OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #303

What a strong release week so late in the year. Jennifer Castle, Haley Heynderickx and Mt. Misery can share the album of the week honors. Love all of them. New Andrew Bryant album was a great surprise. I didn’t see that coming, but excited to put that on heavy rotation next week. Then there’s also new albums from Max Bien Kahn, Zachary Lucky, Mount Eerie, Sam Blasucci, Lee Baggett, Trust Fund, Brower, Peter Perrett, Charlie Kaplan, Jeremie Albino, Loose Cattle, W.C. Beck, Austin Stambaugh, Garrett Owen, Julia Logan, Rachel Sermanni (EP) plus a Richard Swift compilation.

Equally big Finnish release week too led by the awesome new Viive and Jari Raaste albums. But that’s just tiny part of it, because we also have new albums from Peissu, Jere Valkonen, Ville-Veikko Airaniemi and Ruotomieli plus a STINAKO EP. Not to forget the new singles from Sonja Selene, Orvokki, UTU, Waver, Punomo, Ville Leinonen and Time Flies. Oh and managed to miss the album by Kansalainen on last week’s round up, so it’s here now because I like it a lot.

A new double single from Evan J Cartwright is one of the many gems on the international single category. Other early faves there came from Emma Munger, Renee Reed and K.C. Jones. Just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Back next week with another one. Love love love.

1. Jennifer Castle – Camelot (Camelot, Paradise of Bachelors)
2. Haley Heynderickx – Mouth of a Flower (Seed of a Seed, Mama Bird Recording Co)
3. Max Bien Kahn – Ghost Song (Flowers, Well Kept Secret)
4. Andrew Bryant – At the Sawmill Again (Loosa Schoona, Sentimental Noises)
5. Zachary Lucky – Good at Gettin’ Gone (The Wind, Wroxton Recordings)
6. Lee Baggett – Get It (Waves for a Begull, Perpetual Doom)
7. Mount Eerie – Broom of Wind (Night Palace, P.V. Elverum & Sun)
8. Sam Blasucci – Behind Closed Eyes (Real Life Thing, Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos)
9. Trust Fund – Curtis (Has It Been a While, Tapete Records)
10. Mt. Misery – On My Mind (Love In Mind, Prefect Records)
11. Brower – Now It’s Time (To Get Serious) (Flour, DIG!)
12. Peter Perrett – Fountain of You (The Cleansing, Domino Recording Co)
13. Charlie Kaplan – In a Little Bit of Time (Eternal Repeater, Glamour Gowns)
14. Richard Swift – Common Law (4 Hits & a Miss – The Essential Richard Swift, Secretly Canadian)
15. Jeremie Albino – Struggling with the Bottle (Our Time in the Sun, Easy Eye Sound)
16. Loose Cattle – Crescent City (Someone’s Monster, Single Lock Records / Low Heat Records)
17. Ramsey Thornton – Man-made (American Nervousness EP, La Honda Records)
18. W.C. Beck – River (Facecomber)
19. Garrett Owen – Beautiful Stain (Memoriam)
20. Austin Stambaugh – Driving I-40 W (Speechmythology – The Musical Short Stories of, Anti-Corp)
21. Rachel Sermanni – Strange Death (No Way Blues EP, Jellygirl Records)
22. Julia Logan – Faraway Nearby (Faraway Nearby, Dumont Dumont)
23. Viive – On tullut aika (Sen jälkeen kun, Mustik Motel)
24. Jari Raaste – Luonto on mystinen (Fresh! Minna Records / Panama-levyt / Raastepöytä)
25. Punomo – En vaikene (single, Playground)
26. Ville-Veikko Airaniemi – Arrow Lake (Calico, Airamusic)
27. Peissu feat Jenna-Marie Laine – Joki (Unissakävelijä, Aave)
28. Kansalainen – Hetki jolloin kaikki muuttui (Ikuisen yön kaupungissa, Helmi Levyt)
29. Jere Valkonen – Nuoret sydämet (Viimeistä kertaa, Eclipse Music)
30. Sonja Selene – Jäljellä (Helmi Levyt)
31. (proto)Torvinen – Sadan vuoden päästä se on tätä samaa paskaa (single, Humu Records)
32. Ruotomieli – Syntynyt huhtikuussa (Me olimme täällä, Lil’ Beast Records)
33. Time Flies – Attitude (single, Misfit Lee Records)
34. Ville Leinonen – Jason elää! (single, Panama-levyt)
35. Waver – Unihalvaus (single, Soft Monsters)
36. UTU – Oh, Sorrow (single, Misfit Lee Records)
37. Orvokki – Poseidon (single, Luova Records)
38. STINAKO – I Believe (Spirit EP, Soliti)
39. Emma Munger – Chemistry (single)
40. Brigid Mae Power – In Dreams (single, BMP)
41. Evan J Cartwright – Sleeping Through Afternoon (single, Vain Mina Records)
42. Renee Reed – On a Good Day (single, Keeled Scales)
43. Reb Fountain – Forever (single, Fountain Records)
44. Advance Base – Brian’s Golden Hour (single, Run For Cover Records)
45. JPW & Dad Weed – Everybody’s Talking (Again) (Two Against Nature EP, Fort Lowell Records)
46. K.C. Jones – Only Me to Talk to Blues (single, Valcour Records)
47. Kathleen Edwards – Crawling Back to You (single, Dualtone)
48. Lucinda Williams – Something (single, Highway 20 / Thirty Tigers)
49. Vilma Flood – Rosen (single, Startracks)
50. Johanna Samuels & Ben Lee – Sunset Marquis (single, Weirder Together)
51. Chris Brain – New Light (single, Big Sun Records)
52. Taylor Kopp – November Sunrise (single)
53. Humbird – Astrovan (single, Nettwerk)
54. Bonnie Whitmore – Abinormal (single, Aviatrix)
55. Icarus Phoenix – Feel (single)
56. Jake Nicoll – Pumpkin Baby (single)
57. Jason Joshua – Gee Baby (single, Sheridan Music)
58. Modem – Ei puhuta enää (Miten täällä voi elää? split EP, Modem Age Records)
59. St. Lenox – On Fullfillment (Ten American Work Songs, Don Giovanni Records)
60. Anne Malin – I Know (Strange Power! Dear Life Records)

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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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #302

A very quick and very late new music weekly. I didn’t have time go through submissions and I’m sure there’s a ton of good new music missing from this one.

St. Lenox is the album of the week. We also have great new albums from 2nd Grade, Anne Malin, Bailey Bigger, Skinny Dyck, The Bures Band, Ben Varian, Stephen Becker, Onsloow, Amythyst Kiah, Dave Vettraino, Rob Dobson, The Eggmen Whoooooo!, William Harries Graham and Grayson Capps.

From the Finnish side of things there’s a couple of EPs. Keidas and Modem / Dragsvik split. Plus some awesome singles from Ne Lintuizet, KO:MI, Viive, Eidetic Dreams, Sanni Reilin, The Orphan, Honey Crisp and SaintPolis.

Some early faves in the international singles category came from The While, Flora Hibberd, Bobby Emmett, Specific Thing, Sam Moss… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. Back next week with a less rushed effort. Love.

1. St. Lenox – Your Local Neighborhood Bar (Ten Modern American Work Songs, Don Giovanni Records)
2. 2nd Grade – Triple Bypass in B-Flat (Scheduled Explosions, Double Double Whammy)
3. Anne Malin – Lilac Bloom! (Strange Power, Dear Life Records)
4. Bailey Bigger – Dancing with the Devil (Resurrection Fern, Madjack Records)
5. Skinny Dyck – Lean In (Easygoing, Victory Pool)
6. The Bures Band – Bird Strike (Fool Circle, Love Police Records & Tapes)
7. Ben Varian – Florida I (In My Hometown) (SNIP, Bumpy)
8. Stephen Becker – Picturing Cosmos (Middle Child Syndrome)
9. Rob Dobson – Endeavor ON (Be Easy, WarHen Records)
10. Onsloow – Riding on Lies (Full Speed Anywhere Else, Tiny Engines)
11. The Eggmen Whoooooo! – Ready To Go Now (Fuzzy Eggs, Please, Strangetown Records)
12. Amythyst Kiah – Empire of Love (Still + Bright, Rounder Records)
13. William Harries Graham – Yourself (Annie’s House, Strolling Bones Records)
14. Grayson Capps – Barbara Allen (Heartbreak, Misery & Death, Royal Potato Family)
15. Dave Vettraino – Morning Melody (A Bird Shaped Shadow, Ruination Record Co)
16. Ne Lintuizet – Stadion (single, Texicalli)
17. Modem – Hinta (Miten täällä voi elää? split EP with Dragsvik)
18. KO:MI – The Wolves (single, Minna Records)
19. Eidetic Dreams – Sin Sisters (single, All That Plazz)
20. Viive – Väijytys (single, Mustik Motel)
21. Sanni Reilin – Hämeenlinna East Side (single)
22. Keidas – Kuinka meidän nyt käy? (Kuinka meidän nyt käy? EP)
23. The Orphan – Asylum Park (single, Kynsinauhat)
24. Honey Crisp – Twist and Turn (single)
25. SaintPolis – To Whom it May Concern (single, SaintPoliSongs)
26. The While – Glimmering (single)
27. Specific Thing – Now Is Actually Not a Good Time (single, Internal Organ Records)
28. Good Looks – Damage Control (single, Keeled Scales)
29. Bobby Emmett – Abandoned Universe (single)
30. Flora Hibberd – Jesse (single, 22TWENTY)
31. Sam Moss – Swimming (single)
32. Sam Blasucci – Howl at the Moon (single, Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos)
33. Dogwood Tales – dream (single)
34. Gold Star – Fentanyl (single)
35. Bonnie Prince Billy feat Tim O’Brien – Our Home (single, Domino Recording Co)
36. T. Gold – Getting to Know the End (single, Sleepy Cat Records)
37. Jobi Riccio – Final Movie Scene (single, Yep Roc)
38. Brooks and Bowskill – Carousel of Time (single, Ganaraska Recording Co)
39. Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears – Riding in the Van (single, Ears Over America / Missing Piece Records)
40. Rosali – Hey Heron (single, Merge Records)
41. Caroline Spence – Confront It (single, Tone Tree Music)
42. Kyle Cox – Coming Back to Me (single)
43. The Altons – Waiting (single, Daptone Records)
44. Office Culture – Desire (Enough, Ruination Record Co)
45. Litku Klemetti – Jos olisin koira (Funny Girl, Is This Art!)
46. Topi Saha feat Ylva Haru – Iso kirkko palaa (single, Soit Se Silti)

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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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #301

Here we are again. A bit earlier episode this time around.

New Office Culture is the album of the week. This week there’s also new albums from Snowgoose, Breymer, Blunt Chunks (well this is actually April release, but somehow I missed it back then), Nap Eyes, Generifus, Jim Nothing, Humdrum, Tim Heidecker, Scott Orr, Christopher Owens, Jay William Henderson (EP), Danny & the Champions of the World, Rambling Nicholas Heron, Benjamin Tod, Beau Jennings & The Tigers, Noeline Hofmann (EP), Liv Greene, Lindi Ortega and This Lonesome Paradise. Oh and split EP by Charlie Havenick and Finnish Postcard.

A big Finnish release week too led by the great new Litku Klemetti album. Also thrilled to have a couple of new Topi Saha songs in this world. Other Finnish gems of the week are albums from Nevala, Aurora Hentunen and Peijas plus singles from Minkki, myrtsi (this is from a week ago, but I discovered it a bit late. Thanks to Orvokki btw, because I first heard this great Myrtsi single on her instagram stories), Viive, Jani Matti Juhani, Itcevät, Ptak, Hanhani and Ville-Veikko Airaniemi.

And finally the international singles. Some early faves here came from Haley Heynderickx, The Innocence Mission, Clara Mann, Sam Blasucci, Alex Dupree, Dorothea Paas and Gladie. Again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. I have more important things than this next weekend, so I’m not sure will there be a new music weekly or not. If not, I’ll cover two weeks with the next one. I’ll let you know on the social media platforms. Love love love.

1. Office Culture – Was I Cruel (Enough, Ruination Record Co)
2. Snowgoose – Bewildered Dance (Descendant, Violette Records)
3. Breymer – Darkness (When I Get Through, One Little Independent)
4. Blunt Chunks – Every Day (The Butterfly Myth, Telephone Explosion Records)
5. Nap Eyes – Eight Tired Starlings (The Neon Gate, Paradise of Bachelors)
6. Generifus – Body and Mind (Summerberrys, Sultan Serves Records)
7. Jim Nothing – Lucky Charm (Grey Eyes, Grey Lynn, Meritorio Records)
8. Humdrum – Wave Goodbye (Every Heaven, Slumberland)
9. Scott Orr – Clear (as Day) (Miracle Body, Other Songs)
10. Christopher Owens – This Is My Guitar (I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair, True Panther Records)
11. Tim Heidecker – I Went into Town (Slipping Away, Bloodshot Records)
12. Rambling Nicholas Heron – All the TIme (Cinema Teatro)
13. Jay William Henderson – Upstate New York (The Teeth Beneath the Kiss EP)
14. Danny & The Champions of the World – Talking a Good Game (You Are Not a Stranger Here, Loose Music)
15. Beau Jennings & The Tigers – Norman Nights (American Stories Major Chords, Black Mesa Records)
16. Benjamin Tod – Shooting Star (Shooting Star, Benjamin Tod / Thirty Tigers)
17. Noeline Hofmann – One Hell of a Woman (Purple Gas EP, La Honda Records)
18. Liv Greene – Made it Mine Too (Deep Feeler, Free Dirt Records)
19. Lindi Ortega – The Ghost of You (From the Ether, Shadowbox Music)
20. This Lonesome Paradise – As Cold as Midnight (Luna Nocturna, Bad Vibes Good Friends)
21. Topi Saha – Neuvonantaja (single, Soit Se Silti)
22. Litku Klemetti – Lusijaneito (Funny Girl, Is This Art!)
23. Aurora Hentunen – One Room (Little Further, Eclipse)
24. myrtsi – Ehkä syksy muuttaa kaiken (single)
25. Hanhani – Kuningas (single, HanHan Music)
26. Minkki – Kirjasto (single, Alakulttuuritalo / Panama-levyt)
27. Itcevät – Merenneito (single, Itcevät Records)
28. Jani Matti Juhani feat Henna Emilia Hietamäki & Pekka Laine – Pahat tunteet (single)
29. Peijas – Eihän meillä ole kuin aikaa (Peijas, Lil’ Beast Records)
30. Nevala – Another Life (Take Me to the Honky Tonk, Cheeky Moon)
31. Ptak – Will u B There (single)
32. Viive – Ikävä (single, Mustik Motel)
33. Ville-Veikko Airaniemi – Sade (single, Airamusic)
34. The Innocence Mission – Midwinter Swimmers (single, Bella Union)
35. Haley Heynderickx – Gemini (single, Mama Bird Recording Co)
36. Clara Mann – Stadiums (single, The state51 Conspiracy)
37. Alex Dupree – My Sweet Heart (single, Trapdoor)
38. Sam Blasucci – No Magic (single, Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos)
39. Finnish Postcard – Mom Built an Altar in the Backyard (Exceptions to the Rule Split EP)
40. Charlie Havenick – Laundry Chair (Exceptions to the Rule Split EP)
41. Dorothea Paas – Diver (single, Telephone Explosion Records)
42. Andrew Sisk – Turn Inside (single)
43. Greg Mendez – Alone (single, Dead Oceans)
44. Mt. Misery – Hey! (single, Prefect Records)
45. Ducks Ltd. – Grim Symmetry (single, Carpark)
46. Bananagun – With the Night (single, Full Time Hobby)
47. Minky Starshine – Oh Father (single)
48. Gladie – Digging a Pond (single, Weatherwane Music)
49. Fightmilk – Yearning and Pining (single, Fika Recordings9
50. Dylan Rodrigue – RICOCHET (single, kidvomit)
51. Lilly Hiatt – Shouldn’t Be (single, New West Records)
52. Melissa Erin – What Ya Love (single)
53. Angela Autumn – Sage Bundle (single, Tone Tree Music)
54. Todd Day Wait – Oh Don’t Tell Her (single, Cloverdale Records)
55. Juanita Stein feat Ben Hillier – Mother Natures Scorn (single, Agricultural Audio)
56. Ramsey Thornton – Nintendo Morning (single, La Honda Records)
57. Emily Rose and the Rounders – Too Much Too (single)
58. Ken Pomeroy feat John Moreland – Coyote (single, Rounder Records)
59. Early James – Tinfoil Hat (single, Easy Eye Sound)
60. Silverstone – Trust is Broken (single, Gold Note Records)
61. Nathan Felix feat Garrett T. Capps – Out to Dance (single)
62. Thorsten Nesch – An ode to the shadows underneath your cheekbones (single, Polterzeitgeist Records)
63. Karl Blau – Vultures of Love (single, Otherly Love Records)
64. Rob Dobson feat Yohei – Flange (single, WarHen Records)
65. Lily Talmers – The Big Idea (single, El Tee Records)
66. Skyscraper Stan – Talk to Me (single, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)
67. Miika Leivo – Paremmin (Nääj, Valassaaret)
68. Chris Acker – Game 6 of ’86 (Famous Lunch, Gar Hole Records)
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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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