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LeighB
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happiness & kindness
dad & hubs; music, words, laughs with good people & the positive stuff allowed only.
(one of them Bainbridge's)
On Tuesday night I knew the true nature of reality, how consciousness arises, the meaning of life & how the universe ends- then I woke up, just a dream- d'oh!

3 great recent reads

The Big Picture- Sean Carroll
The Hidden Spring- Mark Solms
The End of Everything- Katie Mack

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November 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Not wanting to jump on any bandwagon, I can't help but agree this album is fantastic, one of the best of the year. Love the lyrics, the off-kilter arrangements, the energy. Great music is great music

Getting Killed by Geese

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October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
The Beta Band, Roundhouse - transcendental beauty, fantastic return

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October 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
some of the best jazz I've heard this year, a 2022 release (I'm slow but I aim to get there...)

A View With A Room by Trish Clowes (& amazing pals)

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September 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
country pop is not my go-to music genre & I was only going to stay for a couple of songs by CMAT at All Points East but wow she was great, such energy in the songs live & what a show she put on with her band
(some of the preening male rock groups on the bill could learn something)

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September 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
a gorgeous, hard, inventive album, one of the best so far this year

It's A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes

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August 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Great album & fantastic live at All Points East

They’re from Nottingham you know

Drive To Goldenhammer by Divorce

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August 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
this man writes like a poet, he fools me into thinking I actually understand what he is saying

White Holes by Carlo Rovelli

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August 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I seem to leave watching Glastonbury on tv needing some punk. Some fine records in the last few days-

Wrzask by Traume
Hate Training by Punitive Damage
Atomic Prey ep
Cartoon Darkness by Amyl & the Sniffers

Now, we need a new Otoboke Beaver album...

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July 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Cerys, love the show as always. How about Branches by Midlake. A bit of melancholic beauty
June 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
caroline 2 by caroline

Beautiful & inventive

Magnificent

I can’t wait to hear a better album this year, just not sure I will

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May 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social what an extraordinary show, thank you so much. Caroline polachek just goes up and up in my appreciation, thanks again, Leigh
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
my god this is amazing, an absolute torrent of words, moving, funny, filthy, disturbing, a modern Mexican classic - one fierce translation by Sophie Hughes

I almost don't care what the story is, I just want to read Fernanda's words

Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

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April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social the Bug Club are magnificent. Now Leonard cohen couldn’t have written anything as poetic as Quality Pints
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April 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
happy new Black Country, New Road & Dirty Projectors day!

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April 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This album is so good. From Ghana to wonderful places

Florence Adooni, AOEIU

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March 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
incredible band, live & on record - all prog, jazz, punk, rock, for starters

Plantoid

album: Terrapath

they can play

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March 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
This is quite some album, for all your Brazilian psych-punk needs & more

Configurao do Lamento by Deafkids

all credit to the wonderful @thequietus.com folks, an amazing music/culture online magazine

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February 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social fab show, decent run done, hint of blue sky west of London, about to have a demon sandwich but that’s not important right now- for country-ish delights you might like Paradise by Buck Meek or Working Poor/This is What by Horse Feathers. Great radio, ta!!
February 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM
@juderogers.bsky.social lovely piece in the Observer today on Bonnie Prince Billy- that ‘Appalachian post punk solipsist’ is just fab. Didn’t realise he had a lyrics book- thanks for saying. The Rosalia ISAD cover is amazing! The opening of Cursed Sleep made me weep when I first heard it - cheers!
January 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
post a few albums that have stayed with you or you just found again, whenever you want, no explanations unless you want to

127/409
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk

went to sleep with this on earphones hundreds of times so its actually now part of my subconscious- epic

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January 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
First 5* read of the year. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. I'm cheating - I've read almost all his stuff & it's all 5*. Spare & beautiful, your heart is broken in the quietest way

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January 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
FTLOG why did I wait 6 months to listen to this album (because my list of albums to listen to is 1,119 discs long maybe - no excuse, fool) - this would have made my 2024 release best ofs

happy new year!

Gemelo by Angelica Garcia

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January 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
@cerysmatthews.bsky.social DEFINITELY more @drbecky.bsky.social please. This is right up my spacetime continuum
January 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM