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.

Dead Can Dance – “The Carnival Is Over” [4AD]
I don’t know how this song popped into my life recently, but I think it was in my YouTube recommended sidebar. I really haven’t ventured out much into Dead Can Dance’s discography aside from the three albums I really like from them (Spleen & Ideal, The Serpent’s Egg and Within The Realm of a Dying Sun), but this is a good one. Clearly – the music video has nearly three million views. There’s a really touching comment on the YouTube video where the commenter wrote that this was the song their mother requested played at her funeral. It’s a very pretty song, and definitely a product of its time as well. Was there some kind of infatuation with circuses and clowns in the late 80s / early 90s? Either way, I feel this song deeply. Brendan Perry’s vocals sound great, this could almost be a Blue Nile song if he hammed it up a bit more. I’ll also shout out the music video – a great time capsule to videos of the time.

Fcukers – “Butterflies” [Ninja Tune]
The long-awaited debut album from NYC duo Fcukers is out now as of March 27th, and it is the party that I wanted it to be. The singles were fantastic of course, but I’ve been really digging the album cut “Butterflies,” a bubbly and dreamy cut with a killer beat and some nice record scratching at the end. I don’t say this often, but it’s a viiiiiiiiibe.

Foote/Dickow – “Underwater Welder” [Geographic North]
Lots of cool waters meeting in this convergence of rivers: Brian Foote (founder of the Peak Oil label, formerly at kranky) and Paul Dickow (who performs as Strategy and runs Community Library Records), had been making music independently and jamming together for a while, and then decided to challenge themselves to make a record together. One hour per song, using five pieces of hardware only. Gotta love in this age of endless gear and tinkering some people giving themselves frameworks or boundaries. In this case it yielded a really cool new record High Cube, out now via Geographic North. “Underwater Welder” is a track that stuck out to me on first listen, with its murky synth sweeps and dubby drums that eventually make way for a kind of grimey, buzzing bass synth and pokey bleeps and boops. I’m looking forward to exploring more, and getting into Paul’s music as well. Obviously a big fan of Peak Oil (I featured Paperclip Minimiser last week!), so this should be a solid release.

Gelli Haha – “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” [Innovative Leisure]
Gelli Haha dominated my 2025 and is set to keep her streak running in 2026. She’s been on tour (hitting the East Coast later in April) and released “Klouds Will Carry Me To Sleep” to go along with the tour dates. It is, comparing it to the rest of her Funny Music album, kind of insane. Doesn’t quite hit the heights that some of the tracks on the record did, but at the same time it feels like the perfect time to release another song. 2026 feels like the year that people will start to catch up. “Oh yeah, I was always into Gelli.” Well get in the tent now, losers. It’s time to party.

New German Cinema – “My Mistake (feat. Carson Cox)” [felte]
This feels like a song that was engineered in a lab to cater to exclusively 2013-2015 Warm Visions. New German Cinema is the new project from Fear of Men singer Jess Weiss, who just released their debut album Pain Will Polish Me on March 27th. I had no idea it was coming until I randomly saw it online the other day. I was listening to some of the early singles to get a feel for the record and I heard a familiar voice on “My Mistake” that made me perk up. I correctly clocked that it was Merchandise singer Carson Cox, another band that I was absolutely obsessed with around that time. This would have absolutely blown my mind to hear these two voices together in 2014, and sure enough I love to hear them together now. It’s a dark, swirling synth pop track with sweeping instrumentals as Weiss and Cox trade vocals, two voices that soundtracked so much of my 2010s, and I’m happy to hear again.

Nico Georis – “Daydreams” [Leaving]
Plucked this recommendation from Julianna Barwick’s vinyl picks for her Lot Radio set from the other week. I wasn’t familiar with this record, but I usually trust Leaving to put out quality tunes. They succeeded here. Gorgeous little drops of mellotron and piano cascade in a dreamy soundscape, all kind of crunchy and lo-fi, like you’re watching the final credits to some public access show you turned on at your grandparents house. Laying down on the couch, eyelids heavy, ready to drift off to sleep on a warm summer afternoon.

Pearl & The Oysters – “Wide Awake” [Stones Throw]
It’s simple: I see Pearl & The Oysters, I feature on the blog. Their new song hopefully points towards a new album coming soon, but for now this is another great piece in their excellent catalog. Breezy, groovy, with an undercurrent of paranoia and sadness in the lyrics. Nothing like a sad banger!

Styrofoam Winos – “Pearls” [Dear Life]
I don’t really know too much about this band, but Dear Life usually puts out good shit and “Pearls” is a track I found myself liking more than I thought. I was ready for some alt-country backwash but there’s some good fuzz on this one. Some good, out of the box instrumental ideas, nice harmonies, and the overall vibe just seems right. It’s chill and laid back, but there’s still some consciousness alight, see the moments where the instrumental cuts out for just the vocals. They have a new album Any River out June 19th via Dear Life, go pre-order that smoke on Bandcamp!

Yo La Tengo – “And The Glitter Is Gone” [Matador]
For as much bluster as I have around Yo La Tengo being one of my favorite bands, there are still a few records in their discography I haven’t quite cracked fully into yet. 2009’s Popular Songs is one of those records, despite it being my introduction to the band all those years ago. It isn’t regarded as one of their classic albums, hence why I encountered its closer “And The Glitter Is Gone” in my iPod shuffling journey recently. It’s another great entry into the canon of long, instrumental, uber-shreddy YLT album closers. A type of song that my friend’s fiance said this is what gets us (YLT fans) dangerously close to jam band fan territory. The live, loping, repetitive nature and discordant shredding is like butta to my ears. I can’t get enough of that Ira Kaplan guitar destruction. 

yyu – “dream” [Lillerne Tapes]
It’s always fun to go back to a project from an artist that’s currently killing it, only to find that they’ve actually been killing it for a long time, and this is just their baseline. In this case it’s with yyu, now known as ulla, and their track “dream” off their 2016 album Karaoke. This was another find in my iPod shuffle journey and experiencing it for the first time on my morning commute was a good one. Wandering through the busy subway station at 51st St, transferring from the 6 train to the E train, the whining muted trumpet hitting the lofty ceilings of the station, the whirring bass emulating the footsteps, the chiming, distant piano recalling memories from around the corner. It’s like its title says: dreamy.