Antonio

Excellent and quite comprehensive chart. Includes the splendid compilation 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯 𝘛𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴: 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭, 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭, & 𝘐𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 1970𝘴 𝘚𝘢𝘯 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘰 (accompanied by a blurb taken from my full review).

Ogromna preporuka.

And a few more Bandcamp Friday recs if you're into heavy shit (you should be). 👇

I obviously disagree about the music, but you have a point about the thematic angle. I'm ambivalent about it, leaning towards seeing it as a horror-driven critique of "pretty gross tropes about sex work" rather than taking them at face value.

I can totally understand why you wouldn't dig it, though

Haha, thought you might. Sorry not sorry!

Some recommendations for Bandcamp Friday. 👇

A fascinating interview with @tristanperich.bsky.social discussing his transcendent Infinity Gradient.

Compassion through algorithms volume III, by algorave 55 track album

Released today, "Compassion through algorithms volume III" - a huge 55 track album full of really great music and noise from the live coding/algorithmic music community, fundraising to support Palestinian health, dignity and culture. Buy it today (name your price!) and bandcamp will waive their fee.

[something’s happening] and Budokan Boys tapes

Good morning. Lots of tapes available on this Bandcamp Friday including the most recent by Budokan Boys and [something’s happening]

strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com

Caligo, by Siavash Amini 5 track album

I had two releases on the excellent @room40.bsky.social this year.

Give them a listen if you haven't already.
#bandcampfriday

siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/caligo

I have thoughts about people translating old poems into modern languages without checking them out first

Aw, thanks, Cal! It was a labour of love, haha. 😊

1. Nina Garcia - Bye Bye Bird (Ideologic Organ) 2. Giant Claw - Decadent Stress Chamber (Orange Milk) 3. Abhorrent Expanse - Enter The Misanthropocene (Amalgam) 4. Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin - Ghosted III (Drag City) 5. Ava Mendoza/gabby fluke-mogul/Carolina Pérez - Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) 6. Al Karpenter - Greatest Heads (Hegoa/Night School) 7. Sanam - Sametou Sawtan (Constellation) 8. Pharaoh Overlord - Louhi (Rocket) 9. Water Damage - Instruments (Cardinal Fuzz/12XU) 10. Deaf Club - We Demand A Permanent State Of Happiness (Southern Lord/Three One G)

Here's the Avant Rock chart that I've compiled for the Rewind issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social.

Truly an excellent year for rock*, with a bunch of other records that narrowly missed out on the top 10: Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt, Cyrus Pireh, Chuck Roth, Crippling Alcholism...

I think OnePlus, Nothing, and that sort have pretty light and configurable skins on top of vanilla Android.

Amen.

I hope this doesn't include Andor? I haven't watched S02 yet and I'm not ready to have my heart broken, lol.

New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out! Proud to have contributed a Rewind essay + reviews of Unsound 2025, and records by Saint Abdullah/Jason Nazary + Rie Nakajima/David Toop.

Whole issue is packed with great essays, articles and EOY gear

Buy a copy/subscribe to support indie journalism in ‘26

I've got an EOY essay in here about the dialogue between jazz/improv, underground hip-hop and electronic music, and the exciting new open-genre music emerging from it.

Plus a full page of jazz & improv reviews, inc the incredible @xcrswx, Marilyn Crispell, Angharad Davies & John Butcher...

This year especially, my greatest thanks go to @saving-throw.bsky.social, @jjstannard.bsky.social, @lucythraves.bsky.social and everyone else at @thewiremagazine.bsky.social for all their help and for keeping things going. ❤️

Allow us to REWIND you up as 2025 draws to its close. Here’s a big bouncing bumper issue for your festive (or otherwise) edification!

Oh, you! 😊

Yes! @thewiremagazine.bsky.social nails the top 50!

For the issue, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Tristan Perich.

I also profiled @adambdonoval.bsky.social's Warm Winters Ltd, penned the regular and year-end Avant Rock columns, reviewed the new Anna von Hausswolff, and reflected on 2025.

You've reminded of the DistroKid guy. His platform does stuff like this www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/distrokid-is..., while he creates novelty headphones and entertains audiophiles.

Meni se sviđa ovo objašnjenje.

Picked records from aya, Blawan, OsamaSon, Rosalía, billy woods, Jim Legxacy, Che, MIKE, Maria Somerville and james K for this list

Trust you me, ona čvrsto sjedi samo na jednoj stolici.

I would have gone with OsamaSon's 'Psykotic', but otherwise *chef's kiss*.

As usual, one of the best lists around with plenty of new music to discover for everyone.

Toootalno neočekivano.

The best metal of 2025 as selected by Spyros and me for @popmatters.com.

Banger list all around ft Antiversum, @allieinchains.bsky.social, Mendoza/fluke-mogul/Pérez (@burningambulance.bsky.social), @gonemage.bsky.social, OvO, Retromorphosis, Stygian Ruin...

🔗 www.popmatters.com/best-metal-a...