Now playing: Sanity check

1. 'Open Air Backseat - haloplus+
2. 'Blow Your Trumpet' - Ezra Collective
3. 'Carry On' - Jungle
4. 'Velvia' - edapollo
5. 'Jaded Love (Tour-Maubourg Remix)' - Soul Groove (UK)

It’s timeless, innit?

“I feel like up until I met Jason really, I was part of a massive crowd of people that were known as bedroom artists. That’s basically what you were. But having a boundary is quite a good thing for making music, because you work around different ways of doing things.”

– Andrew Fearn and Sleaford Mods

Galaxy of emptiness tonight

 “I didn’t pace myself correctly after that successful period,” he says with a sigh. “It was all going great, but I didn’t pace myself correctly at all. I had no idea how to do it, and I just started to peter out and disconnect. Suddenly I couldn’t get the engagement I wanted. I was getting more frustrated and I just felt less and less relevant. Suddenly it felt like, ‘What’s the point in doing music?’ I always had ideas but I just couldn’t get anybody to work with me. It just felt like I was meeting with a wall of indifference. The pain was getting to me more than I realised, and that’s what set me off feeling bad about myself. Then some other stuff happened in life, and when it all happens at once it can knock you over. And that’s what happened.”

– William Orbit looks back in 2022.

Business talk

"When we’re speaking for ourselves, we express ourselves with a communication style intended to reassure our friends (or are they our shareholders?) that the best is always yet to come. In recent years, brands and some influencers have begun deviating from this posting style in an attempt to startle increasingly distracted scrollers into paying attention, but for people who aren’t in the business of holding an audience’s attention, the pressure to communicate as a corporate self remains in place."

-- Kathryn Jezer-Morton on social media's taboo on struggling.

Le truc

It was never yours

Sony is contacting PlayStation Store users who bought movies from the platform that were distributed by StudioCanal—like Terminator 2, Total Recall, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind—to say that "you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content from Studio Canal, and it will be removed from your video library." There's no mention of any refunds or make-goods for the affected users. Sony simply says the films are going away "due to our content licensing agreements," once again reaffirming the fact that you are never truly buying anything that's digital, just temporarily renting it.

– Full story by John Walker at Kotaku

Now playing: Sometimes

1. Paycheque - 'Generic Actress'
2. Yppah - 'Never Mess With Sunday'
3. PJ Harvey - 'Voyager'
4. Boards of Canada - 'Prophecy at 1420 MHz'
5. Sellorekt/LA Dreams - 'Beta Girl Lost in Forever'