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It’s cherry blossom season in St Andrews.

Cherry blossoms cover a car park, with cherry blossom trees in the background.
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On the Swiftiverse and the Limits of Popular Music as Franchise

This is a great piece by Sinéad O’Sullivan at The New Yorker. O’Sullivan gives name to the phenomenon that has, for me, begun to remove some of the shine from Taylor’s work over the course of the last few years: her records have increasingly come to feel less and less like “albums”, and more like entries in what O’Sullivan calls “a musical franchise”.

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Team Sleep - Ever (Foreign Flag)

This song is still, nearly 20 years on, one hell of a vibe and Chino Moreno is a hell of a singer.

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So, All Born Screaming is fantastic. Front to back, my favorite thing Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) has ever done. Echoes of Nine Inch Nail, Talking Heads, & David Bowie are all here, but this record sounds like nothing more than Clark at her most creatively liberated. Highly Recommended!🎵

Album cover of St. Vincent - _All Born Screaming_. Annie Clark, contorted, arms on fire.
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Watched First Reformed with Anna. Her first viewing, my second. Such a powerful film. Having just watched Diary of a Country Priest the night before really changed my viewing of it this time around.

Poster for the film "First Reformed"
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🎵Listening to different versions of “Wayfaring Stranger” while I cook dinner. I think this one by Rhiannon Giddens is probably my favorite, but I’m a fan of the grittiness of this one as well, from the soundtrack of The Last Of Us II. Do you know the song? Have a favorite version?

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Well, this could be a bit of a time suck… 😬

Tetris, on the Delta app
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I was first introduced to John O’Donohue years ago by my friend David, via this amazing interview by Krista Tippett for On Being. I finally picked up the book that made him such a beloved voice for so many a couple of weeks ago and I’m really enjoying it at the moment. 📚#worldbookday

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Had the opportunity to visit the exhibition of Nick Cave’s The Devil — A Life at the Xavier Hufkens Gallery (St-Georges) in Brussels just over a week ago. I found it beautiful, and surprisingly moving. - 🎨

Ceramic figurine of small boy with horns touching a fiery, orange and gold orb with title “Devil Inherits The World”Benjamin Holsteen, reflected in the glass window of Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. The window advertises the exhibition of Nick Cave’s _The Devil — A Life_ on display from 5 April - 11 May.