Tanya Tagaq is great, didn’t realise she’d released a record this year gonna get on it
The Maghreban - Connection
Jazzy, Middle-Eastern influenced house.
Really good, this.
clipping - CLBBNG
Horror rap dance remix EP.
Not technically out today but came out earlier this week - FREE.99 and their latest ep ‘OUT FOR BLOOD’. Catchy, intense, heavily distorted electronica with an extremely cluttered and chaotic sound. I think the production is really interesting and there’s just so much going on in each track.
For fans of: The Prodigy, 100 Gecs, Crystal Castles, Black Dresses, Death Grips. It’s a bit hard to pin down their influences because it does sound really fresh imo, and it’s all very cyberpunk in a way that’s super engaging and raw. I’ve been pretty much obsessed with this band (their other EPs are also great) but it’s really escalated now.
Carlos Niño & Friends - Extra Presence
Expanded version of a bandcamp-only release from 2020, this improvisational spiritual jazz double LP features Jamael Dean, Nate Mercereau, Shabazz Palaces, Sam Gendel, Miguel Atwood-Fergus and Jamire Williams among the ‘friends’.
stuck this on and thought it was going to be terrible but i was totally sold by the time track 3 ended
clever how the choruses are big but there are no (or very little) harmonies or double tracked vocals anywhere
Nice
Sam Prekop & John McEntire - Sons Of
Really nice chilled synthy jams from two members of popular vegan cafe The Sea and Cake.
Nice little B-sides EP from Julien Baker
Another nice EP from Peach Fuzz ( feat. Raffaella and Samia)
Pool kids album - twinkly math-influenced emo music from florida.
Really liking this.
She & Him (Zooey and M Ward) doing a Brian Wilson tribute album
Great album cover
Anthony Naples - Swerve
Let’s just pretend last year’s foray into real-instrument dulltronica didn’t happen; Naples is back where he belongs at a weird angle on the dancefloor with an EP of “bangers-not-bangers”.
Couple of soundtracks out today that seem worth checking out:
Joseph Shabason - Stanleyville OST
Galya Bisengalieva - Hold Your Breath: The Ice Dive
mainly Traams and hopefully more shoegaze bliss from indoor voices (which was technically last week but wasn’t flagged by normal channels and I only discovered the other day via a spur of the moment search as I really dug his last LP and he came to mind) -
But not mentionned I think is John Moreland - Bird in the ceiling whose track on the Uncut cd I liked. According to Rough Trade:
A compelling blend of acoustic folk and avant-garde pop playfulness, Birds in the Ceiling lives confidently in a space of its own, enriched by tradition but never encumbered by it.
Chucho Valdés & Paquito D’Rivera Reunion Sextet - I Missed You Too!
Afro-Cuban jazz from two Cuban masters. This is delightful stuff, warm and effortlessly brilliant playing.
Couple of bubbling electronic ambient releases
james n murray - an emerald necklace
velt - allotrope
Sean Nicholas Savage - Shine
New SNS album, although I think I’m missing his previous poppier upbeat albums than this more ballady kind of affair.