Categories: Misc

Dispatches from the Underground // September 30, 2022

New Music

The Advisory Circle – The Full Circle (Ghost Box) / The new Advisory Circle album out on @GhostBoxRecords is gorgeous, full of immersive melodies and dreamy ambience. Absolutely beautiful work from @cafekaputMichael Stanton

Elizabeth Crompton – A Warning (Werra Foxma) / 4 track maxi single

The Book of Flowers – Pastels (DKA Records) / It’s the witching season. So I urge you to check out Book of Flowers. Out today! – Stranded

Timothy Bailey & the Humans – S/T / produced by @beautypill and @TheBobMasseyPJ Sykes

Hektor Zazou, Jeanne Folly, J.L Hennig, VXZ 375, Bazooka – La Perversita (Sofa Records) / There it isAural Medium

Black Wick – Fever Nightmare EP (Illuminated Paths) (h/t T2,000,000)

Pollsign – Qualia / I’ve opened ‘Qualia’ for pre-order today. In addition to the Qualia CD itself, anyone that pre-orders a physical copy between now and end-of-day October 7th (EST) will get a special, exclusive something for their SC collectionSurvey Channel

Scanner & Modelbau – Loess (Moving Furniture) / This beauty with @MovingFurniture is officially out day on a 2LP set, digital and even those cheeky streaming services too. Please support the label! – Scanner/Robin Rimbaud

Kayla Painter – Infinite You (Castles in Space)

The Death of Pop – For a Minute EP (Hidden Bay / Discos de Kirlian) (h/t Devil Town Tapes)

Cratere Centrale – S/T (Roots Underground) / a club jazz mini LP that is pleasantly close to soul-jazzBill Barnett

Holy Haze – Hail Ship (Damaged Goods) / Stockholm’s shoegaze master HOLY SHIP “sail on waves of psych-infused gold with ‘HAIL HAZE’” (Backseat Mafia) out now 

Bardo Todol – El Violín Dorado, El Violín Arabe (Full Spectrum) / visceral sound collage drawing from the spirit of arid land 

Sussex Telecom – Creator Warehouse (Third Kind) / 7 anonymous producers pool their collective memories of 1994-1995’s golden era of underground ‘electronic listening music’ to expand on that long abandoned node

VA – Reproduce This! (Ah! DucK! Records) (h/t Architrave)

Jessica Moss – Galaxy Heart (Constellation Records) / Today we share “Light Falls On Every Door”, the 3rd single from Jessica Moss’ new album Galaxy Heart, feat. Thierry Amar from Godspeed You! Black Emperor on contrabass. Galaxy Heart is the companion album to last year’s Phosphenes, and releases on Oct. 7 (h/t Lauren Barley)

benjin – Music for Cello & Nyckelharpa (Canigou Records)

Haus Horo – Salvation / The debut ep from @haushoro, the new band from rob 65. See out the end of this wild September with the doom-laden soundtrack it deserves! – 65daysofstatic

Almond Joy – Oh Henry! / Watch the video. Order the record!

Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble – Elijah McLaughlin Ensemble II (Tompkins Square) / Absolutely fantastic album—been a big fan of Elijah’s music ever since he mailed Matt a copy of his ensemble’s first LP. This one’s its own new, miraculous thingJen Powers

Kyle Scott Wilson – Journey to the Center of the Egress’ Dream / Another new release that comes as a surprise… my friend Kyle Scott Wilson (of MILAGRESband) has a solo record coming out next week. The two tracks out now sound great of courseTotally Real Records

Mickie Lee-Smith – Shattered Glass / Micki-Lee Smith, who sings and plays violin on my album, put out a new EP today. Give her the coveted Burgess Bump! – Nicholas Burgess

Listening Recommendations

Yo La Tengo – Fakebook / Someone very astutely suggested “Can’t Forget” in the country-inflected thread. What are the best fall-feeling Yo La Tengo songs? Is it all of them? (You don’t need to say “Autumn Sweater.”)Ana

JuJu – La Que Sabe (h/t Sander)

MALEEM MAHMOUD GHANIA w/ PHAROAH SANDERS – The Trance of Seven Colors (Zehra) / If you are still looking to some Pharoah Sanders you may wanna dive into this very cool album that @averycrimeycat hepped me to. I had no idea it existed & it is a delight. Deeply satisfyingDavis Salisbury

Music Videos

Leftfield – Accumulator / I missed this last week Leftfield being very Leftfield which is A Good ThingMisterlaurie

Radio, Mixes, Podcasts

FLAU September Mix via Hong Kong Community Radio

Reading

ORGAN THING: Temple Ov Saturn? Who is multi-media artist and musician Joan Pope? (via Organ ‘Zine)

This month’s best local indie music (Al Shipley via The Baltimore Banner)

Centripetal Force Records to Co-release Albums by Wasted Cathedral and TENGGER (via Record Crates United)

The Rundown: Live Music In October (Rob Duguay via CT Examiner)

Oren Ambarchi’s music of assemblage and erasure (Daniel Felsenthal via Artforum)

News: Melt-Banana Re-release “Scratch Or Stitch” (via New Noise Magazine) – includes list of dates with Psychic Graveyard

Misc

577 Records is having a sale via Squidco!

The filmmaker Amy Cargill Scott made a go at a Red Krayola documentary in the aughts; it was never finished, but someone recently pointed me toward her 2019 posting of footage from it in a c. “9 minute love letter to the band”David Grubbs

Allysen Callery tours UK/Germany!

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