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Omargeddon: Project Closure Report
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My attitude to creative writing projects is best contextualised by misquoting Zapp Brannigan’s take on pick-up lines: write as many of them as you can, as fast as you can. I know this is probably unwise, yet I feel compelled to start a project goin[…]

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Freaky Trigger is a website dedicated to smart, informal writing about pop culture – music, film, TV, food and drink, books, art, science and anything else we fancy writing about. We’re not particularly cutting edge, but we’re generous, affable and curious.

We started Freaky Trigger in 1999 – it was purely a music site for the first few years, gradually expanding its remit. Until 2005 it included the much-loved music blog NYLPM, whose contents form part of the site’s extensive archives.

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Omargeddon #55: Is It The Clouds?
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Omar Rodríguez-López’s most recent solo album Is It the Clouds? dropped January 2024 (aptly on the Clouds Hill label) and was the first to follow 2016-17’s epic release schedule. While it’s not quite a traditional concept album, themes of gri[…]

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CRAZY FROG – “Axel F”
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In 2004 I took on the worst project of my professional life; worst in the sense that it was miserable and time-consuming and also in the sense that I did it very badly. A certain mobile phone company wanted to know what their rivals were doing online[…]

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  1. The bsky account changed its handle. You can find it here https://bsky.app/profile/deepcuts.blog/post/3kpfcmrvehl2v

  2. Haha, this is savage! So many accurate observations about indie kids. I feel slightly attacked, but also kinda seen? Good…

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