Bandcamp Daily on “weirdo ceol.” It’s indicative of some kind of cultural cringe that the only artist mentioned in the article I’m familiar with is the one who is not from Ireland.
M. John Harrison knows that sometimes we just want to hear the hits.
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Les choses sont contre nous
“All Sankey’s things—the chipped Baby Belling on the draining board; the bits of unmatched blue and fawn carpet; the one-bar fire, the transistor radio, the stereo with its handful of dog-eared albums from the early Seventies—had a used but uncooperative look. He had assembled them, and while he was still alive his personality had held them together; now they were distancing themselves from one another again like objects in a second-hand shop.”
—Climbers, M. John Harrison