I thought it would never come, but I finally was hit with the inspiration to feature some great albums from January 2024. December 2023 is a lost cause by now, but February shaped up to be a solid month. Looking forward to getting more solid records this year.

Astrid Sonne – Great Doubt [Escho]
A halo of mundanity encircles a nondescript, seaside town. Its newest residents strive to break the loop of everyday moments and flat-affect love.

Deerlady (Mali Obomsawin + Magdalena Abrego) – Greatest Hits [Self-Released]
Waking up to the sky crackling with color like the last of a campfire’s dying embers.

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Sam Gendel – The Room [Real World]
Finding a quiet, cliffside cafe that overlooks the sea and seems to only be frequented by longtime locals.

Khadija Al Hanafi – Slime Patrol 2 [Fada]
In a future where the world adopted a juke-inspired seapunk national anthem back in 2012, you wait for a friend to come pick you up on their hoverboard while you wait by vending machines playing plunderphonic club jingles

LUCY (Cooper B. Handy) – 100% PROD I.V. [Ulyssa]
A little gremlin crawls out of your ear every night and records an album based on scrapped pop detritus that accumulates in the corners of your brain.

Nailah Hunter – Lovegaze [Fat Possum]
A modern, glassy skyscraper facade hides an ancient temple the city planners hoped to conceal from the average resident. When the light is right, a sunbeam refracts through the massive panes and into the temple’s center, illuminating a pedestal, waiting for the planets to align.

Patrick Holland – Infra [Verdicchio]
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fused together into a massive, floating club thanks to bioluminescent fish and sea creatures yearning to finally embrace their job as rave lighting.

Skee Mask – C [Ilian Tape]
Cracking your face open like a control panel door so you can fiddle with some knobs and internal controls to rid yourself of headaches, nausea, paranoia or mental fatigue.

The Smile – Wall of Eyes [XL]
A hand reaches out from a veil of fog, but as you approach, the hand’s body continues to obscure itself, until you realize you’ve been lead to the bottom of the ocean.