Lee Ward
@mrleeward.bsky.social
Writer & designer for music tech by day, metamagical themas by night
Should anyone care, this account is dormant - I’m now at @leewardmister.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Should anyone care, this account is dormant - I’m now at @leewardmister.bsky.social
Loved this - put some skin in the game.
My 2024 albums list is now available to read, as is my extremely long and potentially highly controversial introduction to it. Ranked top 20, unranked 21-100 and a seemingly bottomless well of everything else worthwhile that appeared this year:
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2024/12/reco...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2024/12/reco...
RECONFIGURING SOME NAMES: ALBUMS OF 2024
I have lately been thinking about Steve Voce. He died thirteen months ago, exactly one month short of his ninetieth birthday, and it is an i...
warmrationalism.blogspot.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Loved this - put some skin in the game.
Is it a trick of me being old that 50 Words For Snow still feels like a new album?
December 26, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Is it a trick of me being old that 50 Words For Snow still feels like a new album?
24. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! #Top24of24
though my list was unordered, this was the one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENz...
though my list was unordered, this was the one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENz...
December 24, 2024 at 1:26 PM
24. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! #Top24of24
though my list was unordered, this was the one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENz...
though my list was unordered, this was the one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ENz...
[A couple of late ones, thanks to surgery on wisdom teeth. Thanks, teeth!]
23. Jon McKiel - Hex #Top24of24
open.spotify.com/track/7p6vKK...
23. Jon McKiel - Hex #Top24of24
open.spotify.com/track/7p6vKK...
December 24, 2024 at 1:21 PM
[A couple of late ones, thanks to surgery on wisdom teeth. Thanks, teeth!]
23. Jon McKiel - Hex #Top24of24
open.spotify.com/track/7p6vKK...
23. Jon McKiel - Hex #Top24of24
open.spotify.com/track/7p6vKK...
Excited to test the potential of this toothache. I'm not yet permenantly screaming, so there's some way to go!
December 22, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Excited to test the potential of this toothache. I'm not yet permenantly screaming, so there's some way to go!
22. Rio 16, Carwyn Ellis - Esa Tristeza #Top24of24
Day 22
Can't pretend I'm not tickled that this is from Wales.
open.spotify.com/track/7DH7Ck...
Day 22
Can't pretend I'm not tickled that this is from Wales.
open.spotify.com/track/7DH7Ck...
December 22, 2024 at 12:16 AM
22. Rio 16, Carwyn Ellis - Esa Tristeza #Top24of24
Day 22
Can't pretend I'm not tickled that this is from Wales.
open.spotify.com/track/7DH7Ck...
Day 22
Can't pretend I'm not tickled that this is from Wales.
open.spotify.com/track/7DH7Ck...
21. Jessica Pratt - World On A String #Top24of24
Day 21
Her sound world expanded, but the spell it cast had lost none of its power:
youtu.be/MnXYxe1PaMo?...
Day 21
Her sound world expanded, but the spell it cast had lost none of its power:
youtu.be/MnXYxe1PaMo?...
December 22, 2024 at 12:12 AM
21. Jessica Pratt - World On A String #Top24of24
Day 21
Her sound world expanded, but the spell it cast had lost none of its power:
youtu.be/MnXYxe1PaMo?...
Day 21
Her sound world expanded, but the spell it cast had lost none of its power:
youtu.be/MnXYxe1PaMo?...
Reposted by Lee Ward
Looking at Kraven the Hunter and Lord of the Rings: The War of Whatever cratering at the box office, as well as the buzzless, yawny response to Dune: Prophecy, and thinking that audiences could not make their indifference to the "extended" part of Extended Universes clearer if they screamed it.
December 14, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Looking at Kraven the Hunter and Lord of the Rings: The War of Whatever cratering at the box office, as well as the buzzless, yawny response to Dune: Prophecy, and thinking that audiences could not make their indifference to the "extended" part of Extended Universes clearer if they screamed it.
I'm sure they don't care, but it's interesting that Sault released a whole damn album to YouTube and, AFAICT, received hardly a single mainstream review. It's one of their best records!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVj...
December 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM
I'm sure they don't care, but it's interesting that Sault released a whole damn album to YouTube and, AFAICT, received hardly a single mainstream review. It's one of their best records!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVj...
20. Trent Rezno & Atticus Ross - Challengers #Top24of24
Day 20
Sweaty 90s revivalist electronica that stood in for our lack of an actual summer, and also the track that most frequently has me reaching to turn off a phantom alarm (listen to the end)
Day 20
Sweaty 90s revivalist electronica that stood in for our lack of an actual summer, and also the track that most frequently has me reaching to turn off a phantom alarm (listen to the end)
19. The Cure - Fragile Thing #Top24of24
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
December 20, 2024 at 10:38 AM
20. Trent Rezno & Atticus Ross - Challengers #Top24of24
Day 20
Sweaty 90s revivalist electronica that stood in for our lack of an actual summer, and also the track that most frequently has me reaching to turn off a phantom alarm (listen to the end)
Day 20
Sweaty 90s revivalist electronica that stood in for our lack of an actual summer, and also the track that most frequently has me reaching to turn off a phantom alarm (listen to the end)
19. The Cure - Fragile Thing #Top24of24
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
December 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
19. The Cure - Fragile Thing #Top24of24
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
Day 19 (just...)
This track had no business whatsoever being as good as this. None.
open.spotify.com/track/17k0Dw...
Date night. Go to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Excited, having never been to the ballet, all male or otherwise. Try to get seated. Discover I'd somehow booked for the matinee. Still never been to the ballet.
December 19, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Date night. Go to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Excited, having never been to the ballet, all male or otherwise. Try to get seated. Discover I'd somehow booked for the matinee. Still never been to the ballet.
Paragraphs I never expected to read in The New Yorker, an occasional series:
December 18, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Paragraphs I never expected to read in The New Yorker, an occasional series:
Anemones is endlessly beautiful and under discussed album of... kosmic jungle? Anyhow, I enjoyed this review/interview of a fascinating artist.
And the @linenoisepod.bsky.social album of the year is Xylitol’s Anemones @planetmurecords.bsky.social. Prog jungle / Gutter Kosmische / quantum magic. Read about it here: linenoise.substack.com/p/xylitols-a... / Podcast interview here: soundcloud.com/line-noise-p...
Xylitol’s Anemones is the album of the year
Plus Asra3, Aphex Twin and more
linenoise.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Anemones is endlessly beautiful and under discussed album of... kosmic jungle? Anyhow, I enjoyed this review/interview of a fascinating artist.
Reposted by Lee Ward
18. Cassandra Jenkins - Only One #Top24of24
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
December 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
18. Cassandra Jenkins - Only One #Top24of24
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
18. Cassandra Jenkins - Only One #Top24of24
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
December 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
18. Cassandra Jenkins - Only One #Top24of24
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
Day 18
A lot of songs on my list are perfect. But this one is, like, *perfect*, y'know? Synths and submerged sax, yes that's right, give me all of it.
open.spotify.com/track/0Bq9Vj...
Local pub in our bucolic Chilterns pub shows GB News on big screens. Unnerving.
December 17, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Local pub in our bucolic Chilterns pub shows GB News on big screens. Unnerving.
People don't tend to give hosannahs to playlists, but I discovered so much new music from this survey of the first half of the year: 2024: The Median Is The Message open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ax...
2024 - The Median is the Message
Playlist · Biros · 50 items · 7 saves
open.spotify.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:30 PM
People don't tend to give hosannahs to playlists, but I discovered so much new music from this survey of the first half of the year: 2024: The Median Is The Message open.spotify.com/playlist/1Ax...
17. Bon Iver - Speyside #Top24of24
Day 17
Good to know he can still devastate. Bonus: I smile every time at "as I fill my book/oh, what a waste of wood"
open.spotify.com/track/6khKJV...
Day 17
Good to know he can still devastate. Bonus: I smile every time at "as I fill my book/oh, what a waste of wood"
open.spotify.com/track/6khKJV...
December 17, 2024 at 11:18 AM
17. Bon Iver - Speyside #Top24of24
Day 17
Good to know he can still devastate. Bonus: I smile every time at "as I fill my book/oh, what a waste of wood"
open.spotify.com/track/6khKJV...
Day 17
Good to know he can still devastate. Bonus: I smile every time at "as I fill my book/oh, what a waste of wood"
open.spotify.com/track/6khKJV...
16. Naima Bock - Feed My Release #Top24of24
Day 16
Lovely unspooling spare melody, Roches-like in its naive harmonies.
Day 16
Lovely unspooling spare melody, Roches-like in its naive harmonies.
15. Rosie Lowe - Mood To Make Love #Top24of24
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
December 16, 2024 at 9:01 PM
16. Naima Bock - Feed My Release #Top24of24
Day 16
Lovely unspooling spare melody, Roches-like in its naive harmonies.
Day 16
Lovely unspooling spare melody, Roches-like in its naive harmonies.
Dept of BLEAK:
AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying
aftermath.site/moxie-robot-...
AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying
aftermath.site/moxie-robot-...
AI Company That Made Robots For Kids Goes Under, Robots Die - Aftermath
Embodied, maker of the AI robot called Moxie, is shuttering. With their closing, parents have to explain to their kids that Moxie is dead.
aftermath.site
December 16, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Dept of BLEAK:
AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying
aftermath.site/moxie-robot-...
AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying
aftermath.site/moxie-robot-...
15. Rosie Lowe - Mood To Make Love #Top24of24
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
December 15, 2024 at 10:12 AM
15. Rosie Lowe - Mood To Make Love #Top24of24
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
A song the word 'soundbed' was made for.
youtu.be/msCvhpNVXrw?...
14. Fabiano Palladino - Stay With Me Through The Night #Top24of24
Taken from another personal AOTY, this always reminded me of a more late-night, 80s-inspired version of Haim - all those stacked harmonies and fleckles of electric guitar.
open.spotify.com/track/0tBQ1z...
Taken from another personal AOTY, this always reminded me of a more late-night, 80s-inspired version of Haim - all those stacked harmonies and fleckles of electric guitar.
open.spotify.com/track/0tBQ1z...
December 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
14. Fabiano Palladino - Stay With Me Through The Night #Top24of24
Taken from another personal AOTY, this always reminded me of a more late-night, 80s-inspired version of Haim - all those stacked harmonies and fleckles of electric guitar.
open.spotify.com/track/0tBQ1z...
Taken from another personal AOTY, this always reminded me of a more late-night, 80s-inspired version of Haim - all those stacked harmonies and fleckles of electric guitar.
open.spotify.com/track/0tBQ1z...