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Jhubner
@jhubner.bsky.social
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Writer, husband, and dad living in a cornfield in the Midwest. Music and movies and books, oh my. Complexdistractions.blog for all your sad guy needs and tales of middle-aged, anxious fun.
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My favorite album of the year. Out now via @intlanthem.bsky.social complexdistractions.blog/2025/11/26/s...
SML : How You Been
SML is a supergroup of sorts. A supergroup for those in-the-know. Comprised of Anna Buttress(bass), Josh Johnson(saxophone), Jeremiah Chiu(synths, electronics), Gregory Uhlmann(guitar, sampler, ele…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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From Overseas : Thinking Like A Mountain
From Overseas (aka Kévin Séry) makes the kind of bold, engaging, and ethereal music you can’t help but get lost in. Like some crystalline forest in a dream, you’re surrounded by a beaut…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Oneohtrix Point Never : Tranquilizer
Discovering the musical world of Daniel Lopatin known as Oneohtrix Point Never was a revelation. Much like stumbling across Boards of Canada, you feel like you’re coming across something comp…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Overcast Brain On A Friday Morning
While glad that it’s Friday, I’m not feeling the same amount of joy and excitement knowing that the weekend starts at 2pm today. My brain has an overcast feel to it; kind of gray, misty…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Cheap Trick : All Washed Up
I’m pretty sure that every young rock n roller coming up in the Midwest and beyond had a Cheap Trick phase. It was a rite of passage, really. You were already exposed to the At Budokan versio…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Kronstad 23 : Sommermørket
Norway’s Kronstad 23 make music with a toolbox full of influences, vibes, and moods. Songs ranging from “Electric Miles” vibes to the hard-hitting grooves of Fela Kuti to the expa…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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End Of The Week Shenanigans Or; What, Me Worry?
We made it to Friday. The week has pretty much been dominated here in the states with government shutdowns, government openings, who’s to blame for said shutdowns, and something about emails …
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November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Tortoise : Touch
The music collective Tortoise has been around for 30 years, coming out of the experimental/underground music scene of Chicago. With drummer and studio wizard John McEntire behind the kit and soundb…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Midlake : A Bridge To Far
Midlake were a much obsessed over, nearly cult-like band back in the 2000s. With singer and main songwriter Tim Smith, Midlake made two highly exalted records in Bamnan and Slivercork and The Trial…
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November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Feeling Like Winter
Woke up Sunday morning to snow covering the fallen leaves and pine needles I still need to clean up off the lawn. I knew snow was a possibility, but that possibility turned into reality between Sat…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Liam Kazar : Pilot Light
I came across Liam Kazar four years ago. A song of his popped up randomly while streaming music one afternoon and it made an impression. Singer/songwriter from Chicago that was a chef before concen…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Metavari : House Tetra Sessions, Vol. 1
Nate Utesch has always been about the evolution of sound and art when it comes to his long-running musical project Metavari. From the early days as a Midwestern post-rock outfit(Be One Of Us And He…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Burial Grid : NORD Compendium
Adam Michael Kozak, aka Burial Grid, has always had a fascination with the dark corners of life. His modular/analog electronic music has always been more of the glitchy and nervous variety, as if m…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Antoni Maiovvi : Deathgames
When Antoni Maiovvi drops a new album people take note. Maiovvi is a staple in the electronic/imagined soundtrack world, being one of the OGs of the heavy synth scene. He combines his distinguished…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Meridian Arc : Continuum
Andrew Crawshaw is the sort of creative that never shuts the machine down; whether creating beautiful, singular screenprint art as the owner of Broken Press Design in Seattle or as record label run…
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November 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Makaya McCraven : Off The Record
For me, jazz drummer/composer/bandleader Makaya McCraven is one of the most exciting jazz artists(or any genre for that matter) making music today. Starting with his breakthrough record In The Mome…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Wolfmen Of Mars : The Obsolete Illusion
I think the first time I’d ever heard Wolfmen of Mars was on a compilation called SNDTRK, which came out back in 2016 on the now long dead Disco Cinematic Recordings. There was a who’s …
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October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Two days till Halloween. Thought I'd talk about one of my favorite things, horror movies. Growing up watching, sharing them with my own kids, and just how important they've been to me over the years. complexdistractions.blog/2025/10/29/s...
Spook Me? Spook You!
Two days from Halloween. Seems like it was only 367 days from the last Halloween, but I guess time does fly when you’re having a stressful year, huh? What was I doing last Halloween? Well, I …
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October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Another Day Closer To Dystopia(“Send In The Clowns”)
I’m imagining what a third term with DJT would be like in 2028. I’m imagining how he will still be alive in 2028, given the rantings and ravings I see nearly every day in the news with …
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October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Long Weekend, Under The Weather, Sad Dad Blues
Decided at the beginning of last week that I was going to treat myself to a four-day weekend. Work hasn’t been very busy, so it seemed like an opportune time to take a Thursday and Friday off…
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October 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Dressel Amorosi : House of Dolls
The musical world of Dressel Amorosi is a splendid, sinister thing. The band consists of Heinrich Dressel(Valerio Lombardozzi) and Federico Amorosi, a duo locked heavily into the world of Giallo sc…
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October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Tame Impala : Deadbeat
It felt like for a very long time that Kevin Parker could do no wrong. Tame Impala was this ever expanding collection of psychedelic rock with pop turns and Beatles-esque melodies strewn throughout…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Tom Skinner : Kaleidoscopic Visions
Drummer/percussionist Tom Skinner started playing drums at 9. He came up in the 90s grunge era, but then quickly moved to and found inspiration from experimental jazz artists like John Zorn and Orn…
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October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Giallo Prog Duo Dressel Amorosi Return With ‘House of Dolls’, Out 10/24; Listen To “Octagon Tower”
My first experience with the Giallo/Prog duo Dressel Amorosi was 2018s excellent DeathMetha, a hypnotic and bloody slab of sleazy disco and late night panic. I didn’t hear the album proper ti…
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October 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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“Constants Are Changing”: 20 years of Boards Of Canada’s ‘The Campfire Headphase’
20 years ago today on October 17th, 2005 Boards of Canada dropped their third full-length album The Campfire Headphase. It would take me another three years before Boards Of Canada got on my radar …
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October 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM