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Artwork by Keven Louis Lareau https://www.instagram.com/thebublight/ This week: Jessica Pratt, Marina Allen, Erin Mat & Paul, Mike Michaels’ Gentle Earth, Scott McMicken and the Ever-Expanding, Bnny, Joe Ghatt, Dan Rincon, Jack Name, Crumb, Dent May & more.
is a new live EP by Bay Area underground standouts Credit Electric elevating three of their immersive and intricately realized guitar rock treasures with more horns and pedal steel cut straight to tape. Like, Everything by Credit Electric https://creditelectric.bandcamp.com/album/like-everything
There are few artists worth the effort and risk of blindly wiring an international payment to an anonymous email address based on a scant description of what is offered in the transaction. “THE ALBUM IS 32 TRACKS. IT IS 2 HOURS AND 2 MINUTES LONG” is all that’s known about Diamond Jubilee, the new album by the otherworldly Cindy Lee available exclusively via WAV file emailed after $30CAD is sent to the Proton Mail account filed on their chaotic Geocities site https://www.geocities.ws/ccqsk/. Worth it.
Perfect World’s ridiculous new single “Pillar of Salt,” outfitted with an unhinged portrait for the track artwork, is a glitchy and absurdist jolt of maximalist and hard-hitting indie pop. Perfect World by Perfect World https://worldperfect.bandcamp.com/album/perfect-world
Philly’s Star Moles steps through the looking glass on her fanciful new album that’s a majestic feat of do-it-yourself new age pop with the trusty Kevin Basko on the studio dials and special guests The Lemon Twigs and Eric Slick. Three Chimes, At Silent Palace! by Star Moles https://starmoles.bandcamp.com/album/three-chimes-at-silent-palace
A wicker interlace of old-timer Piedmont blues, prickly stringband passages, and his own potent potion of new, weird Appalachian kosmiche, Nashville picker Kevin Coleman joins many great contemporaries in challenging the future of rustic American music with his gripping tape . Imaginary Conversations by Kevin Coleman https://kevincolemancf.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-conversations
Released during last year’s Record Store Day, is the first of four LPs paying homage to the songwriting legacy of Drivin N Cryin’s Kevn Kinney with inspired artists and colleagues like Patterson Hood, Jason Isbell, and one of our favorites Erin Rae covering choice cuts from his catalog of southern rock gems. Let's Go Dancing: Said the Firefly to the Hurricane by Tasty Goody Records https://tastygoodyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/lets-go-dancing-said-the-firefly-to-the-hurricane
An unheralded figure in the Brazilian musical narrative, Bororó’s EP recorded at the turn of the 1970s captured a vibrant era of the Tropicalia movement when traditional acoustic playing merged with revolutionary electrified pianos and gear. A Tempo e a Gosto by Bororó https://bororo.bandcamp.com/album/a-tempo-e-a-gosto
The former Babe Rainbow touring vibraphonist Mike Medleycott begins anew as Mike Michaels’ Gentle Earth, a solo recording project that emulates the studio signatures and mellow melodies of his heroes Burt Bacharach and Brian Wilson with his own quirky spin. Roccoco Ramblin' by Mike Michaels' Gentle Earth https://wondercoreisland.bandcamp.com/album/roccoco-ramblin
The easy-come-easy-go kiwi artiste Joe Ghatt drops in with “Always Remember,” the long-awaited follow-up to his propulsive 2019 record and a genesis release on the enduringly impressive Third Eye Stimuli label. Five years later, Ghatt’s unmistakable coastal sway has a renewed strength with cross-cultural grooves and ultra-shaggy surf-rock hooks amplifying his enthralling free-spirited allure.
Artwork by Dismal Alchemy https://www.instagram.com/dismalalchemy/ This week: Sam Evian, Rosali, Dr. Dog, Another Michael, Jackie West, Winter McQuinn, Pokey La Farge, Thee Heart Tones, Little’s House, Amy O, Anna Tivel, Liam Bailey & more.
Argentinian artist Luna Maria Cedrón aka Fiesta En El Vacío (or Party In The Void) weaves spectral soundscapes from a complex circuitry of machine-coded reggaeton rhythms and human-operated flamenco guitar on her visceral new record . Rosal by Fiesta En El Vacío https://teenagemenopause.bandcamp.com/album/rosal
Photo by Asia Harman/Layout by Daniel Murphy On her profound new record , Rosali Middleman’s hallmark heartfelt vocals muscle through a deluge of scuzz from her feedback-junkie rock band Mowed Sound that capture the revelry of a basement jam session with a tie-dye swirl of Sonic Youth, Magnolia Electric Co., and 10,000 Maniacs. Bite Down by Rosali https://rosali.bandcamp.com/album/bite-down
Los Angeles based label Forager Records uncover a heap of rarified funky folk and late-night sultry sounds of the 70s and 80s on their latest, silver-toned comp . Forever Gamblin' On You by Forager Records https://foragerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-gamblin-on-you
A mini assortment of back catalog singles by unsung 60s Space Age doo-wop-country artist Joyce Heath, featured on Efficient Space’s 2016 comp , is presented by the great Melbourne label that offers her sci-fi-tinged tunes a wider reach. Joyce Heath by Joyce Heath https://esextendedmix.bandcamp.com/album/joyce-heath
On Aguafuerte’s new tape on the discovery-rich label Ediciones Populares, Spanish producers Jordi Gegé and Xabel Ferreiro tap into the chippy absurdies of 16-bit theme music and gameplay jingles that are integral to the classic Super Ninetendo or Gameboy fantasy worlds. Fantasía by Aguafuerte https://edicionespopulares.bandcamp.com/album/fantas-a
French producer Amor Fati taps a bizarrely beautiful, time-displaced alchemy by fusing medieval folk and Soundcloud rap on , their intriguing EP that eluded the New Commute radars in 2022. Mai, Le Joli Mai by Amor Fati https://lastloverecords.bandcamp.com/album/mai-le-joli-mai-2
Artwork by Dismal Alchemy https://www.instagram.com/dismalalchemy/ This week: Yuma Abe, RNIE, Bobbie Lovesong, The Lemon Twigs, Erin, Mat & Paul, Loving, Gregor, Pachyman, Lily Seabird, Mountain Movers, Video Age, Josh Johnson, Kane Pour & more.
As they’ve reliably supplied on all prior efforts, Loving craft an album’s worth of well-composed woody soft rock pleasantries on their latest and greatest . Any Light by LOVING https://loving.bandcamp.com/album/any-light
In a Link Wray-meets-Les Baxter fashion, Floreana’s new scorcher “Black Lizards of the Surf” is dedicated to the marine iguanas of the Galapagos soundtracking the sea-diving reptile’s graceful existence. Black Lizards of the Surf by Floreana https://floreanala.bandcamp.com/track/black-lizards-of-the-surf
The latest addition to Stones Throw’s project celebrating the half-century anniversary of welcomes Yuma Abe, the Japanese singer-songwriter and true emulator of Harry Hosono’s Eastern country-funk and folk who faithfully offers his version of “Fuyu Goe.” Fuyu Goe by Yuma Abe https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/fuyu-goe-2
https://www.instagram.com/mickey4miles/ Leading into his fourth full-length , a high point in the catalog of elite singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Sam Evian, the Catskills-dwelling virtuoso curates a set of impactful tracks guiding his myriad audio pursuits. Plunge by sam evian https://samevian.bandcamp.com/album/plunge
Multi-disciplinary artist Nathaniel Russell fantasizes an album that would be for sale at at the merch table at his own funeral on his new record coming May 24th on the reliable Psychic Hotline label. The gently magnetic “Wonderful To Be In Love” is the album’s latest sentimental single delivered with a palpable proximity. Songs Of by nathaniel russell https://nathanielrussell.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of
“Dilaudid” is the debut single from Athens, Georgia’s new recording project Chairs formed by Reed Winckler and Marcel Sletten, curator of the Primordial Void outlet that shimmers with Bunnymen/Joy Division atmospherics and hooks. Dilaudid by Chairs https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/track/dilaudid
Artwork by Dismal Alchemy https://www.instagram.com/dismalalchemy/ This week: Sam and Louise Sullivan, Floreana, Bobby Sheppard, Sam Evian, Jon Mckiel, Bobbie Lovesong, La Luz, Amen Dunes, Habibi, Dent May & more.
Sibling band Sam and Louise Sullivan, a Philly unit and frequent collaborator with the recording king Kevin Basko, share a softly sorrowful single “Your Letters,” about a fizzled romance with a Feist-like songwriting emotion. Your Letters by Sam and Louise Sullivan https://historicnj.bandcamp.com/track/your-letters
Mischievous saxophone virtuoso Sam Gendel joins Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento for , the combo’s soul-stirring debut on Peter Gabriel’s Real World label with ten stimulating new interpretations of folkloric compositions from around South America. The Room by Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel https://samgendel.bandcamp.com/album/the-room
Sydney’s Itchy & The Nits propagate a sunshiny brand of cranked-up, riff raff punk shaped by the girl group power pop outfits of the 70s and 80s cult underground. Worst Of LP by ITCHY & THE NITS https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/worst-of-lp
Favorably mixing Flamenco style guitar with reggae rhythms and hooks, Ronnie Lion’s debut is an out of the ordinary pairing that pays homage to the Spanish influences of Jamaica. Spanish Town by Ronnie Lion https://ronnielion.bandcamp.com/album/spanish-town
By the end of Jon Mckiel’s new single “String” from his new record out in May, each spectator becomes hypnotized by the tune’s ritualistic hum and disjointed guitar soloing. Hex by Jon Mckiel https://jonmckiel.bandcamp.com/album/hex
