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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this album is on repeat - 5* RIYL... Adrianne Lenker, Dirty Projectors, REM before they lost it, acoustic prog, caesar salad with anchovies extra cajun chicken no croutons, Jeff Parker, Black Country New Road now, Detectorists, owls Wendy Eisenberg by Wendy Eisenberg #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A 5* read. Is there a better run of four consecutive albums? In Another World: the Four Seasons of Talk Talk by Graeme Thomson #talktalk #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love this woman. Fantastic book. RIYL... marmite, rubbish Goodreads ratings, people lacking self knowledge or with too much, jazz improvised paragraphs with comedic heights, tight sentences, excessive ones, sidebars, brackets She's on top form Tonyinterruptor by Nicola Barker #books #booksky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Brilliant album, fine song structure, folk, spacious & raw, edgy instrumentation & standout vocals (I hear late Talk Talk in places, perhaps that's just me) A Blooming Body by @cinderwellmusic.bsky.social #musicsky #albumofyear2026 #folk #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

read this under an umbrella by the sea, earphones in - really well written, touching on the rise of the great producers, the tragic story of this genius & one fabulous album - both 5* J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3 series) by @jordanferguson.bsky.social #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

these two albums will be in my 2026 favourites, maybe the top one. Great songwriting, going unusual places, beautifully Train on the Island by Aldous Harding My New Band Believe eponymous debut #music #musicsky #albumoftheyear2026

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A five star read for me. Love this bloke. Post apocalytic, as good as The Road (with less spare prose), natural, human stuff Juice by Tim Winton #booksky #scifi #books

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

gorgeous raw american folk First Songs by Michael Hurley #folk #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

a couple of jazz beauts I recently dived into Vila - Fabiano do Nascimento & Vittor Santos e Orquestra - wonderful Brazilian guitar with big string arrangements, just out Topology - Makoto Terashita & Harold Land - 1984, fab piano & sax #musicsky #music #jazz

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

two top recent albums - a fine soul jazz debut & an alternative legend remaining on form Momoko by Momoko Gill Nothing's about to happen to me by Mitski #music #musicsky #jazz

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

bsky.app/profile/ster... Mitski tour incoming…

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

fab read, on the new wave of UK jazz in the last 15 years or so, insights from the artists & those around them including the bloke who got me into this stuff, the great @gillespeterson.bsky.social (where's your memoire sir?!) Unapologetic Expression by Andre Marmot #jazz #musicsky #booksky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

fantastic record, experimental rock grooves from Quebec Maintenant Jamais by Population II #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

My favourite Bowie album- one of my all time fave albums full stop - left us 10 years ago tomorrow. RIP? I doubt he's resting up there Station to Station by David Bowie #musicsky #music #bowie

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

This is fantastic. Great songwriting & hard Shadows by ExWife #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Eleven of the best books I read this year (whevs, as my kids would say - or probable not anymore) - 1/6 #booksky #books Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf - spare & beautiful, a writing great Kate Bush's Hounds of Love by Leah Kardos - enlightening, amazing soundtrack & emotional memories

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Best albums I heard in 2025, 6 released prior to 2025, 6 released this year & my fave of the lot, if anyone is bothered 1/7 Gemelo by Angelica Garcia (released 2024) - gorgeous, inventive, driving beats Configuracao do Lamento by Deafkids (released 2017) - relentlessly hard #musicsky #music #AOTY

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social can’t wait to hear @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social I finally got round to reading Femina this year & her book on Julian of Norwich, both fantastic - I wonder what her music choices are too! Cheers Leigh

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Radiohead, London, 25 November Last minute resale ticket after 4,000 attempts (I apologise to all fans who couldn't go) This band can write & screw convention & screw genre & when they go full rock mode they are a force of nature Gig of the year #musicsky #music @radiohead.wastehq.social

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On Tuesday night I knew the true nature of reality, how consciousness arises, the meaning of life & how the universe ends- then I woke up, just a dream- d'oh! 3 great recent reads The Big Picture- Sean Carroll The Hidden Spring- Mark Solms The End of Everything- Katie Mack #physics #science #life

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Not wanting to jump on any bandwagon, I can't help but agree this album is fantastic, one of the best of the year. Love the lyrics, the off-kilter arrangements, the energy. Great music is great music Getting Killed by Geese #musicsky #music #isthatabandwagon

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Beta Band, Roundhouse - transcendental beauty, fantastic return #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

some of the best jazz I've heard this year, a 2022 release (I'm slow but I aim to get there...) A View With A Room by Trish Clowes (& amazing pals) #musicsky #music #UKjazz

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

country pop is not my go-to music genre & I was only going to stay for a couple of songs by CMAT at All Points East but wow she was great, such energy in the songs live & what a show she put on with her band (some of the preening male rock groups on the bill could learn something) #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

a gorgeous, hard, inventive album, one of the best so far this year It's A Beautiful Place by Water From Your Eyes #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Great album & fantastic live at All Points East They’re from Nottingham you know Drive To Goldenhammer by Divorce #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

this man writes like a poet, he fools me into thinking I actually understand what he is saying White Holes by Carlo Rovelli #quantumphysics #bigspacestuff #booksky #books

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I seem to leave watching Glastonbury on tv needing some punk. Some fine records in the last few days- Wrzask by Traume Hate Training by Punitive Damage Atomic Prey ep Cartoon Darkness by Amyl & the Sniffers Now, we need a new Otoboke Beaver album... #music #punk #musicsky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social Cerys, love the show as always. How about Branches by Midlake. A bit of melancholic beauty

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

caroline 2 by caroline Beautiful & inventive Magnificent I can’t wait to hear a better album this year, just not sure I will #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social what an extraordinary show, thank you so much. Caroline polachek just goes up and up in my appreciation, thanks again, Leigh

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

my god this is amazing, an absolute torrent of words, moving, funny, filthy, disturbing, a modern Mexican classic - one fierce translation by Sophie Hughes I almost don't care what the story is, I just want to read Fernanda's words Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor #booksky #books

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social the Bug Club are magnificent. Now Leonard cohen couldn’t have written anything as poetic as Quality Pints #musicsky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

happy new Black Country, New Road & Dirty Projectors day! #music #musicsky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This album is so good. From Ghana to wonderful places Florence Adooni, AOEIU #music #musicsky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

incredible band, live & on record - all prog, jazz, punk, rock, for starters Plantoid album: Terrapath they can play #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

This is quite some album, for all your Brazilian psych-punk needs & more Configurao do Lamento by Deafkids all credit to the wonderful @thequietus.com folks, an amazing music/culture online magazine #musicsky #music #punk #brazil

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social fab show, decent run done, hint of blue sky west of London, about to have a demon sandwich but that’s not important right now- for country-ish delights you might like Paradise by Buck Meek or Working Poor/This is What by Horse Feathers. Great radio, ta!!

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

@juderogers.bsky.social lovely piece in the Observer today on Bonnie Prince Billy- that ‘Appalachian post punk solipsist’ is just fab. Didn’t realise he had a lyrics book- thanks for saying. The Rosalia ISAD cover is amazing! The opening of Cursed Sleep made me weep when I first heard it - cheers!

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

post a few albums that have stayed with you or you just found again, whenever you want, no explanations unless you want to 127/409 Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk went to sleep with this on earphones hundreds of times so its actually now part of my subconscious- epic #musicsky #musicchallenge #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

First 5* read of the year. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. I'm cheating - I've read almost all his stuff & it's all 5*. Spare & beautiful, your heart is broken in the quietest way #books #booksky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

FTLOG why did I wait 6 months to listen to this album (because my list of albums to listen to is 1,119 discs long maybe - no excuse, fool) - this would have made my 2024 release best ofs happy new year! Gemelo by Angelica Garcia #musicsky #music

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social DEFINITELY more @drbecky.bsky.social please. This is right up my spacetime continuum

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social , you asked for Christmas grooves… A Groovy Christmas and New Year by Kojo Donkoh & Pee Pee Dynamite Santa’s Got a Bag of Soul by the Poets of Rhythm Children Go Where I Send You by Nina Simone Hark the Herald Angels Sing by The Fall Hope Santa brings you what you want!

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Gigs! Soulwax, Jockstrap, Gilles Peterson, MSPAINT

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers #booksky #books #reading no19: Goblin by Ever Dundas

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

if I do a post of my fave 5 books this year & nobody reads the post, did I actually read these books? #booksky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

that time of year - who cares what I think were the best albums I heard in 2024 as of 2.14pm 4 December in a cold southern English county - but anyway... #musicsky

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

chose 20 albums that have stayed with you - one a day, no particular order, explanation or review #Musicsky #musicchallenge #hopelesstask no1: Laughing Stock by Talk Talk

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