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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2h

to really speak to me, I think. Textures sound off. Plenty of hip-hop-friendly breaks, but a little thin somehow, a little too smooth. ‘Tiger Trot’ maybe works the best. I don’t really hear The Jungle Book in there either. Shouldn’t ‘Panthera Cry’ be in Thundercats? (Wait! That was Panthro…)

Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 3h

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293. Leroi Conroy - A Tiger's Tale (Colemine Records)

Cincinatti, OH's LC (& a curiously rhyming name) loves 60s/70s film scores and golden age hip-hop but he's maybe standing a little too close to his source material. The album is an alternate soundtrack to The Jungle Book. Too pastiche

A Tiger's Tale, by Leroi Conroy

9 track album

leroiconroy.bandcamp.com

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 8h

Sketchy Alba

277. Various Artists - Xen Cuts

Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 19h

synth sounds. Sounds like a planet of sound, as Black Francis might scream. ‘The Oort Cloud (Too Night)’ is a bit too flat & shiny for me. Too 4/4. No idea what the title means tho. ‘Under The Bed’ and ‘Kháron’ take the best down, with the closer tinkling & phasing for seemingly hours. Nice stuff.

Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 19h

There’s more symphonic swoop, then Eastern strings are plucked. Raps from Death Row inmate Rrome Alone over a payphone. It’s a standout tracks. ‘It’s Coming Soon’ is the arpeggiated prog throb, acid frills bordering on a disco number. ‘Doll’s House’ is maybe my favourite - self help samples & enorm

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 19h

‘Spontaneously Combust’ opens w very familiar chug & snatched announcer dialogue and other sounds. ‘P~1’ has the UFO theme, touch of arpeggios. ‘Baraka’ has some sweaty blues singing over an orchestral loop b4 a sermon kicks in. ‘A Sacred Choice’ skanks, but I don’t know ‘Arabebonics’ is abt at all.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 19h

Sketchy Alba

276. Frank Sidebottom - ABC & D

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 1d

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292. The Growlers - Beach Goth Tape (Demastered 2025) (The Growlers Records)

Has a band with such a terrible name ever invented a sub-genre with a better name than Beach Goth? They had me at ‘Demastered’. A very different flavour of psychoactive music than Dr Paterson et al. but it works

Beach Goth Tape (Demastered 2025)

spotify.link

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 1d

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291. The Orb - Buddhist Hipsters (Cooking Vinyl Ltd)

Showing my age again w more superannuated 90s musicians. They’ve even got Steve Hillage on board again. One track is described as a ‘plaintive-arpeggiated-prog-throbber’ and I’m so in. Nothing quite hits the same dubby/acid sweet spot.

Buddhist Hipsters, by The Orb

10 track album

theorb.bandcamp.com

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 1d

Sketchy Alba

275. The Velvet Undergound - The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Sketchy Alba

274. The Fall - Palace of Swords Reversed

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Well, well, well. That’s a nice birthday present. Nice work, Slabhead. #LIVMUN

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Some good therapy and trying to look after my body and therefore mind has been the groundwork for taking hold of my thoughts like that, and I’m delighted about it. It stopped me from spending the day in a shitty brown fog and I was able to turn those regrets into an opportunity for change & growth.

Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

In other news, I managed to think and talk my way around this until I realised that it wasn’t actually self-loathing but frustration that I didn’t cuddle my friends or tell them that I loved them enough. And that helped me realise how I need to be more of my authentic self, and I then felt better.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who remembers Fred Done paying out before United won the title then having to pay again when Arsenal actually did win the title knows how great he is at predicting the future. Tosser.

Kay Paterson-Bassett @kaytoremember.bsky.social · 2d

Good

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax - bbc headline

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so over being a human. Still working out what my next form will be. 😃

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

For my, read ours.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

I really like my brain in so many ways. It feels more like a disability in the sense that the world isn’t designed to meet my brain’s needs.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! Just replied to your post which I felt totally matched my energy this morning. I wish it was even doing/saying regrettable stuff. Everything was perfectly okay, but still the self-loathing. Just brain stuff.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Currently in a very similar brain place. It would be great if there was a brain vacation option, wouldn’t it?

I’d say your hair, skin, weight, lashes etc. are absolutely fine, but that really isn’t how it works, is it?

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Had a really lovely evening with friends over to celebrate my impending 53rd birthday. The self-loathing this morning is immense. I really am tired of being me. It is fucking exhausting.

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 2d

Much like the US having no empire but still
trying to rule the globe, it has no king but invests so much personal power in its president so as to make no difference. (Yes, I done some words.)

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Teejus Toodlepip @lordbutterbeard.bsky.social · 3d

Sketchy Alba

273. Paris - Sleeping With The Enemy

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 4d

The weekend is here!

The alien from They Live!
Then he's laughing and it says They Laugh! then he's doing that heart thing with his hands and it says They Love!

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