If you'd asked me six years ago if I thought I'd be excited for a new Boards of Canada album, I'd have laughed in your face.

Live the zone.

Sonic Youth - "The Diamond Sea" (LP version/alt.end) from musicUPloads on Vimeo.

So long and winding that sometimes you don't want to even find your way back out; it's just a blessing to linger there, to bask in it.

Just a casual reminder that Assembling The Lord and Crucial Sprawl are still available from twentythreebooks.

My first piece for Rhapsody, on Bradford Cox.

New Poetry ebook: "Def Child At Play"

Dedicated to Alecia. Download it cheap here.

Triple Threat: Pissed Jeans, Jon Hopkins, Speak Onion.