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

New Music

Of Kantor – Snake Island / RIYL Gábor Szabó, Omar Khorshid, Eden Ahbez – undomondo

Batchas – Just for Fun / Batchas is a modular synth wizard! Check it out! – Justin Sullivan

David Almone – Eulogy for an American Dream (Passed Recordings) / David weaves classical and cultural themes through the filter of ambient on this gorgeous work – highly recommended!

Lyndon Scarfe – long-form #1 / I’ll be putting longform tracks on Bandcamp as a way of documenting experiments and ideas, without the soul destroying/futile fine tuning and tweaking normally involved with how I make an ‘album’ / So here goes with the imaginatively titled ‘long-form #1’. 

Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (Phantom Limb) / “We didn’t mean for Faith in Violence to be so prescient. We wanted it to be a speculative story – what would happen if elected thugs turned to guns?”

Snowspire – Where the Sky Gleams with a Thousand Lights, I Know I Am Never Alone / Lovely wintry long form ambient to zone out to – Adventsong

The Gateless Gate – Lost Rivers

Ben Richter – blue fifty-four (Blue Tapes) / I don’t do end of year lists or any of that malarkey but if I did this from Ben Richter on Blue Tapes would be in the top 10. Astonishing lp – Soundart Radio

Klein – it is what it is in d minor / This one from Klein is taking me to mystical heights right now – Ironic Hill

Golden Brown – In the Grove

Coaxial – Redux Media (Cruel Nature) Redux Media is the first phase in Coaxial’s Redux Trilogy. Grinding motorik pulses and looping analog synths introduce a sense of perceptual unease and discordance

Listening Recommendations

Rodan – Rusty (h/t odubhda)

Burnt Ones – Gift / Like Piper at the Gates of Dawn and There’s a Riot Going On had a baby – Matt DeMello