Here's a story about displacement. About this LP, too.

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I've sprained my ankle working at Festinho, and have come home to heal; mostly I've been on the sofa with a to-do list, a leg in the air, and a creaking old borrowed laptop. It's been cold and windy here, sun bright, rain blustering, air fresh and sky a tumble of blue, white and grey. Listening to some voice at the back of my mind and to keep me company in a quiet house while I wrangled with code, I put this on.

Hanged is a riot of crackling noise,…

Things I would love to ask Björk: if Anchor Song references Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15 (Op. 132). It's a mere moment, but I can imagine a seed (and as she says, she went through 'ten years of classical music training where I was force-fed German composers then spent the next fifteen battling them'):

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(slow, solemn, joyous, thankful; after a cadence and a moment's quiet)

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('this is where I'm staying… this is my home')

Appendix Out: 'The Groves of Lebanon'

At last, I lay ear upon King Seven's Hidden EP. I heard Hidden itself a couple of summers ago, on Bonobo's Solid Steel compilation — in the smoky and wonderful attic room of a house of architects. There it emerges perfectly from the previous song, the strange, handclapping mellow groove of Soul Call. Both rest on the very same bass stomp (on the first and second-and-a-halfth beat of four) — so when the dominant seventh chords are replaced fusslessly by the tight-strung notes of Hidden, the mix continuing… it's like remembering something you'd forgotten; something which had always…

Near the end of last night's Horizon, a piece of background music caught my ear and my breath: I knew it, and well, but where from?

After a few moments I was convinced it was Fanny Adams. But on listening — no, that's not the one. I moved on.

Is it Starless & Bible Black? I had a skip through their album, which I've been looking forward to leafing back through for a while — still no (but I rediscovered the lovely Allsight and Sirène, in the process).

Did Pause have a turn that was more folk…

In the last week of July 2005, the audioscrobbler server (as it then was) went slightly hatstand, taking every song-play and multiplying it by three, four, five, six or seven. In three years and many site updates, this remained an unfixable blot, giving me strange recommendations and even stranger-looking charts — until now!

Thanks to the Library, I've pruned out the erroneously overgrown tracks. This does mean, though, that those times I've played those tracks during other weeks/months/years have been removed too. A slightly bare profile is better than a wildly inflated one; so, what will I find on the…

Ensemble is Olivier Alary…

…who programmed Desired Constellation…

…the backing of which turns right back up again in Loose!

Lovely. Listen for it around 2'33"–3'08".

Useful: artists whose name people erroenously prefix with the

Brilliantly absurd: bands with a lead singer called fyfe dangerfield

(though out of rock'n'roll circles, of course, it's Fyfe Hutchins)

Tag radio for clickclack earlier threw up Viewfinder … cue a tip-of-the-tongue experience with regards to the sample used in the background.

… no more! I've just found it: in Aguilla, which I was given on a mix CD three years ago. Hurrah!