We spend a lot of time being encouraged to choose a destination, find the quickest route, and keep moving forwards. There’s comfort in having a [...]

What changes when we stop scrolling and start looking? In this episode of Distraction Therapy, Rob Watson meets photographer Julian Sahu in the courtyard at Leicester’s [...]

How far into the future do we need to imagine before the present becomes bearable? Tomorrow can still feel close enough to picture. The day [...]

What happens when the way we feel no longer fits the life we are expected to lead? This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through songs [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy moves through several layers of contemporary Japanese music culture: independent guitar music, established melodic rock, singer-songwriter pop, bilingual British-Japanese avant-pop, [...]

This edition of Distraction Therapy begins with a reassurance, although not quite a promise. In the Pet Shop Boys’ version of It’s Alright, music is [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]