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New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social! I had the great pleasure of interviewing Bruno Silva, whose Ondness and Serpente records are some of my favourite music of recent years. I also wrote an essay on the metal subculture in 2026 and reviewed new albums by BBBBBBB 🥵 and Jesse Draxler 🖤.

My essay on the state of metal in 2026 can now be read in full on @thewiremagazine.bsky.social's site. I've long wanted to write this. Many thanks to @lucythraves.bsky.social for the commission, and to @fiadh.bsky.social, @infinitedreamscape.bsky.social, Rylan Gleave and others for their thoughts.

As far right ideology and misogyny make gains around the world, metal, a subculture with a troubled relationship to fascism, wonders whether more progressive ideals are still in reach, writes Antonio Poscic in The Wire 513 www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...

If you've ever found yourself listening to an engine idling and enjoyed its music, then Institut für Feinmotorik might be up your street. I reviewed the collective's excellent latest album for @thequietus.com. 🔗 thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

'The collective have spent years paring their sound down. Their main medium the Octogrammoticum – an orchestra of eight recordless turntables augmented by the scraps and dregs of discarded objects.' Institut Für Feinmotorik - Öd buff.ly/ybG2snq

Sexiest album of the year! You heard it here first!

Kinda crazy that some stuff I said ended up being printed in The Wire, along with the words of some other very cool folks. It's about metal and antifascism etc, nothing you haven't already heard from me, but it's part of a great article so go read it. Thanks @alteranthony.bsky.social

'The longer you stay, the harder it becomes to leave. Its disquieting, slippery shapes slowly reveal themselves as comfortingly familiar. This is alien terrain that starts to feel like somewhere you belong.' Klara Lewis - Opening is a Quietus Album of the Month For September 2026 buff.ly/1irL9KN

Happy that people are finally picking up on Alexander Ullom's 𝘐𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥𝘴. Understated existential horror done right. This episode of Red Letter Media is pretty spot on in its analysis (warning: contains major spoilers).

Corroded beats and doleful pianos. Ghosts hissing with static. Darren Cunningham returns to Ninja Tune with 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦, a 4 AM noir for the dancefloor. I reviewed this mesmerising new Actress album for @thequietus.com. 🔗 thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Making his return to the Ninja Tune label, Darren Cunningham practices typical elusiveness with doleful piano stabs amidst pounding surf and ambient textures Actress - Radical Frame @ninjatunehq.bsky.social buff.ly/PzFQA0f

The Quietus is 18!, as ever it feels absolutely nuts that I've been doing this job for such a long time, especially as given the media landscape / ad collapse / AI / mainstreamification of culture it has become harder each year. As ever, we rely on subscribers to survive thequietus.com/subscribers/

Making another starter pack as promised, this one with writers, podcasters, platforms etc. who are at least friendly to bands with antifascist, anticapitalist and antidiscriminatory politics. We need your help on this, since writers' politics are sometimes less obvious: go.bsky.app/5AF41Hh

Technology in music is only interesting when it fails or is misused (overdriven amps, 303, feedback, etc), because this is a triumph for humanity and art over unnatural forces of order and predictability. AI is different. As long as it’s being used it can’t fail / be misused, as it’s in on the joke.

The new Junge Eko album, 𝘗𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘥 (𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 17𝘵𝘩), on Warm Winters Ltd is sooo gorgeous. Luminous electroacoustic pieces that hover between diffuse ambient textures, hushed slowcore intimacy, and earnest tunefulness.

Cop this. Great compilation, great cause.

Klara Lewis's new album 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 is 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦 in the full sense of the word. Composed from field recordings, samples, and electronic loops, it's a piece of music beguiling in its surface beauty and dizzying in its depth. I reviewed it for @thequietus.com's Album of the Week.

The Swedish sound sculptor enters the backrooms with an album of unstable electronic textures united by their uncanny, reality-warping potential—and the longer you stay, the harder it becomes to leave Opening by Klara Lewis is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/UBxy9nb

Ok so for once I don't actually have any writing in the new issue of The Wire. BUT you should STILL BUY IT. Because *even without me* it remains – somehow, incredibly – a fantastic magazine.

I choose to ignore the Betty Hammerschlag discourse. 🧘

Tyondai Braxton splices 7 years of unsettled creative detritus – fragmented IDM, mutant techno, contemporary classical mayhem – into a sprawling 70-minute collage that's more cohesive than you'd expect. I review 𝘚𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘬𝘴 on @erasedtapes.com for @thequietus.com. 🔗 thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

'IDM absurdity meets minimalist composition as the detritus of club culture – the shuffle of hi-hats, the deep resonance of kicks – refracts through a contemporary classical lens.' Tyondai Braxton - Splayed Werks @erasedtapes.com buff.ly/UH5SIMO

Essential reading here.

Mike Watt! ❤️❤️❤️ Inside the new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, among many great pieces, you'll find my reviews of new music by @capgrasman.bsky.social & Eugene Thacker, OSEES, SML, Faith Coloccia & @dorjitashi.bsky.social, Bhajan Bhoy, plus a full-page Avant Rock column – with even more great music!

Foggy, bass heavy and crumbling UK drill mixed with grime and ambient unease that ends up sounding like an evolution of weightless. Also featuring some ace guest spots (Loraine James, Dawuna, Space Afrika). So fucking good.

Each summer Christopher Nolan releases a movie it becomes a talking point for the whole world… Gonna petition him to make a film about Boulez-Cage correspondence so everyone becomes an expert on aleatoricism & integral serialism. ‘John, I agree with you entirely except for the use of pure chance’

Dense, dub-drenched alliance of clarinet, percussion, and electronics, all of it dissolving into an enthralling abyss of texture and blue moods. A stunner.

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

It’s Friday

The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration

Veličanstveno. 😢 Dajte im ulicu, dajte im murale, dajte im sve!

this fucking rocks! lol www.goodtimes.sc/sarah-hennie...

Review of ‘Physic’ by Dieterich & Brennan, courtesy of Antonio Poscic in this latest issue of The Wire @alteranthony.bsky.social

This is an excellent piece that manages to shine some light on an otherwise quite enigmatic figure. I never expected that Canavarro would follow up his legendary 1988 album 𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘹 𝘘𝘶𝘣𝘢, but it looks like we might actually get something new from him.

🚨 new @thewiremagazine.bsky.social 🚨 Feat. @monsterbobby.bsky.social on Nuno Canavarro (!), @lucythraves.bsky.social's Space Afrika cover story, and a bunch of other great stuff. On my end, I reviewed four albums from the Deerhoofiverse, plus brill new music from Kassel Jaeger and BIG|BRAVE.

Anyone: Well I asked ChatGPT and... Me:

American press have "leaked?" or are playing games with our heads about a very large attack on our country tonight, targeting civilian infrastructure and much more. this is criminal. this is inhumane. there are even publication posting this with an hourglass. What type of people are these?

Fuck transphobes. Fuck TERFs. Especially fuck apologising to them.

Ako vam se nije dovoljno zgadio život današnjim izvještavanjem o Ceuti, evo ovih genijalaca sa srednja.hr koji alt-right, incel argumente prezentiraju kao zdravorazumsku stvar, bez ograde ili kritike.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Our prehistoric ancestors didn’t start making music because they wanted to go viral on instagram or get on a Spotify playlist. The did it because they’d eaten psychedelic mushrooms in a reverberant cave and under those specific conditions it seemed like a fun thing to do.

For @thequietus.com, I review 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘰𝘧𝘧, where flautist Claire Chase and JACK Quartet transform Terry Riley’s open-score sketches into an effervescent, joyful suite. Realised by Samuel Clay Birmaher, the piece captures the playful lightness of Riley's latter-day style.

Spends most of its time in breezy motion and joyous buoyancy, where the 8-part flute chorus generates an updraft that rises vertiginously, past fluffy clouds and into the clarity of the stratosphere. #TerryRiley, Claire Chase, Jack Quartet, Samuel Clay Birmaher - The Holy Liftoff buff.ly/acvNoGJ

If you're looking for something to read, you might enjoy my interview with Franck Vigroux in the latest issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. His new album, 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴, is an incredibly fun, punk-spirited romp of blasting beats and noisy electronics: raster-raster.bandcamp.com/album/sonnai...

A crowdfunder has been launched to help Oxbow and Bunuel frontman, martial artist, author and podcaster Eugene S. Robinson raise €45,000 to help towards his treatment, rehabilitation, and living expenses following a stroke earlier this month Further details and donation link here: buff.ly/pfSjoDJ

For the moment, there are four (4) Polyorchard albums available on @subvert.fm for your enjoyment. scree/n (2023) An Excess of Primary Forms (2021) Ink (2020) Red October (2017) maybe I'll upload the rest but self-erasure is an important part of one's mythology