What’s on your radar today?
Nala Sinephro - Endlessness
This is the main one for me today. Her last album - Space 1.8 - is one of the best jazz records of the decade: this one features 10 tracks with a continuous arpeggio playing throughout.
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MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks
Wednesday guitarist and Waxahatchee collaborator presumably doing more excellent country tinged indie rock ffo Jason Molina etc.
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Masayoshi Fujita - Migratory
Lovely vibraphone and electronics, could call it ambient I guess.
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Dummy - Free Energy
They sound a lot like Stereolab, but I like Stereolab. Previous album was very good.
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One listen in and it’s already nudged a few of my top 5 for the year out of the way.
Edit: should have been a reply to original post about Nala Sinephro
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Big one for me today is the new SUUNS album. They’ve been on a roll for almost 10 years now, and their last album is one of my favourites of this decade. Woozy alternative electronic rock? Hard to classify. Very excited!
SUUNS - The Breaks
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Jazz/Electronic band Ishmael Ensemble have a new album out today too. Loved their last one, that reminded me of the likes of Cinematic Orchestra and Portico Quartet.
Ishmael Ensemble - Rituals
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Which record? 
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New Molchat Doma
I love this band. They are from Belarus. They make post punk / Synth pop like early Depeche Mode but darker.
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Peel Dream Magazine - Rose Main Reading Room
Also from LA, also sound like Stereolab, but more their whimsical quirky side.
Midwife - No Depression in Heaven
Sparse, reverb-heavy guitar songs, like echoes in the desert night.
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Midwife - No Depression in Heaven
Grouper-esque vibes - although I get something a bit darker and sinister from it than feeling it’s a mere copycat. Includes a cover of Alice Deejay’s ‘Better Off Alone’ (yes really).
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Snap!
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I was today years old when I realised MJ Lenderman is in Wednesday. Makes sense as they’re both great!
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The thing I find more shocking is that he’s 25! Disgusting imho
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Ill Considered - Infrared
Continuing the apparent jazz theme today, along with Nala Sinephro and Ishmael Ensemble, we have a new one from Ill Considered. Expect a bit of skronk maybe? Just good jazz, really.
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Lots of post rock.
65daysofstatic - Utopian Frequencies
65days of static - Disquiet
Two complations from the Year of wreckage. The first one is of bangers, the second more abstract stuff.
God is an astronaut - Embers
Irish post pock. The singles were great.
A swarm of the sun - An empire
Very sad Scandi post rock. They really like long songs.
All that and Midwife on top of it will make for an intense morning.
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Ah, pressed the wrong button. It’s the Nala Sinephro record.
LL COOL J - The FORCE
Following on from Common and Pete Rock, the ladies favourite Cool James releases a new one entirely produced by Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. Singles have been good, looking forward to this.
Let’s hope the rumoured Nas/DJ Premier album that’s been rumoured is also good.
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Outside of his own (increasingly rare) solo records and the Tribe ones, I think this is the only rap album Q-Tip has ever produced in its entirety? A big one for me alongside MJ and Nala today.
Weak Signal - Fine
UPDATE: This one has been pushed back to 20th September.
Laura Jane Grace & The Mississippi Medicals - Give An Inch EP
Punk rock. Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! with bassist Matt Patton, drummer Mikey Erg and vocalist/percussionist Paris Campbell Grace for this six track EP.
Beth Anderson - I Can’t Stand It
Experimental spoken word/sound art. Likely to be my favourite release this week (update: nah, I enjoyed it, but I was hoping for more of the album to be in the same vein as the pre-release track ‘I Can’t Stand It’) is this collection of 1970s unreleased private press recordings by New York sound poet Beth Anderson, key practitioner of the Text-Sound movement. Put together by Finders Keepers Records. FFO Laurie Anderson.
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