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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 · 28/03/2026

Only just read this. Absolute gold. I never stopped laughing, while not thinking too hard about the fact he actually exists. Did he have to clear this & provide edits before publication? Wonderful stuff

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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 · 11/01/2026

Great bpm’s for my run. Just off into the woods with the show👍

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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 · 22/12/2025

Oh my god I think this is the best episode I’ve heard. Kate is magic. More gulps & gasps than I expected to have & so so funny. And she loves Radiohead!!! Brilliant stuff, wonderfully guided (Sense & sensibility is in our top 3 faves - oh god could you get Emma Thompson back?!)

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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 · 10/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 7/7 - my album of the year #musicsky #music #AOTY caroline 2 by caroline (released 2025) - mesmerising, ambitious beauty

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

My favourite read of 2025 - 6/6 #booksky #books Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, translation by Sophie Hughes - one of the best things I've ever read in any year - a word torrent; moving, filthy, funny, disturbing

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 6/7 #musicsky #music #AOTY Lux by Rosalia (released 2025) - a religious experience, a voice from heaven Getting Killed by Geese (released 2025) - magnificent, off kilter, wry lyrics, all energy - so nearly my album of the year ...

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 5/7 #musicsky #music #AOTY It's a Beautiful Place by Water from Your Eyes (released 2025) - every kind of guitar style, often in the same song In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper by Sirom (released 2025) - the title just about sums it up

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Great books I read in 2025 - 5/6 #booksky #books The Art Question by Nigel Warburton - a good head scratch about whatever the hell art is Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill - tight, punchy, wanders & ponders

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Great books I read in 2025 - 4/6 #booksky #books Africa and the Blues by Gerhard Kubik - where Western music comes from Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway - a wonderful writer taking the baton of another writing god

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 4/7 #musicsky #music #AOTY Crooked Wing by These New Puritans (released 2025) - if late period Talk Talk recorded in a haunted mansion Drive to Goldenhammer by Divorce (released 2025) - warm, ambitious songwriting & musicianship

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Great books I read in 2025 - 3/6 #booksky #books Femina by Janina Ramirez - recovering remarkable women in medieval times White Holes by Carlo Rovelli - let's go down a black hole, quantum physics poetry

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 3/7 #musicsky #music #AOTY Swaken by Bab L'Bluz (released 2024) - pulsating North African power A View with a Room by Trish Clowes (released 2022) - tight, creative jazz quartet with rich songs

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Great albums I heard this year 2/7 #musicsky #music #AOTY No Name by Jack White (released 2024) - consistent quality punk blues Vinte Palavras ao Redor do Sol by Catia de Franca (released 1979) - unstoppable Brazilian rhythm

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Great books I read in 2025 - 2/6 #booksky #books For Thy Great Pain have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie - two special women & their revelations The Big Picture by Sean Carroll - Who are we? (Nearly) everything about everything

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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

3 great recent science reads, up above #booksky

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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 · 26/10/2025

Wonderful program Cerys. Oh god you’re doing a drum spesh soon I think. Will email a suggestion or two🕺🏻🕺🏻🎼

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LeighB @l6ighb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Love the Bebeto track, once again my Shazam is groaning. This is a lovely bit of almost spiritual, orchestral, Brazilian stuff, you might like Oracao 18 (pra viver junto) by Luiza Brina #musicsky #music

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

always enjoy your articles, but when both you and the Quietus recommend Sirom, well, I've got to get that record, thank you

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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 · 05/10/2025

Wonderful music & stories as always. Reminds me of Eskimo Song by Hugo Largo, an absolute sparse beauty. Anyway, another full Shazam playlist, keep them tunes coming please. Ta Leigh

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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 · 24/09/2025

the Trish Clowes album is fantastic, good choices

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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

I was hoping for caroline, these new puritans, milkweed... oh well

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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 · 07/09/2025

Great to have you back. Hope the writing went well. Loved El Shab Arab! Reminds me of fab 70s Turkish pop, sitting here in the last of the sun– Zuhtu by Esin Afsar #musicsky #music or an ace modern take on - Bak Gor by Satellites (Israeli band which I know could be problematic)

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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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