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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 2d

'It warns of an impending future, of the age of automation gone horribly wrong. When humans are deemed superfluous, tossed aside, and our new mechanical overlords party all night long to artificially intelligent dance music...'

SickElixir by #Blawan is tQ's Album of the Week

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SickElixir by Blawan album cover. A closely knit group of pigeons with coloured feathers.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 1d

Colour me green with envy. I'm sure you'll have a ball!

Richard Ashcroft – Lovin’ You | The Quietus

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 2d

Blawan's got a cracking new record out so naturally I used up the word count harping on about Armand Van Helden, robotics, Transformers, AI, and maggots.

Album of the Week action for @thequietus.com

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic word work from @spinal-bap.bsky.social here, on Richard Ashcroft's latest complete-lack-of-effort

"You’d think someone who is a million different people from one day to the next would have more than a couple of ideas in that busy noggin of his."

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The Verve singer returns, but he's treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 9d

Huge billowing soundscapes formed with delicate poise by @k-lc.bsky.social at the ICA last night.

Very much looking forward to her third(!) album of the year.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

And last, but not least, Mr @muterecords.bsky.social himself - Daniel Miller - on the modulars.

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

Sadly Mieko Shimizu couldn't make it but a couple of her new tracks were played with Violet Savage's flowing movements as accompaniment.

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

Dhangsha in crushing form over at All is Joy.

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

Harmonious shaver-wrangled drones courtesy of @monsterbobby.bsky.social

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 12d

Cracking evening at Soho Electronic on Saturday.

It sounded like there were some dazzling performances earlier in the day but it began for me with Noise Warfare at Farsight Gallery.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 15d

If you want to read about my wife's childhood aspirations, the League of Gentlemen, Shooting Stars, and Human Leather's weirdly beautiful form of mayhem, you'll click that link below.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 17d

Amée Chanter and Thomas Close still sound like Lightning Bolt crossed with Electric Wizard but with a surprising new knack for melody, finds Jon Buckland

Human Leather - Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body

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Human Leather - Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body album cover. An over exposed photograph of someone pushing a shopping cart past a shop entrance.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 16d

Now we don't use X and are only active here (plus struggling upstream agains the algorithms on Instagram and Meta), the best way to keep up-to-date with tQ is via our newsletters: The Digest (a breakdown of the last week) and The Portal (our weekly archive dive). Sign up:

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Human Leather – Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body | The Quietus

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17d

"the autism problem"
"the migration problem"
"the trans problem"

Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 17d

Hand-modelling, Crème Brulé, stolen land, and snare pummelling.

Sounds like Human Leather have a new album out!

Here's my review for @thequietus.com

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Amée Chanter and Thomas Close still sound like Lightning Bolt crossed with Electric Wizard but with a surprising new knack for melody, finds Jon Buckland

Machines of Loving Grace w/ Penelope Trappes 19th September 2025

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 22d

Accompanied by pals Elvin Brandhi, Phew, Justin K Broadrick, Karl D’Silva, and Karl O’Connor, the latest from Alexander Tucker merges the digital with the tangible, the futuristic with the ancient, ritual with freedom

#Microcorps - Clear Vortex Chamber

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Microcorps - Clear Vortex Chamber album cover. Illustration of an alien head being held my three line-drawn hands with a blurred black and white photograph in the background.

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 21d

Penelope Trappes (@penelopetrappes.bsky.social) AND Midwife?

What a delightful combination!

Agnes Haus @agneshaus.bsky.social · 22d

10 pm tonight on @penelopetrappes.bsky.social birthday - www.nts.live/shows/midwif...

A guest mix by Penelope Trappes. Website

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 22d

That @alexandertucker.bsky.social has a new record out under his Microcorps moniker. It's a doozy.

Here's my review for @thequietus.com

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Microcorps – Clear Vortex Chamber | The Quietus

Accompanied by pals Elvin Brandhi, Phew, Justin K Broadrick, Karl D’Silva, and Karl O’Connor, the latest from Alexander Tucker merges the digital with the tangible, the futuristic with the ancient, ri...

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Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 27d

9/9
I can only imagine what it was like living with and creating this work, day in and day out, wading through the transparent obfuscations and weak explanations. Perhaps the hope that this will serve as a paradigm shift was enough to drive Rachel on.

Whatever the impetus, this is mandatory reading

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 27d

8/9

how slight the condemnation has been. It grapples expertly with the various supposedly seductive elements of power, style, sexuality, rebellion, and control, and punctures the flimsy excuses easily...

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 27d

7/9

on a civilian population. The same level of diligence regarding circumstance is not applied in this instance as when discussing the Third Reich flirtations of deified rock stars.

Reading everything lined up together certainly reinforces how widespread these traits were, are, and, conversely...

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 27d

6/9

But anti-Israeli government protests (which are much more widespread than Bob Vylan’s briefly mentioned Glastonbury performance) are presented context-free, as if they are unprovoked, anti-Semitic attacks, not responses to a regime of indiscriminate carpet bombing and inflicted starvation...

Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social · 27d

5/9

There are, however, questions to be raised about the author’s representation of Palestine. To some degree I can understand his approach, having filled pages and pages with historical accounts of brutality inflicted upon Jewish populations...