcash.in thanks to you!

On some days Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are the best album ever made, and so the regard I hold this in is reeeal

I talked to Charles Hayward about a career spent not behaving. One of the coolest guys alive. With Deceit hitting extra hard this Winter, for, like, reasons, there is no better time to read up on this

As good as the two masterpieces that followed. Time It’s Time is, for my money, the greatest album closer of all time