If you were writing about music that hit a certain psychedelic headspace in the mid aughts then it’s fair to say outside of perhaps Grouper, Emeralds was one of the dominant acts…
“Under No Nation” tipped off listeners to the new GOAT album out later this month, but this is the unimpeachable single from the album. Feeling like a Bow Wow Wow tune, albeit…
So many great records have been landing from Cole Police lately. After two collaborations already on the decks this year — To Live & Die in Space & Time with Lynn Avery…
The second single from The excellent new Gold Dust LP is one of the deepest cuts on the record. A song of self-doubt and inward reflection. The kind of song that turns…
Another heady entry to the Under the Wheels series of live recordings from Howlin’ Rain is upon us and its one of the band’s most high fidelity captures yet. Recorded live at…
A busy week for El Paraiso and specifically Martin Rude and Jakob Skøtt who had a single out with Edena Gardens yesterday. This time the pair are back into the jazz-psych bunker…
The impeccable run of acts from Curation Records continues. This time the label taps Eric Silverman for a new album of West Coast psychedelics and Canyon cooldowns. The first single embraces the…
One of the year’s best album has come by way of Nashville songwriter Lou Turner. A more meditative counterpoint to the loose indie of her band Styrofoam Winos. By contrast her solo…
A new portfolio of synth excursions arrives this week from The Advisory Circle. The longtime Ghostbox project has, like labelmates Belbury Poly, found a way to weave through the myriad genres of…
I first heard Tengger in a release from the sorely missed Beyond Beyond is Beyond label. The band, based out of the South Korean highlands, retains their tether to the natural world…
The last Rhyton album was one of 2021’s highlights around here and Shuford follows it up with a solo jaunt under his long lingering, but less often used, moniker Theoxenia. The album,…
This year (like pretty much every year) El Paraiso has been serving up excellent offerings. The latest combination of house players sees Jakob Skøtt & Martin Rude pair up with Papir guitarist…
Snarling new single out today from Aussies Alien Nosejob. The band is the solo guise of Jake Robertson (Ausmuteants, School Damage) who never seems to rest for very long, shuffling through a…
Glasgow’s Order of the Toad have a new record just out and a video to accompany the stomping single “Subterranean. The band boasts members of a wide swath of indie outfits, including…
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