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@alteranthony.bsky.social
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✍️ music writer: The Wire, The Quietus, Kulturpunkt... 🥼 researcher 🍎 teacher ⌨️ programmer 🌐 antonio.poscic.net 📰 researchmusic.blog

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 27/09/2026
'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
Klara Lewis - Opening album cover. Ballet dancer standing en pointe on both feet with legs crossed at the ankles, wearing rolled-up jeans against a cool blue backdrop.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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).
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Mike and Jay Talk About It Ends
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ty 🙏🖤
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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...
Cover art for the Actress album Radical Frame.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 18/09/2026
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
Actress - Radical Frame album cover. Back view of a shaved head against a black textured background with gothic white text "RADICAL FRAME" superimposed across the centre and a small blue rectangle near the upper-right of the skull.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Crofna nije fensi, ciljaju osnovnoškolsku djecu i tinejdžere. Čak se i šire.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Čekaj, to je stvarno. Mislio sam da Index hypea/hustlea/laže k'o obično. Svejedno, dajem im pola godine.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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/
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Support independent journalism and culture Help The Quietus continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism by joining one of our subscription tiers. Cancel easily anytime.
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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ne smiješ to tako izravno reći, ej! Molim da se suzdrži dostojanstveni, deideologizirani i apolitični diskurs!
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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.
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Pierced (June17th), by Junge Eko
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cop this. Great compilation, great cause.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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.
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The In Between: Opening by Klara Lewis | The Quietus
The Swedish sound sculptor enters the backrooms with an album of unstable electronic textures united by their uncanny, reality-warping potential
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 03/09/2026
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
Opening by Klara Lewis album cover - ballet position on tip toes of a pair of legs in blue jeans, against a blue background.
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Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I choose to ignore the Betty Hammerschlag discourse. 🧘
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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...
Cover for Tyondai Braxton's Splayed Werks
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 02/09/2026
'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
Tyondai Braxton - Splayed Werks album cover. Deconstruction of a photograph of Braxton's face with the letters of his name in black against a yellow background.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Essential reading here.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Great to have such an informative piece of writing in the magazine. Excellent work.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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!
Avant Rock column page from The Wire #512, feat. Body Stuff, Cheer-Accident, Flowers Must Die, Brad Frye, Squid Pisser, De Staat and Hana Stretton.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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.
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Swerved, by nueen
13 track album
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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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’
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dense, dub-drenched alliance of clarinet, percussion, and electronics, all of it dissolving into an enthralling abyss of texture and blue moods. A stunner.
trule.bandcamp.com
Rope, by Al Wootton & Irene Bianco
7 track album
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm going to assume you mean the 1980s original here, not the revival. Is it still worth watching, how dated does it feel? It's been on my to-watch listen since forever, but I never got around to it.
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Subvert @subvert.fm · 07/08/2026
It’s Friday
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/08/2026
The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration
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The events at Ceuta show how Europe’s hard right now set the tone on immigration
The narratives of the right are seeping into mainstream EU policy, and Spain finds itself increasingly isolated in its humanitarian stance on borders
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Veličanstveno. 😢 Dajte im ulicu, dajte im murale, dajte im sve!
Naslov s portala index.hr: "Veličanstvena proslava Dana pobjede u Rijeci. Armada zapalila 222 baklje"
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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
this fucking rocks! lol www.goodtimes.sc/sarah-hennie...
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Sarah Hennies’ ‘The Grain House’ Review | Cabrillo Festival
Christina Waters delivers a blistering review of Sarah Hennies’ The Grain House, premiered at the 2026 Cabrillo Festival’s Defiant Dreams concert.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Absolutely beautiful!
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Panospria @panospria.com · 05/08/2026
Review of ‘Physic’ by Dieterich & Brennan, courtesy of Antonio Poscic in this latest issue of The Wire @alteranthony.bsky.social
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As they say, hottest day 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘳.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨 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.
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Ekstremni osuđivač svih radikalnih totalitarizama @osuivac.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anyone: Well I asked ChatGPT and... Me:
Display saying "Next station: Diss"
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Siavash Amini @capgrasman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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?
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Fuck transphobes. Fuck TERFs. Especially fuck apologising to them.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
So much this. The sense that everything could collapse at any moment is exactly what makes Still House Plants sound so amazing.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Uvijek isto od uvijek istih, bez ikakve odgovornosti.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's shaping up to be a really cool event. And something I'd be all over if I lived a little closer, haha. Break a leg, etc.!
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
'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”.'
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smor @smor.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
Mcdonalds. Burger King. Coca Cola. Microsoft. Rebook. HP. Dell. Intel. Bojkoti djeluju, try it out. bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS...
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Guide to BDS Boycott & Pressure Corporate Priority Targeting
Ending the complicity of states, corporations, and institutions in Israel’s ongoing, live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza is the most effective form of solidarity with the P...
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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.
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Terry Riley, Claire Chase, Jack Quartet, Samuel Clay Birmaher – The Holy Liftoff | The Quietus
When flautist Claire Chase launched her call for a new flute repertoire for the twenty-first century, Terry Riley responded in typically idiosyncratic fashion
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I can relate. At one point, I even maligned Maiden for using synths on 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘰𝘯, haha.
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 24/07/2026
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
Terry Riley, Claire Chase, Jack Quartet, Samuel Clay Birmaher - The Holy Liftoff album cover. Simple, non-realistic, line drawing of a group of birds in flight.
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Antonio @alteranthony.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of my formative albums. Listened to it again recently afraid it'd suck, but nope! "Out Of Control" is fire, like you said.
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