THE HiFi PiG SELECTION BOX – DIVERSIONARY STRATEGIES FOR THE MODERN WORLD JULY 2025
Inspired by the seventies children’s television program Why Don’t You, HiFi PiG is putting together a monthly digest of links to music, literature, film, and more to inspire, motivate, and stimulate you into exploring beyond your typical sensory comfort zone.
Every month, we assemble a selection box of links to things we have unearthed and found interesting, fascinating, thought-provoking, or just balls-out entertaining.
This month, you will notice a small tribute to one of our HiFi PiG cats, and the bringer of mayhem, Ali, who sadly died in June.
PLEASING NOISES
SEEIN’ STARS – TURNSTILE (Roadrunner Records)
DESCARTES – SPRINTS (City Slang)
EVERYBODY LAUGHS – DAVID BYRNE (Matador)
KISS ON THE PITCH – THE MENSTRUAL CRAMPS (Alcopop! Records)
KAE TEMPEST – DIAGNOSES (Island Records)
INTRIGUING ARTICLES +
KIND OF CONFUSING, HOW JAZZ AND DOLPHINS CAN EXPLAIN CONSCIOUSNESS (Aeon.cm)
TOLKIEN’S MIDDLE-EARTH WASN’T A PLACE. IT WAS A TIME IN (ENGLISH) HISTORY (Big Think)
THE PUZZLING GAP BETWEEN HOW OLD YOU ARE AND HOW OLD YOU THINK YOU ARE (The Atlantic)
WHAT IF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DOESN’T HAVE TO HURT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY? (Mixmag)
THIS HISTORIC SICILIAN HOUSE COST ONE EURO. GO INSIDE ITS TRANSFORMATION (Wallpaper)
GRIPPING FILM, TV, ART & EVENTS
CINEMA ON THE SQUARE (Millennium Square, Leeds, UK, 31st July – 3rd August 2025)
STRAW (Netflix)
FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE (Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, until 31st August 2025)
SCARBOROUGH ART FESTIVAL (Scarborough, UK, until 3rd August 2025)
VIRTUAL BEAUTY (Somerset House, London, UK, until 28th September 2025)
Dip in or binge – the choice is yours!
What’s been diverting you? Let us know, and we may well include it!
Missed the previous issue? Get the HiFi PiG Selection Box April 2025 here!
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