Also a reminder of this classic youtu.be/n_g_n_SxVgc?...

Did not expect a Chipping Sodbury mention in the new Thomas Pynchon. Hope he’s working on his West Country epic next

Against all the odds, it arrived

Ostensibly trying to do Pynchon in order (will be reading Shadow Ticket hot off the presses though)

Au Pays du Cocaine. You’re missing out on some great song names here!

Yeah don’t buy the Astral Weeks comparison. Will say though CW seems as fond as Van is of slightly bizarre vocal ticks, which I love

Islands of Men (track 5) definitely has some Heavy Metal DNA too, and that slight Tom Waitsian warble he does so well on Drinking Age

Yaxley Lennon is funded by US billionaire Robert Shillman who also backs James O’Keefe, Katie Hopkins, Laura Loomer and other far right figures. The apparent grassroots racist renaissance is astroturfed observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Only shame was having to see the unite the kingdom freaks out and about

There’s also a table full of old Sight & Sound mags and it took a lot of willpower to stop myself at 3

Wings already have two fairly comprehensive best-of compilations to their name (more if you include the likes of Pure McCartney). I do like the look of that t-shirt mind you

Although what I was driving at is more nuanced than ‘boxsets, reissues, etc bad’ it’s quite funny that this has been announced the very same day the piece was published