Dispatches from the Underground // September 23, 2022

New Music

Baseball Gregg  – Pastimes (Z Tapes) / Baseball Gregg’s incredible new indie pop cornucopia “Pastimes” is out now!! Featuring 20 lush and gorgeously crafted bedroom pop songs, this album is the perfect pair for the end of the Summer

My Favorite – Tender Is The Nightshift​:​Part 1 / With💙despite the fierce resistance of time

Siavash Amini / Eugene Thacker – Songs for Sad Poets (Hallow Ground) / 2LP/Digital+Booklet / mastered by Lawrence English

Nils Frahm – Music for Animals / New album from Nils Frahm, triple CD, ten tracks, 4 of them over 20 minutes. Music to kick back to & ultimately, de-stress – Stu

Steve Bates – All The Things That Happen (Constellation Records) (h/t Lauren Barley)

Halina Rice – Elision (Injazero)

Conflux Coldwell – The Phantomatic Coast (Subexotic Records) / If you’re a fan of meticulously conducted fieldwork woven into a compelling, poignant narrative this is a treat / Gatefold sea-mist vinyl & private view of the accompanying film / Do not miss…

Mantris – Don’t Waste Your Miracle On Your Pain (Shady Ridge)

Lake Mary – Slow Grass (Whited Sepulchre) (h/t Dillon)

The Gabys – S/T (Fruits & Flowers) / RIYL April Magazine, Dadamah, Helen, The Garbage & the Flowers – Glenn Donaldson via Chickfactor

Cub/cub – Radiant Crush (Subexotic) / Next up, another corker, this time from @hellocubcub on @subexotic this is a truly outstanding piece of work – Letters From a Mouse

BEAK> – Kosmik Musik / There is 21 minutes of new @BeakBristol music in the world today, and that is cause enough to celebrate – Nervous Curtains

Jobber – Hell in a Cell (Exploding in Sound)

Listening Recommendations

Horse Lords – S/T / Everyone I knew at certain point was listening to Battles, krautrock, minimalism, and African music so it was a wasn’t a shock when I first heard this band but a surprise it took this long – Adam Grimord-Isham

Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity / As your doctor I’m prescribing you Monster Magnet’s “Dopes to Infinity” album and telling you to log off and listen to it – synoisia

Radio, Mixes, Podcasts

Atom Heart Mutha – Sept. 23 / 2 hours of dope music!

Reading

Courting – Guitar Music (Josh Allen via God is in the TV)

Track Premiere: r beny “One Illusion Backward” – A Rework of Ameel Brecht’s “Like Moth to Flame” (via Foxy Digitalis)

Galaxie 500 – Temperature’s Rising

IN CONVERSATION: Miki Berenyi (Lush, Piroshka) (via God is in the TV)

Faith, Hope and Carnage / Loud (via Dillon)

Misc

Exploratory Blues from Shane Parish

Hire C Money Burns for mixing/mastering/post-production work