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Mute Branches / James

@mutebranches.bsky.social
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I make music about trees and ghosts for trees and ghosts: mutebranches.bandcamp.com

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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kicking off the "taking my PS4 and a copy of Nier Automata into a job interview" discourse
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
your man's absolutely stealing a living here; Tom Watson couldn't even fight the left-wing campaign against himself
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheerans looking at all those empty support slots
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
it's alien observer autumn (I'm finally seeing Grouper in November and I'm genuinely SO EXCITED about it)
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Letsa go gentle into that good night! Wahoo!
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
gotten to the end of series 1 today and I can say that rewatching Peep Show at this stage in my life is genuinely traumatic. Things I could view with amused distance in my teens and twenties have now literally happened by my thirties Up to a point, Peep Show may well be the true great British novel
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
'A Squid Game for All Seasons' by Mr Beast and Don Delillo
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
...and I didn't see Tyler Austin Harper, or the Atlantic or the NYT or any one of the aggrieved free-speech-is-absolute folk, or the ones speaking out about Cofnas having fuck all to say about those of us wondering how to teach histories of gender and medicine without mentioning abortion in 2022.
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
re-reading 'Shadow Ticket' after having been in a bit of a very low mood when I first read it on release, and approaching it with the Pynchon-obsessive's mixture of joy and paranoia (paran-joy-a) that it deserves
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Gountro (comms open) @gountro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
annual reminder that neo turf masters is the best game ever made
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
incidentally this would absolutely slap as a Stars of the Lid track title
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
feeling reflective today, and have concluded that the funniest thing I said this year was claiming that some AI generated meatballs in the window of a local deli look like Pain Elementals from off of Doom
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 19/07/2026
Ciani explains why, at eighty, in what she calls her last hurrah, she is saying yes: to the orchestra, to a collaboration with Actress, and to scoring John Wilson's documentary 'The History of Concrete'. We are so honored to have Suzanne Ciani on the podcast: podcast.thetonearm.com/suzanne-cian...
Suzanne Ciani leans over a modular Buchla synthesizer strung with red, yellow, and blue patch cables, adjusting it with both hands, a sunlit ocean coastline visible through the window behind her.
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
over the course of my life i've heard many many people say "it's too bad hitler didn't find success as an artist, maybe this could have all been avoided" and rowling really gives the lie to that
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is why it’s impossible to make a living as a musician and we all advise our kids not to get their hopes up. THE STATE OF THIS WORLD’S ATTITUDE TO THE FUCKING ARTS IS INSANE. FIND THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE AND HOOF THEM IN THE PLUMS, ASAP.
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
blinded by the forensics of it all
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Automata
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Every time you order it, they should inexplicably have Cait Sith breaking down at an adjacent table
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Florian @florianjedi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Onion didn't fuck around with this one, wow
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Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.
CBS MORNINGS ON YOUTUBE (JUNE 4, 2026)

Interviewer: I read that you do not want to embrace Al.

Kane: Absolutely not.

For me the whole point of doing what I'm doing-art is a way of processing life. I don't see the value in outsourcing any element of that.

When I'm looking at someone else's project, if I see an element of the environment [where] they use generative fill or whatever to change something about the scene, it just shuts off the part of my brain that wants to know more about that world. Because I would assume if they're willing to make an arbitrary choice there, they could make an arbitrary choice with literally anything.
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Having done a rewatch of Red Dwarf recently (it's very hit and miss), i can confidently say that a point and click adventure would be the ideal form for that show to take
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The same week that saw the release of a new Boards of Canada album *also* saw the 10th anniversary of my debut album, on which I try shamelessly to *rip off* Boards of Canada (thank you @fragilex13.bsky.social for putting this out way back when!) bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/album/fake-r...
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Fake Real Warm (bc013), by Mute Branches
9 track album
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
mom: but we already have the new boards of canada at home www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PX...
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You Can't Touch Mormon Jesus
YouTube video by tanasinn
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
can't believe this is almost 10 years old, genuinely still boils my piss every time I see this
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Yohoho gender pirate time i guess yarr
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live (im in a dentist waiting room) Deerhoof The Cure Radiohead St. Vincent Japanese Breakfast Eiko Ishibashi These New Puritans The Fall Rush Claire Rousay
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
gutted that Rolling Stone didn't put the Bad Religion prog rock album at the top spot of their best 100 punk albums list
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
always funny when right wingers talk about not feeling safe in London anymore cause I just imagine them shrinking in fear and immediately shitting all over themselves at the dread eldritch sight of a Pret A Manger
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
hate to "hand it to the fkn Met", but this makes a welcome change to the WM Police basically just helping him to be a gigantic twat all around Stirchley
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
a portrait of the artist as young sheldon
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
you've got to be some kind of a sick oddball to want to watch a "werner hurts hog" documentary
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Been away from posting for a bit - during which time I covered a great early Joanna Newsom song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWax...
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Peach Plum Pear (Joanna Newsom cover)
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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 14/02/2026
Here's that video of the entirety of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band done in a Final Fantasy VII soundfont you were looking for.
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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (Final Fantasy VII Soundfont) FULL ALBUM
YouTube video by Seabass_Fiction
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I forgot to share any of it on here so far (bc my mental health has been, quite frankly, in tatters this month tbf) but I have a YouTube playlist of my 26 (AND COUNTING!) songs for each day of January here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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JAMuary 2026 - YouTube
guess who's back back again etc
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
1000xResist is bloody good then eh
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This was the tenth year of Cities and Memory, and I’m enormously proud to look back at the amazing things that happened this year, and hugely thankful to everyone who helped to make it possible - especially the wonderful artists who make up our global community 💕🎧 citiesandmemory.com/2025/12/revi...
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Santa Is Now Using AI
Santa is checking his list, standing next to a very small baby

Santa: Looks like you’re on the naughty list Jimmy. Says here you shot a man in 1886”
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
taking a break from posting my Final Fantasy character names to share my NEW CHRISTMAS SONG - it's really MISERABLE and the title is QUITE SARDONIC! Down some nog while listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSd8...
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Mute Branches - "Last Christmas, I Gave You Those Quarterly Financials You Asked For"
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
oh boy tough choice between the industry that brings life affirming joy and insights on the human condition, and the industry that is singlehandedly accelerating the worst aspects of late capitalism
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A cool hundred quid says that there'll be a dance party in the new Animals Farms film with a rooster DJing or something
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"so james when am I getting dead great-grandchildren then?"
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
HELVETICA IS MY WIFE
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
amidst all the talk of calibri and times new roman, we're ignoring the unshowy beauty of HELVETICA
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Mute Branches / James @mutebranches.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
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