2024 Albums of the Year #10: Yard Act, Where's My Utopia?
Yard Act are a post-punk band from Leeds. “Where’s My Utopia?” is their second album. I first encountered Yard Act in a …
The Orphan Project
A nice feature I added to this blog in its recent update was a tags page. With the help of this very useful discourse thread and some …
Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
A hardback book called “The Satsuma Complex” is all that remains of a mysterious young lady that young lawyer Gary is chatting …
The new look mattischrome
Welcome to the new look for my blog. I’ve had my eye on a more minimal look for a while now. Whether this new look is successful or …
Sofa So Good
Once upon a time, a cat named Nerys ripped into the bottom of our sofa to make herself a cozy burrow. This was all well and good, except for …
The Negativity Casket
One of the things that people tend to start around this time of year is a diary. They usually get filled for as long as your new …
Unindexed?
There was an excellent article on The Verge yesterday about how Google is transforming the kinds of sites and blogs that are on the …
Maara, The Ancient Truth (on vinyl)
When I wrote about Maara’s “The Ancient Truth” over Christmas as part of my albums of the year rundown, I mentioned at the …
Agents of Chaos (2024 edition)
The cats broke their new resolution not to knock stuff over in my office. Oh, who am I kidding? They never had such a resolution! If you can …
Some Git Instructions for Future Matt
Dear Future Matt,
Reflections on 2023
Here are some reflections on 2023.
2023 Albums: Honourable Mentions
A quick list of ten other albums I considered to be among the best of last year. I either listened to these less, or in the cases of …