About 3 listens in now and this sounds so warm.

Not gonna lie, Fairchildren didn't meet my expectations, so I've been a bit nervous about what to expect, especially after he posted about stopping work on the album when the Russians invaded Ukraine.

It feels like he's turned down the quirkiness a bit - maybe spent a bit less time twiddling the sound design, and turned up the warmth to 11.

I hope it stays this good listening after the honeymoon phase. I'm such a fangirl.

This week in music is beautiful and perfect and I can't express my joy fully.

Because Holy shit -- it's here.

Ott - Heads

I could only find one lengthy track on youtube at the moment.

Ott - That Morning We Went Up The Hill

Very powerful. Much more than static pictures.

I feel so pretentious liking this (sans irony)

From Bon Gat's channel:

20 Ambient / Drone albums playing at the same time

I can't appreciate 20 Black Metal albums playing at the same time in the same way, but I skipping to the end was kind of amusinteresting.

A bit late this week:

The Legend is, of the 33 cassette tapes released, all are accounted for and the band don't want to release and revisit.

Against all odds it gets leaked and apparently it's official.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling

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Sadly I just heard Klaus Schulz has died. Timewind is probably his classic album

Klaus Schulz - Timewind

I heard his collaborations with Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell, The Dark Side of the Moog, and scoured soulseek for them - gotta get 'em all. That was at a particularly formative time in my exploration of electronic music, which I think directed me away from the more mainstream side. I really liked the humour and seeming lack of ego or self-absorption displayed.

Careful with that AKS Peter - VI

Had this on all week : Time? Astonishing! - L'Orange & Kool Keith

Really don't listen to much hip hop but reminded me of Viktor Vaughn and similar DOOM releases.

Twenty Fifty Three

On a psychedelic/space rock binge recently.

Acid Rooster Moon Loop

The rest of their first album is incredibly hawkwind-a-like and that l;ed me to discover Hawkwind released an album last year and.

Lol.

While checking up I discovered from the "Does Not Compute" department that The Sex Pistols covered Silver Machine.

Why even bother with fiction?

Talking of national anthem bangers... Bhutan - The Thunder Dragon Kingdom

It was all downhill from there, I guess.

Could have been worse.... God save the Queef

1. What the fuck is the point of sanctions when you give the intended targets a month to squirrel away their ill-gotten gains.

2. Or still taking blood money

3. So ashamed of the British government.

Here's a live performance in Tokyo from 2012 a year after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.

It's powerful watching it and I cannot imagine how it would have felt to be there seeing it live.

Alsace experiencing its own Russian invasion. I wonder what they are plotting there?

Sometimes it's incredibly hard not to be bitter about how far in life utter fuckwits can get.