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)

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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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