There was so much music in October and it took me this long to choose what to feature here. Yeah that’s the excuse I’ll go with. In all seriousness: fantastic records await for October, including LPs from Irish shoegazers Just Mustard, the unlikely collaboration between OKC artists Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo, the gentle tranquility of Rafael Toral and more.

Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound [The Flenser]
The human soul blazing against the torrential rains of doubt, pain, paranoia and regret.

Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – In The Earth Again [Computer Students]
Nuclear-dusted winds howl around and through blasted-out buildings in our abandoned cityscapes.

feeo – Goodness [AD 93]
Pawing around in total darkness and approximating your surroundings solely by hand and sound. A low rumble can be felt underneath you.

Just Mustard – We Were Just Here [Partisan]
Shadows cast from a repeated dream emerge as apparitions in your television’s screen while it’s turned off.

Kelly Moran – Don’t Trust Mirrors [Warp]
Journeying inside a palatial ice castle to find your beating heart inside.

Living Hour – Internal Drone Infinity [Keeled Scales]
Finding your old car that was stolen abandoned behind an long-closed restaurant, foliage growing out of the vents, but all your treasured ephemera from that era of your life have sat untouched, a flaming emblem of snake’s skin, pre-shed.

Malibu – Vanities [Year0001]
A layer of soft powder snow has accumulated upon your sleeping body as you drift further away from a dimming city skyline on an ice floe.

Rafael Toral – Traveling Light [Drag City]
Ascending a somewhat slow escalator into heaven.

Silvana Estrada – Vendrán Suaves Lluvias [Glassnote]
Fleeting eye contact you make with a stranger as your curtain billows from gusts pushed by incoming storms.

Snocaps – Snocaps [Anti]
Returning to your hometown after living away for several years, the tired screws squealing from rust in your faded relationships.

Sudan Archives – The BPM [Stones Throw]
Logging onto a dusty supercomputer some hundred years in the future and importing the memories of a nomadic cyborg warrior into your own subconscious.

Tortoise – Touch [International Anthem]
Tectonic plates underneath vast stretches of ocean compel remote islands to slingshot towards each other, fusing to create new supernations.

GR8 TRACKS OF OCTOBER 2025::

• Agriculture – “The Reply”
• Antibalas – “La Ceiba”
• Car Culture – “Rest Here”
• Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – “Behold a Pale Horse”
• Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – “Never Say Die!”
• Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo – “Radioactive Dreams”
• claire rousay – “just (feat. m. sage)”
• claire rousay – “somewhat burdensome”
• feeo – “The Hammer Strikes the Bell”
• feeo – “Requiem”
• Just Mustard – “Endless Deathless”
• Just Mustard – “Out Of Heaven”
• Just Mustard – “Silver”
• Just Mustard – “That I Might Not See”
• keiyaA – “k.i.s.s.”
• keiyaA – “stupid prizes”
• Kelly Moran – “Cathedral”
• Kelly Moran – “Chrysalis”
• Kelly Moran – “Lunar Wave”
• Living Hour – “Texting”
• Malibu – “Lactonic Crush”
• Malibu – “Spicy City”
• Malibu – Vanities”
• Rafael Toral – “God Bless The Child”
• Rafael Toral – “Solitude”
• Rafael Toral – “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
• Silvana Estrada – “Como Un Pájaro”
• Silvana Estrada – “Dime”
• Silvana Estrada – “Flores”
• Snocaps – “Angel Wings”
• Snocaps – “Heathcliff”
• Snocaps – “Over Our Heads”
• Sudan Archives – “A Bug’s Life”
• Sudan Archives – “My Type”
• Tortoise – “Axial Seamount”
• Tortoise – “Layered Presence”