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Unashamedly enjoy a bit of Barry White from time to time. Incredibly talented as a song writer and fantastic orchestration (also I believe written by him)

Falling down a 4.30am rabbit-hole about mystery and surprise and psychology and storytelling and ending up on a blog about magic and sleight of hand that was so compellingly written (and having read some of his other stuff) I suspect may be Derren Brown with a pseudonym. Anyway, this was a...

I used to be a bit of a snob about anything that'd get played on Radio 1 but enjoyed Mini Exile listening to this before school today. Video has the bonus of Taylor flicking Vs like a Millwall fan circa 1983:

I like a bit of echoey repetitive slow burnery-ness and slightly discordant vocal harmonies (despite the title of it making me want to shout "give him a ball and a yard of grass"), and this was shot in Brighton too

They were called Four Day Hombre - my slightly hazy (possibly retrofitting) recollection is that they were on the same circuit as the up and coming Coldplay at the time. Some of the band run a studio near Leeds and I think still perform occasionally under the name Hope and Social:

Might have posted this before, not sure - a band from the early 00s that never broke through, but one of the tightest units of skilled musicians I've ever heard play live. The bit from 4m30s is particularly epic live in a small venue.

A cover of a Modest Mouse song, and a lovely one at that.

I like it. If I'd known about it 33 years ago I'm sure it would have been on my mixtape somewhere between Sisters of Mercy and Fields of the Nephilim. In a way I can't articulate I can feel a line between this and some of the New Order songs I love too - all sorts of memory-resonance listening...

Thanks for sharing this - love it. Any others you want to point my way please do!

I'm pleased you like it. There's a melodic delicacy to it at odds with the riff and tone that I find compelling. Thanks for the Fraunhofer Diffraction nod, I'll have a listen! Mini-Exile put me onto https://www.obscurifymusic.com/ the other day which tells me my musical preferences are more...

A trigger warning on this one. It's coming up to the anniversary of a guy I knew pretty well through work ending his own life, sadly something many young men will do, and something I've experienced directly or seen the impact of it on those close to me half a dozen times now. As is too often...