05/15 - If The Future Isn't Bright, At Least It's Colourful

Just wanted to share some superb music with y'all.


Aphex Twin - 54 Cymru Beats
Have you ever heard so many fantastic sounds on top of each other? The final minute especially, is such indulgence.


Badbadnotgood - Can't Leave The Night
Cause they just released that collaborative album with Ghostface, and I thought the single from that was kinda awesome, so I thought I'd like check if their earlier stuff was too. And it was. Awesome. Too. The beat drop at 1:15. Maaan.


Einstürzende Neubauten - Youme & Meyou

They turn houses into homes 
where earthquakes live with car alarms 
mature mild-mannered catastrophes

Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are (ft. Tori and Reiko Kudo)
Well, if there was one thing that could make Hot Chip ballads even more lovely, it was always the option of reinterpreting them as Japanese duets.

Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters - Bionic Rats
I will never get tired of the backing vocalists going "Satan! Satan!" Also, the guitar solo, the superfat bass, and pretty much every other sound – all earcandy.

04/15 - No Civil Disobedience

I think I'm already giving up my genius new format. Short comments only this week.


amiina - Lóri
Cradled to sleep


Sigur Rós - Death Announcements and Funerals
The post-rock revival in my studio continues.


Primal Scream - Exterminator
Still a great album. Blunt, angry and unapologetic.

Gun metal skies
Broken eyes
Claustrophobic concrete
English high-rise

Stina Nordenstam - Parliament Square

This is no final solution
No this is just for today
I'm running from London pollution
Still cold from the rain
These are not perfect conditions
No this is far from ideal
This is a downcast position
At least it is real

Beyoncé - I Care
Guitar+voice-solo! You could listen to it a million times; there is no seam!

03/15 - No Ebb Or Flood Will Ever Come

A very good week. Almost all the pieces fell into place.


Zs - Weakling
Time: Thursday.
Place: In the studio.
Feelings: Wowowow.
Of note: Read a review on Pitchfork in the morning. Put the album on as soon as I got to the studio. Loved it. This week I only wanted weird music, and this is quite out there.


Aphex Twin - diskhat1
Time: Tuesday morning.
Place: In the studio.
Feelings: Twitches.
Of note: Finally treated myself to the new Aphex album, and hardly had I done so before he released another, even better, record!


Swans - A Little God In My Hands
Time: Wednesday eve.
Place: In the studio.
Feelings: Power. Strength.
Of note: If you don't listen to this album LOUD and in its entirety, you shouldn't listen to it at all. Which I'm of course contradicting by putting this on a list, but hey, somehow I need to at least refer to the enormous amount of energy I drew from this while finishing up my concrete casts.


Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Mladic
Time: Earlier on Wednesday eve.
Place: In the studio.
Feelings: "I can do anything"
Of note: Sometimes I think the main reason for me doing art is so that I can listen to loud muic late at night in the studio. There is hardly anything better than hammering on a bit of concrete while immersed in post rock.

Love - Alone Again Or
Time: Thursday morning
Place: Walking to the bus.
Feelings: A little bit of joy, maybe.
Of note: Is this one of the best songs ever? Yes, probably. "I think that people are the greatest fun. But I will be alone again tonight my dear."