Dispatches from the Underground // March 2024, Pt. 1

Listening Recommendations

The Howard Hughes Suite – Smoke from a Future Fire / pedal steel & slide guitar create that nauseating emotion for you here. you know the one. good example of visceral. drink some water – Kendraplex

Kikimora – S/T (Virkelighedsfjern) / Stumbled on this Danish recordand have fallen in love with pretty much everything I’ve listened to and this might be my favorite so far. Kikimora’s self title EP is sparse, haunting, dark, foreboding, and gorgeous – Vizaural Music

4 albums picked by De Selby

Ziad He Bad – Straight Jinn / EP I made years ago for free (I was learning Arabic at the time and obsessed with North African/Middle Eastern Arab culture lol. Ziad was the name I used in Arabic 101) – Ethan Harfenshvitz

Storyteller – Guided Through the Myst / hey check it out a dungeon synth album i did the cover art for just released – ascalphid

Rob Noyes & Sam Moss – S/T (h/t Brent Thomas)

Loop – Sonancy / Massive – ghost drone

Drain – Offspeed and In There / Culture Jam to This – Moot

New Music

Amy Denio / Spoot Music – Varianti (h/t my friends call me 5)

Abschaum – Quand viennent les serpents (Macadam Mambo) / Kosmische folk at its most transcendent (h/t Nic Brown)

Cusp – Thanks So Much (h/t Jason Broccardo)

Reading

Dear Tim, It’s time to get lost in the music

Pitchfork Lived and Died by the Internet / Pitchfork exploded as the music industry changed, then was cut down to size by another wave of technological change. Was that it?