Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026J Mascis, on the other hand, created, as a side project, an afterthought, a lark, the greatest stoner doom song ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5vo...youtube.comWitch - SeerYouTube video by PatrickMSAA 000
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe Erik Jay Weber @fantasticcosmic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026At The Met and my daughter just chanted "Ziggy Piggy, Ziggy Piggy, Ziggy Piggy!" at Napoleon. @edsolomon.bsky.social's brilliance shall live forever. 1101
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The title of the new Undeath single (also album I think?) is amazing even by Undeath standards. undeath.bandcamp.com/album/arteri...undeath.bandcamp.comArterial Bombardment (Single), by Undeath1 track album 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026By comparison, maize - which is primarily an energy crop - accounts for maybe 1.1% of the UK's land mass. 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"250 Wembley Stadiums" being between 0.033% and 0.6% of Norfolk's land mass, depending on how you measure the stadium.... www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/2652381...northnorfolknews.co.ukNorfolk faces 'wall' of solar farms equal to 250 Wembley stadiums, MP warnsNorfolk is facing a “wall” of solar farms on a scale equivalent to 250 Wembley stadiums, one of the county’s MPs has told a “solar summit”. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026TRIOMPHE TERRIBLE EN RUSSE... AVEC MES.....VOITURES ZOMBIE! 051
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Also Godflesh's "Love And Hate In Dub" was available till yesterday on Bandcamp, and then it wasn't. 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Inevitable PS: Cosmic doom side projects at name-your-price! norska.bandcamp.com/album/too-ma...norska.bandcamp.comToo Many Winters, by Norska6 track album 100
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"The hedonism of Elastica feels especially relevant in a pop world whose biggest star is Charli xcx. Like brat, Elastica exudes a sleazy smokers’ area glamour" lovely writing by @msclairebiddles.bsky.social on one of the best albums of the mid-90s thequietus.com/quietus-revi...thequietus.comReissue of the Week: Elastica's Debut Album is "Untouchable Louche Perfection" | The QuietusClaire Biddles returns to Elastica's debut album and finds it short and perfectly formed; even with some extra tracks thrown in. 813419
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Right I'm off to listen to Pantera and sort out some charity accounts. Have a GREAT weekend /fin 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Talking about primitive acid house - I just bought this on impulse. Robotman/Marshall Jefferson - Do Da Doo (Plastikman Acid House Mix). definitiverecordings.bandcamp.com/track/do-da-...definitiverecordings.bandcamp.comDo Da Doo (Plastikman Acid House Mix), by Robotman, Marshall Jeffersonfrom the album Robotman, Marshall Jefferson - Do Da Doo 101
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026To me it mostly just sounds like really nasty, dirty primitive acid house. More on it here: daily.bandcamp.com/features/ghe...daily.bandcamp.comA Journey Through Ghetto House and JukeHow a crew of South and West Side producers transformed house music—and laid the groundwork for footwork. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's some combination of house and ghetto house. I find the second term problematic (or perhaps I just feel guilty/awkward using it). I think (I'm way out of my lane here) it's the link between house (a genre I do not have much of) and footwork (which for me consists of DJ Rashad's "Double Cup") 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And finally (well basically finally), it's "Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995", courtesy of Strut, which usually supplies me with Sun Ra reissues. dancemania.bandcamp.com/album/hardco...dancemania.bandcamp.comHardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995, by Various Artists24 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can't see this being endless amounts of that, though I would very much be here for that. I reckon there will be a LOT of dinner party music on here. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I think the only music I have ever bought from InFiné is the single of the Carl Craig/Frencesco Tristano collaboration "The Melody", because I need to own all versions of it. Including the ultra-tasteful live-from-a-Parisian-nightclub extended mixes. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The last two are compilations. Let's take the most inexpensive (i.e. name your price) first - which is a sampler called "InFiné Electronica". The name-your-price outweighing my dislike for the term "electronica". infine-rec.bandcamp.com/album/infin-...infine-rec.bandcamp.comInFiné Electronica, by InFiné15 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This one is meant to be simultaneously more droney and have more melodic vocals. Hopefully still heavy and clangy as well, though. I mean they were quite good at sounding like some sort of minimalist Fleetwood Mac on their split with the Body, so you know? 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026More completism, though this is the staying-current-because-I-like-what-they-are-doing-and-they-are-not-getting-boring-yet. It's "in grief or in hope" by BIG|BRAVE (lots of crimes against capitalisation and punctuation in there). bigbrave.bandcamp.com/album/in-gri...bigbrave.bandcamp.comin grief or in hope, by BIG BRAVE8 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And now it's time for some stoner blues completism! I've already got "II" and "Tre", so here's the first self-titled from the Devil and the Almighty Blues. It's being re-released 11 years on by Ripple. Spare, mournful and yes, VERY bluesy. ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/devil-...ripplemusic.bandcamp.comDevil and the Almighty Blues, by Devil and the Almighty Blues6 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Just five Bandcamp purchases today. Let's get into them super-quick. Death-doom completism! It's "Lachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration" by Finland's Hooded Menace! Sounds like they are getting quite 80s metal too. hoodedmenace.bandcamp.com/album/lachry...hoodedmenace.bandcamp.comLachrymose Monuments Of Obscuration, by Hooded Menace7 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Saw them a few years back at Download, love their stoner doom/NWOBHM hybrid. Love the Wicker Man +++ aesthetic. But DAMN if their records didn't sell out fast on Bandcamp. And rather than wait, I'd get the download. I got this LP on Amazon alongside a PoE switch, however. The Glamour! 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I acquired one physical release over the last month - the purple variant of Green Lung's "Necropolitan". Despite following them from the get-go, this is, I believe, the first of their physical releases that I have bought. www.discogs.com/release/3839...discogs.comGreen Lung - NecropolitanView credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2026 Vinyl release of "Necropolitan" on Discogs. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What ho! It's Bandcamp Friday, the day when Bandcamp waives its fees on the music that one purchases through its "platform". Quite hot on the heels of the last one. But I was prepared for today. isitbandcampfriday.comisitbandcampfriday.comIs it Bandcamp Friday?Is it? 100
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rest well Cronos – true extreme music pioneer, he was a smart, engaging geezer and great story teller to boot. RIP Conrad Lant. (I've put a couple of links in the usual place.) 0294
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Me and my grunge friends would've killed A.I. with hammers" is both The Truth and quite a good Godspeed You! Black Emperor album name 010
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Me and my grunge friends would’ve killed A.I. with hammers I can tell you that much 321356162
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Of the four musicians I ever interviewed Lou Barlow is still the WORST interviewee. And I like "Bakesale" better than anything Dinosaur Jr ever made 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a great read, of course, but nothing this year will make me feel so old as the fact that it is 21 years since Lou Barlow REJOINED Dinosaur Jr. pitchfork.com/story/how-di...pitchfork.comHow Dinosaur Jr. Learned to Tolerate One Another, Kind OfFor 40 years, J Mascis has quietly led his incredibly loud band into the annals of indie rock. But during his annual vacation in Cape Cod, he opened up about almost everything: interpersonal dynamics,... 131
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'd include at least one of their records that leant into the boom bap, but it's a great overview 000
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe Philip King @junkshopper.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I had to get a model maker to make a mini Stonehenge for the NME cover shoot with Happy Mondays - and got the measurements wrong - and almost made it actual sized! 3294
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 20/09/2026Hands up who wants some fun research into The Young Ones? Brand new on Dirty Feed: the truth about Colin Baker's appearance, or rather non-appearance, on the show. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/evil... 21258104
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026@henrygjeffreys.bsky.social does the Funky Mendoza. He's right - get the Tinto Corte if you can. The Cabernet is nowhere near chewy enough. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/the-tondon...henryjeffreys.substack.comThe Tondonia of Latin AmericaIn praise of the idiosyncratic Argentine wines of Weinert. Plus Wineupmanship! 011
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The Euromoney Style Guide, a corrupter of youth to rival Socrates OR Ozzy Osbourne, and whose malign influence will stretch across space and time like some finance-literate Bene Gesserit long after its demise... said Treasurys 020
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm aware that The Nuge is generally saying Stormtroopers are bad in the song, though his proposed response seems to be to become more Stormtroopery oneself 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Yes yes yes, "Double Live Gonzo" having a song called "Stormtroopin'" is a bit of a red flag too. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I mean obviously I don't like them any more (which is a shame, because "Double Live Gonzo" and The Amboy Dukes very much had their moments, and I guess Mr Ritchie had his charms back in the day?) but it would be objectively hilarious to inflict them on Ed Sheeran fans. 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026=Kid Rock and The Nuge saddle up= pitchfork.com/story/ed-she...pitchfork.comEd Sheeran’s Tour Openers, Backing Band Resign After Macklemore RemovalThe rapper was kicked off the tour following his call for a free Palestine 100
Reposted by Tom Nelthorpe Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 12/09/2026Excellent piece of financial history writing here. And do read the comment below the line from a Salomon trader who told Buffett not to rescue them! as.ft.com/r/c4b7d680-f...as.ft.comThe day Warren Buffett saved Salomon Brothers‘Our name was rat poison’ 2165
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes but have they used the line "Dem a come fe mess up de area seeeeeeerious" yet? 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026PS Late addition from the day. Rough and ready techno from former Andrew Weatherall collaborator Timothy J Fairplay. Because he sent me a message saying 20% off. timothyjfairplay1.bandcamp.com/album/local-...timothyjfairplay1.bandcamp.comLocal Networks, by Timothy "J" Fairplay8 track album 000
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Right that’s enough. This is exhausting. I’m off for a quite cold swim. Stay psychy. 15/fin 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The headline here is that I did not get this on vinyl. It’s the record that was almost, but not quite, enough to persuade me to renew with Blues Funeral’s Postwax series. Well received latest from the reigning kings of stoner psych. /14 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026And last of all, I got “Through Zero” by Elder. Which should have followed the other two purchases by bands I get pretty much everything by. Oh well. Blame the iPad blooting. /13 bluesfuneralrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/throug...bluesfuneralrecordings.bandcamp.comThrough Zero, by Elder6 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Right, nearly there. I got “Drone Logic” by Daniel Avery. Slightly clever, very out of its time techno. Most listenable. Came up on Roon Radio. /12 danielavery.bandcamp.com/album/drone-...danielavery.bandcamp.comDrone Logic, by Daniel Avery12 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Oops. Almost forgot the out of sequence purchase of “Survival of the Shittest” by Gurt. The usual high quality party sludge. /11 gurt.bandcamp.com/album/surviv...gurt.bandcamp.comSurvival of the Shittest, by GURT3 track album 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Got a name check, alongside Gurt, in a recent Obelisk Quarterly Review. Which made it sound quite Krautrocky. /10 theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/...theobelisk.netSpiral Galaxy Archives - The Obelisk 100
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The previous two records were new releases from bands I follow slightly carefully. Next up a couple of new-to-me people. Starting with “Spiral Galaxy II” by Spiral Galaxy /9 spiralgalaxychicago.bandcamp.com/album/spiral...spiralgalaxychicago.bandcamp.comSpiral Galaxy II, by Spiral Galaxy5 track album 100
