Dispatches from the Underground // August 2025 – Pt. 2

New Music

Shaki Tavi – Minor Slip (felte) / Lotta nouveau shoegaze floating around lately but this is the shit – Jennifer Kelly

Sharp Pins – Balloon Balloon Balloon (h/t Leor Galil)

Ganser – Animal Hospital (h/t florgoth)

Synthetic Villains – Smoker’s Children

Derrick Anthony Vella – I Hardly Knew Me / Did you ever wish the Tomb Mold guitarist would cut a Windham Hill styled solo guitar album? You are in unbelievable luck – Adam

Upupayāma – Live At Fuzz Club Festival 2025 / This’ll properly melt your face – Record Crates United

VA – All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985 (Night School) /  New compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular music. Compiled by Philip King – Undomondo

Listening Recommendations

Rachel’s – Selenography (h/t odubhda)