Dispatches from the Underground // December 2025 – Pt. 1

New Music

The Saints – Long March Through the Jazz / I kind of like those new Saints record despite the fact that it doesn’t sound like the Saints, at least not the way I remember them – Jennifer Kelly

Steven Hess – Lustres (Room40) / up for pre-order!

Hinako Omori – Studies on a River / Stunning new age ambient – tania

Jack Vickridge – Building Instruments (Flaming Pines) / “a duet of playful and hallucinatory manufacture.” Vickridge plays with the spaces, soundings and silences of an old factory. 

Whettman Chelmets – Live at the Fffffffestival 2025

Seabuckthorn – A Path Within a Path (h/t Golden Brown)

weed420 – Esto no es un show / Could I interest you in an hour of unhinged Venezuelan psychedelia? – Nic Brown

The Boxhead Ensemble – Feather and Pine / Beautiful record. Has the atmosphere of Talk Talk – Dillon

Foetus – Halt / As the seemingly final Foetus album (besides a companion album coming out later), if there was ever a time to get one, now would be the time – John Lithium

Listening Recommendations

Calm Pieces – Singles (Whitelabrecs) (h/t Justin Amphlett)

worriedaboutsatan – The Future Can Wait / all longform kosmische and whirly arp synth nonsense