Dispatches from the Underground // March 31, 2022

New Music

Advance Base – Little Sable Point Lighthouse

Mukqs – Debt Repayment RPG / I’m a little late on this but this new Mukqs album is incredible, it has everything Max is great at and more, all kinds of sounds pop in and out yet it has a perfect flow, check it – Marc Masters

VA – Sending Sunflowers (Z Tapes) / Raises money for Ukrainians – icastico

Duster – Together (h/t Mark Harris)

Nape Neck – Look Alive EP / Nape Neck remains one of the best bands in the world. Hopefully gets something beyond self released tapes someday – Adam Grimord-Isham

Listening Recommendations

Yung edgelord double bill before the neighbors get back (h/t markalexpreston)

X-Ray Spex – Lets Submerge (h/t Ecstatic Manoeuvres in the Dark)

Sun Ra – Continuation (Corbett vs. Dempsey) (h/t Matthew Hiram)

Lee Yi – S/T (THESIS) / This work is based on the visualization of everyday things, images or even imaginations, experiences in which it could be present or in which it could not (h/t Eeem)

Duncan Evans / Wilderness Hymnal Split (Trepanation Recordings) / For fans of: Emma Ruth Rundle, Ulver, Chelsea Wolfe, Dead Can Dance, Talk Talk, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Low, Current 93, Gary Numan, Leonard Cohen

Dustin O’Halloran // Hauschka – 3 movements // 5 movements (1631 Recordings) (h/t Eeem)

Sun Ra – Celestial Love / listening to some new-to-me Sun Ra this morning. I love taking my time picking through his body of work over the years, there’s always something completely fresh to hear. this one’s on bandcamp! but my local shop has a copy I might have to grab – David James

Dur-Dur Band – Volume 5 (Awesome Tapes from Africa) / Bach in stock