This edition of Distraction Therapy gathers music that seems to hover at the point where private feeling becomes audible, but before it has hardened into [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy sits in a productive tension. On one side, it draws from recognisable strands of Japanese alternative rock, pop, remix culture [...]

This Distraction Therapy mix moves through Japanese indie, rock, alternative pop and electronic-adjacent music as a sequence of thresholds. It is not a strict genre [...]

This music mix episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds less as a sequence of songs than as a slow passage through altered emotional weather. The tracks [...]

I’ve been listening to a lot of Japanese music lately, so this mix is less a playlist than a map of emotional atmosphere. The tracks [...]

There are conversations that move in straight lines, and there are conversations that circle, return, and deepen. This discussion between Rob Watson and Dr Bret [...]

This episode of Distraction Therapy unfolds as a winter conversation, shaped as much by mood as by argument. Recorded in mid-January, it opens in that [...]

This week’s recording was shaped by the steady rain outside and the slow process of returning to everyday routines after two weeks in Japan. The [...]

As I recorded today’s Distraction Therapy podcast, I found myself once again at Leicester Cathedral, shaded from the intense summer heat, contemplating the disorientation and [...]

It’s a warm, blustery Monday afternoon in Leicester, and I’m sitting in the cathedral gardens with a notebook and a recorder. After some time away [...]