Dispatches from the Underground // October 2025 – Pt. 1

New Music

Umulamahri – Learning the Secrets of Acid (h/t Svvan “gone” Ronson a.k.a. Cory Peterson)

The Implicit Order – Disposable Outcome (h/t John Lithium)

Patrick Shiroishi – Forgetting is Violent (h/t Siavash Amini)

The Necks – Disquiet / The Necks just out there dropping three discs of pure zoning – Adam

Universal Affirmation Ensemble – Unconditional Propositions (Katuktu Collective) / Universal Affirmation Ensemble – Unconditional Propositions – the band name and cover art say spiritual jazz, and it is there but overlaid on a post-rock base; cited influences are “Do Make Say Think, 1980’s King Crimson, and Balinese Gamelan” – Bill Barnett

Jeff Tobias – One Hundredfold Now in This Age / As Jeff Tobias – musician, socialist, agnostic – walked home in December of 2024, he passed a church known throughout his Ridgewood, New York neighborhood for its striking signage. This week it read as follows: One Hundredfold Now in This Age.

Pyramids of Phobos – S/T (Wormhole World)

Listening Recommendations

Karate – Some Boots (h/t Dustin Ragland)

Kurushimi – S/T / Stellar stuff. FFO King Crimson, Painkiller, Gore, both Brotzmanns (Brotzmenn?) – Mark Chickenf1sh

Rapt – Until the Light Takes Us / now available on vinyl

VA – Une Ode au Toy Piano (MonsterK7) (h/t With a Messy Head)