Simon Aughton
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Maths, music, mastication and marvels
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Club 8 | Staying Alive heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/c...
Club 8 | Staying Alive
No, not that one. More like this (at the beginning, at least)…
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May 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Club 8 | Staying Alive heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/c...
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Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t... #newmusic
Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay
Deep blue in colour, like a clear sky. From the Perth band’s six-track LP, Cerulean, featuring the previously posted I’m a Rot and …
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May 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Teen Angst | Ask Me to Stay heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/t... #newmusic
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Sally Shapiro | The Other Days heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s... @sallyshapiro.bsky.social
Sally Shapiro | The Other Days
The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Slow Danse With The Dead | I Prefer to be Alone heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/s...
Slow Danse With The Dead | I Prefer to be Alone
I’m not sure you have much choice. From Eternal Mourning, a 20-track LP — but I’m not sure anyone needs that much goth, unless…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Castlebeat | With You heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/c...
Castlebeat | With You
Ten years in the making — Castlebeat’s best record to date… …and almost the best ever by a band with “castle” in the name…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Castlebeat | With You heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/c...
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Wet Leg | Catch these Fists heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/w...
Wet Leg | Catch these Fists
If it works, don’t break it
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April 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Sally Shapiro | The Other Days heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/04/09/s...
Sally Shapiro | The Other Days
The return of the Swedish queen of Italo Disco. But the real treat comes next…
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April 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Perfect English Weather | Caroline of Brunswick Square heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/t...
The Perfect English Weather | Caroline of Brunswick Square
The daughter of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, Caroline was engaged in 1794 to her first cousin George, Prince of Wales, the future King George…
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March 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Strange Neighbours | Hate Me Less
Second single of the year from the New Yorkers and we love it more. Seven years since this should have claimed every “Best Single…” plaudit, thought the less said about the video the better……
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March 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Teen Angst | I’m Rot heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/t...
Teen Angst | I’m Rot
They’re from Perth, Australis, and far from rot(ten). Teen angst…
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March 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Attic Ocean | Lilies and Sea heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/a...
Attic Ocean | Lilies and Sea
From Düsselfdorf, a five-piece brings you Retriever, a five-track EP. And from 2023…
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March 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Strange Neighbours | Influencer heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/s...
Strange Neighbours | Influencer
Let me influence you baby…
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February 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Strange Neighbours | Influencer heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/s...
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Strange New Places | Sappho & Star Wars heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/s...
Strange New Places | Sappho & Star Wars
Each member looks like they’re in a different band, and sometimes they sound like it too. But not here. No trombones on it though…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Strange New Places | Sappho & Star Wars heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/s...
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The Blue Herons | Demon Slayer heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/t... @theblueherons.bsky.social
The Blue Herons | Demon Slayer
Is that a glockenspiel I hear? And weirdly, it reminds me of this…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Alpaca Sports | Always on my Mind heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/a... @alpacasports.bsky.social @elefantrecords1.bsky.social
Alpaca Sports | Always on my Mind
Purer pop than if pop poured from the purest Scandinavian spring… From the Alpaca’s new LP, Another Day, but previously a single on which this was the equally lovely b-side.
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March 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Royal Arch | Root of your Downfall heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/r...
Royal Arch | Root of your Downfall
The Greeks are fast becoming Heard on the Wire mainstays with their take on what Americans would call indie rock. And with this, their most recent single…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The Wind-up Birds | The People with the Telly Heads heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t... @thewindupbirds.bsky.social
The Wind-up Birds | The People with the Telly Heads
Tongue-tiedIntolerantTalentedIntransigent Mealy-mouthedMalevolentMaking wishesInconsistent The people with the telly heads came round, broke the mood… The most underrated, under-appreciated band I’…
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March 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Swim School | Heaven heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/s...
Swim School | Heaven
The Edinburgh band’s latest and maybe greatest. Now that I’m in heaven…
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March 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Swim School | Heaven heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/03/07/s...
@nedboulting.bsky.social Just finished 1923…. What a fantastic story told beautifully. Thank you.
March 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
@nedboulting.bsky.social Just finished 1923…. What a fantastic story told beautifully. Thank you.
Chicken with fennel and clementines; chicken goujons; lamb-stuffed quince #food #cooking #homecooking #ottolenghi
February 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Chicken with fennel and clementines; chicken goujons; lamb-stuffed quince #food #cooking #homecooking #ottolenghi
Equal Parts | The Fly heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/e...
Equal Parts | The Fly
New single from the Melbourne band whose debut EP, A Crisis, was one of the records of 2022. Then thinking about songs with “fly” in the title brought me to this,…
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February 7, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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GLOK/Timothy Clerkin | Scattered heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/g...
GLOK/Timothy Clerkin | Scattered
Ride, Oasis … leave them all behind … Or perhaps not …
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January 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The Wind-Up Birds | Guards heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/t...
The Wind-Up Birds | Guards
Still the best band in the word to remain utterly under-appreciated, teaching the current wave of shouty-bloke bands everything they know. Fifteen years in, it’s a challenge to choose a favourite, …
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January 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Life on Venus | Negatives heardonthewire.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/l...
Life on Venus | Negatives
Which this record lacks. From an EP of the same name by the Moscow trio, nine years on from their debut.
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January 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Index for Working Musik | Purple Born
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Index for Working Musik | Purple Born
Is it post-rock? Is it prog? Is it post-prog-rock? Whatever. It is clearly the most astounding record in a long, long while. Single of the year? Probably.
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January 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Index for Working Musik | Purple Born
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