It’s Friday evening, the sun is out, and there was a lovely vibe about the town as I passed through it on my way home a short while ago.

On the basis that a happy little buzz is always worth sharing, what better occasion for a short and sweet post in which I call out some of the things that have rung my personal bell this week.

1. The Nine Inch Noize album that came out last Friday. All of your favourite 90s Industrial Rock classics given a Techno facelift by Boys Noize, with added excited crowd noise. Please, please tour this material.

2. Mixtape

Coming out in a few short days on most games formats. An opportunity to roll back the years and be a teenager all over again, accompanied (it says here) by the soundtrack of a generation. Provided your generation takes in Devo, Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Roxy Music, Lush, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Stand up while driving! Run through picket-fenced backyards! Steal a shopping trolley! Ride a flaming stallion of delinquency! All the stuff you meant to do in your own teenage years but never got round to. I can’t wait.

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