Robert
@robertd1.bsky.social
(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash
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This is one of the best interviews I've read in a very long time. Not just insight into one of the greatest bands of all time This Heat, but a rare reveal of the artistic process at the highest, most conceptual level. @calcash.in thanks to you!
Sonemic Interview: Charles Hayward
This Heat | Abstract Concrete
Charles Hayward discusses his legendary work with This Heat through 'Blue and Yellow' and 'Deceit' and his fascinating life in music with @calcash.in.
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...
This Heat | Abstract Concrete
Charles Hayward discusses his legendary work with This Heat through 'Blue and Yellow' and 'Deceit' and his fascinating life in music with @calcash.in.
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
This is one of the best interviews I've read in a very long time. Not just insight into one of the greatest bands of all time This Heat, but a rare reveal of the artistic process at the highest, most conceptual level. @calcash.in thanks to you!
This is one of the best interviews I've read in a very long time. Not just insight into one of the greatest bands of all time This Heat, but a rare reveal of the artistic process at the highest, most conceptual level. @calcash.in thanks to you!
Sonemic Interview: Charles Hayward
This Heat | Abstract Concrete
Charles Hayward discusses his legendary work with This Heat through 'Blue and Yellow' and 'Deceit' and his fascinating life in music with @calcash.in.
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...
This Heat | Abstract Concrete
Charles Hayward discusses his legendary work with This Heat through 'Blue and Yellow' and 'Deceit' and his fascinating life in music with @calcash.in.
rateyourmusic.com/feature/sone...
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 PM
This is one of the best interviews I've read in a very long time. Not just insight into one of the greatest bands of all time This Heat, but a rare reveal of the artistic process at the highest, most conceptual level. @calcash.in thanks to you!
I know it's the obvious one, but it really is:
"In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"
"In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"
What’s the best song lyric in history?
February 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
I know it's the obvious one, but it really is:
"In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"
"In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection"
RIP Robert Duvall. One of my all-time favourites. As everyone will rightly cover the huge roles, I want to mention my love of his performance in The Judge. It was so good that it made me want to reach-out to my own father and mend our hostile history, despite having none whatsoever
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
RIP Robert Duvall. One of my all-time favourites. As everyone will rightly cover the huge roles, I want to mention my love of his performance in The Judge. It was so good that it made me want to reach-out to my own father and mend our hostile history, despite having none whatsoever
Looking for recommendations on writers in the vein of Don Delillo's New York novels (Mao II, Underworld, Cosmopolis) who creates characters who are indentations of the city they live within. Serious request despite how vague & pretentious this is
February 16, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Looking for recommendations on writers in the vein of Don Delillo's New York novels (Mao II, Underworld, Cosmopolis) who creates characters who are indentations of the city they live within. Serious request despite how vague & pretentious this is
There's something to be said about an artist so clearly unsure-borderline-uncomfortable playing older songs (at that point Ziggy LP was 30 years old), compared to major artists now who would love to retire on the heat of a mediocre back catalogue. There's something about how we clamour for it too
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
There's something to be said about an artist so clearly unsure-borderline-uncomfortable playing older songs (at that point Ziggy LP was 30 years old), compared to major artists now who would love to retire on the heat of a mediocre back catalogue. There's something about how we clamour for it too
Dark night of the scroll
February 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Dark night of the scroll
Turned 36 today. Treating myself to a few more pages of this before the day is done. I fear the day I run out of stuff to read concerning Kafka.
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Turned 36 today. Treating myself to a few more pages of this before the day is done. I fear the day I run out of stuff to read concerning Kafka.
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Happy publication day to the deep, dark, beautiful ride that is Keshed by Stu Hennigan.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
February 12, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Happy publication day to the deep, dark, beautiful ride that is Keshed by Stu Hennigan.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
We’re incredibly proud to be publishing this bold, uncompromising novel.
Congratulations @stuhennigan.bsky.social, and thanks to @turnarounduk.bsky.social, Jack Smyth, Tom and Jaime Witcomb and Alex Billington.
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"NYC" is a rumbling, fuzzed-out five-minute slowcore tidal wave
deathcrash Share New Single "NYC": Listen
We’re getting awfully close to the release of Somersaults, the heavily anticipated new LP from British slowcore greats deathcrash. The South London combo teased their album with last fall’s “Triumph” ...
stereogum.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
"NYC" is a rumbling, fuzzed-out five-minute slowcore tidal wave
deathcrash finally released the stand-out song from their huge new album. I didn't think a new song could mean the same thing to me as those of when I was younger. But this is burrowed deep within me
youtu.be/PuBQL40I0f8?...
youtu.be/PuBQL40I0f8?...
deathcrash - NYC (Official Video)
YouTube video by deathcrash
youtu.be
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 AM
deathcrash finally released the stand-out song from their huge new album. I didn't think a new song could mean the same thing to me as those of when I was younger. But this is burrowed deep within me
youtu.be/PuBQL40I0f8?...
youtu.be/PuBQL40I0f8?...
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Good morning.
MPTL Microplastics providing some post-industrial zoomer Comus goblin folk. AOTY contender mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com/album/sod-in...
MPTL Microplastics providing some post-industrial zoomer Comus goblin folk. AOTY contender mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com/album/sod-in...
Sod In Heaven, by MPTL Microplastics
16 track album
mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Good morning.
MPTL Microplastics providing some post-industrial zoomer Comus goblin folk. AOTY contender mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com/album/sod-in...
MPTL Microplastics providing some post-industrial zoomer Comus goblin folk. AOTY contender mptlmicroplastics.bandcamp.com/album/sod-in...
Can books be clickbait? Yes.
February 8, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Can books be clickbait? Yes.
By the standards of anything, Bluey is at times sublimely beautiful. One of the few cultural products where I feel like 'we have got better at this'.
February 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
By the standards of anything, Bluey is at times sublimely beautiful. One of the few cultural products where I feel like 'we have got better at this'.
One of the enduring mysteries of literature to me is how William Gaddis made no reference to Jan Van Eyck in The Recognitions. More than any artist in history, he is the master of having no idea what is his, what isn't.
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 AM
One of the enduring mysteries of literature to me is how William Gaddis made no reference to Jan Van Eyck in The Recognitions. More than any artist in history, he is the master of having no idea what is his, what isn't.
Nearly 20 years since my 1st gig at Hammersmith Palais. My sister was massive Nine Black Alps fan & i went for Testicles. After Wolfmother opened (somehow 1st band I saw) they announced Testicles broke up few days before gig. My dad drove us from N London & parked at fire station (he was a fireman)
February 6, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Nearly 20 years since my 1st gig at Hammersmith Palais. My sister was massive Nine Black Alps fan & i went for Testicles. After Wolfmother opened (somehow 1st band I saw) they announced Testicles broke up few days before gig. My dad drove us from N London & parked at fire station (he was a fireman)
This song had a stranglehold on a 16 year old me even tho I think it was meant to be a parody. I did not enjoy growing up in London at all, but it was exciting to hear songs that sounded like they were done by your mates on the playground gain notoriety
youtu.be/t-BeGk6lfmU?...
youtu.be/t-BeGk6lfmU?...
Lips 2 Da Floor (feat. Dubbledge, Mention)
YouTube video by LDZ - Topic
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
This song had a stranglehold on a 16 year old me even tho I think it was meant to be a parody. I did not enjoy growing up in London at all, but it was exciting to hear songs that sounded like they were done by your mates on the playground gain notoriety
youtu.be/t-BeGk6lfmU?...
youtu.be/t-BeGk6lfmU?...
Not sure how I feel about Aladdin Sane-era imagery with Scary Monsters and Super Creeps-era calligraphy
February 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Not sure how I feel about Aladdin Sane-era imagery with Scary Monsters and Super Creeps-era calligraphy
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I’ve done a little Substack thingy… I’d love you to read it! 😊
Featuring:
@ortacpress.bsky.social
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/beardedb...
Featuring:
@ortacpress.bsky.social
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/beardedb...
Random Ramblings No.1
Some of you will remember that once upon a time I used to run a small independent bookshop here in beautiful Belper in deepest Derbyshire… and as part of running that bookshop I used to run a blog fea...
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I’ve done a little Substack thingy… I’d love you to read it! 😊
Featuring:
@ortacpress.bsky.social
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/beardedb...
Featuring:
@ortacpress.bsky.social
@richardjamesfoster.bsky.social
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
@ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
@deadinkbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/beardedb...
I wonder if the cat from the Smog album cover is related to the cat from Gabby's Dollhouse. #showbizcats
February 3, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I wonder if the cat from the Smog album cover is related to the cat from Gabby's Dollhouse. #showbizcats
What a book, a bridge towards Lud Heat that I've never travelled. This section in particular is like watching a fight between the most violent fervour of The Cantos and the softest geometrical manoeuvring of The White Stones
February 3, 2026 at 1:08 PM
What a book, a bridge towards Lud Heat that I've never travelled. This section in particular is like watching a fight between the most violent fervour of The Cantos and the softest geometrical manoeuvring of The White Stones
When the thing you most hate is the thing you most need
February 3, 2026 at 11:26 AM
When the thing you most hate is the thing you most need