Cosey Fanni Tutti's
'2t2'
You are flolloping around the top floor chillout room in Club Industriale, secretly hitting a blood orange vape and your smuggled litre of pinot. Life is sinister and delicious.
tQ25.F.40 - Ignore.
BTW, fellow casters of Pooh Sticks, It's always worth re-reading @swordsjew.bsky.social
Jim Legxacy's
'Black British Music (2025)'
It's brave to structure actual songs in this musical epoch. You know... with hooks and verses and whatnot. And when they are this catchy and tasteful, this laden with sense memory, it's both brave and delightful.
tQ25.F.41 - Buy.
Chicago Underground Duo's
'Hyperglyph'
You attack the day like it's a lawful killing, hair whipped, eyes bulging. Your coffee tastes of blood and the entire world is tinted by the acid streaks of cortisol bathwater.
tQ25.F.42 - Buy.
Bb trickz's
'80βz'
Eight charming songs deliver more smiles, joy and optimism in eleven minutes than I've heard in eleven years.
tQ25.F.43 - Buy.
Osmium's
'Osmium'
The flow state of work with hands and voice. Exhorted menial, augmented by machine, surpasses the present to a place independent of reality where the thought weary and mind blistered can escape at the forge.
tQ25.F.44 - Buy.
Haress'
'Skylarks'
A band with delicate interplay and mutual respect weaving the air around us into long form instrumental stories that command rapt attention.
tQ25.F.45 - Buy.
Kasai's
'γ½'
If authenticity is rooted in honesty and folk is rooted in authenticity then this application of chant to retail production in the service of social reportage is the closest we have to modern folk.
tQ25.F.46 - Ignore.
Anton Anishchanka's
'Krope'
Folklore emerges as the archeologist's brush sweeps dust from sounds long unheard. Songs of lament and babbles of flowing crook swirl from the dig and trail rapt attention in still air.
tQ25.F.47 - Buy.
Joy Moughanni's
'A Separation From Habit'
Surfacing the complexities of trauma and grief from decades of war; wringing deep blues from modern electronics and ancient sounds; transmitting unfelt emotions in a language we have never heard before.
tQ25.F.48 - Buy.
Mary Halvorson's
'About Ghosts'
A large collection of people play their instruments⦠Sometimes like it's a race. Sometimes like it's a fracturing dinner party conversation.
tQ25.F.49 - Ignore.
Ethel Cain's
'Perverts'
Epic, sombre and deeply personal. By placing threat, hope, dread and faith into a sonic harness, Cain is able to show us how love is weaponised in the service of cardinal virtue.
tQ25.F.50 - Ignore.
Laura Cannell's
'LYRELYRELYRE'
A fantasia from which the Lover of Lyres magicks a weaver of sonic pictures; each title a prompt, each piece its representation. This isn't the Zauberlehrling's fumbled control though. Cannell is the sourcerer of sound.
tQ25.F.51 - Buy.
Manic Street Preachers'
'Critical Thinking'
[wearily] Another Manic Street Preachers set. Witty slogans against popular missteps. Will it end while people are imperfect? It's unlikely while it's⦠[major key] monetisable⦠a monetisable refrain.
tQ25.F.52 - Ignore.
Hesse Kassel's
'La Brea'
Extraordinary, virtuouso musicianship hunkering against the weight of theatrical high-drama. More emotional than art-rock, less stilted than post-rock.
tQ25.F.53 - Explore.
Sublux's
'Disorder In The Machinery'
Riff driven punk rock which shouts noisily about disregard at the societal edge of physical accessibility.
tQ25.F.54 - Buy.
YHWH Nailgun's
'45 Pounds'
Mechanical clangs of mathy art rock underpin vocals sat on the plain between metal growl and choked drawl. An awkward, jerking exclamation.
tQ25.F.55 - Ignore.
James K's
'Friend'
You are walking through a private museum. It's tasteful, and quiet. There's a calmness. The exhibits are fragments of things you read about long ago. Shoe glazing. Ambien noise abatement.
tQ25.F.56 - Ignore.
Bruise Blood's
'You Run Through The World Like An Open Razor'
You are driving North together through urban tunnels. The night was lens flare and glycol vapour, whump and astringent tang. You smile at one another as the tunnel's sodium yields to dawn tones.
tQ25.F.57 - Buy.
Backxwash's
'Only Dust Remains'
Preacher insistence, gospel euphorics, rock star drama, rapper poetry.
tQ25.F.58 - Buy.
Los Thuthanaka's
'Los Thuthanaka'
You're on a bestormed deck, soaked in salt, hair raised by wet adrenaline. Your brain submitted long ago and your body remains lithe in anticipation; of the surge, the quell, other bodies, their penetration of your edge, this shared extreme weather.
tQ25.F.59 - Buy.
Lavinia Blackwall's
'The Making'
A competent folk rock tour with stopovers in oompah and the medieval court to graze your knuckles on the stippled artex walls.
tQ25.F.60 - Ignore.
Folk used to buy daily affirmation CDs. This is just the interactive version.
PinkPantheress'
'Fancy That'
Personal stories adorn knowingly well-read dance beats, pads and chords. Like a magpie singing the tales of their glittering trophies.
tQ25.F.61 - Ignore.
clipping.'s
'Dead Channel Sky'
Paged in, again. It's busy on the mic driver. Push noise to the matmult; it's not just Molly; others; thocks; "kolodny"... other is moving the stack pointer... stop listening... start moving...
tQ25.F.62 - Buy.
Che's
'REST IN BASS'
Needle rain and freezing spray under a charred pier on a forlorn pebble beach.
tQ25.F.63 - Ignore.
Maria Somerville's
'Luster'
A hyperreal facsimile of ethereal eighties Γire.
tQ25.F.64 - Ignore.
Half Japanese's
'Adventure'
You've heard the likes of these jangled guitar pop songs before. It's endearingly bound to the same format as decades ago... the sound of an artist tapping the bars on the window of the genre he invented.
tQ25.F.65 - Ignore.
Smerz's
'Big City Life'
Fleeting encounters with exciting urban characters; wise and playful. Lighthearted and incisive.
tQ25.F.66 - Buy.
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