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

Brand New, You're Retro

Stuff I listened to or maybe not (yet):

Sam Prekop – The Sparrow (TAL 27) September 2022
Olli Aarni - Koko Maailma (Students Of Decay 131) December 2022
VA - Southeast of Saturn, Vol. 2 (Third Man 750) December 2022
Galán / Vogt - All The Time In the World (Akira Rabelais Remixes) (self-released) november 2022
VA - A Tribute To Ryuichi Sakamoto - To The Moon And Back (Milan) november 2022
Alva Noto feat. Martin L. Gore & William Basinski – Subterraneans (Noton 57) December 2022
VA - Pop Ambient 2023 (Kompakt 173) november 2022
Michael Grigoni & Bill Seaman - The Long Sky (Longform Editions 116) November 2022
Andy Bell - Untitled Film Stills (self-released) November 2022
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Reset [Expanded Edition] (Domino) November 2022
Pole - Tempus (Mute 476) November 2022
Andrew Chalk – The End Times (ICR 96) October 2022
Pye Corner Audio - Let's Remerge! (self-released) november 2022
Arovane & Taylor Deupree – Skal_Ghost (12k 98) November 2022
Sawako – Stella Epoca (12k 97) November 2022
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer – Februarys (Dauw 48) September 2022
Jeff Parker, Eric Revis, Nasheet Waits - Eastside Romp (Rogueart 113) September 2022
Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork (4AD 0504) October 2022
Peel Dream Magazine – Up & Up 12” (Tough Love 125) November 2019
M. Sage with the Spinnaker Ensemble - The Wind Of Things (Geographic North 65) April 2021
Ben Bondy - Glans Intercum (OUEST 90) July 2021
Bill Callahan - YTI⅃AƎЯ (Drag City 859) October 2022
Peel Dream Magazine - Pad (Slumberland) October 2022
Preoccupations - Arrangements (Factor 001) September 2022
Jeff Parker – Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (Eremite) October 2022
James Devane – Beauty Is Useless (Umeboshi 1) September 2022
Angelo Harmsworth - Singe (Students Of Decay 129) September 2022
Oren Ambarchi - Shebang (Drag City 853) august 2022
Bitchin Bajas – Bajascillators (Drag City 781) september 2022
Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett – s/t (Séance Centre 33) September 2022
Chris Forsyth - Evolution Here We Come (No Quarter 82) august 2022
Jake Muir & Evan Caminiti – Talisman (Dust Editions 8) august 2022
Monster Rally - Botanica Dream (self-released, bandcamp) July 2022
Sun's Signature - Sun's Signature (Partisan) june 2022
Stereolab - Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5] (Duophonic 43) september 2022
KILN – “Bvlb [Campfire]” (self-released) January 2022
Taylor Deupree – “Belong” (For Ukraine (Volume 3)) (Headphone Commute) September 2022
Simon Scott – “Ember” (For Ukraine (Volume 2)) (Headphone Commute) april 2022
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – Reset (Domino 513) august 2022
Vanessa Rossetto - The Actress (Erstwhile Solo 008-2) august 2022
Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of (Thrill Jockey 578) july 2022
Felicia Atkinson – Image Language (Shelter Press 140) june 2022
Working Men’s Club – Fear Fear (Heavenly 203) July 2022
Julia Reidy – World In World (Black Truffle 88) may 2022
Minamo - Wakka (bandcamp self-released) July 2021 (orig. 1999/ 2001)
Minamo & Asuna - Tail of Diffraction (12k 95) june 2022
Taylor Deupree - Small Winters (Puremagnetik 13) june 2022
Giuseppe Ielasi - The Prospect (12k 1096) june 2022
Sam Prekop - Saturday Sunday (Longform Editions 101) june 2022
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - Proem (Dauw 45) December 2021
Ekin Fil – Being Held (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Rework) (Vaagner/ A Sunken Mall) may 2022
Taylor Deupree – Harbor (Laapse 20) may 2022

The Lonely Word

Playing catch-up:

Between - Prelude (00.00) (Longform Editions 99) April 2022
Kurt Vile – (watch my moves) (Verve) April 2022
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin – Ghosted (Drag City 838) April 2022
Flower-Corsano Duo – The Halcyon (VHF 155) february 2022
Matt LaJoie - Trine (Longform Editions 98) April 2022
Wet Tuna - Warping All By Yourself (Three Lobed Recordings 139) April 2022
Destroyer - Labyrinthitis (Merge 789) march 2022
Melchior Productions Ltd. - Vulnerabilities (Perlon 130) February 2022
Billow Observatory - Stareside (Felte 67) april 2022
Aldous Harding - Warm Chris (4AD 0391) march 2022
The Boo Radleys - A Full Syringe And Memories Of You EP (BooSTR 001) November 2021
Andy Bell - World Of Echo (Sonic Cathedral 202) march 2022
Pavement - Terror Twilight; Farewell Horizontal (Matador 1799) April 2022
Crys Cole - A Piece Of Work (Second Editions 10) march 2022
Beispiel - Muster (Faitiche 26) march 2022
Tomasz Bednarczyk – Windy Weather Always Makes Me Think Of You (12k 93) January 2022
Pjusk - Salt og Vind (12k 1094) january 2022
Spiritualized - Everything Was Beautiful (Fat Possum 1716) April 2022
Andy Bell - Flicker (Sonic Cathedral 200) February 2022
Raum - Daughter (Yellow Electric 21) February 2022
Pan•American - The Patience Fader (Kranky) february 2022
Eyes Of The Amaryllis – Sift (Horn Of Plenty Beach House - Modern Love Stories - Once Twice Melody Chapter 4 (Bella Union)
Sonic Youth – In/ Out/ In (Three Lobed Recordings 134) march 2022
Portable - My Sentient Shadow (Circus Company 120) march 2022
Loop - Sonancy (Reactor 06) march 2022
Olli Aarni - Loput (LAAPS 17) January 2022
Boris – W (Sacred Bones 287) January 2022
Biosphere - Shortwave Memories (Biophon 36) January 2022
Akira Rabelais - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Argeïphontes) October 2021
Akira Rabelais - 図書館 (bandcamp, self-released) October 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 3 (Sub Pop) January 2022
Marja Ahti – Still Lives (Students Of Decay 127) October 2021
William Ryan Fritch - Built Upon a Fearful Void (Lost Tribe Sound 60) November 2021
The Pop Group – Y In Dub (Mute) October 2021
Saint Etienne – I’ve Been Trying To Tell You (Heavenly 196) September 2021
Saint Etienne – Xmas 21 (Heavenly 626) December 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 2 (Bella Union) December 2021
Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy – Blind Date Party (Drag City 803) December 2021
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Greenvale, NY 1975 (December 2021)
VA – Pop Ambient 2022 (Kompakt CD 169) November 2021
Julia Reidy – Gardening (Longform Editions 092) December 2021
Oren Ambarchi – Live Hubris (Black Truffle 83) December 2021
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle (Impulse!) October 2021
Jeff Parker – Forfolks (International Anthem 52) December 2021
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Un Hiver En Plein Été (Shelter Press 129) December 2021
Eli Keszler – The Scary of Sixty-First OST (Deeper Into Movies) december 2021
William Basinski – Music For Abandoned Airports: Tegel (bandcamp, self-released) August 2021
GAS - Der Lange Marsch (Kompakt CD166) December 2021
Shuttle358 – Chessa (Keplar 06) September 2021
Seaworthy & Matt Rösner - Snowmelt (12k 2052) November 2021

More Than I Had In Mind

Gibbs' Picks Vol. 1 (2020 redux):



A cherry-picked selection from RxGibbs' 2020 Spotify Best Of list -- a mix of new nostalgia and wheelhouse ambient as well as unexpectedly queer new pleasures. Still fresh. looking forward...



Only the good stuff:

Growing - HUMMING AMPS VOL. 4 Melodies In Dilapidated States (self released bandcamp) august 2021
Growing + Mary Lattimore - GAINER (self released bandcamp) November 2021
VA - Touch Displacing Series (Touch V33.50) november 2021
Shuttle358 – Frame (20th Anniversary Vinyl Edition) (12k 2051) june 2021
Moss – Moss (Recur) (12k 2049) march 2021
Arovane – Reihen (12k 2053) November 2021
Delmer Darion – “Genoa (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” november 2021
Lightning Bug – “A Color of the Sky (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Remix)” September 2021
Eli Keszler – Icons+ (LuckyMe 82) November 2021
Sarah Davachi & Sean McCann – Mother Of Pearl (Recital 92) November 2021
Beach House - Once Twice Melody Chapter 1 (Bella Union) November 2021
Ben Chasny - The Intimate Landscape (Drag City 810) november 2021
Twenty One Pilots - Scaled and Icy (Fueled By Ramen 2-659072) may 2021
Pelt – Reticence/ Resistance (Three Lobed Recordings 137) October 2021
Bitchin Bajas – Switched On Ra (Drag City 851) October 2021
Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi - Palimpsests (Shelter Press 135) October 2021
VA – I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve) September 2021
VA - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes (Polydor) October 2021
Jan Jelinek - The Raw and the Cooked (Faitiche 24) September 2021
Byron Westbrook - Mirror Views (Ash International 13.8) September 2021
Black Dice - Mod Prog Sic (Four Four 441) October 2021
Primal Scream – Demodelica (Columbia EU) October 2021
Kiln – Tungsten (Ghostly International) october 2021
David Grubbs & Ryley Walker - A Tap On the Shoulder (Husky Pants) September 2021
Steve Gunn – Other You (matador) august 2021
Grouper - Shade (Kranky) august 2021
Ben Vida – Rhythm Fields (Dasa Tapes 04) august 2021
Ora Clementi – Sylva Sylvarum (Black Truffle 77) July 2021
VA - The Harmonic Series Volume 2 (Important Records 500DI) august 2021
Alice Coltrane - Kirtan; Turiya Sings (Impluse 1982) july 2021
Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Matador 1614) may 2021
Low - Hey What (Sub Pop) September 2021
Spiritualized – Pure Phase (Dedicated, 1995/ Fat Possum July 2021)
Six Organs of Admittance - The Veiled Sea (Three Lobed 132) june 2021
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Ilyas Ahmed – You Can See Your Own Way Out (Devotion 02) may 2021
Growing – Diptych (Silver Current 44) may 2021
Spiritualized – Lazer Guided Melodies (Fat Possum 1751) april 2021
Sonic Boom – Almost Nothing Is Nearly Enough (Carpark 151) April 2021
Iceage – Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer 290) may 2021
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Superwolves (Drag City 1121/ Palace 71) April 2021