This week around Thanksgiving is always very quiet on the release front. Only grateful for that, because I need time to put the eoty lists together.
New The Innocence Mission is the album of the week. Also really liking the new Rambling Nicholas Heron album. That’s a prolific songwriter, because I think it’s only a month or two since the previous one. But the quality stays high all the time. There’s also great new releases from Juanita Stein, Jim Bryson (EP), Eric Long, Ben Van Bonn, Rob Joynes (EP) and Sarah Summer (EP).
The Finnish release week was surprisingly busy for this time year. New Joni Ekman Group is the leader of the pack. Love that stuff for sure. We also have new albums from Kas Kan, 20 000 Hz, Hal Wickman and Idän mies plus singles from Jani Matti Juhani, Sanni Reilin, Kissa, KO:MI, Helmi Ada, Itcevät, Punomo, Janeveera, Honey Crisp, Tuomo Mannonen and Vyötiäinen.
Some early faves on the international singles category came from Darren Hanlon, Mirrored Daughters, Ryan Necci & The Buffalo Gospel and Cassidy Waring. Again just to name a few.
That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Now back to crafting the fun but pointless year end lists. Some of them might or might not appear before the next new music weekly. It depends how much energy I have after the work days. Anyway, a lot of those coming sometime during the next few weeks. And one more new music weekly. After that there will be about a month long holiday break to charge the batteries. It’s hard work (well hobby) to build hours long new music weekly playlist every weekend on your spare time. So I definitely need a break and this is the best time for it. Love love love.
1. The Innocence Mission – Your Saturday Picture (Midwinter Swimmers, Bella Union)
2. Rambling Nicholas Heron – Brutal Awakening (Manuel’s Dream: Gunmetal Clouds, Suitcase Studio & Shop)
3. Juanita Stein – The Weightless Hour (The Weightless Hour, Agricultural Studio)
4. Jim Bryson – Is This Blues? (Combinations 1+1 EP, Fixed Hinge Recordings)
5. Eric Long – As Blue as the Blue Gets (Portrait)
6. Rob Joynes – Forgiveness (Friendless EP)
7. Sarah Summer – Red Rover (Blessed Interruption EP)
8. Ben Van Bonn – Kite Hill Jump (Further than Thought)
9. Ryan Necci & The Buffalo Gospel – You (single)
10. Cassidy Waring – Hearse Chasing (single)
11. Darren Hanlon – Good Vibration (single, FYR)
12. Mirrored Daughters – City Song (single, Fika Recordings)
13. KO:MI – Theory (single, Minna Records)
14. Kas Kan – Jos tahtoo olla joku muu (En pelkää enää mitään)
15. Itcevät – Sä oot jotain muuta (single, Itcevät Records)
16. Punomo – Kuuntele mua (single, Playground)
17. 20 000 Hz – Pussaa mua valokuvakopissa (Kaaosteoria, Alakulttuuritalo)
18. Joni Ekman Group – En katso taakseni (Joni Ekman Group, Näkki-levyt)
19. Kissa – Jokainen maaliviiva (single, Svart Records)
20. Helmi Ada – Neiti Etsivä (single)
21. Jani Matti Juhani feat Knipi – Jos alkaa saan uudelleen (single)
22. Tuoma Mannonen – Kadonnut kaamokseen (single, Playground)
23. Juhlat – Alaovella (single)
24. Janeveera – Narkkari (single, Eclipse)
25. Sanni Reilin – Oi Bolivia (single)
26. Vyötiäinen – Mukalakivet (single, Panama-levyt)
27. Idän mies – Huomisen hyvää (Askel painaa, Idän miehen levyt)
28. Honey Crisp – Dopamine (single, Honey Crisp Musique)
29. Hal Wickman – Sunny Side of the Street (Hal Wickman)
30. Matt Moran – Dry County (single, Broken Tenor Records)
31. Kendall Lujan – I Want to Be in Love With You (single, ROLA Records)
32. John Southworth – Burning of the Notre-Dame (single)
33. Thorsten Nesch – Flying Down the Highway (single, Polterzeitgeist Records)
34. Jim Ghedi – Wasteland (single, Basin Rock)
35. Billy Allen + The Pollies – I’m Okay (single, Single Lock Records)
36. Ex-Vöid – Pinhead (single, Tapete Records)
37. Ally Kerr – Back Again (single, Much Obliged Records)
38. Lila Tristram – Martha May (single)
39. Humbird – Forgiveness (single, Nettwerk)
40. Darien Lane feat Jason Dea West – You Can’t Hold a Sound (single)
41. Simon Joyner – Port of Call (Coyote Butterfly, BB*Island)
42. Father John Misty – Summer’s Gone (Mahashmashana, Bella Union)
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.