Dispatches from the Underground // February 2026 – Pt. 1

New Music

Neuro…No Neuro – A Different Take

Stuart Cook – Weightless Heavy Ideas Fall Curiously (Frosti) – first release of the year from Sulk Rooms run label

Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick – Tragic Magic (h/t Blair Millen)

Vinouma – Kadotus / One of my favorite albums so far this year, TL;DR version: Sorta like Sonic Youth, but just one Finnish guy on all instruments and vocals – Prakker

Listening Recommendations

Set Fire to Flames – Telegraphs In Negative/Mouths Trapped In Static / 2003 this was & now the skin is thinner…
Sparse flickering & haunted drones, frayed clatter & worn beauty. Still the immersive, beguiling triumph from this GY!BE side crew – Blue Astronaut

Deerhoof – The Runners Four / Any Deerhoof album brings me joy but the 7 album run from ‘Reveille’ thru ‘Deerhoof vs Evil” is just breathtakingly good. And this one is among the very best of them… – De Selby

Volcano Choir – Unmap / Took a chance on this for basically 20p in the charity shop and really liking it. I guess you’d say it’s New Weird America but it feels like it could easily have been released on Fonal circa 2002 – REEL

ishome – carpet watcher (Trip Recordings) / So, in case you missed/overlooked the experimental charm of Mirabella Karyanova’s work, here’s your second chance – Blair Millen

Bardo Pond – Amanita (Deluxe Edition) / Phenomenal – Blue Astronaut