Instead of the usual newsletter, I’m sharing a few of the things I’ve been thinking about this week instead, including how much I love the new Lily Allen album in spite of myself, and how happy DJ Harvey’s set last Friday made me. xoxo

"I need the audience to be a muse, the muse, and I need to love them, or I can’t find it in me.” she commented in an interview this week. She's currently creating a new audience-as-muse composed of terfs...very curious to see the kind of music this produces

All the conversation around puberty blockers and questionable data re: the rate of trans-identifying youth is more often than not a smokescreen or a springboard for what morphs into generalised transphobia and bigotry. See her recent, "I've left the cult, get over it" comment.

Right?! 🥴

In today's newsletter we talked about the challenges of fitting in in a scene not known for its inclusivity, how her experiences growing up shaped the person and artist she is today, the disillusionment that can come with meeting your idols, and why she thinks she's yet to make a banger (!)

to fit neatly into any single genre, with releases on labels as varied as Kapsela, Mau5trap, XL Recordings, Critical Music and FabricLive. I first spoke to Li last year about an incident that will be explored in more detail in the newsletter in coming weeks.

This is a response to Shawn Reynaldo’s “Electronic Music Has A Scab Problem” newsletter published last week on the topic of artists crossing picket lines to play boycotted venues and events, and within, I name a few names.

My point is that he hasn’t said shit about Gaza and I’m so sick of Libs who talk about everything but Palestine

Now do Israel

This is a really special one. Amir is such a thoughtful, gracious person and it was such a pleasure to speak with him. All new subscription income this week will go to the Ghassan Abu Sittah Children's Fund providing holistic, multidisciplinary treatment & care for children affected by the genocide