BenoĆ®t Pioulard ā Stanza IV
Beautifully warm long-form ambient drones, plus a collection of remixes by Markus Guenther, MJ Guider, Clarice Jensen, arovane et al.
Matt Jencik & Midwife ā Never Die
Hazy, reverb-y songs about death.
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Neither are getting a look in until the Clipse album has been aired a few times but there are a couple of other rap releases Iām looking forward to checking out too. Boldy with his thousandth album of the year, but the Nicholas Craven ones are usually the goodāuns.
Open Mike Eagle - Neighbourhood Gods Unlimited
Nicholas Craven and Boldly James - Late to My Own Funeral
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Clipse and Open Mike Eagle 
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Clipse first, then Boldy, then OME for me.
Good day to be a hip-hop fan!
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Wet Leg and Gwenno for me, thatāll do nicely.
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Tbf most days are a good day to be a Boldy James fan
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Autocamper - What Do You Do All Day?
Debut from highly rated Mancunian classic jangle-popists.
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Should really be listening to some of the already mentioned releases, especially Jessica Winter, but also Wet Leg, Gwenno, Patricia Wolf, Allo Darlinā, Tony Njoku and Kokoroko. But Iāve been distracted by compilations and archive material, particularly:
K. Yoshimatsu - Zentai: The Collected Works of K. Yoshimatsu [Volume I]
Japanese outsider composer Koshiro Yoshimatsu released something like 40 albums in a few years in the 1980s on the cult cassette label DD Records. They are largely unobtainable now, but hereās a three disc compilation of some of the material, ābinding ambient, abstract punk, music concrĆ©te and purist songwriting into a single unified artformā.
Various Artists - All The Young Droids: Junkshop Synth Pop 1978-1985
āA new compilation that charts the underbelly of the epoch-defining sound of the synthesiser in 80s popular musicā¦ Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failureā.
Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer - Ten Dubs That Shook The World [2025 Edition]
Reissue of 1988 collection of dubs by Australian producer Anthony Maher aka Sheriff Lindo. āWith its dual-island combination of Jamaican dub and UK industrial and post-punk, and the twinning of spaced electronic drums and effects with some very fine, superbly rooted bass lines, the tectonic āTen Dubsā has proven to be a durable, doubly-solid shakerā.
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Really enjoyed their debut and follow up singles released last year. This is a good album.
Plunky & Oneness of Juju - Made Through Ritual
Upbeat spiritual jazz
Oneness Of Juju release their first international album in over 30 years with Made Through Ritual , a deeply collaborative project bridging generations of Black musical innovation. Produced by Jamiah āFireā Branch and Jamal Grayāsons of founding members Plunky Branch and Jimmy Grayāthe album reimagines beat culture by blending jazz samples, live instrumentation and improvisation. Plunky rebuilt Jamalās demo tracks with a full band, creating a vibrant, ritualistic celebration of musical transformation.
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Me in 2020/2021
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But wait, thereās more.
Larry June - Until Night Comes
Thereās a car on the cover again.
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Qurāan Shaheed - Pulse
Jazz/soul/R&B artist from Los Angeles.
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Laetitia Sonami - Dangerous Women: Early Works 1985-2005
Experimental. Compilation of early material by the sound artist and protĆ©gĆ© of Ćliane Radigue. Has synth experiments, cassette mixing, sampling and collaborations with the poet Melody Sumner Carnahan.
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Split Chain - Motionblur
A nice slice of Nu metal for your Friday morning. This lot from Bristol seem to be quite hyped.
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Glad to see the Goon Sax have re-formed.
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This bangs (or at least the half I can listen to on streaming)
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I get mildly irked when people list more than one album in a single post. I want to like albums individually on merit.
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Poor Creature (feat. members of Lankum and Landless) - All Smiles Tonight
Poor Creature is comprised of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, all three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past. Songs that have existed for centuries can seem immutable and anchored to time. A new generation of Irish musicians are keen to acknowledge that musical legacy, while reimagining the songs within a contemporary context.
Poor Creatureās sound ā particularly in the context of contemporary Irish folk ā offers something unique. Thereās the gauzy, underwater, almost psychedelic seams of āBury Me Notā and āAdieu Lovely Erinā. āAll Smiles Tonightā and āHicksā Farewellā nod to the influence of American folk/bluegrass acts like Doc Watson and the Louvin Brothers. These shifting sounds are made possible by producer John āSpudā Murphy, who has produced all of Lankumās albums, and worked with Junior Brother, ĆXN, Pretty Happy, Ye Vagabonds as as well as the final two albums by The Jimmy Cake, with whom John has played for over 20 years.
āThereās something about the everyday and the fantastical, being entangled, which I think Irish music does so well.ā This also sums up All Smiles Tonight, moving through stories and loss and history to create an otherworldly and timeless album for the ages.
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