
Running a bit late on this one, but there’s no lack of great albums from February 2026! Just wait until we look back on March 2026… now THAT was a doozy!

This week felt a bit slow in terms of new music being announced (I’m also not getting as many emails with further notice about things coming out TODAY from publicists), so if anything BIG comes out today that’s not included here, uhh blame them I guess! I’m out of the loop! I am but a simple music blog, for instance! I have something for sure locked in for next week’s post, but other than that, I am but a humble little blogger, please take pity upon me. (Please don’t, that’s how we got the 2008 financial crisis. It was the bloggers all along).
What I have included below are some STELLAR tracks, though! First are foremost is a highlight to the great Just Cause Vol. 2 compilation that you should definitely check out, along with new music from Robber Robber, runo plum, Nalan, Loukeman and more. Plus some older tracks like a standout from Boards of Canada’s 2013 album, some 2022 magic from The Zenmenn & John Moods, and a reissued Ted Lucas rarity. Dig in, and feel free to add your email to my mailing list. I don’t post that often! And I have credible evidence that each post of mine is of A+ inbox-filling quality. You can trust me!

Once I wrote all this out I realized it was going to be posted on April Fool’s Day. Fortunately for you there are no pranks in store for this week’s Warm Selections. Compared to last week, it’s much heavier in the “old music” territory, with four of the ten tracks being released outside of 2026. There are some new jams though, for sure! Thanks to the use of pretty simple math, I hope you can deduce that four minus 10 is actually uh, wait well I guess here it says -57… but I think my TI-85 is bugging. It’s been a while since I busted this thing out. I felt inspired after using my iPod. Oh well, I’m sure it’s fine.
Anyways – there are a few incredible tracks in here, new and old. I think you’ll dig the majority of them. One of them feels like it was designed in a lab to try and find the most perfect singer pairing according to Warm Visions circa 2014. We’ve also got new standalone singles from recent favorites, a few tracks from my journey as I listen to all the mp3s in my iTunes library that don’t have any plays on them yet via putting my iPod on shuffle on my commutes, among others. Solid crop. Keep sending me music that sounds like this stuff! And sign
You can listen to all the new tracks via my Best of 2026 Tidal playlist HERE.

SPECIAL installment of Warm Selections where I’ve featured all new music! No iPod 0-play mp3 shuffle journeys on my plate for this week, which is honestly pretty good since I’ve enjoyed all this new music that’s come out in the last few weeks.
Below you’ll find new tracks from artists like Lip Critic, Gemma, Tara Clerkin Trio, and so many new-to-me artists and bands that took me by surprise. I was telling my coworkers that this weekly posting series has got me to check things out I likely wouldn’t have bothered with, purely out of me not giving it the time of day. It’s actually very good. Everything below is very good. Please lock in. Also a Tidal playlist is below also. And subscribe! It’s like Substack but not sponsored by Polymarket.

Almost a full month of Warm Selections is upon us with installment #4 here, but I’d like to remind the readers about one thing: this is NOT purely a new music column, er, newsletter, er well, weekly blog post that some people are subscribed to via email, which you can do so below if you haven’t already.
This is a space where I post about music that impacted, or at the very least made a slight indentation in my life that week, whether it’s new or old. I don’t make that much indication on whether something is new or not (you can figure it out… if I’m writing about how this is a single from album that’s coming, or if I mention a song is from the 1980s, you’ll know). I didn’t want to segregate them into different camps. We’re all listening to different things, from different time periods, different states of mind. And this is what I’m into.
All of the “older” songs were sourced from my continual exploration of my 0-play mp3s in my iTunes library, which I explain a few times below. Good way of defeating the algorithm, using my trusted old iPod Classic, and discovering music I would have otherwise overlooked, despite clearly finding some kernel of intrigue in it from when I downloaded it in the first place. Anyways – onto the tunes.
The train keeps rolling with Warm Selections, now on our third week. I have no lack of music to include, some of which I ramble on and on about, but it’s all excellent of course. There are a few older tracks in here… this is how I get ya. Music isn’t all about the new new. We need to keep re-discovering our old favorites, or classics that we just hadn’t hit play on yet. Or really it’s mostly just going to be tracks I found on shuffle listening to my iPod. Alas! We persist.
(Apologies if the writing is a little bit more rambling and incoherent than usual. I had some beautiful things written, but the way the new WordPress functions is that if I accidentally click back, or in this case my trackpad inaccurately maps my fingers errantly swiping across it as going back, it deleted all my work. So keep reading on. The tunes are worth it. My words are not).

Before you say anything, this segment has always been called “Warm Selections.” It’s never been called anything else. You should know this, valued reader! But hey, here we are in the second installment of this fledgling series. Thank you for subscribing from last week’s post. This week we have even more tracks that came out recently, along with two older ones to bite into.
Another notable thing to bring up: the next Bandcamp Friday is this Friday, March 6th! I have a lot of the albums below in my cart ready to go with pre-orders and new purchases. I suggest you do the same! Really excited for new albums from Aldous Harding, Natalie Jane Hill, Green-House and more.

Hey there! Trying something new on Warm Visions: a weekly music newsletter type thing. Technically I did try to do something like this back around the conception of the blog but it fizzled out quick. Now that it seems like the desire for music discovery is trending back in a positive direction, especially with the creeping tentacles of AI wishing to automate your every experience.
In response to this, I thought it might be worthwhile to pick out some exciting new songs I’d heard recently, but also highlight a few older songs that I’d been enjoying around that moment. This of course means I’ll need to stay on top of my game and keep my listening both fresh and informed, while also venturing past the cache of favorite albums I cycle between every year. Or who knows, maybe it would be cool to just share the same Confidence Man, or Björk, or The Sea and Cake song each week just to really hammer it home for you to listen.
I’ll try my best to stay on top of this! And hopefully you enjoy it as well. Also… subscribe!! It’s like Substack, but it’s just me!
Every year since 2014, I’ve collected songs into a playlist as the year happens that reaches 100 songs. It serves as a digital snapshot, marking when I was obsessed with certain songs, new or old, or a song soundtracked a particular moment of my life. You can see the other Retrospective posts HERE.
This post serves as my most comprehensive “wrapped,” which collects the songs that best defined my year, along with all my listening stats, a log of other media consumed, and thoughts on music in 2025.