Another week, another new music weekly.
Also another year. Not much will change. This new music weekly will go on as usual unless I finally realize how little it makes sense to spend hours every weekend into something that has so little significance. Thankfully I’m too stubborn to understand that. At least for now this is on Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music. My Apple Music trial will run out in a few weeks and Tidal in month in a half. After that I need to decide what to do, because my low end factory job doesn’t pay enough to justify me subscribing to multiple streaming services. But at least for a few more weeks, this is available in all three services. This first new music weekly of the year has some late 2021 releases too, because this was on hold for few weeks. I probably forgot something, because I didn’t really keep notes during the hiatus. Sorry about that.
The album of the week is the new North Atlantic Explorers album Night Owls. Vancouver-based songwriter Glenn D’Cruze and his band sure set the bar high for 2022. Such a beautiful album. From the earlier weeks I’ve spent a lot of time with Jake Balzer’s EP and the album by The Craig Torso Show. This week we also got beautiful albums from Jeff Tobias and Daniel Bachman (covers album) plus an EP from Sis. Brandon Padier EP was a 31st of December release. Oh yeah and on Bandcamp there’s a new cover album from Michael Feuerstack.
The big one from Finland is the debut album from J.Kajan. There’s also a run of lovely singles from J.Karjalainen, Treemer, Palor, Bad Sauna and Itä-Hollola Installaatio. Late 2021 magic are the album from Arwi of Lovers and EP/single from Kuningas Koningas.
And finally the international singles. The favorites here are the new songs from Maya De Vitry, Jacob Miller, Jacksonport, Marjorie and Jason McCue. Just to name a few. There’s gold throughout the list. For example among the last few, there is a late 2021 gem from Elijah Johnston. Plenty of cover magic too and you’ll find some Townes Van Zandt, Patrick Fitzgerald, Horse Feathers, Elliot Smith from the playlist.
That’s all for this week. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. That all matters a great deal. Love from a distance.
1. North Atlantic Explorers – Hurricane Hazel (Night Owls, 2022)
2. Jeff Tobias – Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Recurring Dream, Strategy of Tension, 2022)
3. The Craig Torso Show – I Saw Your Eyes in the Sky (Conflagration Vespers, 2022)
4. Jake Balzer – In Your Memories (Never Better EP, Natural Blue, 2021)
5. Daniel Bachman – Beautiful Eyes of Virginia (Lonesome Weary Blues, Three Lobed Recordings, 2022)
6. Maya De Vitry – How Bad I Wanna Live (single, Mad Maker Studio, 2022)
7. Laura Gibson – Curs in the Weeds (single, Kill Rock Stars, 2021)
8. Jacob Miller – Leave (single, 2022)
9. Jason McCue – Eyes (single, Fluff and Gravy Records, 2022)
10. Jacksonport – Fresh Flowers (single, Tularosa Records, 2022)
11. Marjorie – More Than This (single, Whatever’s Clever, 2022)
12. The Cactus Blossoms feat Jenny Lewis – Everybody (single, Walkie Talkie Records, 2021)
13. Jake Xerxes Fussell – Rolling Mills Are Burning Down (single, Paradise of Bachelors, 2022)
14. Avi Jacob – New England Woman (single, 2022)
15. Brandon Padier – Paper Moon (Suffering Season EP, 2021)
16. Swamp Dogg – Soul to Blessed Soul (single, Don Giovanni Records, 2022)
17. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Don’t Worry ‘Bout What I Do (single, Colemine Records, 2022)
18. Kendra Morris – Penny Pincher (single, Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records, 2022)
19. J. Karjalainen – Oulu, Wisconsin (single, Warner, 2022)
20. J. Kajan – Pitkä on matka (Kertoisinko kaiken, 2022)
21. Kuningas Koningas – Valkoinen turkki, hopeaneula (Kuningas Koningas EP, Iso Pinkki, 2021)
22. Itä-Hollola Installaatio – Ufot laskeutuu (single, KHY Suomen Musiikki, 2021)
23. Bad Sauna – Kun nään koiran (mun sydän sulaa) (single, All That Plazz, 2022)
24. Palor – Sudet (single, 2022)
25. Treemer – Paper Cuts (single, Soft Monsters, 2022)
26. Artsick – Look Again (single, Slumberland, 2022)
27. Rabo Hemien und die Rheinuferzecken feat Austin Lucas – Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (single, Rambazamba Records, 2022)
28. The Shang Hi Los – Plymouth Rock (single, Rum Bar Records, 2022)
29. Guided By Voices – Excited Ones (single, Guided By Voices Inc, 2022)
30. Good Good Blood – The Dizzying Parade (single, Team Love Records, 2022)
31. Icarus Phoenix – Dysfunction / Victimization (single, Sunset Alliance, 2022)
32. Dan Reeder – Everything Changed (single, Oh Boy Records, 2022)
33. Morgan Wade – Run (single, Ladylike Records, 2022)
34. Elliah Heifetz – Living Proof (single, Legal Smile, 2022)
35. Justin Wells – Blue Moon of Kentucky (single, August Music, 2021)
36. Pleasure Horse – Be Here to Love Me (single, 2021)
37. Mike Trask with Julie Aube – Love on the Rise (single, 2022)
38. Emily Barker & Lucas Drinkwater – Boys Will Be Boys (single, Everyone Sang, 2022)
39. Straight White Teeth – Cute Cold Creeps (single, Hunny Hawk Records, 2022)
40. Scott Metzger – Don’t Be a Stranger (single, The Royal Potato Family, 2022)
41. Robert Leslie – In the Rows (single, 2021)
42. Seafarers – Submarine (single, 2022)
43. Widowspeak – Everything is Simple (single, Captured Tracks, 2022)
44. Modern Studies – Light a Fire (single, Fire Records, 2022)
45. Duquette Johston – Mystiques (single, Single Lock Records, 2022)
46. Father John Misty – Funny Girl (single, Bella Union, 2022)
47. Elijah Johnston – Horse Girl (single, We Bought a Zoo Records, 2021)
48. Jordan Klassen – Carried Away (single, 2022)
49. Sis – Double Rapture (Gnani EP, Native Cat Recordings, 2022)
50. Sarah Mary Chadwick – 2:45 AM (single, 2021)
51. Modern Nature – Performance (single, Bella Union, 2022)
52. Arwi of Lovers – Sunkosi (Spiritus Sanctus, Helmi Levyt, 2021)
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
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 a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account. If you want to find the older ones I’ve moved them to the weekly playlist archive. So hit that link above and I’m sure you’ll find this playlist too.