I run a newsletter where I directly email people my art whenever there's enough new stuff to show off. Back in the day I used to append a little blog / link sharing section at the end of each letter but now that I have this section of my website, I think I'll keep those kinds of posts here. Anyway, here's some stuff I've been into over the last while.
A City Drowned in God's Black Tears by Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives. Unless something crazy happens in the next few months, this is unequivocally my favorite album of 2025. The seemless transitions between hip hop, doom metal, Russian language pop and Elephant 6 style folk is somthing I've never heard before. I can't start this album without listening all the way to the end.
"Bodies keep piling the fuck up, America and Israel just get richer"
Far Hills by Faoileán. Enchanting New Jersey-made Irish folk music. My buddy and I saw the guitarist live at a bar in New Hope, PA over the winter and I was moved to tears. Now listen: I don't go in for the 'heritage' stuff that so many white Americans base their personalities around. I'm from New Jersey, my parents are from New Jersey, my grandparents are from New Jersey. I don't have any connection to an island on the other side of the Atlantic. Nonetheless, I have warm memories from my childhood of my mom playing Irish folk music CDs on the stereo. Hearing Far Hills brought me back to those days. Anyway, listen to "Martinmastime" and let the rest of the record transport you to a different world.
Tomorrow We Escape by Ho99o9. Industrial punk rap, innovative and abrasive from start to finish. I gotta see these guys live.
group:xex by xex. Eerie, catchy, synthetic sounds that were practically lost media for several decades. Hard to describe- listening gives me simultaneous impressions of Mystery Science Theater, early Talking Heads when people were calling them punk, and 80s pulp horror novels.
Crash Brackets by Autoflag and Adventsong. Noisy, pounding electronic beats from the UK.
THE OCTOPUS: Music and atmospheres from the sea floors. Ghost Stories for the End of the World became my all-time favorite podcast this year and the soundtrack has gotten me into electronic music for the first time in any meaningful way.
"On Bourgeois Social Engineering at the End of Neoliberal Globalization"- Traces the different threads of post-war American eugenics movements to the present day. Essential for understanding how Pro-Natlists and Quiverfulls function as two heads of the same beast.
"Remote Viewing as Intelligence Laundering" by Tanner F Boyle. An exploration of the practical reasons why intelligence agencies might want to bankroll psychic research programs.
I've been reading East of Eden and Vladislav Zubok's Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union on and off for months now. I was making good progress over the summer but work got busy and I haven't got back to either in a bit. Will report back when I'm done, but I'm loving both so far.
Check out my buddy Ollie's cool Fakemon project
