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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 10h

Liz Harris from Grouper has got the old band back together for a dip in the high seas. My full review for @thequietus.com is available here: thequietus.com/quietus-revi... @krankyltd.bsky.social

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Serene yet disturbing, @agneshaus.bsky.social's haunting soundscapes are a world to get lost in. Come and get lost with us on 17th October at the Charles Dickens in Worthing. Tickets: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

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Agnes Haus - Temporal

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just 3 weeks until the legend @alexandertucker.bsky.social decimates the Charles Dickens' stage in Worthing! Score your tickets here: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

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MICROCORPS ZONA FT. REGIS - Official Video

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dumb & Dumber is a daft film. It's also a film I've likely watched more than any other. It brought my wife and I together (despite what you might read in this essay) and is a surprisingly tender portrayal of male friendship. My Low Culture Essay for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

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The Low Culture Essay: Jon Buckland on Dumb & Dumber | The Quietus

“If Harry does something dumb, you drink, and if Lloyd does something dumb, I’ll drink” After seconds of consideration, my wife and I came up with these exhaustive rules to determine, once and for all...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 25/09/2026

'A surprisingly thoughtful portrayal of male friendship—in a sea of gross-out comedies that have aged poorly, Dumb & Dumber stands pumpkin-pie haircut and shoulders above the competition.' Jon Buckland on Dumb & Dumber buff.ly/qCqeyjO

Scene from Dumb & Dumber. Two men on a bicycle in a suburban street, both wearing helmets and light jackets.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The next evolution of Semiratruth's sound is here. They're in full club deconstruction mode. I wrote a few thoughts down for @bandcamp.com Read here: daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the... @sooperrecords.bsky.social

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A belated round up but let's just say Friday night was a barnstormer. It was a class turnout, basically hitting capacity, so big thanks to all who came down to witness the mighty @irkedband.bsky.social with Credentials and Self Torque doing the business in support.

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tickets are flying out for tonight now - we'll hold a limited number back on the door but, if you want to get involved, this is your final chance to cop 'em cheap! www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 10/09/2026

'Members of Trap Music Orchestra, Murderpact, CGI Jesus and Deli Girls link heavy prog and weird jazz to mindbending effect. Un-Jazz roams and grows, expanding into all manner of space – physical, theoretical, cosmic, moral, and aural.' Nu-Jazz - Un-Jazz buff.ly/h6byzdp

Nu-Jazz - Un-Jazz album cover. Black and white image that is difficult to easily identify, including some debris from car wreckage.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Fancy spangling your mind today? Probably pop Nu-Jazz's new album on then. I wrote about it for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 10/09/2026

"It wasn't just two people playing with two instruments, it had this added effect of him and the church being collaborators. The acoustic is a technology. That church was built like that for a reason; to frighten the practitioners into taking on the Norman Conquest, but also to make a sound heard."

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Jem Finer and John Matthias on the Strange Magic of “Almost Starlight”

Two decades of friendship culminate in a spectral album of violin and hurdy-gurdy recorded inside an ancient English church.

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Agnes Haus @agneshaus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Worthing! <3

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Dom @hownicearechips.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Class read, not only because Matt is a medical grade character and his choices are mint, but also that it has reminded me how great music is as a way of connection and how many people (Matt included) the absolute Freak Shit we wallow in has introduced me to.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Following their beautiful recital in a nearby church, I caught up with exceptional violinist and Fragmented Orchestra creator, John Matthias, and Jem Finer of @thepogues.bsky.social & Longplayer fame. We chatted all things time, hurdy-gurdy, and what3words. Check it out below👇 @touch33.net

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𝕾𝖑𝖞 & 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕱𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖞 𝕯𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖊 @familydrone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is actually quite beautiful to read and i'm very humbled to be asked to talk about music, but there's a lovely write up here that Jon has summarised nicely - you forget how many projects and great festivals and wonderful people i've met through being able to do this for nearly 20 years. 🖤✨

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had a lovely chat with your @familydrone.bsky.social man - Matt Cargill - about the 13 records that shaped him and his band. Give it a squizz below

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 09/09/2026

"I remember going to see them with a load of mates on the day before my 16th birthday. They all looked cool as fuck. It was incredible – so heavy and fast and tight and punk. It exploded my brain." Matt Cargill of Sly & The Family Drone on Ikara Colt - Chat And Business buff.ly/IQOkgYP

Ikara Colt - Chat And Business album cover. Black with a grid of 12 white squares, each subtitled with lines such as 'close up cigarette pack.'

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Self Toque will be galloping out of the gates with their punk bangers on the 18th Grab yourself a ticket: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe... @irkedband.bsky.social

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SELF TORQUE - HIGH TEMPERATURE SERPENT

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 25/08/2026

You cannot rush Sarah Davachi’s music. On “The Will of Tongues,” the composer turns organ, strings, woodwinds, brass, and voice into a two-and-a-half-hour invitation to slow down and listen deeply.

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Inside “The Will of Tongues,” Sarah Davachi’s Organ Music Masterpiece

The composer breaks down her most ambitious work yet.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In advance of her epic new record of transcendent organ drones, I sat down with @sarahdavachi.bsky.social to discuss the Venice Biennale, André Breton, pipe organs, and the Butthole Surfers. Head here to give it a read: daily.bandcamp.com/features/sar...

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Inside “The Will of Tongues,” Sarah Davachi’s Organ Music Masterpiece

The composer breaks down her most ambitious work yet.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 24/08/2026

'Originally created to accompany an installation by Banks Violette, at times it sounds like the distant flutter of helicopter blades, at others the straining engine of a vehicle hungry to change gear' Stephen O’Malley - Avaeken @daisrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/Aqk6Atq

Stephen O’Malley - Avaeken album cover. Black and white image of a broken disco ball.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sunn O))) axeman @stephenomalley74.bsky.social has a new record out. I wrote some thoughts down for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just under 4 weeks until @irkedband.bsky.social thrash through their grievances in Worthing! Bag a cheap advance ticket here: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe... Support comes from Credentials & Self Torque

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IRKED - THE ACP

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Inside every man, there are two wolves

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 03/08/2026

From floraltronica and queer synth-punk to experimental collages and imaginary horror soundtracks, July’s Tape Label Report introduces five cassette labels keeping things wonderfully weird.

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The Tape Label Report, July 2026

Releasing everything from imaginary film soundtracks to minimal, melodic ambient, here are 5 tape labels to know and love from July.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just been stopped in the street by a toothless man clutching two prescription packets. He wanted to know what brand my headphones are. After I told him he said “the rock group ZZ Top, yeah? Frank Beard hasn't got a beard”, repeating it for emphasis “Frank BEARD hasn't got a BEARD”

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For this month's @bandcamp.com Tape Label Report, I caught up with the good folks behind Bloxham Tapes. Read it, if you like: daily.bandcamp.com/tape-label-r... @alisoncotton.bsky.social @obsidianshard.bsky.social @lukedrozd.bsky.social

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Incredible night of music down Worthing way yesterday. Huge thanks to all of the artists for absolutely delivering, but also to everyone who put their faith in us and came out to witness new music in our seaside town.

7-piece band MPTL Microplastics performing at a Dream Smotherers night in Worthing

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

But the night was stolen by the psyche-cleaving furrows of sound made by MPTL Microplastics. Unhinged and transcendental... A total pleasure to witness.

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Before Terse Affection emerged in power trio formation and smashed everything to smithereens

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Linden Pomeroy kicked off proceedings with his dexterous fingerpicking

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

My favorite album of this century recently turned 25. "Our memories are corruptions that have been broken and pieced back together. Endless Summer replicates this." Jon Buckland at @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

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Waves Eaten by Flames: Endless Summer by Fennesz at 25 | The Quietus

25 years on, Jon Buckland looks at the complex emotional affects triggered by Christian Fennesz' third album, Endless Summer.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you're on the south coast, like your music burning with an unidentifiable energy and equipped with the capacity to surprise, come and join us in Worthing tomorrow night. All for the price of a London pint. www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 28/07/2026

Richie Culver's fourth release of 2026 takes the listener to some dark places (and a fair few pretty ecstatic ones, too) Quiet Husband - The Architecture of Perception @industrialcoast.bsky.social buff.ly/z7VVKft

Quiet Husband - The Architecture of Perception album cover. Purely black, apart from title and artist's name at the top in white text.

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This Saturday MPTL Microplastics roar into Worthing! Local champ and fretboard whizz, Linden Pomeroy opens proceedings Grab your tickets here: www.ticketsource.com/dream-smothe...

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Linden Pomeroy - Pranayama Blues

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 21/07/2026

After the release of 'Noise Trip Explosion', Toronto composer and Black Galaxie noise artist Nolan Hildebrand talks doctoral research, acoustic startle experiments, and why it's worth keeping his wildest studio accidents. The Euphoric and Exuberant Noise of Nolan Hildebrand:

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The Euphoric and Exuberant Noise of Nolan Hildebrand

After the release of 'Noise Trip Explosion', the Toronto composer and Black Galaxie noise artist talks doctoral research, acoustic startle experiments, and why it's worth keeping his wildest studio accidents.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 21/07/2026

"Organs are more or less inextricable from the space in which they exist. They've only ever existed in that space and only ever been heard in that space." The Remnants of Worship — Michael Cloud Duguay Interviewed:

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The Remnants of Worship: Michael Cloud Duguay Interviewed | The Quietus

Jon Buckland talks to the Canadian composer about his journey away from addiction to recording ancient church organs in Newfoundland

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For @thequietus.com, I discussed the experience of recording the fantastic Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go with composer and multi-instrumentalist @michaelcduguay.bsky.social. You can read it here: thequietus.com/interviews/m...

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 20/07/2026

Jon Buckland speaks to the Ontario-based composer who drove 3,000km to record an album on old church organs in remote Newfoundland backwaters The Remnants of Worship: Michael Cloud Duguay Interviewed @michaelcduguay.bsky.social buff.ly/rXo3wxO

Michael Cloud Duguay, portrait by Jamie Kronick. Colour photograph taken in a wooded area. Duguay is wearing a grey wool jacket and a peaked cap.

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Dream Smotherers @dreamsmotherers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Leaning into the twilight rock 'n' roll of Roy Orbison, The Cramps & Cindy Lee, Terse Affection is goth, it's country and it's coated in a raw sheen of seductive abrasion that'll tear the malaise right out of you. & they'll be supporting MPTL Microplastics in 2 weeks youtu.be/SA-btOTssuQ?...

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Terse Affection - In The Forest, In The Woods, In The Pines

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John Doran @jahduran.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's going to be a corker, no two ways about it.

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