Surprisingly busy for me today.
Body Count - Mercy
The last two albums have been 
Hidden Mothers - Erosion/Avulsion
Metalcore? I’ve seen them twice this year and they were great so I have high hopes for this.
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The Innocence Mission - Midwinter Swimmers
The big one for me today is Karen and Don Peris’ latest mainly acoustic folk-indie-pop album, the Pennsylvania couple’s 13th, working with long-time collaborator Mike Bitts. Karen’s voice is still as beautiful and delicate as it was on their debut album 35 years ago.
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The Moment of Nightfall and Tony Jay - Winter Dream EP
Tokyo sextet The Moment of Nightfall collaborating with Flowertown’s Michael Ramos in his solo incarnation Tony Jay. This is six tracks recorded over two days of dreamy indie pop.
SGO - One More Year
Brisbane/Meanjin dream poppy indie.
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Crazy P - Any Signs of Love
Disco house grooves on Crazy P’s first album in five years, written and recorded in 2023 before the untimely death of frontwoman Danielle Moore.
Mark Barrott - Everything Changes, Nothing Ends
Ambient electronica with jazz and modern classical elements in this album by Mark Barrott (who was Future Loop Foundation in the 90s)
Ben Lukas Boysen - Alta Ripa
Berlin techno producer’s fourth album in his own name
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Two very promising sounding experimental albums.
Stina Stjern - Vivid Peace Restored
Experimental found sound collaging and cut up soundscaping and vocals by the Norwegian artist made entirely using cassette tape. The pre-release track (The Wild Woman Archetype) is very, very good and I’m looking forward to exploring the rest.
Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble - Versionland
Experimental/modern classical. Composer Jamie Hamilton and contemporary chamber group Phaedra Ensemble with this collection of pieces about 'The Hum’ – an unexplained sound reported by people in certain geographic locations.
“Versionland fuses instrumental music, text, and sound design into an expansive satire on catastrophe and transformation. Through maximalist, genre-weirding arrangements, and overlapping streams of language, it imagines The Hum as a malign force destroying the world”.
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The Unthanks - In Winter
Seasonal Northumbrian folk from the Unthanks. Looks like some Christmas standards, not sure if there’s any of their own compositions on there.
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Work Money Death - People of the Fast Flowing River
Third album from this spiritual jazz ensemble - the first two are amongst my favourite jazz albums this decade so going in with high hopes.
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Bit of an esoteric start to the thread
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Electrelane - BBC Radio Sessions vol. 1
Recording of a 2003 session
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Laura Cannell - Firelore
This month I was thinking a lot about drone, texture and landscape, and on my travels I came across a lovely slightly wonky church pipe organ.
“I recorded this set of improvisations, and I still can’t decide if they are warming or stark. If there is a bonfire in the middle of an icy field or if we are sitting before a woodburner together in the kitchen.”
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Innocence Mission first up today. Also:
total tommy - bruises
Moniker for Sydney artist Jess Holt. Every review I’ve read seems obliged to reference Garbage and Hole, but the record sounds more modern than that suggests with much more contemporary and dream pop influences too. Can hear Lorde, Alvvays, Interpol and M83 as other reference points?
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Body Count was a good start to the morning.
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ooft some of these are lovely
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Emika - Vega
Her last album was great, chilled Burial vibe to it. This seems faster but she seems to be talking over a lot of the tracks. 
Nocow - eto ne to
Heard a couple of tracks from this and its nice and glitchy in an Ellen Allien-like vein.
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Boogarins - Bacuri
Brazilian indie rock/psych pop - sounds decent from the first couple of tracks
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Ai kamano - cocoon
EP by a Japanese artist with an interesting genre blend - some classical and jazz influences, bit of distorted guitar here and there, sweet airy voice, quite peppy pop songs
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Pale World - Later in the Day
New on Outsider Art. The UKs best harsh noise artist Pale World has a tape out. I’ve seen them live twice this year and it’s Ben incredible. Field recordings and abused sheet metal.
‘aiming to capture a feeling a dread and overwhelming, maintaining restraint until the facade slips and everything bursts forward, leaving a sense of numbness after. Pale World remains one of the most engaging and vital projects currently operating in U.K. noise’.
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Juanita Stein - The Weightless Hour
Singer-songwriter. Stripped back songs from the Howling Bells frontwoman on her 4th solo album.
Toshiki Soejima & edbl - Carefree EP
Hip-hop beats with soul guitar. Japanese neo-soul guitarist Toshiki Soejima in collaboration with UK producer & multi-instrumentalist edbl on this 6 track instrumental EP.
Nightmares On Wax - Carboot Jazz EP
Jazzy reworks of three tracks from the excellent 90s trip hop album Carboot Soul.
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