J Simpson
@forestpunk.bsky.social
J Simpson is a prolific academic writer, journalist, creative and critic, specializing in "dark," experimental, and avant-garde art, idealistically believing that good art makes the world a better place. https://linktr.ee/for3stpunk
🎧 Album of the Day 395 Sigha - Living With Ghosts (Hotflush) i find the back and forth between catchy, melodic electronic music and stripped-down minimalism so fascinating. Feels like a comedown from the brawny, twompy Bassnectar monsterstep years. open.spotify.com/album/32C0dp... #albumoftheday
Living With Ghosts - Album by Sigha | Spotify
Sigha · album · 2012 · 12 songs
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Death's Symbolic outranks GZA's Liquid Swords on the '95 chart? rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/a... #chartattack
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🎧 Album of the Day 394 Lafawndah - The Fifth Season (Latency Recordings) Artful airy ambient pop soundtracking N.K. Jemison's epic scifi allegory about race & climate collapse, The Fifth Season. Discovered via @forcedexposure.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/album/6rBUhv... #albumoftheday #musicsky
The Fifth Season - Album by Lafawndah | Spotify
Lafawndah · album · 2020 · 6 songs
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It's all about priorities. The tech bros gave politicians a lot of money.
i fail to see how $750,000 prefab homes are going to put a dent in the housing crisis. via @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91484328/ame...
The row house is back to solve the housing crisis
The American Housing Corp. is turning the classic row house into a factory-built kit of parts. Its goal? Faster, cheaper construction in the most expensive cities.
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🎧 Album of the Day 393 Nelson of the East - Kybele (Tartelet) Bubbling, burbling proto-vaporwave for imaginary landscapes, Kybele is a Berlin School out-of-body experience over turquoise waters and fog-shrouded sundials. open.spotify.com/album/5kZ7u8... #albumoftheday #musicsky #hauntology
Kybele - Album by Nelson of the East | Spotify
Nelson of the East · album · 2020 · 11 songs
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No, YOU'RE thinking about adding the new Ariana Grande record to a best electronic music of july 2026 playlist!
Since game development is trending, it's a prime time to mention ACharacterQuiz.com, a super fun project I've been working on with one of my colleagues, is now live!
A Character Quiz
Pick your world. Answer honestly. Meet your match.
acharacterquiz.com
🎧 Album of the Day 392 Roscoe Mitchell Sextet - Sound (1967) Fascinating free jazz record from one of the founders of the AACM, featuring scorching Coltranesque fire jazz, furious Albert Ayler skronk and itchy, scratchy Sun Ra electroacoustics. open.spotify.com/album/2PWrWz... #albumoftheday
Roscoe Mitchell Sextet - Sound - Album by Roscoe Mitchell | Spotify
Roscoe Mitchell · album · 2018 · 5 songs
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Book Discussions Anton Jager's Hyperpolitics on @versobooks.bsky.social is a fascinating look at how we went from the super-engaged early 20th Century through the apolitical 90s to the hyperpolitical defeatism of the 2010s. Full review at The Chicago Commons: thechicagocommons.com/2026/07/14/w...
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.
Now that i think more about it, the terms solarpunk and hopepunk might be slightly off the mark, as the -punk suffix in cyberpunk indicated a gritty, dystopian pessimism, among other things.
Naming an amusement park White City in Chicago was certainly a choice.
But seriously, though, why do the Scottish seem to be so into Pop Music?
🎧 Album of the Day 391 Love Is Yes - Ghost and More Ghosts 13 tracks of haunting, ghostly ambient pop/folk. RIYL sodium-vapor lights, typos. loveisyes.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-... #albumoftheday #musicsky #ghosts
Ghost and More Ghosts, by Love Is Yes
13 track album
loveisyes.bandcamp.com
This hardcover version is the copy I read. If u doubt the value of public libraries or school boards, consider that no one assigned me the book or pointed me to it as a “must-read.” Catcher in the Rye, like Franny & Zooey, came to me — just as Catch-22 & Great Expectations did — in a school library.
J Simpson@forestpunk.bsky.social · 3w agoIn honor of its 75th Anniversary, I wrote about The Catcher in the Rye for @chicagocommons.bsky.social. thechicagocommons.com/2026/07/15/a...
In honor of its 75th Anniversary, I wrote about The Catcher in the Rye for @chicagocommons.bsky.social. thechicagocommons.com/2026/07/15/a...
If you hate AI and/or love horror as much as I do, then I can’t recommend this bad boy enough. Another Paul Tremblay banger.
Cackling at Evelyn Waugh referring to Proust as "a mental defective."