Matt Ashton
@matthewjashton.bsky.social
MUSIC with @theleaflibrary.bsky.social / The Form Group / Sun Drawing / Mirrored Daughters / Basic Design / Sea Glass etc
DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION at intervals
DESIGN + ILLUSTRATION at intervals
Become friends with writers online, you'll never be bored.
Ahem:
There once was a painter called Vermeer.
With light he was a bit of a seer.
By making us focus and look
In quiet rooms, in all their nooks,
He made us wonder: ”what’s going on here?”
There once was a painter called Vermeer.
With light he was a bit of a seer.
By making us focus and look
In quiet rooms, in all their nooks,
He made us wonder: ”what’s going on here?”
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Become friends with writers online, you'll never be bored.
Reposted by Matt Ashton
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Here’s the wonderful debut from @dominiehooper.bsky.social for #CDFriday.
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here’s the wonderful debut from @dominiehooper.bsky.social for #CDFriday.
If I reach the end of my time in this realm with my sole achievement being my name on Discogs without a number after it in brackets then I will still be happy.
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If I reach the end of my time in this realm with my sole achievement being my name on Discogs without a number after it in brackets then I will still be happy.
Reposted by Matt Ashton
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
This is new Soloman Tump is great - damp, autumnal electronics from Dartmoor. Sounds like the noises mushrooms make when they talk to each other through the earth.
solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...
solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...
Open Access Land, by Soloman Tump
7 track album
solomantump.bandcamp.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is new Soloman Tump is great - damp, autumnal electronics from Dartmoor. Sounds like the noises mushrooms make when they talk to each other through the earth.
solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...
solomantump.bandcamp.com/album/open-a...
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
If It’s Not One Thing It’s Another
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things.
If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother
November 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
If It’s Not One Thing It’s Another
Watching this Eurythmics thing - it’s great, but I particularly enjoyed seeing them with Clem Burke on drums. And Holger Czukay! Who’d have thought.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Watching this Eurythmics thing - it’s great, but I particularly enjoyed seeing them with Clem Burke on drums. And Holger Czukay! Who’d have thought.
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some magnificently chewy textural stuff from the form group (matt ashton of the leaf library). reminding me in places of early 80s eno and roedelius https://waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provincial-echo
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
some magnificently chewy textural stuff from the form group (matt ashton of the leaf library). reminding me in places of early 80s eno and roedelius https://waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provincial-echo
If you missed out on a physical copy get in touch...
OUT TODAY!
'Provincial Echo' by The Form Group.
Matt will have a limited amount of the handmade physical copy very soon, so hang fire if you want one of them.
BUT.... do do do have a listen!
digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/provin...
'Provincial Echo' by The Form Group.
Matt will have a limited amount of the handmade physical copy very soon, so hang fire if you want one of them.
BUT.... do do do have a listen!
digital.waysideandwoodland.com/album/provin...
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
digital.waysideandwoodland.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If you missed out on a physical copy get in touch...
OUT TODAY! New solo album from me, the first in many years as The Form Group. An honour to have something out on the excellent @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social label (home to several favourites):
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...
RIYL Fennesz, Eno's On Land, Ryoji Ikeda
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...
RIYL Fennesz, Eno's On Land, Ryoji Ikeda
Provincial Echo, by The Form Group
8 track album
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
OUT TODAY! New solo album from me, the first in many years as The Form Group. An honour to have something out on the excellent @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social label (home to several favourites):
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...
RIYL Fennesz, Eno's On Land, Ryoji Ikeda
waysideandwoodlandrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/provin...
RIYL Fennesz, Eno's On Land, Ryoji Ikeda
My old group Saloon did some Peel Sessions back in the day, lovingly reissued by Nick's lovely label. This is a great offer - loads and loads of quality archival stuff here. Enjoy!
DESPERATE DISCOUNT – 25% off everything at the @precrecs.bsky.social Bandcamp page tomorrow (Friday November 7). Please use the code 'DESPERATE' at checkout for 24 hours only and tell all your friends. preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com
Precious Recordings of London
Now releasing some unmissable new stuff alongside classic BBC sessions (on ten-inch and album) – coming up: The Twinsets, Cult Figures, Age Of Chance, Jetstream Pony, BMX Bandits, The Fizzbombs, Hefne...
preciousrecordingsoflondon.bandcamp.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
My old group Saloon did some Peel Sessions back in the day, lovingly reissued by Nick's lovely label. This is a great offer - loads and loads of quality archival stuff here. Enjoy!
This has been out for almost a year now! Still got plenty of CDs left (and now shipping to the EU) so I've dropped the price.
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
It's a wonderful album, thanks in most part to Sea Level and their reworking of my original.
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
It's a wonderful album, thanks in most part to Sea Level and their reworking of my original.
Afternoons At The Library, by Sun Drawing + SEA LEVEL
10 track album
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This has been out for almost a year now! Still got plenty of CDs left (and now shipping to the EU) so I've dropped the price.
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
It's a wonderful album, thanks in most part to Sea Level and their reworking of my original.
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
It's a wonderful album, thanks in most part to Sea Level and their reworking of my original.
Sky Foam from my new Form Group album, out 07/11 on @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social is on the Key Grips radio show. Thanks K+B.
Listen again: Key Grips with Kristen & Bernie / 30th October 2025
Playing tracks by Jinrag Joshipura, Kelan, The Greater London Banjo Trio, Paranormal music from Okkulte Stimmen, Karen Dalton and more.
@kgallerneaux.bsky.social | @dhallllc.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/key-...
Playing tracks by Jinrag Joshipura, Kelan, The Greater London Banjo Trio, Paranormal music from Okkulte Stimmen, Karen Dalton and more.
@kgallerneaux.bsky.social | @dhallllc.bsky.social
www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/key-...
November 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sky Foam from my new Form Group album, out 07/11 on @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social is on the Key Grips radio show. Thanks K+B.
Nice to see lots of people getting their first go on an escalator in central London this afternoon.
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Nice to see lots of people getting their first go on an escalator in central London this afternoon.
Made this album with SEA LEVEL a while back. Still got some CDs (and am now sending to EU as well).
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki.
@callandresponse.bsky.social
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki.
@callandresponse.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Made this album with SEA LEVEL a while back. Still got some CDs (and am now sending to EU as well).
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki.
@callandresponse.bsky.social
sundrawingsounds.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...
Acoustic/electronic drifting dream states based on recordings I made in the central library in Helsinki.
@callandresponse.bsky.social
Right, pick your favs out of this lot!
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Right, pick your favs out of this lot!
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What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly touched your Gregg’s Benedict.
October 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What’s wrong babe? You’ve hardly touched your Gregg’s Benedict.
Reposted by Matt Ashton
Reposted by Matt Ashton
10 YEARS! We released our debut album Daylight Versions 10 years ago today. To mark the occasion, the album (plus all the associated releases) is pay what you want on Bandcamp:
theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig...
Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.
theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig...
Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
10 YEARS! We released our debut album Daylight Versions 10 years ago today. To mark the occasion, the album (plus all the associated releases) is pay what you want on Bandcamp:
theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig...
Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.
theleaflibrary.bandcamp.com/album/daylig...
Thanks to @wiaiwya.bsky.social for everything.