I dip in and out of Attention Engineer. Too many podcasts, not enough time…

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Opal Onyx are releasing “Vessel”, their first album in six years, today on Tin Angel, who are also having their first sale in ages (across all three imprints). Beautiful electronic drone pop.

Enjoying the Laura Groves and Kelly Moran/Prurient releases that have already been mentioned on the thread. And will be checking out The Postal Service live album amongst other recommendations.

Otherwise, for me, there’s Lost Horizons – In Quiet Moments. From Simon Raymonde’s current band (ex Cocteau Twin and current Bella Union boss) featuring a whole load of interesting collaborators. The first half of the album (8 tracks) out digitally today; the rest and the physical release in February.

Also, a few seasonal offerings, particularly Mathias Kom from the Burning Hell celebrating all the overlooked holidays with Mathias Kom’s Holy Hullabaloo

Memphis Industries record label has a Christmas album featuring Field Music, Jesca Hoop and The Go! Team among others

And a single from Kathryn Williams – Snow Angel – featuring Carol Ann Duffy

This is a brilliant fun listen.

Bought it and heard it on the way to my parents’ house. Made the long walk in the cold weather more Christmassy. Cheers!

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Ah thanks! Listening to Lily upstairs do all of those Muppet voices in isolation was probably the highlight of making it I’d say

Hope to see you at a show (not necessarily ours - any show!) when things are a bit more back to normal :slight_smile:

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There’s a new Mountain Goats live album, it’s the audio from there two quarantine gigs, it’s called ‘The Jordan Lake Sessions’ and it’s pay what you want on Bandcamp.

The Chris Rea song is a brilliant finale to the EP.

Made me smile. Nice one.

Yep. Hopefully see you at a show soon. Your Christmas gig a couple of years back at The Finsbury was a perfect 10/10 Christmas show. Smiles all round. Great memories of that one.

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Wow wasn’t expecting this week to be so prolific, lots to get into as mentioned above. Some others on my list.

Hirotaka Shirtsubaki- Hyogo, Atmospheric ambient, drone

Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders- Garcia Live Vol. 15, 15th volume of the long running live series from the Grateful Dead front man accompanied by Merl Saunders on the keys.

William Ryan Fritch- Solidum, minimal, dark ambient, neo-classical, film score instrumentation.

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross- Mank OST, score to David Fincher’s most recent film.

new langhorne slime - americana/singer wsongwriter stuff

Knocking it out the park again, @paulo13! Konstantin Gropper, Chapi Chapo, Alex Stoltz, Gabriels, Quarter-Life Crisis, SUSS and Sylvan Esso all going into Melodious’ December rotation. May not all last, but a great start … thanks, as ever, bud!

MT.

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If you enjoyed this make sure to go back over their discography, lots of excellent music!

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Baroness live EP and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Enola Gay remix EP (Hot Chip featured) also out

Enjoying Suss so far

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That Sigur Ros album starts out pleasantly enough, but really improves as it goes along. It’s quite lovely. Not the kind of thing I’d normally listen to.

Respire, screamo(?) With strings and trumpets etc

Also available free/pay what you want on bandcamp this weekend

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This is really good, thanks for highlighting it! With Svalbard, Palm Reader, and this Church Road Records are off to a heck of a start.

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That Palm Reader album is amazing

No bother. Yeah ive been keeping a close eye on their releases, its where I found this

Steve Lacy has snuck out a surprisingly coherent odds-and-sods collection. I was a big fan of his first EP and am really enjoying this. I’ll need to give last year’s album some proper attention.

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Hello hello!

Sorry a bit late today - last week we had Craven Faults, AK/DK and Palm Reader as the top recommendations. Surprisingly busy week this week, what have y’all enjoyed?

  • Airworthiness (@sheeldz) - What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do
  • Alex Maas - Luca
  • Alex Stolze - Kinship Stories
  • Alpha Male Tea Party - Infinity Stare
  • Arctic Monkeys - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
  • Baroness - Live at Maida Vale BBC - Vol. II
  • Calexico - Seasonal Shift
  • Chapi Chapo & les jouets electroniques - Collector
  • Com Truise - In Decay, Too
  • Dark Mark - Dark Mark Does Christmas
  • Dawnwalker (@dawnwalker) - Ages
  • Deafheaven - 10 Years Gone
  • Death Cab for Cutie - The Georgia EP
  • Departure Lounge - Mercury in Retrograde
  • Dezron Dougls & Brandee Younger - Force Majeure
  • Field Music - Lost Christmas: A Festive Memphis Industries Selection Box
  • Fightmilk (@Scott_Chegg) - Fightmilk & Cookies
  • Flying Moon In Space - Flying Moon In Space
  • Gabriels - Love And Hate In A Different Time
  • Ghost Power - Asteroid Witch
  • Hammock - Longest Year
  • Hirotaka Shirotsubaki - Hyogo
  • Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders - GarciaLive Volume 15: May 21st, 1971 Keystone Korner
  • Kathryn Williams - Snow Angel (feat. Carol Ann Duffy)
  • Keleketla!, Coldcut - Remixes
  • Kelly Moran and Prurient - Chain Reaction At Dusk
  • Khruangbin - LateNightTales
  • Konstantin Gropper & Alex Mayr - Wir Konnen Nicht Anders
  • Langhorne Slim - Strawberry Mansion - Side A
  • Laura Groves - A Private Road
  • Lost Horizons - In Quiet Moments
  • Mountain Goats - The Jordan Lake Sessions
  • Nicholas Lesn & Nick Cave - Litanies
  • Nils Frahm - Tripping with Nils Frahm
  • Obey Robots - Let It Snow
  • Opal Onyx - Vessel
  • Pop Levi - Mark of Paradise
  • Quarter-Life Crisis, Ryan Hemsworth - Quarter-Life Crisis
  • Respire - Black Line
  • Rupture // Rapture (@rupturerapture) - Parallels
  • Sarah Davachi - Laurus
  • Serph - Skylapse
  • Sigur Ros - Odin’s Raven Magic
  • Son Lux - Tomorrows II
  • Steve Lacy - The Lo-Fis
  • SUSS - Promise
  • Sylvan Esso - WITH LOVE
  • The Burning Hell - Mathais Kom’s Holy Hullabaloo
  • The Postal Service - Everything Will Change
  • The White Stripes - Greatest Hits
  • Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - Mank (OST)
  • William Ryan Fritch - Solidum
  • Yungblud - weird!

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