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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #308

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This is the last new music weekly of 2024. I need a little break and this is the best time to do it. This will continue in January. Most likely on week 2. Meanwhile there will be a lot of year-end lists.

New Advance Base is the album of the week. Also thrilled that there’s new EP from John Calvin Abney. Other new albums came from Field Medic, Lucinda Williams (The Beatles covers), Dolour, CIAO MALZ (EP), Rachel Baiman, The Psych Fi’s, Will Stewart (EP of Morphine covers), Effie Zilch, Ramona and the Holy Smokes (few weeks old EP) and Looze Koozies. I also included Little Kid album all the way from February. I missed it at the time, but Advance Base somehow led me into it and I fell for it badly this week.

From the Finnish side of things we have a couple of important album releases from Emilia Sisco and Sir Liselot. Plus an EP from Oudot ajat and singles gold from Saara Heikkilä, The Moontwins, The Bullets, Topi Saha and 1980 AD.

International singles part of this is really strong. I loved the new ones from Clara Mann, Sunny War, Thomas Dollbaum, Lou Hazel and Flora Hibberd. Some other early faves came from Matthew McNeal, R&D, Bonnie Prince Billy, Brigid Mae Power… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Thanks for following this new music adventure during 2024. I know there’s plenty of bigger and better publications, so I really appreciate if you follow my take on the new music of the year. Of course good to follow many, because there’s so much new music that nobody can cover all of it and different people will highlight different things. This AOTY season is again a good reminder that even though I spent 5-10 hours making this thing every weekend and this year have featured well over 600 international albums and close to 100 Finnish ones, I’ve still barely scratched the surface. Most AOTY lists have at least 80% of stuff that I’ve never heard at all. Anyway, my version of those silly but fun eoty lists will appear fairly soon and this new music weekly will continue in January. Until then love love love.

1. John Calvin Abney – Shortwaving (Shortwaving EP, Ton Canyon Records)
2. Advance Base – The Tooth Fairy (Horrible Occurrences, Run for Cover Records)
3. Little Kid – Bad Energy (A Million Easy Payments, Gold Day / Orindal Records)
4. Rachel Baiman feat Sam Burchfield – Late to the Fire (A Sides / B Sides, Signature Sounds Recordings)
5. Lucinda Williams – I’ve Got a Feeling (Sings the Beatles From Abbey Road, Highway 20 Records / Thirty Tigers)
6. Will Stewart and Company – Cure for Pain (90 Acre Farm EP)
7. CIAO MALZ – Gold Rush (Safe Then Sorry EP, Audio Antihero)
8. The Psych Fi’s – Odds & Evens (Can Con, Bobo Integral)
9. Dolour – Running Forever (New Old Friends xx)
10. Field Medic – dandelion dream (boundless & true)
11. Loose Koozies – Haworthia (Passing Through You, Tall Texan Records)
12. Ramona and the Holy Smokes – Til It’s Over (Til It’s Over EP)
13. Effie Zilch – Taking Me Over (Multitudes, Redtone Records)
14. Matthew McNeal – Dropped the Ball (single, Matte Black Sound Company)
15. Sunny War feat Tre Burt – Scornful Heart (single, New West Records)
16. Thomas Dollbaum feat Kate Teague – Do Me a Kindness (single,
17. Jacksonport – Raincheck (single, Ay Caramba Records)
18. Lou Hazel – Bulldog (single)
19. Flora Hibberd – Baby (single, 22Twenty)
20. Clara Mann – Remember Me (Train Song) (single, The State51 Conspiracy)
21. Emilia Sisco and Cold Diamond & Mink – Don’t Let Nobody (Introducing Emilia Sisco, Timmion Records)
22. The Moontwins – All I Want Is You (Tell Me That It’s True) (single, Playground)
23. The Bullets – Seven Days (single, Nature Sucks Anyway Records)
24. Saara Heikkilä – Ota Viivi viski (single)
25. 1980 AD – Hyvinkää (kaikki väsyneet hevoset) (single, Alakulttuuritalo)
26. Oudot ajat – Pimeä huone (Ensimmäinen lähetys EP, Panama-levyt)
27. Sir Liselot – Palmupuut (Nämä kädet ei paljon suojaa, Minna Records)
28. Topi Saha – Purppurakuu (single, Soit Se Silti)
29. R&D – I’ll Speak Into the Bloom (single, Ruination Recording Co)
30. Chris Eckman – Genevieve (single, Glitterhouse Records)
31. I Am Oak – The Way I See It (single, Snowstar Records)
32. Brigid Mae Power – You Don’t Know Me (single, BMP)
33. Bonnie Prince Billy – London May (single, Domino Recording Co)
34. Jacob Miller – Cherry Blossoms (single, Only One On The Mountain)
35. David Ramirez – The Music Man (single, Blue Corn Music)
36. Jason Joshua – Prisoner of My Mind (single, Sheridan Music)
37. Kelly Finnigan – It Hurts Me So Much (single, Colemine Records)
38. The War and Treaty – Carried Away (single, Mercury Nashville)
39. Marc Anthony Samuel feat Triptides – Flow (single, Skyforest Sound)
40. Andy Jenkins – Leaving Before (single, Psychic Hotline)
41. Digits feat Edith Frost – Wild at Heart (single)
42. Specific Thing – Partial to Pop (single, Internal Organ Records)
43. Icarus Phoenix – When Cooper Briscoe Did Karate (single)
44. Dropkick – Primary Colours (single, Bobo Integral)
45. The Gentle Spring – Severed Hearts (single, Skep Wax Records)
46. Carriers – Sometimes (single, Brassland)
47. Gold Baby – Henry (single, Dogbone Records)
48. Emma Munger – Change (single)
49. Humbird – Person (single, Nettwerk)
50. R.O. Shapiro – Worthy (single)
51. Todd Day Wait – Lie to Me (single, Cloverdale Records)
52. JD Clayton – Arkansas Kid (single, Mulberry Records / Rounder Records)
53. Rambling Nicholas Heron – Late September (Manuel’s Dream: Gunmental Clouds, Suitcase Studio & Shop)
54. The Innocence Mission – The Camera Divides the Coast of Maine (Midwinter Swimmers, Bella Union)
55. Joni Ekman Group – Tulevaisuus (Joni Ekman Group, Näkki-levyt)

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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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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #307

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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)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

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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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #306

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Getting a bit quiet on the release front. That’s only a good thing, because I need to do the eoty lists as well. Maybe two more new music weeklies and then I take a month long break from this. So last one for 2024 on the weekend of 7th-8th of December.

Some big album releases though. New Simon Joyner is the album of the week. It’s a heavy one, because it’s a tribute to his son who passed away in 2022. Other great album releases came from Father John Misty, Kim Deal, Will Johnson (EP), Racoma, Dogwood Tales (EP), Vista House, Ags Connolly (James Hand covers), Michael Kiwanuka, Eddie 9V and Golden Tiles (EP).

From the Finnish side of things, we have new albums from A.Takalo, Taikayö Camping, Muovikukat and Baabelin Nulikat plus singles from Lyyti, Tams, FER, Satu Lii, Cult of Stenman and Uusi Fantasia feat Antti Autio.

New The Delines song is the international single of the week. Some other early faves came from Drew Beskin, Sam Moss, King Husky, Brigid Mae Power and Ryli. Again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Back to the AOTY drafting and back next week with another of these episodes. Love love love.

1. Simon Joyner – A Broken Heart is Best Kept Out of Sight (Coyote Butterfly, BB*Island)
2. Father John Misty – Mental Health (Mahashmashana, Bella Union / Sub Pop Records)
3. Kim Deal – Wish I Was (Nobody Loves You More, 4AD)
4. Will Johnson – Frame It (Sleuthed / Full CUts EP, Keeled Scales)
5. Vilma Flood feat Christian Kjellvander – Horses of War (Glowing Like a Holy Ghost EP, Startracks)
6. Racoma – Shaping Up the Corner (In Vine)
7. Dogwood Tales – mt Jackson (sending EP)
8. Vista House – Amber Born Pheasant (They’ll See Light, Anything Bagel)
9. Ags Connolly – Corner of My Street (Your Pal Slim: Song of James Hand)
10. Jesse Daniel & Benjamin Tod – Turn the Devil Away (single, Lightning Rod Records / Thirty Tigers)
11. Michael Kiwanuka – Small Changes (Small Changes, Polydor)
12. Eddie 9V – Tides (Saratoga, Ruf Records)
13. The Delines – Left Hook Like Frazier (single, Decor Records)
14. Patterson Hood feat Lydia Loveless – A Werewolf and a Girl (single, ATO Records)
15. Drew Beskin – I Guess We’re On Our Own (single, Super Canoe)
16. Ryli – When I Fall (single, Dandy Boy Records)
17. Golden Tiles – Doesn’t Take Long to Find (The First EP, Antiquated Future)
18. King Husky – Running (single, Hype City Music)
19. Sam Moss – Dance (single)
20. Brigid Mae Power – Walk On Out of My Mind (single, BMP)
21. The Weather Station – Window (single, Fat Possum Records)
22. FER – Suburban Sunlight (single, JM Records)
23. Lyyti – Entiset ystävät (single, Johanna Kustannus)
24. Tams – Ei aikaa (single, Maisema)
25. Taikayö Camping – Sulle mitään vaikeaa (Taikayö Camping, Alakulttuuritalo)
26. Muovikukat – Katsoimme vaihtuvia valoja (Pimeydessä on piilossa kaikki värit)
27. Baabelin Nulikat – Nämä seinät on peilejä (Valo ei tee meille hyvää, Panama-levyt)
28. A.Takalo – Hyvä elämä (paranoid)
29. Satu Lii – Tää on taistelua (single, Young Diamond)
30. Uusi Fantasia feat Antti Autio – Niinkö se on (single, Is This Art!)
31. Cult of Stenman – Blow Up Doll (single)
32. Amos the Kid – World Burn (single, Grand Hotel van Cleef)
33. Justin Wells – Counting Days (single, August Music)
34. Ron Pope – In the Morning with the Coffee On (single, Brooklyn Basement Records)
35. Vincent Neil Emerson – Big Wheels (single, La Honda Records)
36. Melissa Erin – Good Ol’ Boy (single)
37. Kathleen Edwards feat Lauren Morrow – Hello in There (single, Dualtone)
38. Samantha Crain – Ridin’ Out the Storm (single, Real Kind Records)
39. Dead Gowns – In the Haze (single, Mtn Laurel Recording Co)
40. Eric McEntee – Autumn Leaves (single, Pacific Union Records)
41. The Bird Calls – I Haven’t Been This Happy In a Long Time (single, Ruination Record Co)
42. Ceylon Sailor – shoe in (single, Stunning Models on Display)
43. Spencer Kilpatrick & The Sand Gators – Scot Pollard (single)
44. Ryan Power – Gentle Reminder (single)
45. Andrew Gabbard – Everywhere I Go I Don’t Belong (Ramble & Rave On, Karma Chief Records)
46. Bad Sauna – Challenger (oon vahvempi) (Kerro miltä susta tuntuu, All That Plazz)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

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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