Dispatches from the Underground // February 2026 – Pt. 2

New Music

Yuki Aizawa – Whispers of the Distant Past (enmossed) / meditation on transience and nostalgia. Ethereal ambient field recordings – tania

Werner Durand & John Krausbauer – Black Seraphim (Moving Furniture) / Be sure to check it out if drone music is your thing

Water Shrew Trio – Grub (Eiderdown) / If you haven’t yet, now would be a fantastic time to pre-order the new free-improv drone epic by the Water Shrew Trio 

Huggy Bear – Basic Strategies for Going Out: Peel Sessions (h/t birdspanker)

The Horse – S/T / Slowcore ambient folk. This is lovely intimate stuff – Shopfires

Barry Walker Jr – Paleo Sol / What a gorgeous album of ambient & cosmic country music from the Portland-based geologist and pedal steel guitarist Barry Walker Jr / You can just lose yourself in it / He named it “Paleo Sol” after ancient soils buried over geological time called paleosols – Prof Gavin Yamey

Jogging House – Bones (Seil Records) / sunday morning drones – Shopfires

bobbie – Lessons / Starting slow this morning with this radiant dream pop – Jennifer Kelly

anthéne & Far away Nebraska – Great Plains (Home Normal) / Another haunting, immersive ambient beauty – Folk Police Recordings

Listening Recommendations

Portland Vows – Plastic Alice (Third Kind Records) / Gently psychedelic, modular synth ambient 

Sir Richard Bishop – Tangier Sessions / never fails to clear out the cobwebs – Robert Dallas Grey

Misc

Post of recommendations from Vogon Laundromat