Dispatches from the Underground // July 2025 Pt. 2

New Music

Weston Olencki – Broadsides (Outside Time) / A radical new vision of American folk music by Berlin-based sound artist and composer Weston Olencki, out Sept. 19 / new one on a label run by Jonathan Williger

Ryan Huber – The Time Eraser / I’m enjoying this. A nice flow to this EP. All with beats and nice atmospheres / I just realized the final track which I’m enjoying a lot is a healthy 19 min – john | relaxed machinery

Early Fern – Wetland Interiors (h/t tania)

Brad Rose – A Life Once Lived (Quiet Details) / an elegant, drifting antidote for morning malaise – Matthew Hiram

Mavo – Haavemeri / A lonely ambient-drone voyage into a desolate space of dreams and visions (h/t Old World Irredenta)

Nobody Jones – Love From a Distant Star (Deathbomb Arc) / Gorgeous lonesome cowboy love songs from one of Philly’s favorite local acts

rADio eNd – Neverland (Wrong Revolution) / Evening listening: a sort of Stapletonian industrial blues from Pete Hope & Ed End – Mark Chickenfish

Isostatic – Reel Landscapes (Exosphere) / I don’t know the artist but I’m friends with the label owners of Exosphere. Always top quality music – John | Relaxed Machinery

Listening Recommendations

Heidi Berry – Up in the Air / Husker Du cover (h/t Realm of Dusk)

Codeine – Dessau (h/t wordkunst)