# play time (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover play time. Page: Feed: --- ## [FR 184: Terra Incognita](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-184-terra-incognita) _2026-08-18 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ New music from Akusmi, Duffy x Uhlmann, and Bill Orcutt, plus other sounds for disappearing stars. ## [Amor Ardearum – 14 August 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/amor-ardearum-14-august-2026/) _2026-08-14 · EM · Heron Books_ Let’s play: Poetry blurb or Sopranos episode?\* ‘The life of a deeply flawed individual… The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition.’‘Despairing, vengeful and destructive… unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded… works of great artistic purity…’‘Encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted… ## [FR 183: Luminous](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-183-patio-ambient-basic-channeling) _2026-08-11 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ New music from Jonny Nash & Tomu Katsurada, Sofie Birch, Gi Gi, and more ## [A Month of Interviews and a Summer Top 10](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/a-month-of-interviews-and-a-summer) _2026-08-07 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ Catch up with Topdown Dialectic, GB, Lifted, Smalltown Supersound, and Play Time ## [Twenty-Eight Days Later – 7 August 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/twenty-eight-days-later-7-august-2026/) _2026-08-07 · EM · Heron Books_ You have twenty-eight days until you can read the book that I think you must read. You may need that long to prepare yourself mentally and physically, to clear your schedule of all distractions, to limber up and get your sturdier tote bag ready – at 640 pages it weighs 842 grams – and to ensure tea and biscuit supplies are stocked up because you won’t find a great deal of comfort within the pages… ## [FR 183: Topdown Dialectic Is Real](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-183-topdown-dialectic-is-real) _2026-08-04 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ A candid interview with the artist behind one of dub techno’s most cryptic entities. ## [Going to the Dogs – 31 July 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/going-to-the-dogs-31-july-2026/) _2026-07-31 · EM · Heron Books_ Had you told me that I would find all that’s good in humanity at the racetracks in January in nineties County Durham, I may have been a little doubtful. But Louise Powell’s novel Underdogs offers just that. Admittedly there are a fair number of fights, dirty dealings and no small element of tragedy yet the story of this impoverished, rain-soaked world told by ten-year-old George shines as brightly… ## [The 2026 Booker Prize Longlist](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/the-2026-booker-prize-longlist/) _2026-07-30 · EM · Heron Books_ Switzy 18.99 Pre-order Now View basket John of John 20.00 Add to basket View basket The Palm House 16.99 Add to basket View basket All Them Dogs 18.99 Add to basket View basket Helen of Nowhere 12.99 Add to basket View basket The End of Everything 16.99 Add to basket View basket May We Feed the King 14.99 Add to basket View basket The Renovation 16.99 Add to basket View basket The Things We Never… ## [FR 182: Picture’s Uuuuuuuu Perfects a Forgotten Strain of Minimal Techno](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-182-pictures-eeeeeeee-perfects) _2026-07-30 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ Erika de Casier collaborator Natal Zaks’ latest 2LP for Short Span transcends its inspirations ## [FR 181: How AD 93’s GB Fused Dire Straits With Coil on His New Album Herzsprung](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-181-how-ad-93s-gb-fused-dire-straits) _2026-07-28 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ The Rhythmic Music Conservatory grad on cut-up lyrics, 24-track tape, and blending Boredoms with Fleetwood Mac ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GFfJheWAPT0U) _2026-07-28 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [The Homeric Hero(n) – 24 July 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/the-homeric-heron-24-july-2026/) _2026-07-24 · EM · Heron Books_ Thanks for asking but no, I won’t be watching Christopher Nolan’s new film. Really I have nothing against Matt Damon running around shouting at other men, beset by irresistible women whose sole purpose is him, and occasionally mumbling something about his wife. But I’m reading Emily Wilson’s book about translating ancient literature (into English, rather than for IMAX) and it’s going to take more… ## [FR 180: Lifted’s Cinema for the Ears](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-180-lifteds-cinema-for-the-ears) _2026-07-21 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ Andrew Field-Pickering and Matt Papich on making moving pictures for the mind’s eye ## [We Are Definitely Herons, I Mean Humans – 17 July 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/we-are-definitely-herons-i-mean-humans-17-july-2026/) _2026-07-17 · EM · Heron Books_ There are two kinds of people in this world: those who stand before an active volcano and think, Blimey, a volcano and those who stand before an active volcano and think, I should move here. Helena Attlee is in the latter camp. After years of visiting Sicily, she decided to settle on the slopes of Etna for a season. The volcano had been erupting almost continuously for a year. The windows of her… ## [FR 179: Smalltown Supersound Is a Feeling](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-179-smalltown-supersound-is-a) _2026-07-14 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ Joakim Haugland on balance, intuition, and the battle between brain and gut ## [How to Grow Readers – 10 July 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/how-to-grow-readers-10-july-2026/) _2026-07-10 · EM · Heron Books_ Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an absurdly busy man. When he finds time and peace enough to write his excellent children’s books baffles me. He is constantly visiting schools, libraries, playgroups and young offender institutions, supporting charities and individuals in any way he can and researching children’s development, not to mention reading stories to his beloved grandchild. I am in awe of him but… ## [FR 178: Ben Vida, Booker Stardrum, and Will Epstein Are Play Time](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-178-ben-vida-booker-stardrum-and) _2026-07-07 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ The improvising trio on Magic Object, its debut album, out now on Balmat ## [Strawberry Tartarus – 3 July 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/strawberry-tartarus-3-july-2026/) _2026-07-03 · EM · Heron Books_ A library so large its dimensions cannot be expressed in number. Countless books. Plenty of time to explore. Snacks supplied. This must be heaven, right? Wrong. Steven L. Peck’s A Short Stay in Hell will ruin you. Soren is welcomed to hell by a charming Demon – yes, he quite understands that it is a shock that Soren, a good Mormon, finds himself here but Zoroastrianism is actually the true… ## [FR 177: The 20 Best Albums of 2026 So Far](https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-177-the-20-best-albums-of-2026) _2026-06-30 · Philip Sherburne · Futurism Restated_ Collaborative impulses, spontaneous eruptions—and a giveaway ## [Villa Spinster – 26 June 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/villa-spinster-26-june-2026/) _2026-06-26 · EM · Heron Books_ There are a lot of rules at Villa Coco: it is not pesto if it is not from Genova; no cheese with fish – NEVER; you must go to Naples as soon as possible, you must be accompanied by a Neapolitan and you must have the sfogliatella in midafternoon. Our young man, the protagonist of Andrew Sean Greer’s Villa Coco, nicknamed Giovedì by the Baronessa who has brought him here, is commanded to learn three… ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dSXom7pJ9mdt) _2026-06-26 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Play Time – 19 June 2026](https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/play-time-19-june-2026/) _2026-06-19 · EM · Heron Books_ Even more so than usual, it is play time here in The Heronry. Between Independent Bookshop Week shenanigans for the author Tom Cox, a picture book launch in honour of a mole, a persistent architect great in kindness and endeavour, and some concern about whether everyone else can see the young girl who has taken up residence in our window,\* I have been at the theatre with Ana Kinsella, Lucy…