Spotify playlist for the week of April 7, 2024.

• Calamine – CE GAME-LÀ: Solid new Québec hip-hop.
• Machinedrum – CAPONE
• Oddarrang – White Wall Pt. 2: Reminds me of old Jaga Jazzist. This is a great discovery!

Spotify playlist for the week of March 3, 2024.

The Mocambo Sessions with Shōtarō Moriyasu is a recording from a 1954 session recordded in Yokohama, Japan. It’s the only recording of Moriyasu. He plays the piano. Fantastic bebop.

BrhyM’s Deep Sea Vents album with yMusic is charming mix of folk songs with the contemporay classical touch of yMusic.

• Daniel Avery – Wonderland
• Dolphin Hyperspace – Miniscule Minnow
• Sleepnet – Finality
• 夢ノ結唱 – 最も濃いもの: Another impossible-to-describe track with Hakushi Hawsgawa.
• Elbow – Balu: Elbow really knows how to make rocking intros. The other single, Lover’s Leap, has an equally good intro.
• Jacob Collier – Over You: I’m not in love with Djesse Vol.4, but I like this song.

Spotify playlist for the week of January 28, 2024.

• Elbow – Grounds for Divorce
• Kinga Glyk – The Friend You Call: Groovy with a strong Weather Report vibe.
• Kinga Glyk – Who Cares
• Sofia Kourtesis – La Perla - Edit
• Sofia Kourtesis – Madres: Always good D&B from Current Value. The whole album is worth a listen.
• Broken Shadows – Street Woman
• Reid Anderson – Song One

Spotify playlist for the week of January 14, 2024.

• Brittany Davis – Sepricon: Groovy.
• Arvo Pärt – Tabula Rasa: II. Silentium - Live: This piece accompanied the 2nd half the keepsake choreography by ISHIDA dance company.
• 鈴木 弘 – ウォーク・トール
• BrhyM – Deep Blue: Funk + the unlikely participation of yMuisc, the contemporary classical ensemble.
• Ben Frost – The River of Light and Radiation. Frost also scored one of the dances of the ISHIDA show, but it wasn’t this particular piece.

Spotify playlist for the week of January 7, 2024.

• Lusine – Transonic
• World’s End Girlfriend – Ave Maria: This is one of the strangest pieces of music I’ve heard. Reminds me of William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops.
• Joshua – ??!?!!??!/&/:?!282928:€/??//?::€:1:1/&&/1:/ (BUG BRAIN)
• Ethan Iverson – Who Are You, Really?: This is the most The Bad Plus sounding track post The Bad Plus’ separation.
• PVA – Bad Dad: Nine Inch Nails vibes.
• PVA – Hero Man: Marie Davidson meets Wet Leg.

Spotify playlist for the week of December 31, 2023.

• The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love?: How have I never heard of the The Rapture? And how are they supposed to be a punk band?! They’re a very dancy punk band. Clearly, they’ve listened to LCD Soundsystem.
  • The Rapture – Sail Away: It’s like realizing there’s more LCD Soundsystem than you knew existed.
• Marnie Stern – Plain Speak
• Shrimpnose – Melt

Spotify playlist for the week of December 17, 2023.

• Two Shell – bluefairy
• Young Fathers – Holy Moly

Spotify playlist for the week of December 10, 2023.

• Rina Sawayama – Flavour Of The Month
• Spell Songs – Thrift (Dig In, Dig In) - Live at Birmingham Symphony Hall: Would be a really nice around-the-fire song.
• Daniel Brandt – Tha Tian: Delicious loops.
• Reid Willis – Sifting Through The Years - Extended Version: That Mesh sound.

Spotify playlist for the week of December 3, 2023.

• Pasocom Music Club – Ch.XXXX - Milk Talk Remix: Daft Punk-esque, so is Omitnak -AcidGelge Acid House Remix.
• LITE – Crushing: Not as dancy as Artist of the Year, but similar crunchy sounds.
• DJ Re:Code – Prodigal: Some hyper hyperpop.
• Genesis Owusu – Survivor
• PAVANE – Children

Spotify playlist for the week of November 26, 2023.

• Bleu Jeans Bleu – La pure pureté du beurre pur 100% pur beurre: I 100% endorse this song’s message.
• Reid Anderson – Song One: Reid Anderson and Dave King of The Bad Plus, with Craig Taborn. Sometimes feels like a crossover between The Bad Plus and recent Brad Mehldau. What else do need to know?
• Jeremy Blake – Annihilate: Like a dramatic soundtrack song.
• Crystal Fighters – Multiverse
• Four Tet – Feedback Mango - Live at Alexandra Palace London, 24th May 2023: I didn’t love this live album overall, but I like this song.

Spotify playlist for the week of November 12, 2023.

• Speakers Corner Quartet – Can We Do This?
• Nicole Brady – River that runs forever
• Kings Return – What a Wonderful World: Are there bad versions of this song?
• vōx – Wild Animal
• Sam Lee – Bushes and Briars

Spotify playlist for the week of November 5, 2023.

• Machinedrum – BTHE1
• Roni Size – Brown Paper Bag: 1997 drum and bass is so chill. This album won the Mercury prize that year.
• Roni Size – Beatbox: more from that same album.

Spotify playlist for the week of October 29, 2023.

• Son Lux – No Crimes: Not a new song,—it’s from the 2013 Lanterns—but it’s so good, and so are the new songs on this extended version.
• Thomas Vanz - Colors of Invisible: Solo piano. A great album to work to.
• Hiroyuki Sawano – 祓魔師強奏曲 第四楽章: D+T
• Hiroyuki Sawano – AOE組曲 第三楽章: i9: Interesting groovy piano + accordion piece. Reminds me a little of Hauschka.
• Kings Return – The Kings’ Nutcracker Suite: Loves me some a cappella. Especially a cappella Christmas songs!

Spotify playlist for the week of October 15, 2023.

• The Smile – You Will Never Work In Television Again - Live at Montreux Jazz Festival: The live version is at least as good as the studio one.
• G Jones – Maybe
• G Jones – Dancing On the Edge
• Weval – Unstoppable
• Ruby My Dear – Grwth

KNOWER’s KNOWER FOREVER album is finally on Spotify. Run and listen to Do Hot Girls Like Chords?.

Spotify playlist for the week of October 8, 2023.

• Hauschka – Inventions
• Son Lux – Lanterns Lit (Among The Living)
• RJD2 – The Proxy: Very cool start, sampling Steven Reich’s Electric Counter Point: I. Fast.
• Rymden - The Mountain: Strong Esbjörn Svensson Trio vibe, probably because it’s the same bassist and drummer! I like Rymden. I miss E.S.T.
• King Creosote – It’s Sin That’s Got Its Hold Upon Us

Spotify playlist for the week of September 10, 2023.

Sylvan Esso were guest DJ on Autin’s KUTX on Sep 16, 203. It was delightful. Many of the songs I enjoyed were via them. Otherwise, it wasn’t a particularly good week muscially. They happen.

• Karkwa – Nouvelle vague: First album of new music since 2010.
• Sofia Kourtesis – Madres: Via Sylvan Esso.
• Ruth Garbus – Mono No Aware: Via Sylvan Esso.
• Hudson Mohawke – Set The Roof: Via Sylvan Esso. A banger.
• Barker – Birmingham Screwdriver: Noisy. Glitchy. Rumble. Via Sylvan Esso.

Spotify playlist for the week of September 3, 2023.

• Sade – Soldier of Love
• Vallis Alps – Set It Off, Set It Right
• Tomu DJ – eXtra Super Deluxe
• King Creosote – Blue Marbled Elm Trees
• Mieux – 4mp3L (I am pale)
• LITE – Crushing: Crushing indeed.

Spotify playlist for the week of August 27, 2023.

• KNOWER – Do Hot Girls Like Chords: The intro is 🔥🔥🔥. 🙀 Knower is one of Louis Cole’s other projects. The album is only available on Bandcamp.
• DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – Brave: catchy house music by an oddly named DJ. Discovered thanks to this review on Rate My Music.
• Daði Freyr – If You Want To: The Icelandic band keeps on making catchy songs.
• Genesis Owusu – Tied Up!
• Noga Erez – NO news on TV (feat. ROUSSO): I feel a boppy Gorillaz vibe.
• Noga Erez – Fire Kites
• Machinedrum – Quasar
• Oneohtrix Point Never – A Barely Lit Path

It was a good music week.

Spotify playlist for the week of August 20, 2023.

• Brandt Brauer Frick – This Feeling - Grandbrothers Remix: Can’t not add a song that involves these two artists.
• Nikki Nair – Wake Up
• Genesis Owusu – Tied Up!
• Lusine – Transonic
• Stereolab – Metronomic Underground: Hypnotic.
• Stereolab – ABC: The first part sounds like a Jimi Hendrix song, but without all the guitar chops. I dig it.
• Fallulah – Bridges: Bouncy French pop. Reminds me a lot of the Danish artist Fallulah.
• Tomu DJ – Optimistic: Pretty sure the drums are from a NES.
• MADMADMAD – You See, You Do It Like This: I hope to see them live one day. I’m sure it’s a helluva party, based on KEXP live video that doesn’t even have an audience. Strong Artist Of The Year vibes.
• Artist Of The Year – sEXY mE, SEXY yOU: “It’s gonna be a hardcore track.”
• Get The Blessing – Oscillation Ochre
• Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
• Noname – namesake
• Parra for Cuva – Cupa Cupa

Spotify playlist from the week of August 13, 2023.

• This Is The Kit – Inside Outside
• John Monroe – Sleeping on the Floor: I’m a sucker for this sound, which reminds me of 1970’s Gentle Giant. John Monroe is a member of the excellent Field Music.

Now with a playlist!

• Max Cooper - Swapped / Stereoscopic Dive: Swapped is an intense noisy single. Stereoscopic Dive is more of his usual rhythmic ambient stuff. Vertebrea / Forgotten Places is almost drum n’ bass, with vocals by Kathryn deBoar. Her voice reminds me of Béatrice Bonifassi’s voice on DJ Champion’s No Heaven.
• Maribou State – Midas: A chill song fit for an afternoon in the park, if it wasn’t so damn hot. Perfect for a Copenhagen afternoon-in-the-park party.
• Tarta Relena – El suïcidi i el cant
• Laila Biali – Got to Love
• Snarky Puppy – Sleeper: I think it’s my first time listening to a full Snarky Puppy album despite a friend mentioning them nearly a decode ago. This particular song reminds me of Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana’s Taming the Dragon. This video of Larnell Lewis during the recording of the album We Like It Here trigger my listening. Via Kottke.
• Yaeji – For Granted: I think they’ve listened to Everything in Its Right Place quite a bit.
• Bad Snacks – Let’s Go (299 Mill): Short, gritty bass-centric groove.
• underscores – Locals (Girls like us) [with gabby start]
• Son Lux – No Crimes (New History): All the ingredients of a solid Son Lux song. (Update: it’s a remix, so yeah, duh.)

• Hakushi Hasegawa – Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi): The (un)usual bouncy glitchy pop for Hasegawa-san. It’s really hard to describe.
• Tarta Relena – nunc aperuit remix: Glitchy, drum ‘n bass-y remix of a Catalan vocal duet. You know. The usual.

• Bishop Briggs – Wild Horses: still a banger.
• Cory Wong – The Grid Generation: Louis Cole brings the groove, again.
• Lusine – Zero to Sixty: ear-tickling single.
• Teeth Of The Sea – Megafragma
• Walker & Royce – Stop Time
• Flyte – Tough Love
• Jacob Collier – WELLLL: Jacob Collier does rock anthems now? Rock anthems that sound like Rage Against the Machine?

• Louis-Jean Cormier – 100 mètres haies

• Ross from Friends – Revellers
• Machinedrum – Hide Sun
• Cornelius – All Things Must Pass
• underscores – You don’t even know who I am
• Aaron Jackson – Storm
• Sampha – Spirit 2.0