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2026.42
Dødsego: Reisen Vol. 1 - Beyond The Void
It's stoner metal! It's out-jazz! It's psychfolk! And least surprisingly, it's from northern Europe! Oslo, to be exact. The Norway seven-piece's new release is heavy in the right ways, wearing […]
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2026.41
Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sundstøl: Langeleik
The world is a noisy, fucked place and I've got just the thing to take you mind off it. For thirty minutes or so. Because what's better than one ambient pedal steel, but two of em. Here the […]
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2026.40
Pan-American: Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane
Mark Nelson says his latest is about travel, both the physical journey and the metaphysical one to the beyond. The music is a solo ambient guitar electronica that drifts and floats. There's […]
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2026.39
Zahn: Purpur
Some great rock music from this Berlin trio. There's plenty of great bang-your-head heaviness in here, but the album seems to evolve as it goes, exploring a variety of increasingly interesting sounds. You go from "yeah […]
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2026.38
Plankton Wat: The Vanishing World
Dewey Mahood has been making music as Plankton Wat for quite a while now and as a fan, my impression has been an excellent DIY, lo-fi psychedelic. His latest is surprisingly rich, with a full band of […]
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2026.37
Fabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orchestra: Vila
I thought you could use some good vibes for your weekend, so I'm bringing you this ray of sunshine from this LA guitarist. Here he pairs with an orchestra and this music is really […]
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2026.36
Wet Tuna: Vast
The latest from Matt Valentine and Co is a trip... almost literally. The album is a psychedelic wunderkammer full of Garcia Easter eggs, electronic hallucenations, loose indiejams, and just general weirdness. An […]
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2025.35
The Tomeka Reid Quartet: dance! skip! hop!
If you didn't know who the leader of this quartet was and you listened to this album, I think you'd be hard pressed to figure it out. The playing and interactions between the four musicians is […]
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2026.34
Ivan the Tolerable: Chromophobia
It's that time again! This guy's putting out great music faster than I can get to it. This one comes from the I the T vaults, recorded in 2018 and revisited and rejiggered more recently, a tribute to […]
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2026.33
Brian Marsella Trio: Play Zorn's Bagatelles
Marsella is in that "best pianist you don't know" category, an incredible and creative jazz talent. Here he's in trio with the equally powerhouse Trevor Dunn and Kenny Wollesen. They're […]
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2026.32
Booker Stardrum: Close-Up on the Outside
Stardrum is a guy you'll find lending his talents to a wide variety of projects, including drumming for SML. His latest has some of the usual trappings of a solo drum album: textures of […]
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2026.31
Sightseeing Crew: Muffled Ears, the World Sounds Bad Quality
This new music out of London is a real tweener. Somewhere in between genres, although hard to pin down which ones. Somewhere in between instrumental and not. Kind of feels […]
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2026.30
Evan Shornstein & Celia Hollander: Unexpected Music II
The climate calls for some peace and this live performance, captured at a lovely-looking venue in Woodstock is just the thing. A duet matching piano with synth and more, it's a […]
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2026.29
Shake Stew: Ten One Two
The album title refers to both the Vienna band's tenth year in existence and that they are celebrating with a one-two double release. They've certainly got enough killer ideas to fill an oversized album. Don't […]
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2026.28
Seven Teller: What Are The Chances?
Been sick for a few days this absolute banger out of Baltimore is a perfect way to clear out the cobwebs and head into the weekend feeling good. Densely layered rhythms, irresistible bass ripples […]
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2026.27
Various Artists: Don't Forget Your Guitar
Don't do a lot of compilation records here, but this one's definitely worth pointing your ears towards. Joel Harrison runs the Alternate Guitar Summit which does guitar-centric shows and […]
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2026.26
Lyke Rayne: The Time Will Sort Ye Out
Sean Conrad's music was made in the Pacific Northwest, but it has the sounds of some mythical Britain. To my ears, it's a mix of woozy London psychedelic, lush UK prog, and pastoral Britfolk […]
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2026.25
Orchestra of the Upper Atmosphere: Theta Seven
On their seventh (and apparently finally) album, the UK collective covers a lot of ground. It's a wild diversity of instruments, sounds, and genres. Even on the micro-scale: at any given […]
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2026.24
Leroy From the North: My Favorite Gun
In some ways, it's kind of hard to believe this is brand new music. The songs have a lived-in familiarity to them, like a leather coat pulled off the vintage rack that fits just right. This is […]
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2026.23
Forever Pavot: Melchior, Vol 1
If I'm translating correctly, Emile Sornin, the French musician who performs as Forever Pavot, feels like he's working too hard making music and so he built a robot to do it for him. That's the conceit of […]
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2026.22
Yin Yin: Yatta!
This quartet is from the Netherlands, but their latest is a combination of Asian motifs and American disco, with a few other excursions thrown in. All in all, it's a delight of funkiness, culling groove from all sorts […]
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2026.21
Lo Greco Bros: Latin Bilbao
I'd love to tell you something about this album, but the who/what/how is surprisingly tough to find online. What I *can* tell you is that this is pure Latin funk perfection. If you heard any track on here at […]
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Micro-serendipity looking over at the radio for the song title at the red light this morning. @Neddyo #recommNeds
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Muriel Grossmann: Plays the music of McCoy Tyner and Grateful Dead
This is not Grossman's first appearance here, her brand of organ groove is almost always rec-worthy. But here, as the title implies, she takes some very cool source material and […]
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2026.19
Cordovas: Back to Life
This Nashville band continues to do the big things right, straddling the country-rock divide with great songs and an easy-to-dig sound. But on their latest they really sharpen up on the small things as well. The […]
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2026.18
Luke Marantz & Simon Jermyn: Echoes
There's a whole class of if-you-know-you-know NYC musicians who are under the radar, even locally, but if they're on a live bill you just know it's gonna be good. It's always a pleasure to spread the […]
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2026.17
Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop:Only Came To Say Goodbye
This one came out in December, but didn't come onto my radar until last month and I'm glad it did. This collaboration is electronic music that transcends electronic music. Beautiful […]
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2026.16
Phil Martin: Mystical Funk II
This album title is more or less truth in advertising. The latest from the Dutch musician is 31 flavors of funkification, from afrobeat-inspired to Daft Punk dance throwback and many points in between. I […]
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2026.15
Erik Hall: Solo Three
This is "contemporary classical" music, but don't let that scare you! Hall performs 4 pieces by American minimalism masters here in the third of a series. As it says, it's solo, and with these pieces the […]
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2026.14
The Natural Yogurt Band: Red Sky at Night
There are portions of the latest from this UK band that sound as if Mozart was scoring 70's spy thrillers and 80's video games, a funky kind of harpsichord sound. That's just part of it, though […]
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