It sure does feel good to get back into a rhythm. It also makes it feel even better when the music is actually good. April 2025 was a wellspring of fantastic tunes, mostly leaning electronic, but encompassing a wide array of genres and styles, along with utilities. Barker, DJ Koze and Lawrence Hart is music for romping around the city sweaty-like. Cloth and Maria Usbeck is for enjoying in the house. Walt McClements and William Tyler are for questioning the universe in the wee hours of the morning. It’s all good, folks. Dig into some good stuff.

Barker – Stochastic Drift [Smalltown Supersound]
The process of deleting your scanned-in digital replica of yourself off of the cybernetic ngo database so they can finally stop endlessly creating clones of you.

Black Country, New Road – Forever Howlong [Ninja Tune]
High school theater troupe build a massive circus-like campus and put on the biggest show their small seaside town have ever seen.

Cloth – Pink Silence [Rock Action]
A much-needed hug, and a devastating sneer on a plain, gray day.

DJ Koze – Music Can Hear Us [Pampa Records]
Feeling the energy aura field of each living thing around us, powering us up like electrons as we pass through this funnel of life, giddy with passion and drive.

Djrum – Under Tangled Silence [Houndstooth]
Putting your brain’s folder of sentimental sound effects on “puzzle mode.”

Lawrence Hart – Come In Out Of The Rain [Double Six]
Fast-paced, warmly-saturated jump cuts track a pair of free-runners navigating through modern architecture, scenery and unceremoniously empty streets on a rain-soaked afternoon.

Maria Usbeck – Naturaleza [Cascine]
A leg of your beach chair has a kite tied to it, gently suspended in the beach sky by generous breezes. You later see a large gull carrying it in its beak after it crash lands in a distant tree.

Pan•American & Michael Grigoni – New World, Lonely Ride [kranky]
A great flatland, with tall grasses dotted with native wildflowers, basks in glorious sunrises and sunsets without worries. It does not need human intervention of any kind.

Real Lies – We Will Annihilate Our Enemies [Tonal Recordings]
Living in a city long enough to see your favorite local spots shutter, collectively lamented with your clan amongst bleary, intoxicated nights, and in labyrinthian group chats.

Salami Rose Joe Louis – Lorings [Brainfeeder]
An experimental drug to help with drowsiness allows you to hold regular conversations with others, and participate in basic activities while letting your brain engage in REM sleep. What results is unintelligible exchanges and bizarre hallucinations that leave lasting ripples in your consciousness.

Tapeworms – Grand Voyage [P-VINE Records]
Lucid dreaming inside an arcade cabinet in a Tokyo alley, illuminating the cramped, dark corridor with multicolor flashing lights and jolly jingles to no one in particular.

Walt McClements – On A Painted Ocean [Thrill Jockey]
Zooming out from the fine dust and gravel of a dusty, western town, lit by neon signs, until the speckles of light shrink into nothingness amongst a black void.

William Tyler – Time Indefinite [Psychic Hotline]
Tapping into a hardwired network of stored collective memories to access your dead relatives’ thoughts and feelings from various ages, you get to live through their eyes in those moments, albeit occasionally interrupted by psychic interference that attempts to rip apart your current consciousness.

GR8 TRACKS OF APRIL 2025::

• Barker – “Force of Habit”
• Barker – “Stochastic Drift”
• Black Country, New Road – “For the Cold Country”
• Black Country, New Road – “Forever Howlong”
• Black Country, New Road – “Happy Birthday”
• Black Country, New Road – “Nancy Tries To Take The Night”
• Cloth – “Burn”
• Cloth – “Golden”
• Cloth – “I Don’t Think So”
• Confidence Man – “So What (Prozak Remix)”
• DJ Koze – “Buschtaxi”
• DJ Koze – “Der Fall (feat. Sophia Kennedy)”
• DJ Koze – “The Talented Mr. Tripley”
• DJ Koze – “Unbelievable (feat. Ada)”
• Djrum – “Let Me”
• Djrum – “Out of Dust”
• Djrum – “Three Foxes Chasing Each Other”
• Djrum – “Waxcap”
• Lawrence Hart – “Closer To You”
• Lawrence Hart – “Hear Ur Heartbeat”
• Lawrence Hart – “Just Belong”
• Lawrence Hart – “Love U Bring”
• Mamalarky – “Blow Up”
• Maria Usbeck – “Garza Azul”
• Maria Uzbeck – “Mantarraya
• Maria Usbeck – “Mar”
• Natalia Lafourcade – “Amor Clandestino (feat. Israel Fernández)”
• Pan•American & Michael Grigoni – “Dream of Someone”
• Pan•American & Michael Grigoni – “Mirage-Afternoon”
• Real Lies – “Loverboy”
• Real Lies – “Shulgin”
• Real Lies – “Towards Horses”
• Real Lies – “Wild Sign I Choose You”
• Salami Rose Joe Louis – “Fill the void (feat. Omari Jazz)”
• Salami Rose Joe Louis – “Motorway (feat. Flanafi)”
• Salami Rose Joe Louis – “A pool to cry in (feat. Flanafi)”
• Salami Rose Joe Louis – “That must be hard for you”
• Tapeworms – “Love & Pop”
• Tapeworms – “Pitch Pop”
• Tapeworms – “Puzzle”
• Walt McClements – “Cloud Prints (feat. Aurora Nealand)”
• Walt McClements – “A Painted Ship”
• Walt McClements – “Sirens”
• Wet – “Double”
• Wet – “My Everything”
• William Tyler – “Electric Lake”
• William Tyler – “Howling At the Second Moon”
• William Tyler – “Star of Hope”