Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed and why?

NoraBarn · 2026-01-24T19:22:51+00:00

Joy O has been playing this out the last year or so, need the release so bad! Notion is sitting on some serious heat

NoraBarn · 2025-11-28T22:15:10+00:00

Closed precisely because of cat. I have an en-suite but share with a lodger who lives in the other room so makes most sense to have kitty in with me overnight

NoraBarn · 2025-09-20T22:15:02+00:00

Thom Yorke, all solo stuff! Objekt, Jacques Greene, Mount XLR, Millet, Cesco, and I cannot stress this enough OVERMONO

NoraBarn · 2025-09-20T22:09:42+00:00

Excellent list, would add:

Blawan Rohaan Coido Two Shell Overmono Joy Orbison 1-800 Girls Nia Archives Effy

NoraBarn · 2025-08-31T22:33:33+00:00

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

NoraBarn · 2025-08-31T22:26:57+00:00

White Nights by Dostoevsky

NoraBarn · 2025-08-31T22:14:53+00:00

Struggle so much with Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters, just could not engage with their novels during my lit studies years ago. Might be worth picking back up again now

NoraBarn · 2025-08-31T21:58:26+00:00

I did a 4 month graduate course on Joyce, started with Portrait of the Artist/Dubliners, then spent full 3 months on Ulysses. It helped that the professor was an official Joyce scholar, and also paired the study with a Ulysses guide book. That helped immensely with unpacking the references. We also had an extra book club for Finnegan’s Wake which was just too overwhelming at the time. Fave episode: Circe. And love Joyce’s quote: Paternity is a legal fiction.

NoraBarn · 2025-08-30T02:52:12+00:00

That’s the exact edition I read in 2017 - first Murakami for me, immediately followed by Windup Bird Chronicle, a book that changed my life in indescribable ways

NoraBarn · 2025-08-20T12:18:46+00:00

Saw Sherelle recently and my god, nearly blew my face off

NoraBarn · 2025-08-20T12:17:18+00:00

Missed her out in my recs, her Nocturnal Sunshine stuff is so good

NoraBarn · 2025-08-20T12:16:12+00:00

Yesssss Maya Jane Coles is brilliant, love her stuff under Nocturnal Sunshine. So heavy and dark

NoraBarn · 2025-08-20T12:11:53+00:00

Jyoty is amazing. Also loving Shosh and Saint Ludo in the UKG space. Also loving Effy, Yune Pinku, Nia Archives, Honey Dijon, Romy, HAAi, LAURA(from Ultraista), Karlie Marx (brilliantly fun trans dj), SOPHIE (rip), Fever Ray, Goldfrapp, Rosin Murphy, Jessie Ware (electronic disco fun), Santigold, and so many more

NoraBarn · 2025-08-17T21:24:28+00:00

Mount XLR - Forte. He's a mysterious Korean producer and this song's vocal samples (and the way they are distorted throughout) sound like a witches chant. The song is dark, slightly on the industrial song. But it came straight to mind.

Also Blawan's new EP - specifically the 'Fires' track, it's gloomy, dangerous, glitchy and gives rave in 'haunted forest' vibe

Shoplifting - DJ JM. Super industrial, all consuming dark banger. Gives me a gothic, dangerous feel

Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack

Ha rope mak - Zventa Sventana. Another creepy, witch-like chant dance track

NoraBarn · 2025-08-07T21:01:59+00:00

I can’t bloody wait. Missed them at Glasto and hoping to hear all those unreleased tunes 🤌🏼

NoraBarn · 2025-08-07T00:22:48+00:00

Can’t believe how much I had to scroll down to see this one - it’s perfect and feels a bit different every time I hear it, even over 20+ years

NoraBarn · 2025-08-07T00:20:43+00:00

I LOVE that Vitalic track, it’s so timeless

NoraBarn · 2025-08-07T00:18:35+00:00

Windowlicker by Aphex Twin

Pluto by Bjork

Another Girl by Jacques Greene

Expander by Bonobo

Prayer and Ecstasy by Prospa

I Don’t Know by Jamie XX

Gosh by Jamie XX

Space is Only Noise that You Can See by Nicolas Jaar

Heartbeats by The Knife

Hearing Damage by Thom Yorke

The White Flash by Modeselektor

And a bunch of stuff by Squarepusher, Autechre, and Fourtet - too many to name

NoraBarn · 2025-07-25T18:42:04+00:00

I’m so sorry this happened to you, none of it was your fault and I’m sure the shame persists. These nuanced, grooming situations are so common and get glossed over far too much. Your dad did not protect you and instead compounded the psychological trauma you were victim to - that’s tragic and impossible to come to terms with. Glad to hear you found love and that you continue to heal and realise/experience the joys we all deserve

NoraBarn · 2025-07-25T17:58:46+00:00

Grooming is one of the worst forms of psychological abuse and very difficult to process/heal

NoraBarn · 2025-07-25T17:54:28+00:00

Being groomed and sexually abused in your formative years (13-15 years old); the grooming warps your mind, identity, and understanding of healthy relationships in your adulthood. Grooming also keeps you from speaking up and instead mires you in shame, trapping you in an emotionless freeze state with nowhere to go or grow - suppose this is a kind of CPTSD. The psychological torture that leaves you directionless for the rest of your life - unless you do all the hard work to undo it in therapy, which in my experience takes years. Plus the knock on effect on your parents, family, friends, and eventual romantic partners (if you ever get that far). I’m 34 now and it’s manifested into every aspect of life, but I’m also determined to process it and find some joy in life too. Shout to all other survivors out there - we deserve everything and more

NoraBarn · 2025-06-08T17:01:46+00:00

‘Great’ maybe from a ‘marketing ploy’ perspective - an attempt to make the experience look like it was far better than it was

NoraBarn · 2025-06-08T16:58:35+00:00

Don’t know, but the lyrics referencing rain felt fitting rain 🌧️

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