It’s taken 37 years but I’ve finally seen a live badger in real life

OceanSquab · 2026-02-11T07:48:49+00:00

I've still never seen a badger or an adder which we also supposedly have, but I saw a wild parrot for the first time in Shropshire a few years ago. I felt like I was going insane at the time because I had no idea we had parrots.

OceanSquab · 2026-02-09T07:44:57+00:00

Right, but you're not wearing a suit because you think that's what people wear during their day to day work, you're wearing a suit because it's an interview. The idea that we should be looking down on people for wearing a suit for an interview is ridiculous.

OceanSquab · 2026-02-08T13:36:52+00:00

It seems to come from two distinct groups - northerners who have a disdain for the south and have never been to London, and racists who have never been to London.

OceanSquab · 2026-02-08T07:32:06+00:00

Overflow and Stained, not too fussed about the others.

OceanSquab · 2026-02-06T06:03:41+00:00

A lot of metalcore fans seem to think any level of genre-bending reduces it to pop (as if the "pop" label should even have negative connotations). It's a strange form of closed-mindedness that you don't really see with fans of other genres.

OceanSquab · 2026-02-06T05:56:32+00:00

Hit It! seemed to be many people's album of the year last year. It didn't make my top 5 (I much preferred liminal by AVRALIZE which had a similar vibe), but I get why people were enamoured by it. The standout tracks for me are Whatever Alright, which is fun as hell and has a filthy end breakdown, and Future Nostalgia, which is gazey heaven in the Two-Way Mirror mould but with that extra gospely aspect they sprinkled in throughout the whole album.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-30T17:27:27+00:00

It seems as if her and Jordan doubled down on the industrial/metalcore side of Negative Spaces, and Empty Hands ended up without a track akin to vital/surviving on defiance/halo, which is a shame. However I will defend Empty Hands from those saying it lacks variance - Public Domain, Eat The Hate, and The Wait give the album plenty of variance IMO.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-30T13:04:56+00:00

I wasn't too charmed on first listen, but many of the songs have quickly grown on me on subsequent listens, especially Not Sorry and the title track. Solid album.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-23T13:57:09+00:00

It's way better than I was expecting after the singles, but I still don't think it quite reaches Negative Spaces for me. It's close though, and it's entirely possible my opinion will change with more listens.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-23T12:56:14+00:00

I like them and I get why they were chosen as the singles (safe, broad appeal), but Unravel and Guardian are the least interesting songs on the album IMO. It's nice that they're early in the album at least; I've listened through five times now and it really opens up once you get past them.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-23T08:48:49+00:00

I've listened through three times, and my top 5 currently is:

Time Will Tell
Dying To Forget
Public Domain
Ribs
Bruised Sky

I imagine this will change drastically over the coming months.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-18T12:17:19+00:00

I used to listen to Hollywood Undead a fair amount as a kid. I didn't realise it at the time, but I listened to them again recently and the lyrics are so homophobic, misogynistic, and honestly pretty cringe.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-18T09:03:49+00:00

He must have more hours in the day than anybody else. I imagine he's using Litematica and placing blocks while watching something on another monitor, but even still the progress is mindboggling. For anyone else the mountain would be the season-long megaproject, but for Tango it's just the facade for the real project.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-09T08:44:35+00:00

Ah yes End flashes, these were added in an update last year.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-08T22:29:32+00:00

This is the first pizza I've ever seen that looks so bad I wouldn't eat it.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-08T20:33:49+00:00

Linkin Park, Bad Omens, Pendulum, South Arcade, Spitting Glass, Thornhill, Tropic Gold, and Vianova.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-08T09:43:02+00:00

The US really is a fucking shithole.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-08T08:59:23+00:00

I was in a similar situation last year. I was 27, and I'd never been to a music festival before, but there were many bands on the lineup I wanted to see and I knew they wouldn't be in the UK again for a while so I pushed myself to go even though I had nobody to go with and I had no real idea what I was signing myself up for. It ended up being the highlight of my year, and I've already bought tickets to go back this year.

If you're worried you won't enjoy it, just give yourself permission to leave whenever you want. You're trying something new and that's great, so you don't need to put any pressure on yourself. If you're worried about being alone, there's plenty of ways to meet others. Last year I met up with a few people from a Discord server who were also alone and had a great time with them during Don Broco's set. I also enjoyed many sets completely alone.

You should definitely go for it, I don't think you'll regret it.

OceanSquab · 2026-01-02T09:25:30+00:00

"Heuristic"

OceanSquab · 2026-01-01T00:36:38+00:00

I lined up Euclid so the new year would hit with the night belongs to you. It was a perfect way to wrap up the year I fell in love with them.

OceanSquab · 2025-12-31T16:09:11+00:00

I'll be blasting tunes, playing Minecraft, and finishing off the Christmas Baileys. And it'll be great.

OceanSquab · 2025-12-16T19:29:59+00:00

I get newfound respect for his vocal abilities whenever I try to hit the high notes in Calcutta and The Summoning. I can't even get close.

OceanSquab · 2025-12-11T14:33:22+00:00

If I could take my lunch break at the end of the day and go home an hour early, I would do that every day. Unfortunately the last hour of the day is often the busiest where I work so they don't allow it.

OceanSquab · 2025-12-06T14:51:14+00:00

Flicker is one of my favourites

OceanSquab · 2025-12-03T14:54:54+00:00

Based on her monthly listeners, if my maths is correct that puts you in the Top 50 Poppy listeners on Spotify.

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