Author

Thomas Blake

Thomas Blake is an author, poet and music journalist who also works part-time in a museum. He has written two poetry chapbooks, both published by Red Ceilings Press: Ƨ (2023) and Peach Epoch (2025). His fiction has appeared in 404Ink and his poems have been published by Perverse, Anthropocene, And Other Poems and The Shore. He has been writing about music since 2012 and has a particular interest in the experimental, the modern and the weird. He lives in Swindon with his wife, two children and a cat.

Albums

The Leisure Society – Alone Aboard The Ark

25 February, 2013

The Leisure Society’s latest album ‘Alone Aboard The Ark’ is the sound of a band growing up…where this album succeeds is in the songcraft of Hemming and Christian Hardy. Read the expanded article on our Substack.

Albums

Small Houses – Exactly Where You Wanted To Be

14 February, 2013

On Small Houses latest release ‘Exactly Where You Wanted To Be’ there is no musical sleight of hand. It is an ultimately pleasing paradox of an album: concise yet unhurried, simple yet demanding.

Albums

Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart

4 February, 2013

One of the main lyrical preoccupations of Rick Redbeard‘s debut solo album ‘No Selfish Heart‘ is time – its slipperiness, its sadness, the alluvial deposits it leaves behind in its passing.