OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #309

Another year, another new music weekly.

This first one is a monster and longer than anyone will listen. Trying to cover a month’s worth of new music is a tough task. Even though December and early January isn’t the busiest time of the year. So yeah this includes stuff from early December to the new music of this Friday. I didn’t make good notes along the way, so I’m 100% sure that I forgot to include something important. It gets easier next week when I need to cover just one week.

The albums here are from Cedric Noel, Humbird, Freschard, Early James, Brigid Mae Power (covers), Delving (EP), Austin Leonard Jones, Luke Trimble, Nolan Taylor and Jesper Lindell (EP).

The Finnish part has new albums from Jani Matti Juhani, Sanni Reilin, niilo karppinen and Jaanat. So many singles too that probably no point to retype them all here. You’ll find them all on the list below. Finnish part starts from song #28 and ends on song #47. If you want some highlights, I love those Ullalintulampi singles for example. I included two, because one is from December and the other is brand new.

New Will Stratton song is the international song of the weekend. After two singles, I’m fairly sure that Will Stratton’s album will be on my top 10 for 2025, if this blog/world still exists at the end of 2025. Some other early faves came from. Dean Wareham, Wild Flowers, Fust, Mitch Dillon’s Compulsive Ramblers, Tobacco City, The Burning Hell, Vanessa Peters, Brent & Madeline, Office Culture. Just to name a few. There’s like a million of them here. Ok, I don’t have good math skills, but there’s plenty anyway.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters, if you like this crazy new music adventure. Back next week with another one. Love.

1. Cedric Noel – beaut (guides, Front Porch Records)
2. Humbird – Radiator (Astrovan: The Love Song Vignettes, Nettwerk)
3. Freschard – Angels of My Heart (The Best)
4. Drew Danburry – Royalty (Bird Songs)
5. Delving – Better of Being Alone (Reconnecting With Something Fragile EP)
6. Austin Leonard Jones – Theme from the Dick Gibson Show (Famous Times, Perpetual Doom)
7. Bridig Mae Power – See No Evil (Songs For You, BMP)
8. Luke Trimble – My Sweet Renee (Headed Out the Holler)
9. Early James – Nothing Surprises Me Anymore (Medium Raw, Easy Eye Sound)
10. Nolan Taylor – I Belong In Your Arms (Nolan Taylor, Atlantic)
11. Jesper Lindell – Fire Lake (Windows Vol.2, Brunnsvik Sound)
12. Will Stratton – Temple Bar (single, Ruination Record Co / Bella Union)
13. Dean Wareham – You Were the Ones I Had to Betray (single, Carpark)
14. Wild Flowers – Sunshine (single)
15. Sylvie – Lady Full of Dreams (single, Numero Group)
16. Tobacco City – Autumn (single, Scissor Tail Records)
17. Rose City Band – Radio Song (single, Thrill Jockey Records)
18. Fust – Spangled (single, Dear Life Records)
19. Mitch Dillon’s Compulsive Ramblers – Moving Town (single, Ragged Gum Records)
20. Spencer Kilpatrick & The Sand Gators – Make Me Say (single)
21. The Burning Hell – Bottle of Chianti, Cheese and Charcuterie Board (single, Bb*Island / You’ve Changed Records)
22. Office Culture – Compromise (single, Ruination Record Co)
23. Ryan Power – Guru Days (single)
24. Echolalia – Blood Moon (single, Full Time Hobby)
25. Vanessa Peters – Flood Zone (single, Idol Records)
26. Brent & Madeline – Come Closer (So You Can Hear Me) (single, A Primrose Recordings)
27. The Laughing Chimes – Cats Go Car Watching (single, Slumberland)
28. Jaanat – Mitä tapahtuu? (Naamat, Stupido Records)
29. Pelko – Karhu (single, Pelkolevy)
30. Jani Matti Juhani feat Petri Nakari – Unten pyörteissä (Jani Matti Juhani Laulaa Elvistä Suomeksi Vol.3, Punaiset Levyt / Ainoa Records)
31. Ullalintulampi – Kiltti tyttö (single, Panama-levyt)
32. niilo karppinen – outoneito (huolenaiheita, Sykli)
33. Sanni Reilin – Iltasatu (Tummaa vettä & kirkasta valoa)
34. Itcevät – Sininen hetki (single, Itcevät Records)
35. Havut – Hylje (single)
36. Kaspar – City Man (single, Soliti)
37. KO:MI – Encounterings (single, Minna Records)
38. Anne-Mari Kivimäki – Maalo (single, Rockadillo Records)
39. Räjäyttäjät – Psykedeelinen harmaa (single)
40. Tomi Nordlund & Syvä Joki – Maailmaan luotu (single, Soit Se Silti)
41. Nina Kaitaranta – Kieltäydyn juhlista (single, Kaita Records)
42. Sonja Selene – Mikä tarina (single, Helmi Levyt)
43. Ullalintulampi – Hiljalleen (single, Panama-levyt)
44. Honey Crisp – Right Type of High (single, Honey Crisp Musique)
45. Nikita Titov – Tuhat vuotta (single)
46. The Snake – Sometimes (single, Svart Records)
47. The Pink Chameleons – Draggin’ On (single, Soliti)
48. The James Baker Beat feat Dom Mariani – She Said (Bad Weekend) (single, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)
49. Gum Parker – Two Subarus (single, Repeating Cloud)
50. Gila – Outro (single, Repeating Cloud)
51. Asher Kartman – In My Own Way (single, Hungry Dogs)
52. Tom Henry – Bella (single, Royal Oakie Records)
53. Kyle Forester – Just Like Anyone (single)
54. Ally Kerr – When You Let it All Fall Away (single, Much Obliged Records)
55. Domestic Drafts – Only the Singer (single, Glamour Gowns)
56. Luther Russell – Right Way (single, Curation Records)
57. Consumables – Great Design (single, Fierce Panda Records)
58. Destroyer feat Fiver – Bologna (single, Merge Records)
59. Black Viiolet – Yin Yang (single)
60. Neal Francis – What’s Left of Me (single, ATO Records)
61. Camden. – Think Of Love (single, Mango Hill Records)
62. The Altons – Your Light (single, Daptone Records)
63. Matthew McNeal – Out of Time (single, Matte Black Sound Company)
64. Jacob Miller – Dropping Acid (single, Only One on the Mountain)
65. Jacksonport – Felt Like Me Again (single, Ay Caramba Records)
66. Bonnie Prince Billy feat John Anderson – Downstream (single, Domino Recording Co)
67. Clara Mann – Driving Home the Long Way (single, The state51 Conspiracy)
68. The Weather Station – Body Moves (single, Fat Possum Records)
69. Kris Delmhorst – Won’t Be Long (single)
70. JF Robitaille & Lail Arad – Could Be Worse (single, Casa Alma)
71. Melissa Mary Ahern – One Way Life (single, Fat Cat Records)
72. Trinelise Vaering – I Hope He Cancels (single, Word for Word Records9
73. Michaela Anne – Me and Willie (single, Georgia June Records)
74. I’m With Her – Espresso (single, Rounder Records)
75. Heather Maloney – Labyrinth in the Woods (single, Signature Sounds Recordings)
76. Jim White feat Trey Blake – Rushing in Waves (single, Fluff and Gravy Records)
77. Matt Mitchell Music Co – Sounds American to Me (single)
78. The Satchel Kid – If I Had a Dollar (single, Ella Ruth Institutet)
79. Jonathan Peyton – Sunrise (single)
80. Sierra Ferrell – Garden (single, Rounder Records)
81. Todd Day Wait – Goodbye (single, Cloverdale Records)
82. Georgia Parker and Hunter Burgamy – Texas and Oklahoma (single)
83. Buffalo Kin – The Last Stampede (single)
84. Gary Louris – Getting Older (single, SHAM / Thirty Tigers)
85. Pete Mancini – Technicolor Days (single)
86. Eric Schroeder – Emily (single, Enabler No.6 Records)
87. Risley – Walls (single)
88. DL Rossi – Am I Out? (single)
89. newtie – Mr. Pity (single, Candlepin Records)
90. Ike Goldman – Newt and Lovers (single)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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Favorite Songs of 2024

Next up my favorite songs of the year 2024. The international edition. As usual this is pretty much just a giant playlist for the onechordnet history books, because all the on-going playlists will move to 2025. But here’s some sort of top 10 to go with the playlist. After that everything is in completely random order and I’m sure there’s stuff still missing. The trouble with the mega lists is that at some point I just completely lose track what I’ve added and what I haven’t and therefore something important might be missing, because I assumed it’s already there. So feel free to send hate mail, if your song is missing. It’s most likely by accident.

Office Culture’s album was my big late addiction of 2024 and it has at least half a dozen songs that I love dearly. It might not be the kind of stuff I feature the most, so it might be a little bit surprising #1. Not completely out of the blue though. Heck, even the previous Office Culture album made my AOTY list. But yeah, while there’s actually several songs that could be the song of the year, it was the heart of the album Was I Cruel that really opened the floodgates and after that it was nothing but love. So that’s my song of the year.

The number #2 might a little surprising too, but VanWyck knocked it out of the park with Another to Do and it landed right into my heart. Lou Hazel’s County Clown is also a huge favorite. That also has the best song and music video combination. The video just matches every line in the song. What a beautiful work of art. I could throw any The Lostines song here too, but let’s go with the wonderful opener A Tear. It was probably on an earlier song of the year list too, but whatever. Loved it when the single came out and still love it now that the album is here. And of course everything else mentioned below or featured on the playlist is also wonderful. I think with songs it’s even more ridiculous to make a list, because there’s hundreds that feel worthy. So I don’t really know are the next 10 my absolute favorite songs of the year, but I do know that I love all of them.

Tidal Playlist
Spotify Playlist

10. 54 Ultra – Heaven Knows (That’s Love Records)

9. Willi Carlisle – Higher Lonesome (Signature Sounds Recordings)

8. Little Kid – Bad Energy (Orindal / Gold Day)

7. Fonteyn – Jody (Born Losers Records)

6. Simon Joyner – A Broken Heart Is Best Kept Out of Sight (BB*Island)

5. Richard Laviolette – Catacombs (You’ve Changed Records)

4. The Lostines – A Tear (Gar Hole Records)

3. Lou Hazel – County Clown

2. VanWyck – Another to Do (Maiden Name Records)

1. Office Culture – Was I Cruel (Ruination Record Co)

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Favorite Finnish Songs of 2024

Next up my favorite Finnish songs of the year 2024. As usual this is pretty much just a giant playlist for the onechordnet history books, because all the on-going playlists will move to 2025. But here’s some sort of top 20 to go with the playlist. After that everything is in completely random order and I’m sure there’s stuff still missing. The trouble with the mega lists is that at some point I just completely lose track what I’ve added and what I haven’t and therefore something important might be missing, because I assumed it’s already there. So feel free to send hate mail, if your song is missing. It’s most likely by accident.

Anyway, this is an important category, because the song Mehiläisille by Olva defined my year in music. There’s nothing music-related that I loved as much as I loved this song. Actually there’s very few music things I’ve loved as much during the 23 years I’ve been making this blog. What a special song where bees try to thrive on a planet that the humanity failed. So poignantly beautiful and while there’s melancholy, it doesn’t sound anything like a cold and dark dystopian nightmare. Instead it’s warm-hearted and even somehow comforting. Incredible song.

This was also the year of ITE EEROLA and Leija Lautamaja when it comes to Finnish songs. Leija Lautamaja made my Finnish album of the year and that album has so much great songwriting. I went with Ylpeästi sun on this one, but on another day it could have been Sinun takiasi, Jos jos or Ilman sua tää ei ois elämää just as well and I did sneak them all into the playlist. All five hearts songs in my books (yes, back when I wrote reviews I gave hearts, not stars). And yeah, there’s more greatness on that record, but those are my own favorites.

ITE EEROLA didn’t release an album this year, but there’s four songs available and I love them all. I listen to hundreds of artists and love many of them, but if someone would force me pick just one favorite songwriter, lately the answer to that question has been Reetta Eerola. Somehow their songs really resonate with me almost every time. I chose Näidenkin seinien takana to this list, because it hits close home on a personal level. But it really could be anyone of them and yes I definitely included all of them on the playlist part of this.

And of course anything else mentioned here and/or featured on the playlist also rules. And yeah, there’s probably some additions coming to the playlist when I figure out what I forgot to include.

Tidal Playlist
Spotify Playlist

20. Lala Salama – Aurinko sulattaa mun pään (All That Plazz)
19. Toinen Maisema – Usvaa
18. Pekka Laine feat Jay Nemor – Sorrow and Pain (Svart Records)
17. Antti Autio – Tähti (Soit Se Silti)
16. Litku Klemetti – Jos olisin koira (Is This Art!)
15. Kumma Heppu & Lopunajan Voidellut – Tuttua katua (Rockadillo)
14. Ne Lintuizet – Stadion (Texicalli)
13. Poni – Vauvoi (Minna Records)
12. Vähäsarja – Pääskyset (Helmi Levyt)
11. Sonja Selene – Pimeä pää (Helmi Levyt)
10. Huonosti puetut lapset – Mikset voisi minua
9. myrtsi – Ehkä syksy muuttaa kaiken
8. Viitasen Piia – Jano (Utopiia)
7. Rosita Luu – Leipäkivet (Playground)
6. Joni Ekman Group – Beibi, mua pelottaa (Näkki-levyt)

5. Hattara – Halla (Cotton Candy Company)

4. Nikita Titov – Kirkas tähtiyö

3. Leija Lautamaja – Ylpeästi sun (Leija Organs Records)

(+ Sinun Takiasi, Jos Jos, Ilman sua tää ei ois elämää)

2. ITE EEROLA – Näidenkin seinien takana (Panama-levyt)

(+ Mulla on sulle jotain, Linnut, Kiviä ja laivoja)

1. Olva – Mehiläisille (Minna Records)

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