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5⃣4⃣
🎤Water From Your Eyes
💿It's A Beautiful Place
One of the more interesting ones so for. Post punk, shoegaze, indie rock etc all merged together. Some bits work better than others and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this
🎤Water From Your Eyes
💿It's A Beautiful Place
One of the more interesting ones so for. Post punk, shoegaze, indie rock etc all merged together. Some bits work better than others and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
5⃣4⃣
🎤Water From Your Eyes
💿It's A Beautiful Place
One of the more interesting ones so for. Post punk, shoegaze, indie rock etc all merged together. Some bits work better than others and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this
🎤Water From Your Eyes
💿It's A Beautiful Place
One of the more interesting ones so for. Post punk, shoegaze, indie rock etc all merged together. Some bits work better than others and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals. I'm not entirely sure where I stand on this
5⃣5⃣
🎤Alex G
💿Headlights
This is his tenth album and first for a major and I have to confess he was new on me so I don't know how this fits in with his other work but it's nice enough in that American Folkie/Indie way. Likely to appear on the soundtrack of a Zach Braff film
🎤Alex G
💿Headlights
This is his tenth album and first for a major and I have to confess he was new on me so I don't know how this fits in with his other work but it's nice enough in that American Folkie/Indie way. Likely to appear on the soundtrack of a Zach Braff film
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
5⃣5⃣
🎤Alex G
💿Headlights
This is his tenth album and first for a major and I have to confess he was new on me so I don't know how this fits in with his other work but it's nice enough in that American Folkie/Indie way. Likely to appear on the soundtrack of a Zach Braff film
🎤Alex G
💿Headlights
This is his tenth album and first for a major and I have to confess he was new on me so I don't know how this fits in with his other work but it's nice enough in that American Folkie/Indie way. Likely to appear on the soundtrack of a Zach Braff film
A victory for perseverance as I seem to have been dipping into this since the first Christmas, not helped by my refusal to read it out of season. Finally finished it. Favourite story by Nicholas Blake, pen name for Cecil Day-Lewis #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A victory for perseverance as I seem to have been dipping into this since the first Christmas, not helped by my refusal to read it out of season. Finally finished it. Favourite story by Nicholas Blake, pen name for Cecil Day-Lewis #booksky
5⃣6⃣
🎤BC Camplight
💿A Sober Conversation
A difficult album dealing with difficult and dark issues that's quite diverse musically. Consequently I like some bits more than others, overall I quite like it
🎤BC Camplight
💿A Sober Conversation
A difficult album dealing with difficult and dark issues that's quite diverse musically. Consequently I like some bits more than others, overall I quite like it
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
5⃣6⃣
🎤BC Camplight
💿A Sober Conversation
A difficult album dealing with difficult and dark issues that's quite diverse musically. Consequently I like some bits more than others, overall I quite like it
🎤BC Camplight
💿A Sober Conversation
A difficult album dealing with difficult and dark issues that's quite diverse musically. Consequently I like some bits more than others, overall I quite like it
5⃣7⃣
🎤Carson McHone
💿Pentimento
This is much more my cup of Americana/Folk style music. She has a great voice and even the more fragile folk songs have a power and emotion to them.
🎤Carson McHone
💿Pentimento
This is much more my cup of Americana/Folk style music. She has a great voice and even the more fragile folk songs have a power and emotion to them.
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
5⃣7⃣
🎤Carson McHone
💿Pentimento
This is much more my cup of Americana/Folk style music. She has a great voice and even the more fragile folk songs have a power and emotion to them.
🎤Carson McHone
💿Pentimento
This is much more my cup of Americana/Folk style music. She has a great voice and even the more fragile folk songs have a power and emotion to them.
5⃣8⃣
🎤Mavis Staples
💿Sad And Beautiful World
What a relief after far too much ethereal, ambient, tuneless whispering to hear a proper voice and some tunes. It's all pretty good
🎤Mavis Staples
💿Sad And Beautiful World
What a relief after far too much ethereal, ambient, tuneless whispering to hear a proper voice and some tunes. It's all pretty good
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
5⃣8⃣
🎤Mavis Staples
💿Sad And Beautiful World
What a relief after far too much ethereal, ambient, tuneless whispering to hear a proper voice and some tunes. It's all pretty good
🎤Mavis Staples
💿Sad And Beautiful World
What a relief after far too much ethereal, ambient, tuneless whispering to hear a proper voice and some tunes. It's all pretty good
6⃣0⃣
🎤Lucy Gooch
💿Desert Window
5⃣9⃣
🎤Joanne Robertson
💿Blurrr
Lumping these two together as they are pretty similar in their ambient, beatless, pop folk sound. I really didn't like either of them
🎤Lucy Gooch
💿Desert Window
5⃣9⃣
🎤Joanne Robertson
💿Blurrr
Lumping these two together as they are pretty similar in their ambient, beatless, pop folk sound. I really didn't like either of them
November 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
6⃣0⃣
🎤Lucy Gooch
💿Desert Window
5⃣9⃣
🎤Joanne Robertson
💿Blurrr
Lumping these two together as they are pretty similar in their ambient, beatless, pop folk sound. I really didn't like either of them
🎤Lucy Gooch
💿Desert Window
5⃣9⃣
🎤Joanne Robertson
💿Blurrr
Lumping these two together as they are pretty similar in their ambient, beatless, pop folk sound. I really didn't like either of them
6⃣1⃣
🎤David Byrne
💿Who Is The Sky?
My main reaction to this is an almighty shrug. It feels as though it's trying so hard to be quirky and upbeat that it becomes a bit grating
🎤David Byrne
💿Who Is The Sky?
My main reaction to this is an almighty shrug. It feels as though it's trying so hard to be quirky and upbeat that it becomes a bit grating
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
6⃣1⃣
🎤David Byrne
💿Who Is The Sky?
My main reaction to this is an almighty shrug. It feels as though it's trying so hard to be quirky and upbeat that it becomes a bit grating
🎤David Byrne
💿Who Is The Sky?
My main reaction to this is an almighty shrug. It feels as though it's trying so hard to be quirky and upbeat that it becomes a bit grating
6⃣2⃣
🎤Songhoy Blues
💿Heritage
I can't help feel if you've heard one song by them at any stage then you've heard them all. Not really doing anything for me
🎤Songhoy Blues
💿Heritage
I can't help feel if you've heard one song by them at any stage then you've heard them all. Not really doing anything for me
November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
6⃣2⃣
🎤Songhoy Blues
💿Heritage
I can't help feel if you've heard one song by them at any stage then you've heard them all. Not really doing anything for me
🎤Songhoy Blues
💿Heritage
I can't help feel if you've heard one song by them at any stage then you've heard them all. Not really doing anything for me
6⃣3⃣
🎤Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
💿Luminal
All very nice and plays away in the background without making me sit up and listen carefully or take particular notice. It was on and then it wasn't
🎤Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
💿Luminal
All very nice and plays away in the background without making me sit up and listen carefully or take particular notice. It was on and then it wasn't
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
6⃣3⃣
🎤Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
💿Luminal
All very nice and plays away in the background without making me sit up and listen carefully or take particular notice. It was on and then it wasn't
🎤Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe
💿Luminal
All very nice and plays away in the background without making me sit up and listen carefully or take particular notice. It was on and then it wasn't
6⃣4⃣
🎤Charles Lloyd
💿 Figure In Blue
At which point I probably have to accept that no form of jazz is going to work for me. This should be easier to get into as it is fairly smooth and it is very pleasant but I don't feel any immediate desire to play it again
🎤Charles Lloyd
💿 Figure In Blue
At which point I probably have to accept that no form of jazz is going to work for me. This should be easier to get into as it is fairly smooth and it is very pleasant but I don't feel any immediate desire to play it again
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
6⃣4⃣
🎤Charles Lloyd
💿 Figure In Blue
At which point I probably have to accept that no form of jazz is going to work for me. This should be easier to get into as it is fairly smooth and it is very pleasant but I don't feel any immediate desire to play it again
🎤Charles Lloyd
💿 Figure In Blue
At which point I probably have to accept that no form of jazz is going to work for me. This should be easier to get into as it is fairly smooth and it is very pleasant but I don't feel any immediate desire to play it again
A combination of sorting out and impending festive season leaves me wondering about recreating Christmas 1967. The December Family Circle from that year full of helpful advice
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A combination of sorting out and impending festive season leaves me wondering about recreating Christmas 1967. The December Family Circle from that year full of helpful advice
6⃣5⃣
🎤Gwenno
💿Utopia
A beautiful album full of dreamy arrangements. I liked this a lot
🎤Gwenno
💿Utopia
A beautiful album full of dreamy arrangements. I liked this a lot
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
6⃣5⃣
🎤Gwenno
💿Utopia
A beautiful album full of dreamy arrangements. I liked this a lot
🎤Gwenno
💿Utopia
A beautiful album full of dreamy arrangements. I liked this a lot
6⃣6⃣
🎤Andy Bell
💿pinball wanderer
This is fabulous. Merging shoegaze and baggy with a bit of motorik to produce a pulsating, atmospheric sound that you can just get lost in
🎤Andy Bell
💿pinball wanderer
This is fabulous. Merging shoegaze and baggy with a bit of motorik to produce a pulsating, atmospheric sound that you can just get lost in
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
6⃣6⃣
🎤Andy Bell
💿pinball wanderer
This is fabulous. Merging shoegaze and baggy with a bit of motorik to produce a pulsating, atmospheric sound that you can just get lost in
🎤Andy Bell
💿pinball wanderer
This is fabulous. Merging shoegaze and baggy with a bit of motorik to produce a pulsating, atmospheric sound that you can just get lost in
6⃣7⃣
🎤Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
💿Tall Tales
The good news is I didn't hate it as much as I expected to. That said I didn't like it very much. My tolerance for fairly tuneless electronic noodling with mumbling vocals is pretty thin these days
🎤Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
💿Tall Tales
The good news is I didn't hate it as much as I expected to. That said I didn't like it very much. My tolerance for fairly tuneless electronic noodling with mumbling vocals is pretty thin these days
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
6⃣7⃣
🎤Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
💿Tall Tales
The good news is I didn't hate it as much as I expected to. That said I didn't like it very much. My tolerance for fairly tuneless electronic noodling with mumbling vocals is pretty thin these days
🎤Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke
💿Tall Tales
The good news is I didn't hate it as much as I expected to. That said I didn't like it very much. My tolerance for fairly tuneless electronic noodling with mumbling vocals is pretty thin these days
6⃣8⃣
🎤Mulatu Astatke
💿Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Another artists revisiting his work from his earlier career. His story is fascinating. However, I just don't get the music.
🎤Mulatu Astatke
💿Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Another artists revisiting his work from his earlier career. His story is fascinating. However, I just don't get the music.
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
6⃣8⃣
🎤Mulatu Astatke
💿Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Another artists revisiting his work from his earlier career. His story is fascinating. However, I just don't get the music.
🎤Mulatu Astatke
💿Mulatu Plays Mulatu
Another artists revisiting his work from his earlier career. His story is fascinating. However, I just don't get the music.
6⃣9⃣
🎤Panda Bear
💿Sinister Grift
I went into this with no great hopes having disliked everything I've heard by them. It turned out to be marginally better but I still found it vastly irritating
🎤Panda Bear
💿Sinister Grift
I went into this with no great hopes having disliked everything I've heard by them. It turned out to be marginally better but I still found it vastly irritating
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
6⃣9⃣
🎤Panda Bear
💿Sinister Grift
I went into this with no great hopes having disliked everything I've heard by them. It turned out to be marginally better but I still found it vastly irritating
🎤Panda Bear
💿Sinister Grift
I went into this with no great hopes having disliked everything I've heard by them. It turned out to be marginally better but I still found it vastly irritating
7⃣0⃣
🎤Steve Gunn
💿Daylight, Daylight
It's all very gentle and soothing and just drifts by in the background. It's pleasant enough in it's gentle guitar picking Americana way
🎤Steve Gunn
💿Daylight, Daylight
It's all very gentle and soothing and just drifts by in the background. It's pleasant enough in it's gentle guitar picking Americana way
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
7⃣0⃣
🎤Steve Gunn
💿Daylight, Daylight
It's all very gentle and soothing and just drifts by in the background. It's pleasant enough in it's gentle guitar picking Americana way
🎤Steve Gunn
💿Daylight, Daylight
It's all very gentle and soothing and just drifts by in the background. It's pleasant enough in it's gentle guitar picking Americana way
7⃣1⃣
🎤Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
💿Self-Titled
I haven't listened to any new SVE since 'Tramp' back in 2012. Musically this is quite different - New Order basslines, looping synths and repetitive beats - and is really good
🎤Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
💿Self-Titled
I haven't listened to any new SVE since 'Tramp' back in 2012. Musically this is quite different - New Order basslines, looping synths and repetitive beats - and is really good
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
7⃣1⃣
🎤Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
💿Self-Titled
I haven't listened to any new SVE since 'Tramp' back in 2012. Musically this is quite different - New Order basslines, looping synths and repetitive beats - and is really good
🎤Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory
💿Self-Titled
I haven't listened to any new SVE since 'Tramp' back in 2012. Musically this is quite different - New Order basslines, looping synths and repetitive beats - and is really good
7⃣2⃣
🎤Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts
💿Talkin To The Trees
A decent album with a good mix of rockier and folkier songs. I'm no Neil Young expert and not that familiar with his stuff but I quite liked this
🎤Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts
💿Talkin To The Trees
A decent album with a good mix of rockier and folkier songs. I'm no Neil Young expert and not that familiar with his stuff but I quite liked this
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
7⃣2⃣
🎤Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts
💿Talkin To The Trees
A decent album with a good mix of rockier and folkier songs. I'm no Neil Young expert and not that familiar with his stuff but I quite liked this
🎤Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts
💿Talkin To The Trees
A decent album with a good mix of rockier and folkier songs. I'm no Neil Young expert and not that familiar with his stuff but I quite liked this
7⃣3⃣
🎤Annahstadsia
💿Tether
A very distinctive voice and all put together well but it's just a little bit dull
🎤Annahstadsia
💿Tether
A very distinctive voice and all put together well but it's just a little bit dull
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
7⃣3⃣
🎤Annahstadsia
💿Tether
A very distinctive voice and all put together well but it's just a little bit dull
🎤Annahstadsia
💿Tether
A very distinctive voice and all put together well but it's just a little bit dull
7⃣4⃣
🎤Black Country, New Road
💿Forever Howlong
Never liked the original sound so there was hope for the new direction. Then the record started. It's horrible, it's even worse before. Twee vocals that are even more irritating than before. Gave up after 4 songs
🎤Black Country, New Road
💿Forever Howlong
Never liked the original sound so there was hope for the new direction. Then the record started. It's horrible, it's even worse before. Twee vocals that are even more irritating than before. Gave up after 4 songs
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
7⃣4⃣
🎤Black Country, New Road
💿Forever Howlong
Never liked the original sound so there was hope for the new direction. Then the record started. It's horrible, it's even worse before. Twee vocals that are even more irritating than before. Gave up after 4 songs
🎤Black Country, New Road
💿Forever Howlong
Never liked the original sound so there was hope for the new direction. Then the record started. It's horrible, it's even worse before. Twee vocals that are even more irritating than before. Gave up after 4 songs
7⃣5⃣
🎤Slow Motion Cowboys
💿Wolf Of St Elmo
This does exactly what you would expect from the band name and the cover image and it does it very well. On the country side of Americana with plenty of twang and pedal steel/slide guitar (I think).
🎤Slow Motion Cowboys
💿Wolf Of St Elmo
This does exactly what you would expect from the band name and the cover image and it does it very well. On the country side of Americana with plenty of twang and pedal steel/slide guitar (I think).
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
7⃣5⃣
🎤Slow Motion Cowboys
💿Wolf Of St Elmo
This does exactly what you would expect from the band name and the cover image and it does it very well. On the country side of Americana with plenty of twang and pedal steel/slide guitar (I think).
🎤Slow Motion Cowboys
💿Wolf Of St Elmo
This does exactly what you would expect from the band name and the cover image and it does it very well. On the country side of Americana with plenty of twang and pedal steel/slide guitar (I think).
7⃣6⃣
🎤Emma Pollock
💿Begging The Night To Take Hold
On the whole I really like this but on occasions I found the strings a bit too overwrought
🎤Emma Pollock
💿Begging The Night To Take Hold
On the whole I really like this but on occasions I found the strings a bit too overwrought
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
7⃣6⃣
🎤Emma Pollock
💿Begging The Night To Take Hold
On the whole I really like this but on occasions I found the strings a bit too overwrought
🎤Emma Pollock
💿Begging The Night To Take Hold
On the whole I really like this but on occasions I found the strings a bit too overwrought
7⃣7⃣
🎤 My Morning Jacket
💿 Is
From the outstanding Nationalesque 'Out In The Open' right through its full 40 minutes this is a really good. A lean, concise lesson in classic Americana rock
🎤 My Morning Jacket
💿 Is
From the outstanding Nationalesque 'Out In The Open' right through its full 40 minutes this is a really good. A lean, concise lesson in classic Americana rock
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
7⃣7⃣
🎤 My Morning Jacket
💿 Is
From the outstanding Nationalesque 'Out In The Open' right through its full 40 minutes this is a really good. A lean, concise lesson in classic Americana rock
🎤 My Morning Jacket
💿 Is
From the outstanding Nationalesque 'Out In The Open' right through its full 40 minutes this is a really good. A lean, concise lesson in classic Americana rock