New and Upcoming…Albums, Singles, EPs
Color Advance SP & POLYMONO – Wii Phone (Fotoshoppe Co.) / wow what an album title and cover. This is real – Zoro
Gnod – Hexen Valley (Rocket Recordings)
DJ Travella – Mr Mixondo (Nyege Nyege Tapes) / as ever, bought the next Nyege Nyege Tapes release the second i saw the email / warp speed ballistic singeli production from the 19 year old Tanzanian artist. preview track is wild. stoked – Good Willsmith
feeble little horse – modern tourism (Crafted Sounds) / some seriously good noise pop right here / tapes will come with a couple bonus goodies
Point No Point – The Sky Was Orange (Spati Palace) (h/t Katuktu Collective)
Kinbrae & Clare Archibald – Birl of Unmap (Full Spectrum)
g h 0 s t – 喚起 (My Pet Flamingo) / If you miss out on buying this, you are taking a massive L. This is probably the best vaporwave album ever made – Enraile
Rene Kita – Fraught Mackerel / A love letter to Frequency Modulation. Hello, FM, here’s your wake up call: SQUEEEEEEAAAARGHWHEEEEEE…
The Night Monitor – Their Dark Dominion (Fonolith) / Great Popol Vuh vibes – John Sabapathy
Listening Recommendations…Past and Present
VA – Prologue IV (FarFetched) / This album features some of the most incentive, creative, weird & exciting musicians in the St Louis scene collaborating with each other in ways I was astounded by. Farfetched made it happen & as a city there should be a commemoration of Farfetched – c.l. melkus
75 Dollar Bill – Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (h/t remotecore)
Frustration – Relax / very underrated band. i know bc even I only heard about them a couple years ago – Christopher Nadeau
Opin – Media & Memory (WarHen Records) / Media & Memory, @opinband’s most recent long player & one of the most unique records in the WH catalog, is on sale for 15% off! Use code OPIN15 at checkout. All copies include a gratis DL of Media & Memory REMIXED as well. Orders shipping always
Microphase – Tales from the Silent City (Flambient) / My album of the day – Patricia Wolf
Anthony Child – Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Vol 1 (Editions Mego) / Squeezing in some ambient drone to round off the week – Ian Quann
Vanishing Twin – Pensiero Magico (Fire Records) (h/t Pretty Odd Authority)
Hark/We Are Joiners Split (Totally Real Records)
Andrew Chalk – HIGAN (Faraway Press) (h/t Polar Seas)
Radio, Mixes, Podcasts
Strange Brew #290 – Pour Another
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Under 50 – new playlist from Mitch Berghini / Ami Dang, SomeOthaShip Connect and more
The Moderns ep. 197 / hosted by Kevin Press / featuring Telefis and Jah Wobble, farmersmanual, Trupa Trupa, Kinbrae & Clare Archibald and more
Reading
Laraaji :: Transmissions (via Jason P. Woodbury / Aquarium Drunkard)
Come – Peel Sessions (via Aural Aggravation)
The Capsule Garden Vol 1.5: February 11, 2022 (via Foxy Digitalis)
Big Music Needs to Be Broken Up to Save the Industry (via Wired / clocolan)
Make Your Own Taste – big ol’ music blog of Allister Thompson
SINGLES & EPS ROUND UP – 12TH FEBRUARY 2022 (Slow Music Movement) / Four more singles & EPs that don’t deserve to get buried in the deluge ranging from fragile folk and art inspired ambient to epic neoclassical and preening Balearic boogie. Get stuck in
Illuminating the Horizon (via Ryan/Heavy Cloud) / A round-up of recent ambient and experimental sounds lighting up my ears throughout the past few months
Amanda Montell – Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (h/t Ana)
Friday Feedback (wrap-up for week ending 2/11/22) (via Saby Reyes-Kulkarni)
Misc
Pay what you want offering from solemnland!
Back in stock – Keys by Bill MacKay / Nathan Bowles
Last bundle the Grand Veymont tapes left in Moon Glyph vault
Grab a March bundle from Wormhole World
Grab a copy of an excellent Doom Mix, Vol. V comp before gone for good
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