Another week, another new music weekly. Music blogger never rests. Two days of music festival and then a whole lot of new music listening on Sunday. This was a fast effort though and a bit of a grind. I didn’t have to go through emails or such. So I’m sure there’s stuff missing, but here’s what I managed to put together.
There’s new albums from Hannah Cohen, Lucky Cloud, Dean Wareham, Rachel Brooke, Pug Johnson, Cactus Lee, Destroyer, Garrett T. Capps, Jetstream Pony, Butler, Blake & Grant, Anna St. Louis, Lucy Dacus, Ruby Gill, Kathleen Edwards (covers), Mess Esque, Sarah Quintana, Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, Celeste Madden (EP), Stuart Pearce and Guy Capecelatro III & Mike Effenberg.
Some big album releases from Finland too. The Moontwins (PK Keränen & Leija Lautamaja), J. Karjalainen, The Snake, 1980 AD and Helmi Ada. Plus singles from Cult of Stenman, Isse, Brian and Suad.
Some early faves on the international singles category came from The Deep Dark Woods, Why Dogs Why, M Ross Perkins, Mitch Dillon’s Compulsive Ramblers, Colin Miller, Attention Bird Utopia, Julie Arsenault & Aaron Comeau…. just to name a few as usual.
That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Last week the Spotify version reached 1000 followers at least temporarily, which was nice because that was my long term goal and I wanted to get there before I quit. Of course the numbers are kinda arbitrary and somewhat pointless vanity metrics and any kind of actual interactions with artists and listeners matter much more than any kind of number. Still nice to see that number slowly rising too. So thank you. Back next week with another one of these. Love.
1. Hannah Cohen – Mountain (Earthstar Mountain, Bella Union)
2. Lucky Cloud – Laughter Yoga (Foreground, Ruination Record Co)
3. Dean Wareham – New World Julie (That’s the Price of Loving Me, Carpark)
4. Rachel Brooke – I’m Doing Just Fine (Sings Sad Songs)
5. Pug Johnson – Big Trains (El Cabron, Break Maiden Records / Thirty Tigers)
6. Cactus Lee – Rico (Cactus Lee, Western Vinyl)
7. Garrett T. Capps – Endless Hole (Life is Strange)
8. Destroyer – The Ignoramus of Love (Dan’s Boogie, Merge Records)
9. Butler, Blake & Grant – Down by the Sea (Butler, Blake & Grant, 355 Recordings)
10. Jetstream Pony – Bad Common Earth Connect (Bowerbirds and Blue Things, Spinout Nuggets / Shelflife Records)
11. Stuart Pearce – The Bosses are Stealing Yr Days! (All This Vast Overproduction, Safe Suburban Home)
12. Sarah Quintana – Rolling and Tumbliing (Baby Don’t)
13. Lucy Dacus – Big Deal (Forever Is a Feeling, Geffen Records)
14. Ruby Gill – The Flood (Some Kind of Control)
15. Anna St. Louis – Visitor (demo) (Home Recordings)
16. Kathleen Edwards – Traveling Alone (Covers, Dualtone)
17. Celeste Madden – Nightly Routine (Is It Really Goodnight? EP, Sad Club Records)
18. Mess Esque – That Chair (Jay Marie, Comfort Me, Forgotten Song Records)
19. Guy Capecelatro III & Mike Effenberg feat Justin Carloni – Strange Mistakes (Gods, Burst & Bloom Records)
20. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble – Makin’ Moves (Gemini, Colemine Records)
21. The Moontwins – King Size Bed (Night Times, Playground)
22. The Snake – Care At All (Always Bites Back, Svart Records)
23. Cult of Stenman – Slave of Mind (single)
24. Suad – Morning (single, Svart Records)
25. Helmi Ada – Sit ku (Taas sekaisin, Stupido Records)
26. Brian – Jyväskylä Skyline (single, KHY Suomen Musiikki)
27. 1980 AD – Kolmas uni auringosta (Lasipallo, pahvikallo, Alakulttuuritalo)
28. Isse – Täti ampuu (single, Helmi Levyt)
29. J. Karjalainen – Kadun toisella puolella (Suomalaista muotoiluu, Warner Music / Jukan Productions)
30. Hallelujah the Hills – Fake Flowers at Sunset (single, Discrete Pageantry Records)
31. Mitch Dillon’s Compulsive Ramblers – Take Me (single, Ragged Gum Records)
32. Avery Friedman – New Thing (single, Audio Antihero)
33. Why Dogs Why – Clunkers (single, Why Dogs Why Inc)
34. Colin Miller – Porchlight (single, Mtn Laurel Recording Co)
35. Ally Kerr – King of Everyone (single, Much Obliged Records)
26. Trevor Beld Jimenez – Pieces of Me (single, Gertrude Street Records)
37. Rubber Band Gun – Pay it Back (single, Historic New Jersey Recordings)
38. M Ross Perkins – I Feel So Dumb (single, Karma Chief Records)
39. Julie Arsenault & Aaron Comeau – Here Comes the Bully (single, Son Canciones)
40. Attention Bird Utopia – Best of Kings (single, Here, here recordings / Many Hats Distribution)
41. Mike Frazier – What’s Wrong With Me? (single, Geneva Records)
42. Foxwarren – Listen2me (single, Arts & Crafts)
43. Mark Fredson – Company Man (single)
44. Spencer Kilpatrick & The Sand Gators – Bobby Jackson (single)
45. The Deep Dark Woods – Ruby (single, Victory Pool)
46. Reed Turchi – Lay My Burden Down (single, Xenon)
47. The Lowtimers – Lonely Company (single, Alabama Sound Company)
48. Gus Clark & The Least of His Problems – Winner (single, Plastic Pistol Records)
49. Jesse Daniel – My Time is Gonna Come (single, Lightning Rod Records / Thirty Tigers)
50. Zach Russell – Redbud Girl (single, Carlboro Records / Thirty Tigers)
51. Jessica Pounds feat Nathan Kalish – Kinda Like the Sound (single, Yellow Canary)
52. Melissa Erin – Joy Of Living (single)
53. Iris Marlowe – Brimstone Cowboy (single)
54. Mojohand – Hey Rita (single, Mojohand Records)
55. Have Gun, Will Travel – Mission to Nowhere (single)
56. Max Bien Kahn – Magnolia Stroll I (single, Well Kept Secret)
57. Uwade – Harmattan (single, Ehiose Records / Thirty Tigers)
58. Swimming Bell – Meet My Shadow (single)
59. Cass McCombs – Priestess (single, Domino Recording Co)
60. Michael Cloud Duguay – The Only Angel In Sight (single, Watch that Ends the Night Records)
61. JPW & Dad Weed – What If I Were Dying (single, Fort Lowell Records)
62. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Never Coming Back (single)
63. Red Stamp – Dancing With My Baby (single, Primavera Labels)
64. Sarah Gargano – License to Kill (single)
65. Phi-Psonics – New Pyramid (single, Gondwana Records)
66. Brian D’Addario – Only to Ease My Mind (Till the Morning, Headstack Records)
67. Sharp Pins – Race for the Audience (Radio DDR, K Recs / Perennial)^
68. Jeffrey Lewis – DCB & ARS (The Even More Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis, Vintage Voltage)
69. Heat Manager – Palm Springs (Relaxed American, American Grapefruit)
70. Jolly Jumpers – Wicked World (Rural Slang, If Society)
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.