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Letter 20 - Chicken Soul for the Soup
Various -soul music prefixes
Apr 29
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Letter 19 - Ambient Temperature, Ambient Owls & the Ambient Goat
Hi, Life has been fairly hectic recently, so this letter is a little shorter than usual.
Apr 7
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Letter 19 - Ambient Temperature, Ambient Owls & the Ambient Goat
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March 2025
Letter 18 - Literary Singer-Songwriters
Hi, When listening to a song for the fist time, I generally don’t fully process its lyrics as words.
Mar 18
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Letter 17 - Nightclub Bathroom Electro-Pop
Hi, This week I recommend four pop albums released this year that are (mostly) so influenced by dance music, clubbing and raving, you’d think they were…
Mar 3
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February 2025
Letter 16 - Double Feature: Partners in Crime
Hi, This is the first of a new series of newsletters where I’ll recommend a few films that work well when watched as a pair.
Feb 23
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Letter 15 - Funk So Nice, They Fused It Thrice
Afro-Cumbia, Neapolitan and old-school funk & soul.
Feb 14
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Letter 14 - What David Lynch Taught Me About Art & A Beginner's Guide To His Filmography
Hi, It’s hard to articulate how much David Lynch, a man I did not know and had never met, meant to me, and no other celebrity or cultural figure’s death…
Feb 5
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Letter 14 - What David Lynch Taught Me About Art & A Beginner's Guide To His Filmography
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January 2025
Letter 13 - Irish Hip-hop: Rise of the Irish Hash Mafia (2024)
Curtisy, Sloucho, Lil Skag, Ahmed, With Love. & the Rory Sweeney Extended Universe
Jan 22
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Letter 13 - Irish Hip-hop: Rise of the Irish Hash Mafia (2024)
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Letter 12 - Irish Hip-hop: A Rocky Road (1990 - 2023)
A brief introduction and discussion of some landmark records in the genre.
Jan 17
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Letter 11 - Mission Statement
Virtuous curation, algorithmic playlists and independent radio.
Jan 10
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December 2024
Letter 10 - Top 25 films of 2024
Hi, Following up on my top 50 albums and songs of 2024, I’ve picked my top 25 films from 2024.
Dec 30, 2024
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Letter 9 - Favourite Albums and Songs of 2024
Hi, Generally I’m not massively in to ranking music, not least because my opinion of a record’s quality can so easily shift over time.
Dec 23, 2024
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