TW Walsh - Wilderness

If you’re not familiar with TW Walsh, he’s played in a few bands including the legendary Pedro the Lion. This album finds his dark realist songwriting combined expertly with fuzzy shoegaze guitar hooks. A real great album of sad dad rock.

Bobsled Team - All the Flowers Bloom

Beautiful swirling dream pop songs. Floating and melodic with a hint of edge that keeps things interesting. A great end-of-summer album.

Arp - New Pleasures

A project that I’d lost track of. Fantastic synthesizer sounds that make my brain buzz, combined with swelling pads and just a hint of funk. Sounds like what 1987 me thought the future of music would sound like.

SUSS & Andrew Tuttle - Rising

A beautiful ambient collaboration put out on the really cool Longform Editions label, which just releases long (20+ minute) single tracks from a lot of cool people. This is from the geniuses of ambient country, Suss. You can find more Longform Editions stuff on bandcamp and Spotify and expect me to post more, too.

Ghost Dubs - Damaged

Like the haunted echos of dub music, played through an abandoned factory. Not quite noise, not quite dub, not quite ambient. Listen to this through good headphones to hear some unexpectedly crushing sub-bass.

Disposable Heroes of Hit Em

Last time, I talked about Drew Daniel of Matmos’s dream, which birthed the weirdo genre of ‘hit em’, where the music is in 5/4 time at 212 bpm with super crunched out sounds. A group of maniacs took that prompt and created this honestly really listenable compilation of Hit Em. On Bandcamp only.

House of Hiss - Sand Never Sets

Funny, this album came to me as if in a dream. I found it in my library and hit play and it was the exact vibe I needed for that moment. Charming and ramshackle pop gems that rides between the Beatles and early Elephant 6-era Of Montreal with some adorable haunted carnival instrumentals. This was Sondre Lerche’s pick when Joyful Noise Records asked him to pick an unknown album to get a short vinyl release. Bandcamp only.

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