Gibbs' Picks Vol. 2, 2021 redux

A distillation of tracks from RxGibbs' "Best Of 2021" Spotify playlist -- sequenced to flow naturally between dream-pop, indie-rock, cosmopolitan pop, ambient, laid-back electronica and other uncategorizable styles -- with a handful of unmissable covers thrown in. Still fresh! Listen on...





and a short list of new, December 2023, discoveries and a few prior:

Christopher Bissonnette - In A Second Floor Window (12k 100)
Edena Gardens – Dens (El Paraiso)
Roméo Poirier & The Exposures aka Jan Jelinek – Love/ Hate (Faitiche)
Akhira Sano - In Front Of (Otoroku 009)

November 2023:

Alexia Avina – In The Pantheon Of Decay (Lost Map)

June 2023:

Not Waving – The Place I’ve Been Missing (Ecstatic)

November ambient 2023

and more:

Akhira Sano – Far More Decentralized (33-33)
Guentner/ Spieth – Overlay (Affin Ltd)
MJ Lenderman – And The Wind (Live and Loose!) (Anti-, Dear Life)
Anagrams – Blue Voices (Balmat)
Wax Machine – The Sky Unfurls, The Dance Goes On (Batov)
Sam Dunscombe – Two Forests (Black Truffle)
Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn – Fantastic Light (Cosmic Range)
Bahía Mansa - Mallki (Cyclical Dreams)
Rainy Miller/ Space Afrika – Grisaille (Fixed Abode)
David Holmes ft. Raven Violet – Blind On A Galloping Horse (Heavenly)
Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang – Azure (Ideologic Organ)
The Smashing Times – This Sporting Life (K)
Blank Gloss - Grab (Kompakt)
Pop Ambient 2024 (Kompakt)
Niecy Blues – Exit Simulation (Kranky 240)
Skyphone – Oscilla (Lost Tribe Sound)
VA – Synthetic Bird Music (Mappa)
Skyway Man – Flight Of The Long Distance Healer (Mama Bird)
Wurld Series – The Giant’s Lawn (Melted Ice Cream/ Meritorio)
First Tone – 1 (Modemain)
Roy Werner – Imagine My Surprise (Moon Glyph)
Other Joe - A Cat Can Look At A King (OST)
Pauline Anna Strom – Echoes, Spaces, Lines (Rvng Intl.)
M. Geddes Gengras – Dual Optics (self-released)
Mo Dotti – For Anyone and You (self-released)
Our Dear Friend, The Medic – The Inaccessible Solitude Of The Sky (self-released)
Thomas Brinkmann – Quila/ Romy (self-released)
Jules Reidy – Trances (Shelter Press 147)
Animal Hospital – Shelf Life (Sipsman)
Better Corners – Continuous Miracles Vol. 2 (The State51 Conspiracy)
Earth - Earth 2.23 - Special Lower Frequency Mix (Sub Pop 1603)
Hotline TNT – Cartwheel (Third Man)
Daniel Bachman – When The Roses Come Again (Three Lobed)
Tuluum Shimmering – The Mountains Are Singing and The Roses Are Singing (Tuluum Shimmering)
Kurt Vile - Back to Moon Beach (Verve)
Shackleton – The Scandal of Time (Woe To the Septic Heart)

October 2023:

Yolabmi – Hydra (29 Speedway)
Quicksails – Surface (Hausa Mountain)
Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata – Mirage (Important)
Forest Swords – Bolted (Ninja Tune)
KMRU – Stupor (Other Power)
Andrew Tasselmyer & Blurstem – Midnight Letter (Past Inside the Present)
Maria BC – Spike Field (Sacred Bones)

September 2023:

J and The Woolen Stars – Personal Problems… (Daisart)
Jason Calhoun – Small Circle (Dear Life)
Colin Miller – Haw Creek (Ruination)

July 2023:

Bedroom Eyes – Turned Away (Ala Carte)
Animal Hospital “Ok, Kevin” (self-released)

June 2023:

Animal Hospital “Found”

May 2023:

Jeffrey Silverstein – Western Sky Music (Arrowhawk)

April 2023:

Josephine Foster – Domestic Sphere (Fire)
Akhira Sano – Shadow’s Praise (IIKKI)

October 2022:

The Smashing Times – Bloom (Meritorio)

February 2022:

Andrew Tasselmyer – Limits (Laaps)

October 2023

and more:

October 2023:

Mike Reed – The Separatist Party (Astral Spirits/ We Jazz)
The Feelies – Some Kinda Love: Performing The Music Of The Velvet Underground (Bar/None)
Dave Easley – Ballads (Big Ego)
Aaron Dooley – The International Disassociation Of (Centripetal Force)
Helena Deland – Goodnight Summerland (Chivi Chivi)
The Inward Circles - Before We Lie Down in Darknesse (Corbel Stone Press 10)
BCMC – Foreign Smokes (Drag City 866)
Mike Donovan – Meets The Mighty Flashlight (Drag City)
The Bures Band - BirdSG (Andrew Pekler) – For Lovers Only/ Rain Suite (Faitiche)
Vanishing Twin – Afternoon X (Fire)
The Vacant Lots – Interiors (Fuzz Club)
Ilyas Ahmed – A Dream Of Another (Geographic North 73)
Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly International)
American Analog Set – For Forever (Hometown Fantasy 04) Lee Gamble – Models (Hyperdub)
Tele Novella – Poet’s Tooth (Kill Rock Stars 705)
Bill Seaman/ Tim Diagram/ Stephen Spera – The World Was Turning Before (Laaps)
Jake Acosta – Retrospector (Lake Paradise 20)
Arp – The Enormous Room (Longform Editions 133)
SUSS & Andrew Tuttle – Rising (Longform Editions 136)
Red Pants – Not Quite There Yet (Meritorio)
Gregg Kowalsky – Eso Es (Mexican Summer 264)
L’Rain – I Killed Your Dog (Mexican Summer)
Observatories – Frost Forms (Quiet Details)
Dancefloor Classics - Dancefloor Classics Vol.4 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay - Hide Behind The Silence EP 4 (Rajaton)
Salmon Graveyard – Salmon Graveyard (Ramble Records)
Half Stack – Sitting Pretty (Royal Oakie)
Sun June – Bad Dream Jaguar (Run For Cover)
Blue Ocean - Fertile State (Slumberland 274)
Lightheaded – Good Good Great! (Slumberland)
The Laughing Chimes – A Promise To Keep (Slumberland)
Lost Girls – Selvutsletter (Smalltown Supersound)
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Soundscape 1: Surround (Temporal Drift/ Misawa Home, 1986)
Hyperdawn – Steady (Them There)

September 2023:

Tom James Scott – Nightshade (Alter)
Monokle – Ultraflowers (Constellation Tatsu)
Seawind Of Battery & ragenap – Chaos Life Preserver (Eidertown)
Moniek Darge/ Vanessa Rossetto – Dream Soundies (Erstwhile)
NHK yx Koyxen - Climb Downhill 1 (Hyperdub)
Duffy x Uhlmann – Doubles (Orindal)
Ng’at Maler – Pearl House (self-released)

July 2023:

NHK yx Koyxen - Climb Downhill 2 (Bruk)

April 2023:

Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream (No Quarter)
The Soundcarriers – Celeste (2010, Ubiquity)

February 2023:

The Ducks – Invitation (feat. Ratboys & Mo Troper) (Carpark)

January 2023:

Jake Acosta – Genius Or Not (Blorpus)
Observatories – Our Recently Acquired Knowledge (IIKKI 19)

July 2022:

Flowertown – Half Yesterday (Paisley Shirt)

September 2023

and more:

Illuha – Tobira (12k 2058)
Zimoun – ModularGuitarFields I-VI (12k 2057)
Will Samson – Harp Swells (12k 2059)
Ohio – Drift Of Autumn (12k 3035)
Lewsberg – Out and About (12xU)
Jeffrey Alexander & The Heavy Lidders – New Earth Seed (Arrowhawk)
Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe)
Continuity – Continuity (B.A.A.D.M.)
Modern Nature – No Fixed Point In Space (Bella Union)
Catherine Christer Hennix – Solo for Tamburium (Blank Forms)
The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark)
Wilco – Cousin (dBpm)
Slowdive – Everything Is Alive (Dead Oceans)
Tirzah – trip9love…??? (Domino 514)
CV & JAB – Klima (Editions Basilic)
blackbody_radiation – Ultra-Materials (Faitiche)
Matthew Halsall – An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
Félicia Atkinson/ Richard Chartier - Ni envers ni endroit que cette roche brûlante (Pour Georgia O’Keeffe) / Recurrence.Expansion (GRM Portraits)
Chris Abrahams, Oren Ambarchi, & Robbie Avenaim – Placelessness (Ideologic Organ)
Channelers – Generation/ Harvest (Inner Islands 90)
Golden Brown – Wide Ranging Riders (Inner Islands)
Sawyer G. – It’ll Be Gone For a Little While (Inner Islands)
VA – Total 23 (Kompakt)
Medicine – Silences (Laner Archival Service)
Tu M' - Monochromes Vol . 2 (Line 142)
Soccer Mommy – Karaoke Night (Loma Vista)
Teenage Fanclub – Nothing Lasts Forever (Merge)
The Small Intestines – Hide In Time (Meritorio)
Gonubie – Signals At Both Ears (Metron)
M. Sage & Zander Raymond – Parayellowgram (Moon Glyph 136)
Setting – Shone A Rainbow Light On (Paradise Of Bachelors)
Purelink – Signs (Peak Oil)
Blue Dolphin – Robert’s Lafitte (Post Present Medium)
Blonde Redhead – Sit Down For Dinner (Section1)
Karen Vogt – I’ve Been Waiting For The Longest Time (Extended Version) (self-released)
Yumi Zouma – KPR (self-released)
The Laughing Chimes – Laurel Heights (Slumberland)
Tony Jay – Perfect Worlds (Slumberland)
Andy Bell & Masal – Hallogallo (Sonic Cathedral)
Deeper – Careful! (Sub Pop)
Sally Anne Morgan – Carrying (Thrill Jockey 597)
Natalia Beylis – Mermaids (Touch Sensitive)
Melenas – Ahoras (Trouble In Mind)
Six Organs Of Admittance – Sleep Tones (Hermit Hut 2020, Vin Du Select Qualitite 32)
Pauline Hogstrand – Áhkká (Warm Winters)
Serwed – IV (West Mineral Ltd. 86)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Severed Belonging (Yellow Electric)

August 2023:

Mike Nigro – Argyle Place Park (Oxtail)
Madder Rose – No One Gets Hurt Ever (Trome)

May 2022:

Zimoun – Guitar Studies I-III (Room40)

August 2023

Songs:

Speakers Corner Quartet – “Fix (featuring Tirzah)” march 2023
Claire Rousay & Helena Deland “Deceiver” (Looking Glass) may 2023
Mint Julep “After All” may 2023
Purelink “4k Murmurs feat. J” (Peak Oil) august 2023
Rosali “Stuck Inside A Cloud” (merge) august 2023

August 2023:

mu tate - they’re with you always (3XL/ Utter)
Infinite River – Space Mirror (Birdman)
Helpful People – Broken Blossom Threats (Burundi Cloud)
Gaadge – Somewhere Down Below (Crafted Sounds)
Florry – The Holey Bible (Dear Life 45)
Starving Weirdos – Aetheistsaregods (Discrepant)
Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood – Reset In Dub (Domino)
Arnold Dreyblatt & the Orchestra Of Excited Strings – Resolve (Drag City 877)
Spiral Joy Band – Elvehjem (Feeding Tube)
Death & Vanilla – Reimagined by Civilistjävel! (Fire)
Lia Kohl - Too Small to Be a Plain (Florabelle)
Emeralds – Does It Look Like I’m Here (Expanded) (Ghostly International)
Helios – Espera (Ghostly International)
Dustin Wong – Perpetual Morphosis (Hausa Mountain 135)
Mikaela Davis – And Southern Star (Kill Rock Stars 779)
Brin & Dustin Wong – Texture II (Leaving Records 238)
Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe – First (Longform Editions 130)
bahía mansa/ Yama Yuki - Cartas Náuticas (Mystery Circles)
Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – The Snailhook Tapes Vol. 2 (Pome Pome)
Lawrence English + Lea Bertucci – Chthonic (Room40)
Mariano Rodriguez y Ezequiel Montivero - Amigo Perro (self-released)
Rosie Turton – Wandering Wondering (self-released)
Tuluum Shimmering – Tamalpais (At About 6) (self-released)
Sonic Youth – Live In Brooklyn 2011 (Silver Current 55)
Pmxper – pmxper (Smalltown Supersound)
Josh Mason – An Anxious Host (Students of Decay 134)
Olli Aarni – Tuokioita (Ultraääni)
Shinetiac – Not All Who Wander Are Lost (West Mineral Ltd. 84)
Claire Rousay – Sigh In My Ear (Western Vinyl)

July 2023:

Far Caspian – The Last Remaining Light (A Tiny Library Recording)
Duncan Park – Traveller’s Peace (Aural Canyon)
Being Dead – When Horses Run (Bayonet 54)
Philippe Deschamps – Blue Baths (self-released)
Francis Morning – Brief Glimpses (self-released)
Freddy Muia & Ng’at Maler – There Is Time (self-released)
Luxor Rentals – Burn Yr Trash (self-released)
Jeanines – Each Day (Where It’s At Is Where You Are/ Slumberland)

June 2023:

Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders – Spacious Minds (Arrowhawk)
The Boo Radleys – Eight (BooSTR 7)
Golden Feelings – Better Weather (self-released)
Nick Malkin – At The Libra Hotel (OOH-sounds)

May 2023:

Lagoss – Imaginary Island Music Vol. 2 (Discrepant)

April 2023:

Maxine Funke – River Said (Disciples)
Purelink – To/ Deep (NAFF 17)
Keith Kenniff – It Shall Appear (Unseen)

March 2023:

Powers/ Pulice/ Rolin – Prism (Cached Media)

January 2023:

Spiral Joy Band – In The River (Feeding Tube)

July 2022:

Jeffrey Alexander – Flutterings (Feeding Tube)

June 2022:

Golden Feelings – Golden Feelings (self-titled)

April 2022:

Spiral Joy Band – Open Circle (Dub Cthonic)

January 2022:

Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good & Green Again (Paradise Of Bachelors)

July 2023

Songs:

Helpful People “Bugs From Below”
Lost Girls “Ruins”
Luke Schneider “Gloria”
MJ Lenderman “Rudolph” (Anti-)
Rat Heart “Flashing Lights Freestyle” (Shotta Tapes)
Say Sue Me “Mind Is Light”
Slowdive “Skin In The Game”

July 2023:

Kenneth Kirschner – July 27, 2022 (12k 3034)
Ylia – Ame Agaru (Balmat)
7038634357 – Neo Seven (Blank Forms)
Marc Richter - Coh Bâle (Cellule)
The Particles – 1980s Bubblegum (Chapter Music)
43 Odes – Hwn Un Amn (Eiderdown)
The Lentils – Hello Jane Goodall, Are You Listening? (Feeding Tube)
Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings (Ghostly International 416)
Keith Fullerton Whitman – A Stable Environment (Going In 25)
Boxhead Ensemble – Ancient Music (Jealous Butcher)
Lifeguard – Dressed In Trenches (Matador)
Cloudland Canyon – Cloudland Canyon (Medical) Jonny Nash – Point Of Entry (Melody As Truth)
Fort Not – Depressed For Success (Meritorio) Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (Mexican Summer)
Present Electric – Present Electric (Paisley Shirt)
Zoh Amba & Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt – The Flower School (Palilalia)
DJ Koze – Wespennest/ Candidasa (Pampa)
Roman Flügel – Lucky Charm (Running Back)
P. Fusco – 5 Loops For Summer (self-released)
Workhorse – Desert (self-released)
The Jeanines – Each Day (Slumberland)
Lindstrøm – Everyone Else Is A Stranger (Smalltown Supersound)
Greg Davis & E. Jason Gibbs – Steam Fence (Superpang)
Thomas Brinkmann – Mele Boy/ The Seduction EP (Third Ear)
Luke Schneider – It Is Solved By Walking (Third Man)
Gunn Truscinski Nace – Glass Band (Three Lobed)
Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (Warp)
Läuten der Seele - Ertrunken Im Seichtesten Gewässer (World Of Echo)
VA – Xkatedral Anthology Series II (XKatedral)

June 2023:

Natalie Rose LeBrecht – Holy Prana Open Game (American Dreams)
Taylor Deupree & Jeremiah Fraites – Northern Redux (Dualtone)
Friends Meeting – God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance (Going In 23)
Lorena Álvarez & Alejandro Palacios – Paisajes Para Torcer al Reloj (Not Not Fun)
Daisuke Suzuki & Andrew Chalk – Drifting (Siren, 1996)
The Softies/ Tony Molina – Pacific NW Tour Tape (Slumberland)

May 2023:

Caveman LSD – Total Annihilation Beach (Isla)

April 2023:

Mute Duo – Migrant Flocks (American Dreams)
Chime School – Coming To Your Town (Slumberland)

March 2023:

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – The Town That Cursed Your Name (Slumberland)
Frankie Cosmos – Love As Projection (Slumberland)
The Laughing Chimes – Arboretum Miles (Slumberland)

October 2022:

Say Sue Me – 10 (Damnably/ Beach Town Music)

September 2022:

The Beths – Expert In A Dying Field (Carpark)

August 2022:

Workhorse – No Photographs (Dinosaur City)

April 2022:

MJ Lenderman – Boat Songs (Dear Life)
Blue Lake – Stikling (Polychrome)

New music from June and prior

June 2023:

Akhira Sano – Phase Contrast From Recollection (12k 3033)
Solo Andata – Slip Casting (12k 3032)
Bonny Doon – Let There Be Music (Anti-)
Graham Lambkin – Aphorisms (Blank Forms)
Cory Hanson – Western Cum (Drag City)
Flesh & The Dream – Choose Mortality (Everything Forever)
Hand Habits – Sugar The Bruise (Fat Possum)
Bong Wish – Hazy Road (Feeding Tube)
Wet Tuna – Party Phone (Feral Child/ Child Of Microtones)
Civilistjävel! - The Järnnätter Remixes (Felt Rmx 001)
James & The Giants – James & The Giants (Kill Rock Stars)
Gacha Bakradze – Pancakes (Lapsus)
Cole Pulice – If I Don’t See You In The Future, I’ll See You In The Pasture (Longform Editions)
King Krule – Space Heavy (Matador)
L’Rain - New Year’s UnResolution (Mexican Summer)
Hayden Pedigo – The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored (Mexican Summer)
Jess Williamson – Time Ain’t Accidental (Mexican Summer)
Taylor Deupree – Something That Looks Like Stars (Nettwerk)
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler – Darkness, Darkness b/w No Services (Psychic Hotline)
Feeble Little Horse – Girl With Fish (Saddle Creek)
Animal Hospital – Found (self-released)
Honey Radar – English Costume (self-released)
Anthony Naples – Orbs (self-released)
Northern Lights – The Man I Was That Day (self-released)
Bendik Giske – Bendik Giske (Smalltown Supersound)
Carmen Villain – Music From The Living Monument (Smalltown Supersound)
Theodore Cale Schafer – Trust (Students Of Decay)
Weird Nightmare – She’s The One (Sub Pop)
Danny Paul Grody – Arc Of Day (Three Lobed 145)
Black Duck – Black Duck (Thrill Jockey)
Blue Lake – Sun Arcs (Tonal Union)
Philip Jeck & Chris Watson – Oxmardyke (Touch Tone 83)
Martin Frawley – Wannabe (Trouble In Mind)
The Toads – In The Wilderness (Upset! The Rhythm)
Ben Chasny & Rick Tomlinson – Waves (Voix)
Anna St. Louis – In The Air (Woodsist)

May 2023:

Bill Orcutt – The Anxiety Of Symmetry (Fake Estates)
Staubitz and Waterhouse – Out and About (Gertrude Tapes)
Nimu – Picture In Picture (Ilian Tape)
Eli Keszler – Live (LuckyMe)
Loris S. Sarid – A Tiny Reminder (Moon Glyph)
Stephan Mathieu – Mauve District (Schwebung ƒ VIII PRIMAR-ÆQUINOKTIUM MMXXIII)
Pontiac Streator – Select Works Vol. IIII (self-released)
Perila – On The Corner Of The Day (Shelter Press 141)
Bobby Lee – Endless Skyways (Tompkins Square 5937)

April 2023:

Emma Tricca – Aspirin Sun (Bella Union)
Niko-Matti Ahti – Kaivajaiset (Students Of Decay)

Reissues:

The Dream Syndicate – The Days Of Wine And Roses (Ruby, 1982) (History Kinda Pales When It And You Are Aligned) (Fire, June 2023)

2022:

Eli Keszler – The Vaulting Sky (LuckyMe) march 2022
Pontiac Streator – Select Works Vol. III (self-released) may 2022
Eli Keszler – Dawn (Duendita Remix) (LuckyMe) July 2022

Music Of The Month and more

New Songs:

Bobby Lee “Acid Grassland”
Fridge “Five Combs” (Happiness bonus track)

May 2023:

Terry Riley / John Tilbury – Keyboard Studies (Another Timbre)
Prairiewolf – Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force)
Wolf Eyes – Dreams In Splattered Lines (Disciples)
Flasher – In My Myth (Domino)
Matt Lajoie – On Garudan Wing (Flower Room)
Maya Ongaku – Approach to Anima (Guruguru Brain)
Ned Milligan - Considerable (Laaps)
Blurry The Explorer – Angel Ecology (Island House)
Gia Margaret – Romantic Piano (Jagjaguwar)
Califone – Villagers (Jealous Butcher)
Bar Italia – Tracey Denim (Matador)
Taylor Deupree – Eev (Nettwerk)
Cian Nugent – She Brings Me Back To The Land Of The Living (No Quarter)
Perko – Prang (Numbers)
Dancefloor Classics – Dancefloor Classics Vol. 3 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay – Hide Behind The Silence EP 3 (Rajaton)
Delphine Dora – As Above, So Below (Recital)
Isolee – Resort Island (Resort Island)
France Jobin – 10-33CM (Room40)
M. Sage – Paradise Crick (Rvng Intl.)
Marcus Fischer – Dodecalogues (vol. 1) (self-released)
Perila – On The Corner Of The Day (Shelter Press)
Ben Vida w/ Yarn/Wire and Nina Dante – The Beat My Head Hit (Shelter Press)
Andy Bell & Masal – Tidal Love Numbers (Sonic Cathedral)
Fridge – Happiness (Anniversary Edition) (Temporary Residence)
The Telescopes – Of Tomorrow (Tapete)
Fred Again… & Brian Eno – Secret Life (Text)
Oval – Romantiq (Thrill Jockey)
Bana Haffar – Intimaa (Touch)
Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O’Rourke – Lifetime Of A Flower (Week-end)

April 2023:

Romance – Fade Into You (Ecstatic)
Lavender Flu – Assorted Promenades (Mind Meld)
Shannon Lay – Covers Vol. 1 (Sub Pop)

February 2023:

Stefano Pilia & Valerio Tricoli – Cantor Park (Improved Sequence)

Men on Mars, April Showers

New songs:

Lael Neale “Must Be Tears” (Sub Pop)
The Last Dinner Party “Nothing Matters”
Matt LaJoie “Garudan Wing”
Matt LaJoie “Flight Path”
King Krule “Seaforth” (matador)
Danny Paul Grody “Light Blooms” (3 Lobed) june 2023
Silver Synthetic “The Door” (Third Man)
Rose City Band “Garden Party” (Thrill Jockey)

April 2023:

Between – Low Flying Owls (12k 099)
Mute Duo – Migrant Flocks (American Dreams)
Lau Nau – 5 x 4 (Beacon Sound)
Silver Moth – Black Bay (Bella Union)
Giuseppe Ielasi – Down On Darkened Meetings (Black Truffle 102)
Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, Dean Roberts – May 99 (Blank Forms)
400 Lonely Things – Mother Moon (Cold Spring 319)
All Hands Make Light – Darling the Dawn (Constellation)
Triptides – Starlight (Curation)
Wednesday – Rat Saw God (Dead Oceans)
Edena Gardens – Agar (El Paraiso 70/ 71)
Natural Information Society – Since Time Is Gravity (Eremite)
Jan Jelinek – SEASCAPE _ polyptych (Faitiche 31)
Holiday Ghosts – Absolute Reality (Fat Cat 176)
Civilistjavel! – Fyra Platser (Felt 004)
Matt LaJoie – Flight Path (Flower Room)
France Sauvage – Ou Les Observer, Savior Les Reconnaitre (In Paradisum)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief – Schemen (Karl Records)
Tim Hecker – No Highs (Kranky)
Jana Horn – The Window Is The Dream (No Quarter 85)
Bill Orcutt – Jump On It (Palilalia 73)
Erwan Sene – Junq (PAN)
Nondi_ - Flood City Trax (Planet Mu)
MV & EE – Green Ark (Ramble/ Child Of Microtones)
Four Tet – Three Drums (self-released)
Nashville Ambient Ensemble – Light and Space (self-released)
Tuluum Shimmering – Behind the Cloud Horizon (self-released)
VA – Remix Anthology Vol. 1-4 2002-2022 (Smalltown Supersound)
Beach House – Become (Sub Pop 1545)
North Americans – Long Cool World (Third Man 878)
Rose City Band – Garden Party (Thrill Jockey 588)
Ozmotic|Fennesz - Senzatempo (Touch Tone 80)
Cindy – Why Not Now? (Tough Love 163)
Entidad Animada – Pruebas de Existencia (Umor Rex)
Terry – Call Me Terry (Upset the Rhythm)
Sunburned Hand Of The Man – Hypnotape (vhf)

March 2023:

Marta – When It’s Going Wrong (False Idols/ !K7)
Mystic 100s – On A Micro Diet (Listening House)
Alexandre Babel & Latifa Echakhch – The Concert (Shelter Press)
Rat Heart Ensemble – Northern Luv Songs 4 Wen Ur Life’s A Mess (Shotta Tapes 004)
YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduO – To The Forest To Live A Truer Life (Thrill Jockey)

February 2023:

Infinite River – Prequel (Birdman)
Andrew Pekler – Khao Sok Extension (Zappak)

October 2022:

Edena Gardens – Edena Gardens (El Paraiso 68, Impetus Series 53)

Environments

New songs:

The Toads “Nationalsville” (Anti Fade/ Upset the Rhythm)
Silver Moth “The Eternal” (Bella Union)
Nashville Ambient Ensemble “Waveguide” (Centripetal Force)
All Hands Make Light “We Live On A Fucking Planet and Baby That’s The Sun” (Constellation)
Edena Gardens “Sombra Del Mar” (El Paraiso)
Edena Gardens “Veil” (El Paraiso)
Califone “The Habsburg Jaw” (Jealous Butchers)
Noble Rot “Casting No Light” (Joyful Noise)
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth “Area Code 601” (Merge)
Cindy “The Price Is Right” (Mt St Mtn/ Tough Love)
Cindy “A Trumpet On The Hillside” (Mt St Mtn/ Tough Love)
Cian Nugent “High Up Airplane” (No Quarter)
MV & EE “Free Range” (Ramble/ Child Of Microtones)
Chime School “Coming To Your Town” (Slumberland)
Lael Neale “In Verona” (Sub Pop)
North Americans “Classic Water” (Third Man)
North Americans “The Last Rockabilly” (Third Man)
Rose City Band “Chasing Rainbows” (Thrill Jockey)
Rose City Band “Slow Burn” (Thrill Jockey)
Bobby Lee “Reds For A Blue Planet” (Tompkins Square)

March 2023:

Dry Cleaning - Swampy (4AD 0589)
Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (AD 93 061)
Lia Kohl - The Ceiling Reposes (American Dreams 72)
Infinite River - Prequel (Birdman 129)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Poverty (Disfold Ltd)
Bardo Pond - Vol. 3 (Fire 699)
Death And Vanilla - Flicker (Fire 629)
Staran Wake - Staran Wake (Hands In The Dark 63)
Skee Mask - ISS009 (Ilian Tape Skee Series ISS009)
Rob Mazurek/ Exploding Star Orchestra - Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem 65)
Noble Rot - Heavenly Bodies, Repitition, Control (Joyful Noise)
Blank Gloss - Cornered (Kompakt 458/ CD 175)
William Basinski - The Clocktower At The Beach (1979) (Line 135)
Andrea Belfi - Eternally Frozen (Maple Death)
William Tyler & The Impossible Truth – Secret Stratosphere (Merge)
VA - Compassion (Petal Motel)
Richard Skelton - Selenodesy (Phantom Limb)
Federico Durand - Dia De Nieve (Prius 92)
Dancefloor Classics - Dancefloor Classics Vol.2 (Rajaton 02 B)
Vladislav Delay - Hide Behind The Silence EP 2 (Rajaton 03 B)
Phill Niblock - Muna Torso (Room40)
Matt Rösner - Empty, Expanding, Collapsing (Room40 197)
Steve Gunn & David Moore - Reflections Vol. 1: Let The Moon Be A Planet (RVNG Intl. 99)
Kate NV - Wow (RVNG Intl. 82)
The Laughing Chimes - Arboretum Miles (Slumberland)
James Emrick - Actoma (Soda Gong)
Connections - Cool Change (Trouble In Mind 169)
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) (Warp)

February 2023:

The Royal Arctic Institute - From Coma To Catharsis (Already Dead 403)
Grand River - All Above (eMego 308)
Magic Tuber Stringband - Tarantism (Feeding Tube 647)
Stella Kola - Stella Kola (Fountain Flight 001)
Liv.e - Girl In The Half Pearl (In Real Life)
Crayola Eyes - Gushing (La Munai)
Elodie - Clarte Deserte (La Scie Doree)
DUNZA - Decadence (self-released)
Valentina Magaletti & Laila Sakini - Cupo (self-released)
Tape Loop Orchestra - Temporal In-Betweens (self-released)
Andrew Tasselmyer - Life Came Breaking In (self-released)
Andy Bell - Strange Loops & Outer Psych (Sonic Cathedral 205)
Tee Vee Repairmann - What's On TV? (Total Punk 128/ Computer Human 10)

January 2023:

Arbor Labor Union - Yonder (Sophomore Lounge 129)

Older:

Pan·American – Alpalhão (self-released) October 2022
Marisa Anderson/ William Tyler – Lost Futures (Thrill Jockey 542) august 2021

Soul Vacations

February 2023:

Matt “MV” Valentine – Omni Love (Environments) (Longform Editions 118)
Amby Downs & Steve Gunn – Looming Change/ Building Fabric (Longform Editions 120)
Yo La Tengo – This Stupid World (Matador 1929)
Ben Bondy - Spirit Desire (3XL)
U.S. Girls - Bless This Mess (4AD)
Pavel Milyakov - Project Mirrors (AD 93 055)
Brett Naucke - Cast A Double Shadow (Ceremony of Seasons 02)
Romance & Dean Hurley - River Of Dreams (Ecstatic 75)
Pile - All Fiction (Exploding In Sound)
Imaginary Softwoods - The Notional Pastures Of Imaginary Softwoods (Field 31)
Andrew Osterhoudt - Out Together (Geographic North)
Khotin - Release Spirit (Ghostly 411)
Jonnine - Maritz (Idle Press 06)
Duane Pitre - Varolii Patterns (Important)
Kevin Richard Martin - Above the Clouds (Intercranial)
Loscil // Lawrence English - Colours Of Air (Kranky)
Eternal Dust - Spriritual Healers, Defence Lawyers (Lulus Sonic Disc Club)
Karen Vogt - Losing The Sea (Mare Nostrum)
Algiers - Shook (Matador 1784)
The Telephone Numbers - Weird Sisters b/w This Job Is Killing Me (Meritorio 42/ Prefect 08)
The Necks - Travel (Northern Spy 158)
Bondo - Print Selections (Quindi)
VA - 14 (Prefect)
Spiral XP - It's Been A While (self-released)
Kassel Jaeger - Shifted In Dreams (Shelter Press 144)
Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8.2 (Smalltown Supersound 416)
Bardo Pond - No Hashish, No Change Money, No Saki Saki (Three Lobed 142)
Index For Working Musik - Dragging The Needlework For The Kids At Uphole (Tough Love 155)
Wesley Joseph - Glow (Transgressive/ Music Glue)
En Attendant Ana - Principia (Trouble In Mind)
The Telescopes - Experimental Health (Weisskalt)
Tongue Depressor - Bones For Time (Worried Songs)

January 2023:

Crimeboys - Very Dark Past (3XL 06)
Jake Acosta - Genius Or Not? (Blorpus Editions 16)
Spiral Joy Band - In The River (Feeding Tube)
The Drin - Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom (Feel It 89)
Numün - Book Of Beyond (Shimmy Disc 2015)
Slift – Unseen b/w The Real Unseen (Sub Pop 1521, Singles Club Vol. 7)

Older:

Terry Jennings, Charles Curtis – Piece for Cello and Saxophone (Saltern 07) July 2022
MJ Guider - Temporary Requiem (Modemain 02) june 2021
Cindy – 1:2 (Tough Love 143) October 2021
Thick Air – Soma Cataria (Flower Room 82) November 2021
Ziúr - Antifate (Pan 120) may 2021
VA – Kikommando (Pan 134) august 2021
The Telephone Numbers – Leviathan 7” (Fruits & Flowers 14) march 2021
Ducks Ltd. – Modern Fiction (Carpark/ Royal Mountain) October 2021
Wednesday – Twin Plagues (Ordinal 60) august 2021
Voigt & Voigt – Die Digitale Welt Der Anderen (Kompakt 435) December 2021
Matt Lajoie - Cosmic Commission (Garden Portal 15) October 2021
Damon & Naomi with Kurihara – A Sky Record (20/20/20 18) August 2021
Kevin Richard Martin – Red Light (Intercranial) march 2021
Black Twig Pickers – Friend’s Peace (vhf #153) april 2021
Nicky Elisabeth – Celeste (Kompakt 431) April 2021
Daniel O’Sullivan – Fourth Density (vhf #151) September 2021
Sun Ra – Lanquidity (Philly Jazz 666, 1978/ Strut 237) june 2021
Vanishing Twin – Ookii Gekkou (Fire 583) October 2021
Eiko Ishibashi – Torn Page (Longform Editions 77) june 2021
Willie Dunn – Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology (Light In The Attic 164) march 2021
Pendant – To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands (West Mineral Ltd. 91) September 2021
VA: Zero Space (29 Speedway 01) august 2021
MJ Lenderman & Wednesday – Guttering (Julia’s War) April 2021

Tendencies

The original is timeless, but this is Pye Corner Audio Uptown remix is pretty fantastic too:



A full on effort this year to be up-to-date and somewhat relevant -- at least in some musical spheres -- while still catching up on "older" stuff. Putting a lot of energy and effort into providing a streamlined experience for upcoming playlists/ mixes. All love.

January 2023:

Nighttime - Keeper Is The Heart (Ba Da Bing! 177)
Strategy - Graffiti In Space (Constellation Tatsu)
Glyders - Maria's Hunt (Country Thyme 102)
Wolf Eyes - Difficult Messages (Disciples 14/ Lower Floor 009)
R. Ring - War Poems, We Rested (Don Giovanni)
Meg Baird - Furling (Drag City 782)
Tujiko Noriko - Crepuscule I & II (Editions Mego 307)
Groupshow - Greatest Hits (Faitiche 29)
Romeo Poirier - Eli Keszler Remix +1 (Faitiche)
Bianca Scout - The Heart Of The Anchoress (First Terrace 09)
Kali Malone ft. Stephen O'Malley & Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (Ideologic Organ 50)
Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (Nyege Nyege Tapes 41)
Simon Scott - Long Drove (Room40)
Dancefloor Classics - Dancefloor Classics Vol. 1 (Rajaton)
Vladislav Delay - Hide Behind The Silence EP 1 (Rajaton)
Billow Observatory - Calque EP (self-released)
Thomas Brinkmann - Fair Game (self-released)
Peel Dream Magazine - Magic Is Pocketed (Slumberland)
Deathprod - Compositions (Smalltown Supersound 415)
The Tubs - Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind 173)
Mozart Estate - Pop-Up! Ker-ching! and The Possibilities Of Modern Shopping (West Midlands 6)

Older items:

Simon Scott – “Under Crumbling Skies” (Live 2022) October 2022
Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt - Made Out Of Sound (Palilalia 63) march 2021
Lids – Furniture b/w Half Twin (Sub Pop 1427, Singles Club Vol. 6) june 2021
Jeff Tweedy – C’mon America b/w UR-60 Unsent (Sub Pop 1429, Singles Club Vol. 6) October 2021
Celer – Sunspots (Oscarson 38) November 2021
Duane Pitre – Omniscient Voices (Important 501) November 2021
Body/ Dilloway/ Head – Body/Dilloway/Head (Three Lobed 135) November 2021
Richard Skelton – Talus (Aeolian Editions Moraine Sequence 02) may 2021
Richard Skelton – A Guidonian Hand (Corbel Stone Press 09) November 2021
Chime School – Chime School (Slumberland 260) November 2021
One Eleven Heavy – Open Up The Watergate (Let The Sunshine In) (self-released) march 2021
Hayden Pedigo – Letting Go (Mexican Summer 319) September 2021
Alex Somers, Aska Matsumiya – Light Past Blue (Krunk) December 2021
Playback Head – First Sounds (Hotham Sound 24) December 2021
Asa Tone – Live At New Forms (Leaving) November 2021
Helm – Axis (Dais 177) December 2021
Oval – Ovidono (Uovooo 04) December 2021
SiP/ Prezzano - SiP/Prezzano (Moon Glyph 117) october 2021
The Reds, Pinks & Purples – Uncommon Weather & Everything You Ever Loved (Slumberland 257/ Tough Love136) April 2021
Sons Of Kemet – Black To The Future (Impulse!) may 2021
Andy Bell – Another View (Sonic Cathedral 125, Ever Decreasing Circles Series pt. 4) june 2021
Matthew Dear – Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album (Ghostly International 382) june 2021
Perila – How Much Time It Is Between You And Me? (Smalltown Supersound 383) june 2021
Skee Mask – Pool (Ilian Tape 09) may 2021
Seefeel – Succor (Redux) (Warp 28R) may 2021
Lucid Express – Lucid Express (Kanine 267) October 2021
Tirzah – Colourgrade (Domino 476) October 2021
L’Rain – Fatigue (Mexican Summer 309) june 2021
Space Afrika – Honest Labour (Dais 181) august 2021
Richard Skelton – Four Workings (Aeolian Editions) june 2021
Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (Warp 324) September 2021
Maarja Nuut – Hinged (self-released) October 2021
Kassel Jaeger – Fragments IV: Collected Waves From Surrogate Memories (self-released) November 2021
HTRK – Rhinestones (N&J Blueberries 001) December 2021
Honey Radar – Play-Box Relay (self-released) December 2021
Michel Banabila – Echo Transformations (Knekelhuis 42) December 2021
Mogwai – As The Love Continues (Rock Action) February 2021
Cassandra Jenkins – An Overview On Phenomenal Nature (Ba Da Bing!) February 2021
Teenage Fanclub – Endless Arcade (Merge) April 2021
Sun Araw Band Ensemble – Live At Zebulon (self-released) February 2021
Lost Girls – Menneskekollektive (Smalltown Supersound 384) march 2021
Bobby Lee – Origin Myths (Tompkins Square 5821) march 2021
Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark (Rock Action 137) march 2021
Floatie – Voyage Out (Exploding In Sound 109) march 2021
Andrew Weathers & Hayden Pedigo – Big Tex, Here We Come (Debacle 113) march 2021
Eight Point Star – Eight Point Star (VHF 154) July 2021
Rose City Band – Earth Trip (Thrill Jockey 540) june 2021
Blue Ocean – Blue Ocean (Dandy Boy 15) april 2021
Golden Retriever – Sense Of Place (Longform Editions 78) june 2021
William Tyler & Luke Schneider – Understand (Leaving 199) July 2021
Dialect – Under ~ Between (Rvng Intl. 67) march 2021
Nikolaienko – Rings (Faitiche 23) April 2021
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra – Promises (Luaka Bop) march 2021
Andrew Chalk – Paradise Lost (Faraway Press 36) April 2021
Index (Simon Scott) – Kainos (iDEAL 197) march 2020
Si-{cut}.db – Offices At Night: Volume 2 (Versions) 2005