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600 Subscribers, 27 Cult Classics, and an Infinity of Number Twos 💩
Well, this is a moment worth marking. 😁🎉 The halF unusuaL YouTube channel has reached 600 subscribers, and the project has released 27 cult classics. Cult Classics may be getting a little ahead of ourselves, of course, but let’s not allow that to get in the way of a perfectly good excuse for an celebration. First, a genuine thank you to everyone who has clicked that little button to see more. I’m delighted you’ve decided to come along for the ride, and really grateful that
halfunusual
48 minutes ago2 min read


The Mouse Code
Listen along (Spotify Podcast) Watch audio-visual (YouTube) What are we building in there? There’s no audience for this. It’s a worry. “We’re making one”, was the answer. I had been thinking about mice … again. Douglas Adams had a thing about mice. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, we discover that mice are not quite what they appear to be. We had assumed that humans are the clever ones and mice are, well, mice. Turns out we got the hierarchy wrong. It’s a good joke. W
halfunusual
Oct 1514 min read


Content Is Not Content
Listen along (Spotify Podcast) Watch audio-visual (YouTube) There is something slightly ridiculous about writing a long essay about algorithms, attention, and the way platforms encourage us to make everything shorter and more immediately consumable. Because this is, of course, a blog post. And apparently nobody has time for those any more. Two-minute reads. Five things you need to know about the ten things. The thing you can understand before your coffee gets cold. So this on
halfunusual
Sep 219 min read


gapybara is out now! 🦫✨
Apparently we managed to release it exactly one week after International Capybara Day. We’d love to say that was carefully planned … but discovering we’d missed it by seven days somehow feels entirely appropriate. This is the final release in our little “gap” trilogy. The same lyrics appear once again, but this time they’ve been transformed into something altogether stranger: squeaky chipmunk-style vocals, bouncing pop energy, a chorus of tiny mice and, of course, an unhealth
halfunusual
Jul 171 min read


between the gaps
Last week’s release was the line. This Friday, the same words return — but they inhabit a very different place. between the gaps takes the lyric somewhere altogether different: piano, jazz, space, and a singer that seems to drift between presence and absence. That idea found its way into the video too. Sometimes the singer is there. Sometimes only the outline where she should be. Sometimes the two almost meet. I’m becoming fascinated by what happens when the words stay the sa
halfunusual
Jul 71 min read


new grewve
new unusuaL streaming release: grewve drops this Friday, 26 June 2026 pre-save now on your favourite service ... #newrelease #grewve #halFunusuaL #unusualaural
halfunusual
Jun 231 min read


10 unusuaL years!
🎉 It’s been 10 years since halF unusuaL first sent a signal into the world. It's a decade to the day when the first ever track to the...
halfunusual
May 3, 20251 min read
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