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BOC-related excitement.

Though we’re trying to do actual work, it’s very hard to concentrate knowing that somewhere, out there, there might be a new Boards of Canada album in the works, being pressed? Who knows. In a half-decade of absolute dystopian misery, it would be fitting now, wouldn’t it? It seems as relevant a time as any to write a ridiculously lengthy essay about Boards of Canada, which we might just do in the near future. In the meantime, here’s a bunch of vids, old and new, that we’ve been raking over for the last few days.

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5 Tewns Vol.21

Read Time: 3 mins

Greetings pobl, I was away last week — chilling out in the hills around Guimarães, exploring the castles and hillforts. It was pretty magical. I hope you didn’t miss me too much. I missed you. Anyway, I’m back now and ready to shout once more into the digital abyss about five bits of music I think you should listen to. This week’s journey takes us through Moment of Truth’s peak-time disco, Multicast’s acid-drenched dub, Crooked Mouth’s mantric folk, dreampop from Deary, and chugging Arabic techno from Simo Cell and Abdullah Miniawy.

Deary – Seadbird

It’s a tough ask to pick a favourite from Deary’s debut album, but I’ll take a punt. Working somewhere on the edges of dreampop and shoegaze, the music is otherworldly and, at times, unashamedly anthemic, as is the case with Seabird: guitars soaked in reverb, great drums, and beautiful, ethereal vocals. You can’t ask for more.

Crooked Mouth – Jaunas Mėnulis

Taken from Crooked Mouth’s excellent Cosmic Folklore album, released last month, this synth-washed Lithuanian folk number — which means ‘new moon’ — is chock-full of mantras and magic. It brings out the bruxo in me and is destined for my Beltane playlist. Pagans Rejoice!

Multicast – Violet Voyeur (In Dub)

Drawn from Multicast’s forthcoming Wired Spaces album — culled from a limited run of demo CDRs given away in 1995 and 1996 via the band’s Oblique Recordings imprint, now lovingly re-released as a gorgeous limited tape via Noir Age — this spaced-out, acid-inflected dub drift has been living rent-free in my head for a couple of days now. It sounds great in the day — I’m listening to it as I write this, staring out at the sun-kissed mountains in the distance — but it takes on a darker feel at night. Value for money; stick it on whenever you like!

Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy – The Dala Effect

This belter from Simo Cell and Abdullah Miniawy’s latest album has been doing the rounds in our house for the last week. A masterclass in atmosphere and restraint. The haunting vocals do most of the heavy lifting, with the music circulating around breathy filtered chants and slowed-down, percolator-esque techno. It’s another one for the Beltane pile!

Moment of Truth – Lovin’ You is Killin’ Me (Tom Moulton Mix)

Since hearing this megalithic disco banger on the Superovo show this week, it will not leave my head. It has everything: gorgeous vocals, Schubert-esque piano flourishes, heartbreak, and Tom Moulton’s genius sprinkled all over it. This one could raise the dead.

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Return II the Egg w/Superovo – 09/04/2026

Superovo soundsystem are back to cure your psychic ills with more funk for your trunk. Cosmic Joy from George Duke and Bobby Lyle, classic disco from Moment of Truth and Instant Funk, bookended with the raw sexual funk of Betty Davis and Funkadelic. Music for your mind and your body.

Tracklist

  1. Betty Davis – You Won’t See Me In The Morning
  2. Con Funk Shun – (Let Me Put) Love On Your Mind
  3. Bootsy’s Rubber Band – Physical Love
  4. Fuzzy Haskins – Tangerine Green
  5. George Duke – The Beginning
  6. Donald Byrd – Makin’ It
  7. Instant Funk – I Know Where You’re Comin’ From
  8. Moment of Truth – Lovin’ You Is Killin’ Me (Tom Moulton Mix)
  9. Instant Funk – Hup Two, Hup Two (Get In Line, Say Get In Time)
  10. Harvey Mason – Phantazia
  11. Bernard Wright – We’re Just the Band
  12. Bobby Lyle – I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
  13. Donald Byrd – You Are The World
  14. Funkadelic – Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
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The Velvet Underground Live ’69

Back off my holibobs, the sun’s shining, and the YouTube algorithm presented me with this beautiful clip of the Velvet Underground performing I’m Waitin’ for the Man. It’s a thing of great subcultural beauty and has cheered me right up! I hope it does you.

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5 Tewns Vol.20

5 tewns 27 march 2026

Read Time: 3 mins

"Oh, but he's back, He's the man behind the mask, and he's out of control" (Alice Cooper).

That’s right, kittens, another 7 Earth rotations and 5 tewns returns. It’s been another mad week, as usual. A week that’s seen tangerine fascists negotiating with themselves and more market corruption, in this massive Orwellian comic opera that is 2026. Anyway, the sun’s come out to play, so let’s enjoy whatever time we have with another top five.

µ-Ziq – Tango N’Vectif

Because I’m old and decrepit, I’ve been on a heavy nostalgia trip this week, complete with ranting to anyone who’ll listen about how everything modern is utter shit. Obviously, that’s not true. I’m just desperately trying to assert dominance as a response to my ever-weakening mind and body. That said, this is exceptional music. Paradinas was always a force to be reckoned with. I won’t bang on about things being too clean nowadays, but what a time to be alive, when an umami banger like this, corrupting sweetheart melodies with nasty drums, was the soundtrack to many a hazy eve. It still is to be fair.

Mecánica Clásica – Pulsación

Taken from the album Una Teoría Del Ritmo by Mecánica Clásica on Valencia’s Abstrakce Records, this wonderful nebulous krautdub journey has been on repeat at Fuzz HQ all week. The computerised melodies of Kraftwerk intermingle with the distant dub techno of Basic Channel. The whole album is fantastic, making it near impossible to pick a favourite. Just buy it!

DJ Marfox – Sem Fronteiras

This polyrhythmic bubbler comes from Lisboa Kuduro legend DJ Marfox’s seminal anthology of his earlier recordings. Offbeat adventures, lashings of percussion, weird intermittent noises, and Nintendo bass stabs. Sem Fronteiras (Without Borders) is Raw and unapologetic. Real dance music.

Pye Corner Audio – Cycle feat Andy Bell

Pye Corner Audio returns for the spring equinox with this aptly solar-centric shoegaze earworm, featuring none other than Ride’s Andy Bell. I love the way the reverb-soaked ambience winds itself around Pye Corner Audio’s more Krautrock-esque melodic stylings. The Sun’s out, the Marão mountains are looking stunning in the distance, and I’m sitting out with the dogs with this on the headphones. A timely bit of optimism, in these troubled times.

I Went to Walmart and They Were Out of 4% Milk – Spider Milk

I know nothing about this apart from that it’s top drawer kraut-infected post-rock music. Spider Milk is the opening track on this lactose-obsessed self-titled album, from I Went to Walmart, and They Were Out of 4% Milk, on Kitschy Spirit Records. Its mechanical drums, rolling bass, and long drawn-out sax/pad elements carry you away, until, as the machine speeds up, it spits you out and ejects you, kicking and screaming out into the cosmos. I’m off to get some milk!

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DOGIFY w/Dogpatrol 26/03/2026

Man’s best friend, Dogpatrol (Sneaker Social/777), beams in from the Mannheim dawg pound for a wild tour de force through his collection. Expect smoked-out classics, Deutsch-infused Latin pop, braindance, and lashings of bass. Bollocks to Spotify — let’s get dogified!

  1. Doshin the Giant OST – All Along The Bardo Island
  2. Roei Funcken – Brame Convix
  3. Moodorama – Impressions
  4. Persona 3 OST – Iwatodai Dorm
  5. Thievery Corporation – 2001 Spliff Odyssey
  6. Baby Mammoth – The Devil Lies
  7. Computerjockeys – Lupin Cool
  8. Tosca – Chocolate Elvis (Boozoo Bajou Dub)
  9. Masta Ace – Born To Roll
  10. Horsepower Productions – Kase Reprise
  11. Touch And Go – Mein Freund Harvey (Sugar Daddy)
  12. Wyhatt – Flora/Fauna (Noah´s Flipside Trudge)
  13. Automatisma – Ultra-Scape 4
  14. DMX Krew – Clean The Stylus (Ashley Break)
  15. Bochum Welt – Fortune Green
  16. Broke Brotherhood – Typical Girls
  17. Two Dogs In A House – Scream In The Night
  18. Trackman Lafonte & Bon Qui Qui – Believe In Something
  19. Joey Kendrick – Organic Matter Detected
  20. Mickey Pearce – Jersey
  21. Shamos – 737363
  22. Shinichi Atobe – SA Dub 7
  23. MAATH – Upside Down In The Blues
  24. Tapes – Aquarium Trousers
  25. Patricia – Waiting For Alexis
  26. Void Complet – Raw Shit
  27. Hype Williams – X-500
  28. Actress – Memory Haze (c 1)
  29. Chic Corea – Tones For Joan´s Bones
  30. Primus – Hail Santa
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5 Tewns Vol.19 _ Spring Equinox Edition

5 tewns 19 march 2026

Read Time: 3 mins

Another week in the blood-soaked hyperreal hellscape that is 2026. Another week of watching other people’s traumas unfold from the comfort of your timeline, between adverts for power hoses, nightclubs and hair plugs. Another week of cosmic guilt — of attempting to live a normal life with your own children, while other people’s children are being brutally murdered far away, broadcast direct to your phone. Write to your MP. Protest. Support a charity. It’s Spring Equinox today, Alban Eilir. Time for change. We all have agency. Do whatever you can.

Here are some tunes.

Golden Fields Laboratory – Pollinate

I stumbled upon Pollinate by Australia’s Golden Fields Laboratory by accident — I was actually looking for Golden Shields. The universe wants what it wants, I suppose, and I’m overjoyed that she delivered this. I can lose myself entirely in Pollinate’s playful arpeggios and long modulated drones. I wish the world sounded like this all the time. The birds outside the window seem keen as well.

Low End Activist – Atomic Clock feat Jammz

Blackbird Leys bass alchemist, Low End Activist, returns with more shattered industrial grime. Murky PlayStation ambience, intermittent glitches and heavy subs clash under Hackney legend Jammz’s vocals: “The more time I spend chasing money to buy me more time, the more it consumes.” An ode to modern living.

Onyon – Pferdchen, Bis Bald

Irreverent post-punk from Leipzig band Onyon’s latest album, Pale Horses. With keyboard flourishes that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Devo or B52s record and nonchalant vocals about a little horse, this has fixed many a miserable afternoon for me this week, and my youngest likes it too.

Dagmar Zuniga – Even God Gets Stuck In Devotion feat Austyn Wohlers

The weather is ever-changing, and so is my mood. Life is complicated, and the world sucks in a big way right now. I find that when life is grinding, it helps to have pure, honest music (usually country) and some nice mountains to look at. So, I’ve been listening to this beautiful hymn from Dagmar Zuniga and watching the clouds roll over Serra do Marão.

Billy Fuller – Three Blind Mice

As a huge fan of Beak>, I can’t overstate how excited I am for Billy Fuller’s upcoming solo album Fragments. This week saw the release of “Three Blind Mice” — a sprawling kosmisch grind with an ominous fugue on the synth that has been haunting my tiny bumpkin brain all week. The release is accompanied by an excellent video by Echo Panda, which you can see here.

Until Next Week! x

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Billy Fuller – Three Blind Mice

Fantastic new fugue-like business from Billy Fuller of Beak>. Taken from his forthcoming solo album on Invada Records. And an exceptional video from Echo Panda to go alongside it. Can’t ask for more, really.

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Yearning W/TR One 19/03/2026

The first in a special selection of haunted home listening and reverb-soaked smalltown gothism from Carlow’s finest TR One. Featuring music from The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Soft Vein, Tropic of Cancer and of course Phil Lynott.

  1. Phil Lynott – One Wish Feat Huey Lewis
  2. The Cure – Endsong (Orbital Mix)
  3. Tropic Of Cancer – Plant Lilies At My Head (Alternate Version)
  4. Tropic Of Cancer – When The Dog Bites
  5. Chris Spheeris & Paul Voudouris – Mosaic
  6. MJ Guider – Green Plastic 
  7. Ex Vivian – Slamming Doors 
  8. Tropic Of Cancer – Stop Suffering
  9. MJ Guider – Prima
  10. Mel Keane – Psygod
  11. Jose Gonzalez – Far Away
  12. Trentemøller – A Different Light
  13. Soft Vein – Falling (Twin Tribes Remix)
  14. The KVB – In Deep
  15. Parade Ground – Gold Rush 
  16. Q Lazzarus – Goodbye Horses
  17. Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
  18. Hangwire – Wither
  19. The Cure – A Forest
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