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)