Oliver.
@northernpundit.bsky.social
milltown brother & record botherer
🎧 blues | soul | indie | shoegaze 🎧
🎧 blues | soul | indie | shoegaze 🎧
I remember the first time I heard Workers Song just a few years ago and it completely blew me away.
The power, the voice, the playing and the words.
Shameful that this music gets held hostage by a faceless corporation.
The power, the voice, the playing and the words.
Shameful that this music gets held hostage by a faceless corporation.
Please read, listen, and share widely. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I remember the first time I heard Workers Song just a few years ago and it completely blew me away.
The power, the voice, the playing and the words.
Shameful that this music gets held hostage by a faceless corporation.
The power, the voice, the playing and the words.
Shameful that this music gets held hostage by a faceless corporation.
Absolutely delighted we're burning up the land to let machines be creative and happy for us.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Absolutely delighted we're burning up the land to let machines be creative and happy for us.
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The warm down comes courtesy of this beauty from earlier in the year.
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/29Nwfb...
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/29Nwfb...
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The warm down comes courtesy of this beauty from earlier in the year.
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/29Nwfb...
Hannah Cohen - Earthstar Mountain
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/29Nwfb...
Soundtracking today's long run was the Peruvian shoegaze band, Los Membrillos.
Got this from KEXP's In Our Headphones - classic first wave shoegaze sound.
Los Pajaritos (The Little Birds) a highlight - the guitars build to sound like a flock of birds.
losmembrillos.bandcamp.com/album/distimia
Got this from KEXP's In Our Headphones - classic first wave shoegaze sound.
Los Pajaritos (The Little Birds) a highlight - the guitars build to sound like a flock of birds.
losmembrillos.bandcamp.com/album/distimia
Distimia, by Los Membrillos
10 track album
losmembrillos.bandcamp.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Soundtracking today's long run was the Peruvian shoegaze band, Los Membrillos.
Got this from KEXP's In Our Headphones - classic first wave shoegaze sound.
Los Pajaritos (The Little Birds) a highlight - the guitars build to sound like a flock of birds.
losmembrillos.bandcamp.com/album/distimia
Got this from KEXP's In Our Headphones - classic first wave shoegaze sound.
Los Pajaritos (The Little Birds) a highlight - the guitars build to sound like a flock of birds.
losmembrillos.bandcamp.com/album/distimia
Just a reminder to always check your scarecrows for kidnapping victims.
Mostly applies to residents of Royston Vasey.
Mostly applies to residents of Royston Vasey.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Just a reminder to always check your scarecrows for kidnapping victims.
Mostly applies to residents of Royston Vasey.
Mostly applies to residents of Royston Vasey.
Interesting Guardian article on the new Spotify alternatives.
I really like the idea from Cantilever to have a limited number of albums to listen to at any one time.
Slows it down and gives time for proper listening.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
I really like the idea from Cantilever to have a limited number of albums to listen to at any one time.
Slows it down and gives time for proper listening.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Interesting Guardian article on the new Spotify alternatives.
I really like the idea from Cantilever to have a limited number of albums to listen to at any one time.
Slows it down and gives time for proper listening.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
I really like the idea from Cantilever to have a limited number of albums to listen to at any one time.
Slows it down and gives time for proper listening.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Took my one year old to a babies and toddler group at the library this morning.
Half way through, we 'observed' a two minute silence for Armistice Day.
It was ambitious 😬
Half way through, we 'observed' a two minute silence for Armistice Day.
It was ambitious 😬
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Took my one year old to a babies and toddler group at the library this morning.
Half way through, we 'observed' a two minute silence for Armistice Day.
It was ambitious 😬
Half way through, we 'observed' a two minute silence for Armistice Day.
It was ambitious 😬
Normally I’m suspicious of re-releases, but this new Khruangbin album is so good.
Re-recording and releasing their debut exactly 10 years on with everything they've learned in the past decade.
Really light but still with that proper groove.
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/45ZWDM...
Re-recording and releasing their debut exactly 10 years on with everything they've learned in the past decade.
Really light but still with that proper groove.
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/45ZWDM...
The Universe Smiles Upon You ii
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Normally I’m suspicious of re-releases, but this new Khruangbin album is so good.
Re-recording and releasing their debut exactly 10 years on with everything they've learned in the past decade.
Really light but still with that proper groove.
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/45ZWDM...
Re-recording and releasing their debut exactly 10 years on with everything they've learned in the past decade.
Really light but still with that proper groove.
#nowplaying
open.spotify.com/album/45ZWDM...
@dkfm.bsky.social spinning an shogaze all-timer.
Sometimes shogaze all sounds the same but sometimes it can sound like this.
indoorvoices.com/track/flakey
Sometimes shogaze all sounds the same but sometimes it can sound like this.
indoorvoices.com/track/flakey
Flakey, by Indoor Voices
track by Indoor Voices
indoorvoices.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
@dkfm.bsky.social spinning an shogaze all-timer.
Sometimes shogaze all sounds the same but sometimes it can sound like this.
indoorvoices.com/track/flakey
Sometimes shogaze all sounds the same but sometimes it can sound like this.
indoorvoices.com/track/flakey
Every now and again, we just need a new Whitney album to cleanse the soul.
Out today, this sounds as good as they've ever been.
open.spotify.com/album/0DV7El...
Out today, this sounds as good as they've ever been.
open.spotify.com/album/0DV7El...
Small Talk
open.spotify.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Every now and again, we just need a new Whitney album to cleanse the soul.
Out today, this sounds as good as they've ever been.
open.spotify.com/album/0DV7El...
Out today, this sounds as good as they've ever been.
open.spotify.com/album/0DV7El...
It's been about 15 years since I first watched it but I'm still not over the original Funny Games.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's been about 15 years since I first watched it but I'm still not over the original Funny Games.
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
So is this a good song or a bad song? 🎃
Watched Fright Night for the first time last night and had it on repeat since.
Don't know if it's a guilty pleasure or a genuine banger.
spotify.link/WkOCZNt7UXb
Watched Fright Night for the first time last night and had it on repeat since.
Don't know if it's a guilty pleasure or a genuine banger.
spotify.link/WkOCZNt7UXb
Good Man in a Bad Time
spotify.link
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So is this a good song or a bad song? 🎃
Watched Fright Night for the first time last night and had it on repeat since.
Don't know if it's a guilty pleasure or a genuine banger.
spotify.link/WkOCZNt7UXb
Watched Fright Night for the first time last night and had it on repeat since.
Don't know if it's a guilty pleasure or a genuine banger.
spotify.link/WkOCZNt7UXb
Transcendental stuff.
October 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Transcendental stuff.
"What is egregious?"
October 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"What is egregious?"
Reposted by Oliver.
www.mixcloud.com/thesoundFM/i... Indiescovery #108 plays the best cover versions of the best tracks of all time! The 1st hour is all Beatles, with artists ranging from Medicine & Chapterhouse to Nancy Sinatra & Aretha Franklin. The 2nd hour, The Cure & Radiohead covering Joy Division, & lots more!
October 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
www.mixcloud.com/thesoundFM/i... Indiescovery #108 plays the best cover versions of the best tracks of all time! The 1st hour is all Beatles, with artists ranging from Medicine & Chapterhouse to Nancy Sinatra & Aretha Franklin. The 2nd hour, The Cure & Radiohead covering Joy Division, & lots more!
One of my favourite albums of the past few years.
Blómi by Susanne Sundfør.
Blómi by Susanne Sundfør.
October 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of my favourite albums of the past few years.
Blómi by Susanne Sundfør.
Blómi by Susanne Sundfør.
Just started training for a race for the first time in a few years and started to struggle on the long run this morning.
Shortened the stride, slowed the pace and hit the emergency Blankenberge button and floated home ☁️
blankenberge.bandcamp.com/album/decisi...
Shortened the stride, slowed the pace and hit the emergency Blankenberge button and floated home ☁️
blankenberge.bandcamp.com/album/decisi...
Decisions, by Blankenberge
8 track album
blankenberge.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Just started training for a race for the first time in a few years and started to struggle on the long run this morning.
Shortened the stride, slowed the pace and hit the emergency Blankenberge button and floated home ☁️
blankenberge.bandcamp.com/album/decisi...
Shortened the stride, slowed the pace and hit the emergency Blankenberge button and floated home ☁️
blankenberge.bandcamp.com/album/decisi...
Reposted by Oliver.
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
Today marks the start of the annual 'finally listen to the Mercury award nominee albums for the first time the day after it's been awarded'.
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Today marks the start of the annual 'finally listen to the Mercury award nominee albums for the first time the day after it's been awarded'.
Reposted by Oliver.
RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
RIP D'Angelo, the greatest singer since Marvin departed. Who took the grit & attitude of hip-hop & alchemized it into angelic voodoo. He condensed the human condition - sex, suffering, addiction, love, oppression - into pure transcendence. A comet emitting blinding light & soul.
White Flowers first release in 3 (?) years!
New single out today - Tear.
Lancashire's own shoegaze champions, back on a new label and with a slightly more electronic dancey sound it seems.
open.spotify.com/track/3CSx5s...
New single out today - Tear.
Lancashire's own shoegaze champions, back on a new label and with a slightly more electronic dancey sound it seems.
open.spotify.com/track/3CSx5s...
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
White Flowers first release in 3 (?) years!
New single out today - Tear.
Lancashire's own shoegaze champions, back on a new label and with a slightly more electronic dancey sound it seems.
open.spotify.com/track/3CSx5s...
New single out today - Tear.
Lancashire's own shoegaze champions, back on a new label and with a slightly more electronic dancey sound it seems.
open.spotify.com/track/3CSx5s...
Cannot stop listening to this new EP from Argentine/English, Canada-based Bloom Effect.
Perfect mix of melodic shoegaze & dream pop.
bloomeffect.bandcamp.com/album/oscil-n
Perfect mix of melodic shoegaze & dream pop.
bloomeffect.bandcamp.com/album/oscil-n
oscilón, by bloom effect
6 track album
bloomeffect.bandcamp.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Cannot stop listening to this new EP from Argentine/English, Canada-based Bloom Effect.
Perfect mix of melodic shoegaze & dream pop.
bloomeffect.bandcamp.com/album/oscil-n
Perfect mix of melodic shoegaze & dream pop.
bloomeffect.bandcamp.com/album/oscil-n
Watched Weapons the other night, didn't think that much of it but it featured this stone cold heartbreaker 💔
open.spotify.com/track/2ZhfVf...
open.spotify.com/track/2ZhfVf...
The Dark End of the Street
open.spotify.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Watched Weapons the other night, didn't think that much of it but it featured this stone cold heartbreaker 💔
open.spotify.com/track/2ZhfVf...
open.spotify.com/track/2ZhfVf...