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Shards of voice are reprocessed and repurposed in this eerie dialogue between former members of Japanese post-punks Aunt Sally and Australian rock band Crime & the City Solution

Phew and Danielle de Picciotto – Paper Masks

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Phew and Danielle de Picciotto – Paper Masks | The Quietus Shards of voice are reprocessed and repurposed in this eerie dialogue between former members of Japanese post-punks Aunt Sally and Australian rock band Crime & the City Solution

Back again @thequietus.com, I review another one of my favourites from 2026, Phew & Danielle de Picciotto's 𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘴. Haunting and sublime stuff.

On Signals, Okkyung Lee pulls out all the stops, building impossible architectures out of piano stabs, whistling woodwinds and electronic augmentations

Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble – Signals

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Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf (Official Vinyl Video) YouTube video by RHINO

Every time I get a coughing fit (leftover from the flu, would not recommend), this starts playing in my head...

Searching for stuff like this in 2026 is beyond frustrating. You can't even type in lyrics and expect to get something useful. Google broke their search engine to push users onto Gemini, while Gemini and other LLMs are totally useless for this type of queries. Argh.

Glad you worked it out, though!

This is an amazing record.

“For all the music’s hermeticism, there is intent, and even understated beauty in it”

thank you…! 😭

Okkyung Lee + Explore Ensemble – Signals | The Quietus Commissioned by London's Explore Ensemble, South Korean cellist, improviser, composer Okkyung Lee pulls out all the stops, building impossible architectures out of piano stabs, whistling woodwinds and...

Over @thequietus.com, I wrote about one of my favourite albums so far this year, Okkyung Lee & Explore Ensemble's 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴.

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Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator, by Leo Chadburn 4 track album

If you haven't already heard my album 'Sleep in the Shadow of the Alternator', and you'd like to buy a copy, today is the ideal day, it being Bandcamp Friday... leochadburn.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-...

Live Coding Survey 2026 Thank you for taking the time to participate in this study! Your input will help us understand how we interact with live coding environments for real-time performance and composition. Details Time: T...

If you practise live coding in any form, my colleague Gordan and I would kindly ask for 5 mins of your time to fill out our questionnaire. We're independent researchers, and all findings (and code) will be made available publicly.

We appreciate reshares, etc. Many thanks!

BCF reccs:
• Phew & Danielle de Picciotto phewjapan.bandcamp.com/album/paper-...
• Okkyung Lee okkyunglee.bandcamp.com/album/signals
• The Messthetics / JBL themessthetics.bandcamp.com/album/deface...
• Nondi_ nondi.bandcamp.com/album/nondi
• Rosa Faenskap rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com/album/ingent...

Easily the best stuff they've done since Voodoo Caravan/Hooray! It's a Deathtrip (both of which I love).

A joy to write the cover story on @wendyeisenberg.bsky.social for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. We discuss their gorgeous new song album @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social & their wider adventures across free jazz, punk, new music and much more!

The Wire 506 is out now!

Featuring Wendy Eisenberg on the cover, plus an Augustus Pablo primer, Mariá Portugal, KAVARI, Yellow Swans' Invisible Jukebox, and much more.

Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

There's doing PR for NSBM/sketch labels and bands, and then there's this...

Oh, man. Immense loss. One of the greatest.

By not engaging with “Bawitdaba”, the left risks ceding ground in the critical debate surrounding the music of Kid Rock to the right.

RIP

Every promo shot of every British electronica trio c. 1997.

the blood ssssssssssickle cuts and the honey ssssssssucks, oh rose, thou art sssssssssick

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

MetalMatters: Best Metal Albums of January 2026 » PopMatters In January's best metal, Ulver return to their deep electronica, the Ruins of Beverast show off their extreme black/doom, and Zu join free-jazz madness with ambient bliss.

For the January edition of MetalMatters @popmatters.com, I covered some excellent new music by The Ruins Of Beverast, Ulver, Voidhämmer, Barbarian, Blackwater Holylight, Bone Weapon, and Furi Helium. Black, death, thrash metal, and mixtures thereof.

PLAGUE MUSIC, by KAVARI 4 track album

XL had a really great 2025 (Blawan, keiyaA, Nourished By Time, Verraco, Jim Legxacy...) and they're certainly taking the same energy into 2026. This new Kavari EP rules.

Remember: Friends don't let friends listen to Winterfylleth

And releasing excellent albums, most of which went more or less unnoticed.

Great to see dälek (by @jjstannard.bsky.social) and Zu (by @miloshroch.bsky.social) getting some well-deserved attention in @thewiremagazine.bsky.social!

On my end, I reviewed Polish group Oberkas Travel, who reinterpret traditional oberek dance songs in a wild contemporary jazz/improv/psych key.

Dobri Hrvat koji se ne bavi politikom i samo želi zajedništvo bude kao: Nisam nacist, ali sieg heil

2 albums on excellent labels and 2 mini-albums exclusive to Patreon. All of them made and ready to go.