Dispatches from the Underground // February 2022, Vol. 4

New Music

Gidouille – Zineogenesis (Wormhole World)

Sunbeamer – Cape (giraffe tapes) (h/t Eeem)

Barcelona Art Orchestra – Ragtime Stories (UnderPool) / ragtime interpreted by chamber orchestra – Bill Barnett

T.R. Jordan – Dwell Time (Past Inside the Present)

Loneward – Pallid Memories (Altus Music) (h/t Crows Labyrinth)

The North Sea – Sunless Tropics (The Jewel Garden)

Yang – Designed for Disaster (Cuneiform) / pretty crazy! – Audrey

Infinite Limits: A Generative Music Compilation (Mubert) (h/t Unsung Hunger)

Arbee – Précédents (Florina Cassettes) / Florina Cassettes is excited to open a digital series with a beautiful album from Arbee. For “Précédent,” the prolific musician used mainly a kalimba, a glockenspiel and modular synths to create nostalgic melodies drowned in noisy hiss.

waavypanda – loud music for broken toys 2 (Civic Duty Records) / 22 tracks of danceable joy to meet you wherever you are

Distant Animals – I Too Had Hope (Wormhole World) / up for pre-order / out in March 

Pound Land – Can’t Be Arsed (Cruel Nature) / 8 tracks of post-industrial post-hardcore dead-pan misery – ‘kitchen-sink’ punk for the 21st century

Benedicte Maurseth – Harr (Hubro) (h/t The Howard Hughes Suite)

Listening Recommendations

The Aeolian String Ensemble – Eclipse (Robot Records) (h/t Hitodama)

Alcest – Shelter / Best black metal album ever made – allister thompson

Hans Castrup – Constant Imbalances III (Submarine Broadcasting Company) / consumer alert: that Hans Castrup album on @SubCastCo is still awesome – Difficult Arts and Music

Michael Berdan – Human Error (Outsider Art) / Monday morning Industrial vibes – Houseplant Paradise

Grand Veymont – Route du Vertige (Moon Glyph) / Grabbed a tape bundle from Moon Glyph on a whim and glad I did! This French duo channels Stereolab, Broadcast, Terry Riley, Emerald Web, and Fabulous Diamonds for a luminous and zoned out space – Adam Grimord-Isham

Mixes, Radio, Podcasts

Twenty Twenty-One / Twenty Twenty-One, what a year. This mix was made from vinyl records of albums all released in the year 2021. From Dinosaur Jr and FACS to LOW and The Besnard Lakes. Music from some of the biggest bands to ones most people have yet to discover and all levels in-between – via PJ Sykes

Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 2, #10: ML Wah

CULTURE AS A DARE – 20/02/22 / Unexpected, terrifying and delightful, like wheelie bin whirling high in the sky – Tak Tent Radio

#2019: The Soft Hands Of Stephen Miller (via Freelance Fiends) / music by Pile, Idles, The Damned, The Holy Modal Rounders and more

Music Videos

Daniel Walsh – BANG BANG BANG BANG / From the album ‘DRUMS & CYMBALS’ out this Friday 25th on
@theunscenery

Reading…Blogs

Weekly Listening: Feb 2022 #3 (via Various Small Flames)

The Slow And Tragic Death Of New Music (via In the Mind of a Bordello)

New Commute Now / This week: MJ Lenderman, Carl Erdmann, Widowspeak, Aiden Ayers, James Newton, Otis Jordan, Tomberlin, Colin Miller, Renata Zeiguer & more.

Kayo Dot – Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike (2021 Prophecy Records) (via Eternity Tree)

New Music To Delight Your Ears – Purple Thread (via The Devil Has the Best Tuna)

Album Review: NTsKi – Orca (via I Thought I Heard a Sound)

Misc

Something new from Anticipating Nowhere on the way…