Pete G
@dogrando.bsky.social
There's a write-up of all this, with burbling about long-lists and links to blog posts, here: dogrando.net/2025/12/30/m....
My albums of 2025
Hello. I’m actually getting my albums of the year written the correct year for once. Woohoo. For the first time in ages, there’s no straight-up ambient, drone, or modern classical in th…
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December 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There's a write-up of all this, with burbling about long-lists and links to blog posts, here: dogrando.net/2025/12/30/m....
Oh, and a bonus track-of-the-year-from-an-album-which-did-not-make-the-cut goes to Loco Dice's Ice Cold Dealer.
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Ice Cold Dealer
From early breakout hit
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December 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Oh, and a bonus track-of-the-year-from-an-album-which-did-not-make-the-cut goes to Loco Dice's Ice Cold Dealer.
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...and Loradeniz's SUN SHONE.
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SUN SHONE, by Loradeniz
8 track album
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December 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
...and Loradeniz's SUN SHONE.
music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/sun-sh...
music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/sun-sh...
...Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko’s Гільдеґарда (Hildegard)...
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Гільдеґарда (Hildegard), by Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko
3 track album
heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
...Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko’s Гільдеґарда (Hildegard)...
heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildeg...
heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildeg...
...Djrum's Under Tangled Sky...
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Under Tangled Silence, by Djrum
11 track album
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December 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
...Djrum's Under Tangled Sky...
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...Charlotte de Witte's self-titled rekkid...
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Charlotte de Witte, by Charlotte de Witte
11 track album
charlottedewittemusic.bandcamp.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
...Charlotte de Witte's self-titled rekkid...
charlottedewittemusic.bandcamp.com/album/charlo...
charlottedewittemusic.bandcamp.com/album/charlo...
I remember as an undergrad having my forearms eyed up by a medical student friend who'd been learning about needle type stuff and had an appreciation for my prominent veins. It was a little unsettling.
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I remember as an undergrad having my forearms eyed up by a medical student friend who'd been learning about needle type stuff and had an appreciation for my prominent veins. It was a little unsettling.
I don't remember exactly, but I feel the butter went in after resting it. You wouldn't want it to unmelt, right?
December 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I don't remember exactly, but I feel the butter went in after resting it. You wouldn't want it to unmelt, right?
I was taught to do this as a small, which means my mother did it and probably my grandmother. Reading around it seems that it's for flavour? F Cloake discusses it and decides against. She says resting does make a difference though. www.theguardian.com/food/2020/fe...
How to cook the perfect pancake
Does butter make a better batter, what’s the most ripping topping? Top tips for the perfect pancake recipe
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December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I was taught to do this as a small, which means my mother did it and probably my grandmother. Reading around it seems that it's for flavour? F Cloake discusses it and decides against. She says resting does make a difference though. www.theguardian.com/food/2020/fe...
Surely one simply heats a poker in one's open fire and plunges that into one's tankard of claret?
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Surely one simply heats a poker in one's open fire and plunges that into one's tankard of claret?
Hard concur. If I listen to it on streaming, I always make sure to remove it from the queue when I start it.
October 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Hard concur. If I listen to it on streaming, I always make sure to remove it from the queue when I start it.
Cold brew concentrate is a thing, but it would normally be labelled as such. Maybe this is trying to jump on that wagon though?
October 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Cold brew concentrate is a thing, but it would normally be labelled as such. Maybe this is trying to jump on that wagon though?
But "en France", because why not.
June 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
But "en France", because why not.
It's "à Paris", if that was a genuine question.
June 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's "à Paris", if that was a genuine question.
The last hold-outs for me were in the NE too...
May 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The last hold-outs for me were in the NE too...
Oh, okay, the app made it look like your post was from yesterday, sorry! Hopefully I didn't spoiler anything...
May 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh, okay, the app made it look like your post was from yesterday, sorry! Hopefully I didn't spoiler anything...
I suffered from not knowing that 23 or 8 were associated with 5, and only half remembering that 22 was. Despite having family connections with the place. (The right hand side took me about three times as long as the left. It didn't help that the two halves were barely connected.)
May 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I suffered from not knowing that 23 or 8 were associated with 5, and only half remembering that 22 was. Despite having family connections with the place. (The right hand side took me about three times as long as the left. It didn't help that the two halves were barely connected.)
I think the first time Cohen officially released those three himself was on Cohen Live, and I don't think it's a coincidence that that came out the same year as Buckley's Grace, which brought the song to a much wider audience.
April 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I think the first time Cohen officially released those three himself was on Cohen Live, and I don't think it's a coincidence that that came out the same year as Buckley's Grace, which brought the song to a much wider audience.
Quite. I assume *you* know the story that Cale heard the VP version and wrote to Cohen to ask if he could cover it, and Cohen replied saying "sure, and here's a big pile more verses I have hanging around", which is where the three new ones come from. I don't think the rest ever saw the light of say.
April 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Quite. I assume *you* know the story that Cale heard the VP version and wrote to Cohen to ask if he could cover it, and Cohen replied saying "sure, and here's a big pile more verses I have hanging around", which is where the three new ones come from. I don't think the rest ever saw the light of say.
(I got muddled because Cohen ends one of the two with cold-and-lonely instead. Though he is not consistent about which way around they go, further adding to the confusion...)
April 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
(I got muddled because Cohen ends one of the two with cold-and-lonely instead. Though he is not consistent about which way around they go, further adding to the confusion...)
I don't have a huge problem with Cale's choices. But Burke only sings 3/5 of it, and ends in a weird place.
The unhelpful ambiguity in my earlier post is because Cale ends verses 3 and 5 with cold-and-broken. So Cale and Burke both end with that line, just in different verses.
The unhelpful ambiguity in my earlier post is because Cale ends verses 3 and 5 with cold-and-broken. So Cale and Burke both end with that line, just in different verses.
April 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't have a huge problem with Cale's choices. But Burke only sings 3/5 of it, and ends in a weird place.
The unhelpful ambiguity in my earlier post is because Cale ends verses 3 and 5 with cold-and-broken. So Cale and Burke both end with that line, just in different verses.
The unhelpful ambiguity in my earlier post is because Cale ends verses 3 and 5 with cold-and-broken. So Cale and Burke both end with that line, just in different verses.