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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
*sigh* it doesn’t have to be poptimism or nostalgic rockism for the rest of time. there is a third way…
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I have a very long thing to say about this and why it's got bad that will quite soon be a blog post, but luckily for you I have to go do family stuff so can't go properly into now - but it is related to what I said in this book review, re failure to understand 21st c cultural abundance...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
this nails a persistent frustration of mine. also, writers are often just poorly versed in the history of the artists they revere… critics talk about “the next Brian Wilson”… Brian Wilson was reviled for the vast majority of his career and his creative peak was the beginning of a commercial decline
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Trump’s Board of Peace logo is basically the UN logo, except dipped in gold and edited so the world only includes America.
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Chris DeVille @chrisdeville.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
My book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS details how we got to the music landscape Liam Inscoe-Jones explores in his own brilliant new book Songs In The Key Of MP3. Liam uses five groundbreaking icons (Dev, twigs, 0PN, Earl, SOPHIE) to trace connections in the genre-fluid 2010s. I was thrilled to chat with him:
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How The Internet Helped Indie Go Pop: Chris DeVille and Liam Inscoe-Jones in Conversation
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I didn’t think it would be easy, but it can’t be overstated how much of an uphill battle it’s been to get old institutions - many of whom who treat music writing as the medium itself ended in 1999 - to engage with a book about the music of today. Nonetheless, we keep moving onward ⚡️
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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FRBH Recordings @frbhrecs.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Christmas haul at FRBH Towers with @liaminscoejones.bsky.social @danhancox.bsky.social and this hot new band Finitribe
Photo of “Songs in the key of MP3” by Liam Inscoe-Jones, “Inner City Pressure” by Dan Hancox and “Noise, Lust & Fun” by Finitribe
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A final shoutout of my book for last-minute shoppers… It’s ideal for any music fan this christmas and remains the only major book to dive deep into music post-2010, from Earl Sweatshirt to FKA twigs, from SOPHIE to Oneohtrix Point Never, from Charli XCX to Danny Brown. Link below to grab a copy x
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
pretty much done for 2025! This year I released a book, gave a talk at one of the best festivals in the world and published interviews with Caroline Polachek Daniel Lopatin Nicolas Jaar Josh Safdie Stella Donnelly Perfume Genius Richard Russell Sudan Archives Annahstasia Excited for ‘26
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
These are my top ten songs of the year:
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Here are my 150 top albums of the year:
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Album of the year! Me for @theartsdesk.bsky.social - also with some further thoughts on @liaminscoejones.bsky.social's ideas about streaming age musicians, on the rude health of the We Out Here generation, and Soft Music for Hard Times. www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/jo... @brownswood.bsky.social
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Yeah exactly this, and it's just this that @naomialderman.bsky.social nails down here: the skills of taste, discernment and historian-like research will not be erased by AI, they will be MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
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preparing for the working world in the age of AI
or: seven things to tell your kids when they ask what they should study now, or what the point of studying is
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Wrote about Perfume Genius and Makaya McCraven for the good people over at The Line Of Best Fit. Their number one is absolutely undeniable too
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
the age of abundance and the rising tide of machine generated slop which will be indistinguishable from generic music but unable to hold a candle to the innovations to real artists all emphasise the need for a healthy critical ecosystem, and argue for the critic as curator first and foremost
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/11/2025
Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
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Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender
Far-right minister defends killing of two men in Jenin, saying ‘terrorists must die’ Video of an Israeli military raid in Jenin shows soldiers summarily executing two Palestinians they had detained seconds earlier. The shooting on Thursday evening, which was also witnessed by journalists close to the scene, is under justice ministry review, but has already been defended by Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who declared: “terrorists must die”. Continue reading...
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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Thank you @resident-music.com for selecting 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE by @keithcameron2.bsky.social as your #1 book of the year! And for choosing @danielrachel.bsky.social, @audreyjgolden.bsky.social, @liaminscoejones.bsky.social, @reversediorama.bsky.social + Budgie on the best of 2025 list 🙏
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I reviewed the new twigs
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I reviewed the new OPN for tQ
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Really loved putting this together with Chal, a true legend of the game
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist @liaminscoejones.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...
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Has Pop Music Finally Eaten Itself?
In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For the last month I’ve been listening to little else but the new Danny Brown and Armand Hammer albums. With the albums finally dropping tomorrow, I went long with some thoughts over on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/thesixth...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I wrote about the new Armand Hammer for The Quietus, clocking up dangerous numbers without a miss now
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Almost every acclaimed music book, year after year, is about the music of the 20th century, often about the *same* music from it. A quarter of the way into the 21st century, it’s getting a little concerning…
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Jon is doing god’s work, beautifully written and this album is insane
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This time next weeks Jacqueline Crooks - women’s prize shortlisted author of the phenomenal Fire Rush - and I will be in conversation at the legendary radical bookshop Housmans, talking music and literary writing… if you’re near kings cross, come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/liam-insco...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones & Jacqueline Crooks in Conversation at Housmans
Join Liam Inscoe-Jones and Jacqueline Crooks in Conversation at the legendary Housmans Bookshop on October 28th, 7.30pm
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I reviewed the new Rochelle Jordan
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The path forward begins in the workplace. We must advocate for a society built around collective strength, industrial cooperation, and democratic control. Read Eddie Dempsey on unions.
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Reversing the Decline of Union Power
Neoliberalism and postmodernism have torn apart the social fabric that once held us together. But in rebuilding the strength of labour and the organised society, we can be unified, empowered, and…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/09/2025
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
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Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I wrote some words about the new Blood Orange album for The Quietus
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
my book gets a lil mention in this new review of the new blood orange album theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...
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Album: Blood Orange - Essex Honey
The more time goes by, the more it seems like Dev Hynes might be the antidote to what Guy Debord called “the society of the spectacle”. As is documented in the fantastic recent book Songs in the Key o...
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
3) I keep hammering on about Liam's book, but with good reason. It embodies new ways of tracing the nature of artists' influence and position in the ecosystem, suited to the more fluid 21st century. To this conversation, it points out how real subcultures - skate, dancing, sex work - feed in.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Sorry not sorry to link to my own review, but Liam's book really crystallised a lot of this for me recently.
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I remember in 2013 when I started making lists I struggled to fill a list of 50, now i’m past a list of 100 albums I liked this year and it’s august, perpetually astounded by the quality and quality of new music in the atmosphere
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...
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After Retromania
In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the...
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I’m in this! Spoke to Chal Ravens about newness in music 15 years on from Retromania, AirPods, the new Niontay album and other things, I’m really proud of how it came out
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
agreed, MIKE hasn’t dropped the ball once since 2016 and this is a joy to see. In the back of my book I list ten essential listens from each year and ‘Burning Desire’ is there but I’d go further, that’s easily one of the best albums of the decade so far
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noam garchompsky @boringangel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
this 1 by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social
cover of the book "songs in the key of mp3: the new icons of the internet age" by liam inscoe-jones
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
the way time and writing works is amazing, you can spend hours working on something and become convinced it’s the best it can possible be, leave it for two weeks, come back and it’s immediately apparent how to make things 10x better, it’s sick
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
that’s me. wholesome.
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Ted Davis @tddvsss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Wrote about more music of the ambient variety in column format for popular music web store and streaming platform @bandcamp.com's editorial arm 💯 daily.bandcamp.com/best-ambient...
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The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, July 2025
Our guide to the month’s crucial ambient LPs.
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.
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Britain’s Urban Working-Class Invented Metal
Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Feat. Jim Legxacy, Blood Orange, Geese, John Glacier, Maruja, Deftones, Titanic, underscores, Che, Lupe Fiasco, Princess Nokia, rRoxymore, Nightcrwlr, Soul Wax, Sudan Archives, Ana Frango Eléctrico, Alice Glass + more… These are the best songs of July 2025 music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
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Best Of July 2025 by Liam Inscoe - Jones on Apple Music
Playlist · 50 Songs
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This is the main thing people don't know about books. The success of a book is largely governed by how many get INTO bookshops in the first place. If they don't order them in from the publishers, the majority of potential buyers will never get as far as seeing a copy.
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Bill Cummings @billcummings80.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
#podcast I spoke to author Liam Inscoe-Jones about his new book Songs in the Key of MP3, that focusses on artists of Sophie, Blood Orange and FKA Twigs and how they emerged. How streaming/Socials have changed music, #playlists and the #charts and more www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/05/16/i...
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In The Spotlight: Episode Seven: Liam Inscoe-Jones (author Of Songs In The Key Of MP3) - God Is In The TV
For the seventh episode of In The Spotlight Bill Cummings is joined by music journalist and author Liam Inscoe-Jones, he is a music and fiction writer
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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
hesitant to express that i agree with joe expressing his disagreement with the broad-strokes cultural collapse premise by co-signing an agreement expressed through the medium of my own disagreement (a reiteration of a reiteration, oh no), but I *do* agree with his disagreement, predictably
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Millennials too. This book really was timely. Every time I see otherwise intelligent people going "oh god yahhh so true" on yet another video of that Meditations For The Anxious guy explaining how young ppl culture just just a facade of a performance of a simulacrum of a photocopy I die a little.
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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
the post-Napster way of things is turbulence, with the past stirred in to the present and the unevenly distributed future. I'm a stopped clock on this currently but this book sums a lot of this up... my review... bsky.app/profile/liam...
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