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Has Yellowstone got into your bones as well? Pick up truck next?!

@lonesomebluejay.bsky.social I feel like this new Ethel Cain album would be your kind of thing? Have you heard it?

Such a daunting prospect but fairly enjoyable once you get going and massively satisfying once complete?

Someone’s wrongly listed a pressing on discogs (by a mere 21 years) sold it to me and gone to ground when I’ve politely pointed out the very obvious error and asked for a full refund and return. I’m sure it will get sorted but it’s just the whole palava isn’t it? Ffs!

These five Donald Byrd titles have proven themselves quite elusive to me on vinyl so I have acquired these wonderful NM Japanese “mini-LP” CD’s to tide me over until Bluenote reissues them. Personally need a magnifying glass to read the liner notes though 🧐🤣

One of my favs

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@justplayed.bsky.social Hi Gareth. Safe to assume this oasis box will just be rehashing the same masters that are all currently available? Or have you heard otherwise?

I love these little moments.

Blood Orange Hits Sublime Heights With 'The Field' | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews On the surface, news of the first Blood Orange release in three years suggests that Dev Hynes has been secluded from the limelight. Look beyond that stat,

Nice track. I hope there’s more to come soon.

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Haha. Exactly what I’m doing right now 😆

Alanis introducing her musicians between each song and their names are all like "MR GULLIVER CHUTNEY-WAYLON ON BASS!" "MR FRANGIPAN MUSSEL-OSSIFY ON KEYBOARDS!" like they're household names

Liquid Skin is Gomez’s magnum opus for me. Not to everyone’s taste but much more accomplished than the Mercury prize winning debut that preceded it. Miles better than anything that followed imo too.

Afternoon set please 🙏🏼?

Little Simz & Chineke! Orchestra review – rap-classical crossover is spectacularly realised Closing out a Simz-curated Meltdown festival, and with a host of star guests helping out, these songs gain extra nuance as orchestra and star meld perfectly together

A privilege to have witnessed this. It will live long in the memory that’s for sure

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Hahahaha. A man who simply seeks out the worst in every day experience. Of course he drinks INSTANT COFFEE lmao

Yeah. I think I probably sat on that one until a few years ago. I couldn’t believe how good it was. Apparently Moon Shaped Pool is very good but not gone there yet! Too soon 😆

Same! It took me over 20 years to “get” Kid A. Do you know In Rainbows?

I emailed @roughtraderecords.bsky.social about this a few weeks ago. No response. So much stuff (ahem..crap) gets pressed all the time. I just don’t understand when these gems get left for so long!

Seeing and hearing Weller sing this 31 years older, wiser, wrinklier brings so much to the song - which betrayed a maturity beyond his years when he wrote it. In the same way I prefer Joni Mitchell’s later version of Both Sides Now perhaps.

YouTube video by Marc Gosselin It's A Very Deep Sea -by- The Style Council (2019 at Black Barn Studios)

Confessions Of A Pop Group is 37 today. Here is a song from that record which the band chose as their one and only reunion performance in 2019. It appeared at the end of the Sky Arts documentary during covid and was such a monumental surprise. A top-ten Weller song imho.

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When they played it at the end of that Sky Arts documentary a few years ago, I reckon I had goosebumps for days!

I don’t know if you’ve ever read David Lines book about growing up (and growing old) a Weller obsessive. Wonderful read. The passage about what It’s A Very Deep Sea meant to him grieving for his father has stuck with me since I read it and helped me see what an incredible song that is.

Failed to intercept the postman before wife could open the door. To this bonanza

Annahstasia.

This is really something else 😮

What a wonderful photo!

If you are doing Rough Trade EAST then absolutely worth walking 5 minutes north of it to Flackback on Bethnal Green Rd. Excellent store, they have two others in London. Crouch End and Islington but not been to those…yet!

Nice copy! Not (yet) in my Byrd cage (which currently numbers 30 as leader).

Couldn’t agree more with this. Why Weller thinks he’s bringing anything to the party when he rolls him out is beyond me. I don’t think he’s creative in the slightest in the studio. And on stage, I reckon I’ve seen cardboard cutouts with more presence!

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