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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · 8d

I reviewed the new Rochelle Jordan

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 10d

'This is unabashedly retro-stuff, cut from the same silken cloth as Timbaland and Noah Shebib. But that’s no bad thing. Rochelle makes the sound her own, effortlessly. Some music is just cool, plain and simple.'

#RochelleJordan - Through The Wall

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Rochelle Jordan - Through The Wall album cover. Close up of the artist's face in black and white.

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 12d

The path forward begins in the workplace. We must advocate for a society built around collective strength, industrial cooperation, and democratic control. Read Eddie Dempsey on unions.

Reversing the Decline of Union Power

Neoliberalism and postmodernism have torn apart the social fabric that once held us together. But in rebuilding the strength of labour and the organised society, we can be unified, empowered, and…

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29d

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 29

Tom if you wanted to keep this dev hynes energy going then I think I may have the book for you… (you’re in it too actually) bsky.app/profile/whit...

White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is the perfect book for our first announcement on here; a brilliant new talent in Liam Inscoe-Jones, with SONGS IN THE KEY OF MP3 - an innovative exploration of the last 10 years of music via 5 artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the industry at large geni.us/songsintheke...

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wrote some words about the new Blood Orange album for The Quietus

The Quietus @thequietus.com · Aug 29

'Devonté Hynes returns to England with a jolt on the first new Blood Orange LP for 6 years. Essex Honey isn’t about England, it’s about the mourning Hynes experienced there. If there’s anything more complicated than country, it’s that.'

Blood Orange - Essex Honey

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Blood Orange - Essex Honey album cover. A schoolboy in uniform carrying a ball, which is orange, like the bricks on the wall he is walking past.

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

my book gets a lil mention in this new review of the new blood orange album theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...

Album: Blood Orange - Essex Honey

The more time goes by, the more it seems like Dev Hynes might be the antidote to what Guy Debord called “the society of the spectacle”. As is documented in the fantastic recent book Songs in the Key o...

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yeah, the downturn is crazy. The situation with music journalism/writing is, as I’m sure you’d expect, even more dire…

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

PS, where can we find the Simz interview Joe?

Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

access to time and resources has always impacted the actual aesthetic of music which can either be utilised as part of an anti-establishment sentiment (Nicolas Jaar, Open Mike Eagle) or, from the critic/writer’s POV, can also still be picked at to uncover shifting material and cultural conditions…

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

thanks Peter, I didn’t mean to turn this into self promotion haha, but I simply spent 2 years trying to articulate these ideas better than I ever could in a quick-fire reply. If you do read, I hope you enjoy!

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

yes exactly! a moral litmus test indeed

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

there is also coherent scenes based around explorative, counter-cultural music which young music fans are very much tapped into, the scene around Backwoodz Records in NYC for example is just one. This music is critically acclaimed for a devoted following

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Gabe 'Nandez & Preservation "War" featuring billy woods

YouTube video by backwoodz studioz

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

over the 2010s there was a great deal of counter-cultural art of which - as Joe says - I cover in my book in detail, and I would argue tended to be more substantive than the outwardly “political” bands of say the early 90s as the counter-cultural efforts were embedded rather than simply declarative

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 28

I agree with Joe (thanks for the shout out as ever!), Gaza especially is a nexus for counterculture because, with the state-led crackdown on free speech, any art which is oppositional to the genocide is automatically counter-cultural. The upswell of untied voices on that front has been accelerating

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · Aug 28

3) I keep hammering on about Liam's book, but with good reason. It embodies new ways of tracing the nature of artists' influence and position in the ecosystem, suited to the more fluid 21st century. To this conversation, it points out how real subcultures - skate, dancing, sex work - feed in.

Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Jun 5

Flattered to have some very kind words appear about my book in issue 497 of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

@joemuggs.bsky.social thank you 🙏

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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sorry not sorry to link to my own review, but Liam's book really crystallised a lot of this for me recently.

Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Jun 5

Flattered to have some very kind words appear about my book in issue 497 of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

@joemuggs.bsky.social thank you 🙏

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 16

I remember in 2013 when I started making lists I struggled to fill a list of 50, now i’m past a list of 100 albums I liked this year and it’s august, perpetually astounded by the quality and quality of new music in the atmosphere

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 15

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

After Retromania

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 15

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

After Retromania

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the...

tribunemag.co.uk

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m in this! Spoke to Chal Ravens about newness in music 15 years on from Retromania, AirPods, the new Niontay album and other things, I’m really proud of how it came out

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week.

Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 8

he used to be part of Divine Council! that album is amazing, check out his new one from this year too, just as good, his voice is made for it

Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 8

agreed, MIKE hasn’t dropped the ball once since 2016 and this is a joy to see. In the back of my book I list ten essential listens from each year and ‘Burning Desire’ is there but I’d go further, that’s easily one of the best albums of the decade so far

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 7

glad you’re enjoying! 🫡

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fresh prince of rain, bad boy flame @boringangel.bsky.social · Aug 7

this 1 by @liaminscoejones.bsky.social

cover of the book "songs in the key of mp3: the new icons of the internet age" by liam inscoe-jones

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 7

the way time and writing works is amazing, you can spend hours working on something and become convinced it’s the best it can possible be, leave it for two weeks, come back and it’s immediately apparent how to make things 10x better, it’s sick