Distraction Therapy – The Light That Remains
This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, film music and orchestral arrangement as though following a river from daylight into dusk. The […]
Month: July 2026
Distraction Therapy – Music for the Interior Night
Some mixtapes establish their meaning through genre. Others work through atmosphere, juxtaposition and emotional association. This edition of Distraction Therapy belongs to the second kind. […]
The Severed Head – Gender Identity, Projection and the Return of Violent Symbolism
Public arguments about sex and gender are generally presented as disputes over rights, definitions, medical evidence, institutional policy and personal identity. These matters are important, […]
Spivs and Stewards – What Kind of Political Culture Are We Rewarding?
One of the most revealing divisions in British public life is not simply between left and right, liberal and conservative, or metropolitan and provincial. It […]
Distraction Therapy – Japan, Memory And Reinvention
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese pop, rock, electronic music and soundtrack composition. It is not intended as a comprehensive account of Japanese music. […]
Distraction Therapy – Miffy Ryan on Music, Memory and Attention
What does it mean to use music as distraction? Does it take us away from immediate experience, or can it return us to the body, to […]
Distraction Therapy — Inner Worlds, Distant Signals and Japanese Pop
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through Japanese rock, electronic pop, dance music and independent digital production. Across the mix, familiar images return. Love. Silence. Distance. […]
Distraction Therapy – Signals, Ruins and Rearranged Memory
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that exists between states. Between ambient suspension and rhythmic momentum. Between private memory and collective history. Between natural […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and the Designed Self
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through a vivid field of contemporary Japanese pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic songcraft. The mix is bright, precise and […]
Distraction Therapy Mix – Surface, Depth and Distant Signals
This episode of Distraction Therapy moves through music that seems to arrive from elsewhere. Some of it feels as if it has been transmitted across […]