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JR Moores

@spinal-bap.bsky.social
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Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground. reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-mo… Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.

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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Licking The Palm For Guava.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t Laugh (I Love You).
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Don't Shit Where You Eat.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Strap On That Jammy Pac.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Pork Roll Egg and Cheese.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 7h
Can U Taste The Waste?
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 15h
Today in Italian dark-doom metal promo shoots: Select the band member who forgot to put out his bins on the right day (again).
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 21h
Good point!
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 22h
The response to this review was, let’s say, mixed. When Kaiser Chiefs’ sixth album was released in 2016, after Ricky Wilson had been coaching on The Voice UK, I reviewed it to the tune of their earlier hit, I Predict A Riot. web.archive.org/web/20161007...
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Album Review: Kaiser Chiefs - Stay Together
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Off the Ground | Reaktion Books
Paul McCartney’s 1990s was an era like no other, perhaps even the most significant decade of his entire career after the '60s. Following a shakier '80s, the decade would see McCartney re-emerge with g...
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We beheaded one of our kings long before they did. (And then brushed it under the carpet and got back on the forelock.)
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Somebody needs to read ‘Off The Ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s’ published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pick nine albums at random from your photo albums. Take a photo of them and say they are your nine favourite albums. Do this nine times. Post the nine photos in the Bluesky and say they are your favourites - Yoko Ono.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#nowplaying Romance by Oneida, on compact disc. 💿
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🙌
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wildhearts “special prog set” at ArcTanGent is alluring. (Endless, Nameless performed in full would be even more so.)
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Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Husker Du's "1985: The Miracle Year" dares to ask: is it possible for the best band ever with the worst sounding studio albums to sound even more like ass live? Turns out the answer is yes, and it rules
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this reflects badly on Paul. Buy my album on release. Help it get to No.1. Here it is again, a few months later, with extra content. Suckers.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Need to know what ‘energy’ he’s emitting in these photos @harrysword.bsky.social
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Enjoyed that email too.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Godspeed, Cronos. (Satanspeed, Cronos?) Your contribution will not be forgotten. 🤘⚡️🧙‍♂️
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Come on, people. Reel in this hyperbole. Gilla Band are in no way the new My Bloody Valentine. They’re the incurious man’s THANK. 🙊
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gillmeh Band. 🤷‍♂️
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brinyh♾️f @brinyhoof.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Portobello and Sebastian #mushroommusic
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Dean L @19drl66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We Are The Champignons…. #mushroommusic
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gang Of Spore #mushroommusic
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Praise Sabbath ⚡️ 🧙‍♂️ pitchfork.com/story/how-di...
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Dean @ordersson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
don't forget Carry On Threads
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Matthew Horton @matthewhorton.com · 29/09/2026
Yes, it's 30% off all 33 1/3 titles in the #BackToSchool sale until 4 Oct. An unmissable opportunity to build up a collection of Faiths to rival mine. @3313books.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/33...
Several copies of Matthew Horton's 33 1/3 book on George Michael's Faith, in a pile.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Carry On Camping Carry On Screaming Carry On Up the Khyber Carry On Carter Carry On Kes
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I miss the butcher!”
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“essays from some of the most respected music journalists in the world” . . . and a daft column by J.R. Moores. 🤷‍♂️ 😝
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boognish’s ongoing mission to bankrupt me… #WEEN #DemonGodIndeed
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Talk about a googly, ooh err… 🏏 🍃
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Acoustic guitar when the open-mic medley practitioner begins tapping on its body with the strum-hand fingers in an attempt to momentarily replicate the sound of percussion.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
John Cooper Clarke observer.co.uk/culture/inte...
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most spots should work out okay for me (I think???) as long as it’s not a secondhand copy or got some suspicious massive discount whacked on it. 🙏
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hence the chapter on them in my book ELECTRIC WIZARDS: ‘TAD - The Heaviest and Least Celebrated Grunge Band’ ⚡️ 🧙‍♂️ 📕 🎶 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/electri...
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
👀 👀 👀
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
apparently the Nathan Fielder / Elizabeth Holmes doc is so haunting they managed to get a pull quote from a dead critic
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are bigger things to be angry about but tech's pivot from "no more ads if you pay" to "fuck you, pay and get ads anyway — and by the way the ads are so much worse now" always feels outrageous
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Haha!
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Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If your Dad is a billionaire & you want to be an artist you have to do some Scott Walker shit. With a safety net that thick, it's a sin to half-ass it. You better be hiring an entire division of sumo wrestlers to slap their bellies as the percussion track on your next single.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Delighted to select ‘3pm Swamp Crotch’ in the sweepstake for The Quietus’ album of the year.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And here’s their latest session for us…
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Off the Ground | Reaktion Books
Paul McCartney’s 1990s was an era like no other, perhaps even the most significant decade of his entire career after the '60s. Following a shakier '80s, the decade would see McCartney re-emerge with greater energy, momentum and self-belief. JR Moores’s sympathetic but not uncritical new book explores McCartney’s ’90s, with its impressive studio and live […]
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You should anonymously send him a copy of my book just to wind him up again.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Big time.
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JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Electric Wizards | Reaktion Books
It began with The Beatles’ ‘Helter Skelter’. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pi...
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