Jon Buckland

Huge billowing soundscapes formed with delicate poise by @k-lc.bsky.social at the ICA last night.

Very much looking forward to her third(!) album of the year.

And last, but not least, Mr @muterecords.bsky.social himself - Daniel Miller - on the modulars.

Sadly Mieko Shimizu couldn't make it but a couple of her new tracks were played with Violet Savage's flowing movements as accompaniment.

Dhangsha in crushing form over at All is Joy.

Harmonious shaver-wrangled drones courtesy of @monsterbobby.bsky.social

Followed by Storyteller

Cracking evening at Soho Electronic on Saturday.

It sounded like there were some dazzling performances earlier in the day but it began for me with Noise Warfare at Farsight Gallery.

If you want to read about my wife's childhood aspirations, the League of Gentlemen, Shooting Stars, and Human Leather's weirdly beautiful form of mayhem, you'll click that link below.

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"the autism problem"
"the migration problem"
"the trans problem"

Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

Human Leather – Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body | The Quietus Amée Chanter and Thomas Close still sound like Lightning Bolt crossed with Electric Wizard but with a surprising new knack for melody, finds Jon Buckland

Hand-modelling, Crème Brulé, stolen land, and snare pummelling.

Sounds like Human Leather have a new album out!

Here's my review for @thequietus.com

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Microcorps - Clear Vortex Chamber album cover. Illustration of an alien head being held my three line-drawn hands with a blurred black and white photograph in the background.

Accompanied by pals Elvin Brandhi, Phew, Justin K Broadrick, Karl D’Silva, and Karl O’Connor, the latest from Alexander Tucker merges the digital with the tangible, the futuristic with the ancient, ritual with freedom

#Microcorps - Clear Vortex Chamber

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Penelope Trappes (@penelopetrappes.bsky.social) AND Midwife?

What a delightful combination!

Microcorps – Clear Vortex Chamber | The Quietus Accompanied by pals Elvin Brandhi, Phew, Justin K Broadrick, Karl D’Silva, and Karl O’Connor, the latest from Alexander Tucker merges the digital with the tangible, the futuristic with the ancient, ri...

That @alexandertucker.bsky.social has a new record out under his Microcorps moniker. It's a doozy.

Here's my review for @thequietus.com

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9/9
I can only imagine what it was like living with and creating this work, day in and day out, wading through the transparent obfuscations and weak explanations. Perhaps the hope that this will serve as a paradigm shift was enough to drive Rachel on.

Whatever the impetus, this is mandatory reading

8/9

how slight the condemnation has been. It grapples expertly with the various supposedly seductive elements of power, style, sexuality, rebellion, and control, and punctures the flimsy excuses easily...

7/9

on a civilian population. The same level of diligence regarding circumstance is not applied in this instance as when discussing the Third Reich flirtations of deified rock stars.

Reading everything lined up together certainly reinforces how widespread these traits were, are, and, conversely...

6/9

But anti-Israeli government protests (which are much more widespread than Bob Vylan’s briefly mentioned Glastonbury performance) are presented context-free, as if they are unprovoked, anti-Semitic attacks, not responses to a regime of indiscriminate carpet bombing and inflicted starvation...

5/9

There are, however, questions to be raised about the author’s representation of Palestine. To some degree I can understand his approach, having filled pages and pages with historical accounts of brutality inflicted upon Jewish populations...

4/9

I won't repeat the line here as it shouldn't intrude on people’s lives without consent but there's a moment in this book regarding a survivor’s testimony shared by Gabriel Bach, with possibly the saddest string of words I have ever read, that brought me close to tears on my commute to work...

3/9

The stupidity and naivety of Debby Harry sieg-heiling, Siouxsie Sioux and various K-Pop bands sporting the swastika, David Bowie’s Aryan dictator character, and the intentionally grim motivations of Kula Shaker, The Exploited, and Interpol...

2/9

Few come out of this looking good. And whilst the obvious offenders are present (Lemmy, Kanye, Sid Vicious, Roger Waters, etc), plenty were surprises to me.

For example: the frequency of John Lennon’s goose-stepping and Nazi salutes, Adam Ant’s Ilse Koch obsession...

Some thoughts on 'This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll' by @danielrachel.bsky.social due out next month through @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

A thread 1/9

A vital, chilling, and impactful documentation of pop music’s incessant obsession with Nazism and the culture's willingness to look the other way...

The Tape Label Report, August 2025 Five tape labels to know and love this month.

“I’m constantly on the hunt for something interesting. And I guess when you keep doing that long enough, you eventually come across harsh noise.”

For @bandcamp.com's Tape Label Report, Vilho Koivisto of Satatuhatta Tapes kindly answered some of my questions

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Gwenifer Raymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark album cover. Raymond with guitar, posed in front of a tapestry-style illustration.

'Raymond can conjure detailed imagery with little more than carefully plucked strings and dexterous fretboard scurries. The mantle that once belonged to #JohnFahey now belongs squarely to Raymond.'

#GweniferRaymond - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

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@uclhcharity.bsky.social

Paul & Tom are Abseiling the Spinnaker Tower Help Tom Buckland raise money to support University College London Hospitals Charity UK

To celebrate turning 70 and raise money for a charity very close to my family’s hearts, my Dad has decided to hurl himself down the side of the Spinnaker Tower. Somehow he's roped my cousin into it too.

We'd be immensely grateful for any donations:

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Gwenifer Raymond – Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark | The Quietus With her finger-picked acoustic guitar, the Welsh-born artist plays hymns to dusty landscapes and oddball outsiders

Gwenifer Raymond is in exceptional form on her new record. I banged on about occultists, rocking chairs, and marionettes in this review for @thequietus.com

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@gweniferraymond.bsky.social

Happy 500th birthday @thewiremagazine.bsky.social!

And then some cracking insight from @soundsofslomo.com, @stephenomalley74.bsky.social, @jjstannard.bsky.social, @matthewmshaw.bsky.social on heavy drone masterpiece, 'The Creep'