It’s been ages since I’ve made any kind post that was not a playlist or a year-end list. First I didn’t have the energy and then I sort of lost the belief that it matters. So I kinda just let things slide and it has never done me any good. I don’t know if I’ll ever really start again, but Hello Emerson inspired me to make at least one post. Therefore here’s a very quick music video entry of songs that I love.

Starting with that beauty of a song from Hello Emerson. Their new album To Keep Him Here will come out on the 29th of March and the latest single called Church was accompanied with the loveliest music video. Life, love and death. Oh my. Sweet work of art.

Maybe my absolute favorite songwriter right now is Anna Tivel and she just released a wonderful first single Disposable Camera from her forthcoming album Living Thing. Due out May 21st on Fluff and Gravy Records. I will keep a close eye on that.

My favorite album of the year so far is Critterland by Willi Carlisle and there’s a brand new music video for the song called When The Pills Wear Off. This one hits hard, but I love everything about it. Critterland is out now on Signature Sounds.

Wrapping this first post in ages with a new song from another big personal favorite. Canadian Michael Feuerstack also has a new album on the horizon. Eternity Mongers will be released by Forward Music Group on the 19th of April. Here’s the great new single and music video Big Sails.

A whole lot to love once again. Made it an hour shorter this time around. Still way too long I suppose.

Bella White and Esther Rose can share the album of the week honors. Plenty of other great ones too. There’s new albums from Vilma Flood, Cinder Well, Joey Frendo, Rose City Band, Nydia Gonzalez (well this EP was early March release, but first time on this new music roundabout. Better late than never, because it’s awesome. Thanks to RSTB for this one), Superviolet, Domestic Bliss, Billy Tibbals (EP), Paint Fumes (from last week), Lily Dabbs, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Black Guy Fawkes (EP), Lucy Farrell, The Infamous Stringdusters (EP), Laura Mae Socks (EP), Trapper Schoepp and Smaller Hearts.

A short but really strong Finnish section led by the wonderful new Liila Jokelin album. Great new albums also from Ilja Karsikas and Captain Cougar. I highly recommend all of them. There’s also single beauties from Metsäheikki, Jere Ijäs & Monacon työväen palloilijat and STINAKO.

International song of the week is the new Lauren O’Connell song. Loved that Details album some years ago and great to finally hear a new original from them. Such a great song. Also would like to give a standing ovation to the new Evangeline Gentle song. Love it so much. Oh and a new amazing song from Anna Tivel too. It’s an outtake from the Outsiders sessions, but definitely not just a throwaway b-side. Easily could have been on the album too. Other early faves came from Kyle Cox, Mo Troper, RF Shannon, Joanna Sternberg, Michael Cormier-O’Leary, Durand Jones, Brennen Leigh, Logan Ledger, Withered Hand and so forth. Just to name a few. Too early to tell which will become long time friends and which just lovely new acquintances.

That’s all for now. I made it to 230 Episodes. 20 more? Seems like a lot, but I guess. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all helps. Both me and the artists that I feature on this. This made it past the 750 mark on Spotify a while back and that was nice. I’d love to hit 1000 before this has run its course. Not that the arbitrary metrics are that important. I know some real people who read, listen and appreciate this and that matters a whole lot more than any kind of faceless number on the follower count. Anyway, that’s all for now. Back to NHL playoffs. Love from a distance.

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 Tidal. This means a few tracks might be missing from the Tidal version, if they are not available on that platform. Usually it’s 1-3 tracks that are not on Tidal. 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.