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.

Aldous Harding – “One Stop” [4AD]
Warm Visions forever-fav Aldous Harding just announced a new album Train On The Island, out May 8th via 4AD, with first single “One Stop” coming out yesterday. And man… Aldous still is doing it like no one else. Her vocal delivery is like a hostage singing a pop song, with an unease creeping beneath the stepping piano line. She also sounds incredible of course, especially as the song transitions into a guitar-led instrumental. It’s hallucinatory in the best ways. It’s Aldous, fergodsakes.

Angelo De Augustine – “Mirror Mirror” [Asthmatic Kitty]
A sweet and strummy pop song and a beacon for more good things on the horizon is this new track from Angelo De Augustine track “Mirror Mirror,” off his upcoming album Angel In Plainclothes, out April 24th via Asthmatic Kitty. You may recognize his name from the collaboration album he did with Sufjan Stevens in 2021, A Beginner’s Mind, but you should dive deeper into his solo stuff too. “Mirror Mirror” has a great beat, a lovely chorus that swells with strings and makes me smile each time it pops up, and gurgles with the charm of a hidden creek in a flower-filled forest. Can’t wait to hear more here.

Bill Orcutt – “Unfinished not fragile” [Palilalia Records]
Prolific shredder Bill Orcutt is gracing us with another record in his guitar quartet arrangement next Friday, March 13th, entitled Music In Continuous Motion, with two new tastes “Unfinished not fragile” and “Is left alone” coming this week ahead of release. It’s dizzying, putting brain in puzzle-mode type music, with layers of guitar loping and looping and arcing with and against each other, occasionally aligning and occasionally falling out of rhythm. One of those sounds you’ll feel its residual pull in the gravity inside your head when it concludes. It’s thrilling music from a seasoned master. I’ll also mention for fellow New Yorkers that he’s playing two shows at Roulette on March 20th and 21st, featuring an all-star cast of musicians like Wendy Eisenberg, Shane Parish, Chris Corsano, Ava Mendoza and more. Look em up! Go see live music!

Éliane Radigue – “Kailasha” [Experimental Intermedia]
The world lost composer and producer Éliane Radigue this past week, an artist admittedly I had never heard of prior to her passing. However the outpouring of grief and love on my timeline from true heads was more than enough reason for me to peek into her monumental drone works. This piece is pulled from her 1994 epic Trilogie De La Mort, comprised of three compositions inspired by her dedicated to Tibetan buddhism. Due to the sheer size of her works I have yet to truly dive in; I’d like to give her a fair shake and my full attention. But the little I’ve been able to sit down and let wash over me have been wonderful. Something I can see myself returning to, and that I’m glad exist in this world.

Fabiano Do Nascimento & Vittor Santos Orquestra – “O Tempo (Foi O Meu Mestre)” [Far Out]
2026 is Fabiano Do Nascimento’s year and we just need to deal with it. His second album of the year (and third in four months!), Vila, is out now via Far Out Recordings and features a 16-piece orchestra led by trombonist Vittor Santos. I have yet to dive into the full record yet, but I’ve been enjoying its opening track quite a bit. It’s a delightful slice of symphonic pop, the strings keeping up with Nascimento’s slick guitar playing. I’m not going to say it’s MPB because I need to widen my horizons in describing Brazilian music… but if you like the lush recordings of the 1960s and 1970s Brazil, you’ll like this. A fantastic companion to (fingers crossed) warmer weather on the horizon, an ushering in of Spring.

Green-House – “Under the Oak” [Ghostly International]
Filed under “songs I really need right now,” Green-House invites us into another lush composition of theirs with “Under the Oak,” an early taste of their upcoming album Hinterlands, out March 20th via Ghostly International. It’s a glimmering, aquatic sounding track that has a good amount of live-sounding instrumentation tucked within its folds, like piano and strings amongst the serene synthesizers. I love an instrumental track that builds a sonic world, and this song does just that. I’m somewhere else now. Please try and reach me another time. Like March 20th. When Hinterlands comes out.

Isabel Pine – “Snow” [kranky]
A beautiful song on the wholly gorgeous new record Fables from composer Isabel Pine, via one of the best labels in the biz, kranky. My first listen came as New York City got blanketed with a second round of snow for 2026, perfectly timed for emotional impact. Crystalline textures faintly glow in the dark, a pristine, arctic landscape. A gentle angel’s hug in a dream, accented by the lace doilies and porcelain plates hung upon the wall that adorned your grandmother’s house.

Jerry Paper – “Souvenir” [Stones Throw]
Came across this OMD cover by lovable trickster Jerry Paper, further confirming that “Souvenir” is one of the best songs ever written. I’ve never heard a bad cover of this song. This cover comes courtesy of an upcoming EP entitled BOiNK!, coming March 20th via Stones Throw.

Judie Tzuke – “Shoot From The Heart” [Chrysalis]
Longtime readers of Warm Visions might know about my mythical “80s Project” that I’ve been hinting at for the last five years. Trying to first-listen to as many records from the 1980s I can before I put together my Best Albums of the 19080s list. It’s hit a serious lull over the last two or three years, and I anticipate 2026 will be a similar struggle. However I did check out Judie Tzuke’s 1983 album Ritmo, a cool soft rock and funk record I had a great time first-listening to. It borders on that cool/uncool line quite well, in case you’re looking for an under-appreciated record in the vein of Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In The Night, or maybe even some Kate Bush stuff. Some cool fretless bass / early synth.

Lone – “Waterfall Reverse” [Greco-Roman]
Just the other day I saw Larry Fitzmaurice reminisce about UK producer Lone’s hulking 2012 album Galaxy Garden, a huge album for me that year and was a frequent recipient of dangerous volumes in the air studio when I’d play tracks on my college radio show. That inspired me to see if Lone had anything new coming, and sure enough he does! His new album Hyperphantasia arrives April 10th via Greco-Roman, and there are a smattering of different singles to sample, but I thought I’d highlight “Waterfall Reverse,” a videogame-like title for a videogame-like sound. It’s a frantic and luminescent drum and bass / techno / acid freakout with plenty of ravey vocal samples, ultimately melting down into a serene bliss-down, with plenty of water samples and seemingly endless cooing from a disembodied voice. This record is shaping up to be a hulking odyssey of rave portals – very excited to hear more.

Natalie Jane Hill – “Never Left Me” [Dear Life]
My wife and I are both huge Natalie Jane Hill fans, frequently returning to Hill’s 2021 album Solely. What my wife doesn’t know is that Natalie’s new album Hopeful Woman comes out this Friday, March 6th, via Dear Life Records. Will she read this before then? We’ll see! Just based off the early singles, it feels like Hill has embraced a more fleshed out, dreamy folk sound with a band on this record, as opposed to the swift and mesmerizing fingerpicking that came with her last two. “Never Left Me” isn’t the most recent single, but it’s got a great momentum to it, with a good tempo, driving drums, pedal steel guitar and a really lovely breakdown on the back half of the track. If you’re a modern folk or “bedroom country” fan in 2026, give Natalie Jane Hill’s catalog a listen.

SUSS – “Sunset II” [Northern Spy]
This one dropped today! Look at me being on the ball. Ambient country trio SUSS have announced their upcoming record Counting Sunsets, out May 15 via Northern Spy. I’ve been a casual fan of the group for a few years, knowing I can dip my toe into their pools of sound to escape reality for a while. This new tune is no different, channeling North American expanses with synth slabs coloring the sky, echoing slide guitar pushing dust in the wind, and soberingly clear western guitar playing grounding the composition from drifting off into the cosmos. One strange reality dawned on me upon listening: in a time where it feels so wrong to be proudly American, how does one digest a sound that is so purely rooted in this country’s beautiful and signature landscape? Something I’ll likely continue to chew on as I continue sitting with the album.