David Audit
@awesomewells.bsky.social
Yes the imagined reader thing is somewhat complicated in the click economy. (ie whatever the NME website is supposed to be it does heavily cover K-pop and I'm assuming there are solid commercial reasons for that)
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Yes the imagined reader thing is somewhat complicated in the click economy. (ie whatever the NME website is supposed to be it does heavily cover K-pop and I'm assuming there are solid commercial reasons for that)
Hey we all clicked...
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey we all clicked...
Yeah a lot of these artists are associated with particular labels, places or club-adjacent scenes (which is why, say, James K can get props from Resident Advisor despite being a standard dreampop album). But yeah the label as a definition of an aesthetic is still just about a thing
December 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Yeah a lot of these artists are associated with particular labels, places or club-adjacent scenes (which is why, say, James K can get props from Resident Advisor despite being a standard dreampop album). But yeah the label as a definition of an aesthetic is still just about a thing
Like if there's one dominant aesthetic it's probably 'art school kids who like pop signed to cool label'. I like some of this stuff (Shygirl, Oklou) and hate a lot of the rest of it (Smerz etc) - difficult to claim any of it really represents 2025 rather than an imagined idea of their readership
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Like if there's one dominant aesthetic it's probably 'art school kids who like pop signed to cool label'. I like some of this stuff (Shygirl, Oklou) and hate a lot of the rest of it (Smerz etc) - difficult to claim any of it really represents 2025 rather than an imagined idea of their readership
Without delving too much into individual lists this looks like a very long tail poll with no clear centre and I assume they've mandated one track per album. But it's also just been a weird year
December 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Without delving too much into individual lists this looks like a very long tail poll with no clear centre and I assume they've mandated one track per album. But it's also just been a weird year
I like the Oklou album a lot and we've been playing it all year but Blade Bird is a weird consensus choice (it's a bit like listening to Blue Lines and then all voting for Hymn of the Big Wheel)
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I like the Oklou album a lot and we've been playing it all year but Blade Bird is a weird consensus choice (it's a bit like listening to Blue Lines and then all voting for Hymn of the Big Wheel)
Have you looked at how many teams there are this year?
December 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Have you looked at how many teams there are this year?
I'm assuming a shop? There's a local butcher or kebab shop or something that occasionally dumps a load of raw meat and offal out on Blackheath. You can tell they've been because there are police tents and forensics in full hazmat suits checking that there hasn't been a brutal murder
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I'm assuming a shop? There's a local butcher or kebab shop or something that occasionally dumps a load of raw meat and offal out on Blackheath. You can tell they've been because there are police tents and forensics in full hazmat suits checking that there hasn't been a brutal murder
The one with Doechii was really great but mostly for the bit where her verse crashes through the wall of the rest of the song (and my god, does it)
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The one with Doechii was really great but mostly for the bit where her verse crashes through the wall of the rest of the song (and my god, does it)
(By contrast 2024 was very much a 1)
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
(By contrast 2024 was very much a 1)
These rotate from year to year IMO - 4 seems largely prevalent in years without an obvious Big Thing, or where not much seems to happen (and 25 feels like one of those)
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
These rotate from year to year IMO - 4 seems largely prevalent in years without an obvious Big Thing, or where not much seems to happen (and 25 feels like one of those)
This is the same impulse I get when someone mentions a famous rugby player
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is the same impulse I get when someone mentions a famous rugby player
I listened to it for the first time yesterday and it went from 'refreshing in the context of 2025' at the start to 'bit of a chore' by the end
December 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I listened to it for the first time yesterday and it went from 'refreshing in the context of 2025' at the start to 'bit of a chore' by the end
Since lockdown we have done this project for all cinematic years and these were our picks for 74-75 as well
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Since lockdown we have done this project for all cinematic years and these were our picks for 74-75 as well
Yeah at some point you do have to blame the listeners for this (lots of people have never wanted to have their taste widened but if anything there are a lot more now who do). Most of the 'streaming has made music blander' mob all seem to like basically the same farmer's market indie
November 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Yeah at some point you do have to blame the listeners for this (lots of people have never wanted to have their taste widened but if anything there are a lot more now who do). Most of the 'streaming has made music blander' mob all seem to like basically the same farmer's market indie
I am sure that ✨Willesden Green✨ cannot be as exciting as the Tube lady makes it sound
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am sure that ✨Willesden Green✨ cannot be as exciting as the Tube lady makes it sound
Also 26-50 makes for grim reading - only the Spacemen 3 album is remembered for anything much right now
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Also 26-50 makes for grim reading - only the Spacemen 3 album is remembered for anything much right now
In light of some of the guitar music in there I'm actually fine with the positioning of New York (turn of the 90s trad rock was a place best forgotten and at least he had a degree of cool on his side). There are conspiracy theories among ex-MM journalists about the placing of Songs for Drella in 90
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In light of some of the guitar music in there I'm actually fine with the positioning of New York (turn of the 90s trad rock was a place best forgotten and at least he had a degree of cool on his side). There are conspiracy theories among ex-MM journalists about the placing of Songs for Drella in 90
Is this action not possible with ordinary scissors?
November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Is this action not possible with ordinary scissors?
Intrigued by the 5% who believe Bigfoot is real but the Yeti is clearly a step too far
November 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Intrigued by the 5% who believe Bigfoot is real but the Yeti is clearly a step too far