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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #339

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Another late Sunday edition of the new music weekly. My vacation is now over, so maybe this gets back to normal schedule. There’s still a lot of live shows coming up though, so some delays may occur.

New Anna Tivel is the album of the week. She has been one of my songwriter favorites for a decade and this is again a remarkable album. Absolutely love it. There’s also great new albums from Caroline Spence, Ron Sexsmith, Cooper Kenward, Margo Price, The Fishermen Three, Rodney Crowell, Jens Kuross, Floating Action, Shabason, Krgovich and Tenniscoats, Charlie Collins, The Beths, John Moran (EP), Sekunderna, herbal tea, Lakun, Foot Ox, Katy Pinke & Will Graefe (covers album), Stephen Wilson Jr (covers ep), Buck Curran and Modern Nature.

A giant release week in Finland too, because we have a new Sur-rur album. Extremely highly recommended and definitely one of my favorite Finnish albums of the year so far. A lot of other great things too. We have albums from Lovers Left Alive and Kauko Röyhkä & Riku Mattila plus singles from A.Reikko & Kaupungin ääni, 1961, Puhelinseksi, Mutka, Janne Laurila Double Denim, Nina Kaitaranta, Lettoman, Lone Deer Laredo and Kärmes.

International single of the week honors can go to both Sabine McCalla and Thomas Dollbaum. There’s beautiful music videos to both of those songs as well. Other early faves came from Tristen, Joan Shelley, Julianna Riolino, Lefty Parker, Sharp Pins.. again 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 of these. Love.

1. Anna Tivel – Meantime (Animal Poem, Fluff & Gravy Records)
2. Caroline Spence – Why the tree Loves the Ax (Heart Go Wild, Tone Tree Music)
3. Ron Sexsmith – Rose Town (Hangover Terrace, Ronboy Rhymes / Cooking Vinyl)
4. Cooper Kenward – Dive Bar Day (haha, now i’m sad, Soggy Anvil Records)
5. Margo Price feat Tyler Childers – Love Me Like You Used to Do (Hard Headed Woman, Loma Vista)
6. Rodney Crowell feat Larkin Poe – Louisiana Sunshine Feeling Okay (Airline Highway, New West Records)
7. The Fishermen Three feat Michael James Tapscott and Jeff Moller – I’ve Been Fool (Infinite Feeling, Royal Oakie Records)
8. Jens Kuross – No One’s Hiding from the Sun (Crooked Songs, Woodsist)
9. Shabason, Krgovich and Tenniscoats – Departed Bird (Wao, 7 e.p.)
10. Floating Action – Then I Woke Up Alone (A Hand Carved Garden Tool, Airloom)
11. herbal tea – Driving Slow (Hear as the Mirror Echoes, Orindal Records)
12. Charlie Collins – You Might be a Man, Just Not Man Enough (Nightwriter, Island Records)
13. Good Good Blood – Never Saw it as a Rainbow (Little Sparrow, Fox Food Records)
14. Sekunderna – Wad har du gjort? (Hits, Fika Recordings)
15. The Beths – Straight Line Was a Lie (Straight Line Was a Lie, Anti)
16. John Moran – big ravine (3 out of 5 EP)
17. Modern Nature – Takeover (The Heat Warps, Bella Union)
18. Lakun feat I’m Kingfisher – Rage Quit (Lakun)
19. Katy Pinke & Will Graefe – Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) (Patterns, Glamour Gowns)
20. Foot Ox – Earmarks (A Lighthouse with Silver Dog Eyes, Ernest Jenning Record Co)
21. Buck Curran – Deserto Parallax (Far Driven Sun)
22. Stephen Wilson Jr – Hunger Strike (Blankets EP, Big Loud Records)
23. Thomas Dollbaum – Angus Valley (single, Dear Life Records)
24. Sabine McCalla – Sunshine Kisses (single, Gar Hole Records)
25. Tristen – Skin of Our Teeth (single, Pupsnake Records / Well Kept Secret)
26. Lefty Parker feat Buck Meek – Illusions (single, Airloom)
27. Joan Shelley – The Orchard (single, No Quarter)
28. Julianna Riolino feat Weird Nightmare – Full Moon (single, MoonWhistle Records)
29. Sharp Pins – (I Wanna) Be Your Girl (single, perennial / K recs)
30. Sur-rur – Resupekka (Härveli, If Society)
31. A.Reikko & Kaupungin ääni – Oi Anhedonia! (single, Karhuvaltio Records)
32. Kauko Röyhkä & Riku Mattila – Pidin sinusta (Meidät pelastaa vain rakkaus, Svart Records)
33. Puhelinseksi – Rakkaus ei riitä (single, Svart Records)
34. Kärmes – Kirje Nylon Beatille (single, KHY Suomen Musiikki)
35. Janne Laurila Double Denim – Festareilla (single, Stupido Records)
36. Nina Kaitaranta – Lennosta kii (single, Kaita Music)
37. Mutka – Toiset (single, Lil’ Beast Records)
38. 1961 – Sä oot kaukana (single, Strange Orange Production / All That Plazz)
39. Lone Deer Laredo – Golden Chosen Playmate (single)
40. Lettoman – Mismatched (single, Lettoman Records)
41. Lovers Left Alive – Sum of These Young Hearts (How.. TMH Productions)
42. Casper Allen and the Naturals – Blame it on the Rain (single)
43. Nathan Jacques – Ride Me Down Easy (single, Hidden Mountain Records)
44. Rambler Kane – Wicked Ways (single, Cloverdale Records)
45. Sparrow Smith – Carolina Mountains (single, Sassafras Sounds)
46. Leon Majcen feat Riley Downing – Tallahassee (single, Cloverdale Records)
47. Ramona and the Holy Smokes – This Little Heart (single)
48. Geckos – Lo Hice (single)
49. Dan Reeder – Up on the Roof (single, Oh Boy Records)
50. Ike Goldman – Tuning Up (single)
51. Apollo Flowerchild – I Lost It (single)
52. Charlie Kaplan – No More Mistakes (single, Glamour Gowns)
53. Rudy De Anda – Like a Memory (single, Karma Chief Records)
54. Jackie West – Offer (single, Ruination Record Co)
55. Sharon Silva – Hold it Down (single)
56. Carla Geneve – Here, Look (single, Dot Dash Recordings)
57. Amanda Shires – Piece of Mind (single, Silver Knife Records / ATO Records)
58. Shoulder Season – No Good (single)
59. Sloan – No Damn Fears (single, Murderecords)
60. Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms – Ex Lion Tamer (single, Setterwind Records)
61. Adults – Patterns (single, Fika Recordings)
62. Nathan K. – Johnny’s (single)
63. Frog – Bitten By My Love Var XI (single, Audio Antihero)
64. Sam Salmon – If I Needed You Know (single, Forward Music Group)
65. The Paranoid Style – Tearing the Ticket (single, Bar None Records)
66. Reilly Downes – Dog Days (single)
67. Caleb Elliott – Slow Burn (single, Single Lock Records)
68. Courtney Hartman feat The Nunnery – Bright Eye (single)
69. Emma Swift – Impossible Air (single, Tiny Ghost Records)
70. Van Plating feat Heather Little – Song of Everything (single, Singular/Gohuki)
71. Scott Ballew – One Trick Pony (single, Leisure Rodeo)
72. Stephen Simmons – Decoration Days (single)
73. Kathleen Edwards – Other People’s Bands (Billionaire, Dualtone)
74. Greg Freeman – Burnover (Burnover, Transgressive Records)
75. Dean Johnson – Winter Song (I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, Saddle Creek)

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Tidal Playlist

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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.

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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #338

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This is a surprise new music weekly. Even for myself. The plan was to cover two weeks with the next one instead of making this on Tuesday. But I got back home from the Stockholm Roots Festival early in the morning, started listening to new music and there was so much good stuff that it inspired me to do this now. I also know that I will be quite busy during next weekend and grinding out a two week playlist late on a Sunday night felt a bit too much. By doing this now, it also gives me the option to make the next on Monday. Anyway, here it goes. Might be some stuff missing, because this was quickly done. I fill the possible holes on the next one.

New Dean Johnson is the album of the week (and one of my favorites of the whole year too). Other great album releases came from Greg Freeman, Kathleen Edwards, Dillon Warnek, Leslie Graves & Toby Goodshank, Sam and Louise Sullivan, SunYears, Way Dynamic, Tullycraft, Scree, Darren Hayman, Case Oats, Superchunk, Hand Habits, Jake Chisenhall (EP), Hello Emerson (EP), Misty Harlowe (EP), Tommy Prine (EP), Will Hoge, The Numbers (this is from July) and Judy Blank.

Finnish part has the awesome new Eero Savela album along with singles from Longing Louisa, Metsäheikki, Arppa, Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L, Morimus and Matti Sakari.

International single of the week is the new single from Mia Wilson. Loving it so much and I’m eager to hear her debut album that is coming out on Royal Oakie in November. Other early faves came from John Calvin Abney, Westmoreland, Ken Pomeroy, Cut Worms, Fittonia, Jerry Leger, Joshua Ray Walker, Fittonia… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Next one is most likely very late on Sunday or even very late on Monday. Oh and I didn’t include the new singles of this week on this one. I did this on Tuesday, so there’s plenty already out like Sabine McCalla and Thomas Dollbaum.. But those gems will go to the next one. Love.

1. Dean Johnson – Shake Me (I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, Saddle Creek)
2. Greg Freeman – Gone (Can Mean a Lot of Things) (Burnover, Transgressive Records)
3. Kathleen Edwards – Need a Ride (Billionaire, Dualtone Music Group)
4. Dillon Warnek feat Margo Price – Speeding Bullet Out of Georgia (As The Neighbors Tried to Sleep, Soggy Anvil Records)
5. Leslie Graves & Toby Goodshank – Apple (Between Worlds, BB*Island)
6. Sam and Louise Sullivan – Hang a Right (Sweet Enough, Historic New Jersey Recordings)
7. Way Dynamic – In Review (Massive Shoe, Spoilsport Records)
8. SunYears – Dark Eyes (The Song Forlorn, Villa)
9. Superchunk – Care Less (Songs in the Key of Yikes, Merge Records)
10. The Numbers – She is Everything (Mad Day Out, Bomp! Records)
11. Darren Hayman – Amazing Things (Amazing Things, Wiaiwya)
12. Tullycraft – Modern Lovers (Shoot the Point, HHBTM Records)
13. Case Oats – Buick Door (Last Missouri Exit, Merge Records)
14. Hand Habits – Jasmine Blossoms (Blue Reminder, Fat Possum Records)
15. Hello Emerson – Forehead on the Windows (covered with sunflowers EP, Hello Emersongs)
16. Jake Chisenhall feat Rose Hotel – Beachfront Bossa (Be Steel, My Heart EP)
17. Scree – Lethe (August, Ruination Record Co)
18. Judy Blank – I’m Out (Big Mood, Rounder Records)
19. Tommy Prine – Love Circle (Love Circle EP, Nameless Knight)
20. Will Hoge – Maryanne (Sweet Misery)
21. Misty Harlowe feat Ben de la Cour – Magnolia Wine (Welcome to the Wild West EP)
22. Ken Pomeroy – Bound to Rain (single, Rounder Records)
23. John Calvin Abney – Transparent Towns (single, Well Kept Secret)
24. Mia Wilson – It Must Be So Easy (single, Royal Oakie Records)
25. Westmoreland – Reading Lines (single, Quietly Records)
26. Eero Savela – Climbing (Way To, Mustik Motel)
27. Longing Louisa – Waterphile (single, Soliti)
28. Morimus – Lice (single)
29. Matti Sakari – Kattojen päältä (single)
30. Pekko Käppi & K:H:H:L – Musta ruuna (single, Svart Records)
31. Metsäheikki – Suihkuava lähde (single, Helmi Levyt)
32. Arppa feat Jiri-serkku – Tennis Roll (single, Arppa Oy)
33. Cut Worms – Evil Twin (single, Jagjaguwar)
34. Jerry Leger – It’s So Strange (single, DevilDuck Records)
35. Kashena Sampson – Ghost of Me (single, Mule Kick Records)
36. Joshua Ray Walker – Stuff (single, East Dallas Records / Thirty Tigers)
37. Nicholas Jamerson – On My Way (single, Cloverdale Records)
38. The Pink Stones – Too Busy (single, Normaltown Records)
39. Nick Shoulders – Dixie Be Damned (single, Gar Hole Records)
40. The Satchel Kid – Sign Me Up (single, Ella Ruth Institutet)
41. Rosy Nolan – How It Feels to Fall in Love (single, Treble In Mind Music)
42. The Prickly Pair – Winsome Lose Some Game (single)
43. The Deep Dark Woods – Circle Remains Unbroken (single, Victory Pool)
44. SnarksiCircusLindyBand – The Dying Conversation (single)
45. General Absurdity & The Open Source – Seeing Clear Through Goggles (single, Shaker Steps Records)
46. Wharfer – The Wings of Crows (single, Georgia Records)
47. Winter McQuinn – Growing Old (single, Third Eye Stimuli Records)
48. Fittonia – Go and Tell It (single, Watch That Ends the Night)
49. Jeff Tweedy – Feel Free (single, dBpm Records)
50. Katy Pinke & Will Graefe – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (single, Glamour Gowns)
51. Ellen Froese – Wondering When? (single, Victory Pool)
52. Lucy Langlas – Early Hearts (single, Early Hearts)
53. Jessica Breanne – Over the Bayou (single, yk Records)
54. Kyle Cox – (Who’s That) Man in the Mirror (single)
55. Matt Bachmann – Heavy Step (single, Orindal Records)
56. Spencer Hoffman – Apricots for Sale (single, Anxiety Blanket Records)
57. Lily McKown – Same Kind of Weird (single)
58. Fepeste – That’s Okay (single, Velvet Blue Music)
59. King Husky – Don’t Let it Bring You Down (single, Hype City Music)
60. Fascinations Grand Chorus – Static Heartbreaks (single, Silent Stereo Records)
61. Wednesday – Bitter Everyday (single, Dead Oceans)
62. Stephen Wilson Jr. – Something in the Way (single, Big Loud Records)
63. kendall lujan – Honeysuckle (single, ROLA Records)
64. Joey Kneiser – A Heart Like a Hammer (Nothing’s Wasted on the Soul, Young Buffalo)
65. Marissa Nadler – Sad Satellite (New Radiotions, 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.

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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #337

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A very late new music weekly. So late that Monday arrived and I included the new Dean Johnson single that just came out here in Finland.

We got a surprise album from Joey Kneiser and that’s the album of the week. Other album gems this week came from Molly Taylor, Marissa Nadler, Cass McCombs, Mae Powell, Oh, Rose (EP), Georgia Harmer, Joseph Decosimo, Kyle Morgan & Tamar Korn with Wyndham Baird, Ian James Bain (EP), Will Payne Harrison, Jonathan and Abigail Payton, Molly Tuttle, Steve Gunn and Cassandra Jenkins.

On the Finnish side of things we have the Saimaa & Yona album plus singles great singles from A.Reikko & Kaupungin ääni, Lintudisko, Modem and Tinyhawk & Bizzarro.

International single of the week can be the new one from Wharfer. Love the Dean Johnson of course, but that’s kind of added gold to this episode. Other early faves came from Carson McHone, Wilder Maker, General Absurdity & The Open Source (new Doc Feldman stuff), Amber Rae Slade… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. I’m now on vacation and have a lot of live music related plans. This means I will skip next week altogether. I will then try to cover two weeks with the next one, which will probably be online very late on Sunday the 31st of August. Thanks for understanding. Love.

1. Joey Kneiser – Nothing’s Wasted on the Soul (Nothing’s Wasted on the Soul, Young Buffalo)
2. Molly Taylor – Bad Thoughts (Emotions)
3. Marissa Nadler – You Called Her Camellia (New Radiations, Bella Union)
4. Cass McCombs – Van Wyck Expressway (Interior Live Oak, Domino Recording Co)
5. Mae Powell – Where Will Love Go? (Making Room for the Light, Karma Chief Records)
6. Georgia Harmer – Slow Down (Eye of the Storm, Arts & Crafts)
7. Oh, Rose – For Art (For Art EP, Antiquated Future)
8. Joseph Decosimo – Glory in the Meetinghouse (Fiery Gizzard, Dear Life Records)
9. Kyle Morgan & Tamar Korn with Wyndham Baird – I’ve Had My Fun (Darkening Green, Jalopy Records)
10. Ian James Bain – Willow (At Your Service EP, IJB / Arthaus)
11. Jonathan and Abigial Peyton – Counted the Stars – revisited (How We’ve Come So Far, Cloverdale Records)
12. Will Payne Harrison feat liv. – Sagebrush (Still Feeling the Payne)
13. Molly Tuttle – Golden State of Mind (So Long Little Miss Sunshine, Nonesuch Records)
14. Cassandra Jenkins – Wormhold Music (My Light, My Massage Parlor, Dead Oceans)
15. Steve Gunn – Park Entrance (Music for Writers, Three Lobed Recordings)
16. General Absurdity & The Open Source – Limestone Ghost (single, Shaker Steps Records)
17. Wilder Maker – Another Bullshit Rodeo (single, Western Vinyl)
18. Wharfer – Be (single, Georgia Records)
19. Carson McHone – Idiom (single, Merge Records)
20. Amber Rae Slade – The Peace of Wild Things (single, Checked Label Services)
21. Dean Johnson – So Much Better (single, Saddle Creek)
22. A.Reikko & Kaupungin ääni – Hulluus (single, Karhuvaltio Records)
23. Lintudisko – Puhu, jalava (single)
24. Saimaa ja Yona – Kristallivirta (Solovey – Lauluja Ukrainasta, Lördag)
25. Tinyhawk & Bizzarro – Ramen Break (single, Humu Records)
26. Modem feat eufrosyne – Image (single, Modem Age Records)
27. Abigail Austin – Sleep Paralysis University Athletics (single, Say-10 Records)
28. Kitba – Wolf’s Mouth (single, Ruination Record Co)
29. Floating Action – Shell of Former Self (single, Airloom)
30. Jeb Loy Nichols and Cold Diamond & Mink – First Night Away From Home (single, Timmion Records)
31. Bror Gunnar Jansson & The Escapism – A Refugee (single, Hxng Jazz Records)
32. Lena Bartels – I Knew (single, Glamour Gowns)
33. Hannah Frances – Surviving You (single, Fire Talk)
34. I Was a King – Dust Bunnies (single, Hype City Music)
35. Icarus Phoenix – See Or Care (I Should Have Known the Things You Never Said (Deluxe Edition)
36. The Telephone Numbers – Ebb Tide (single, Slumberland)
37. The Cords – I’m Not Sad (single, Skep Wax)
38. Giant Day – King of Ghosts (single, Elephant 6 Recording Co)
39. Silver Synthetic – Happy Ever After (single, Curation Records)
40. Fruit Bats – Let You People Down (single, Merge Records)
41. Neko Case – Winchester Mansion of Sound (single, Anti)
42. Jack Barksdale – The Wealthy Man’s Debt (single, Cloverdale Records)
43. Leon Majcen – If That’s What it Takes (single, Cloverdale Records)
44. Hannah Juanita – Tears and Tequila (single, Songbird Records)
45. Willy McGee and Paige Plaisance – Nobody Offers Me Drugs Anymore (single)
46. Jonny Fritz – Debbie Downers (single, Gar Hole Records)
47. L.C. Franke feat Silverada – Prisoner (Southern Bloom) (single, Side Hustle Records)
48. David James Allen – Platform No. 12 (Old Friends) (single, Littleknown Records)
49. Trace Mountains – The Dark Don’t Hide It (single, Run for Cover Records)
50. Tim Hill – Blood Sun (single)
51. David Robert Pollock – Tin Fish (single, Anxiety Blanket Records)
52. Twilark – Beacon (single, Canon Pence)
53. Tiberius – Felt (single, Audio Antihero)
54. Alexa Rose – Where the Magic Lives (single, First City Artists)
55. Katie Pruitt – Risk (single, Rounder Records)
56. Malin Pettersen – Carolina (single, Die With Your Boots On Records)
57. Blair Borax – Better Dancer (The Color Green)
58. T. Hardy Morris – Shadows of Doubt (Artificial Tears, New West Records)
59. Austin Stambaugh – Another Story, Another Time, Another Place (Sings the Ballads of Ernest Tubb, Tomika Records)
60. Joe Wunderle – Until Time Intertwines Us Again (Here to Stay, Anti-Corp)

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.

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