Alas, two months into this weekly feature I missed a day. I apologize! A doctor’s appointment and going to bed hella early derailed my streak and the ninth Warm Selections feature was pushed back a day. I know my hundreds, thousands even of readers (definitely not maybe a dozen, surely), were up in arms about missing their new music tunes yesterday.

Anyways – LOTS of killer tracks in the mix this week, including new jams from Smerz, Marisa Anderson, Shabason & Krgovich, DJ Seinfeld and more tasty surprises. Dig in!

You can listen to all these songs and more on my Tidal playlist HERE.

Bodysync – “Together” [Desire Line]
Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage make up Bodysync, who have been putting out some largely slept on records over the last few years. Not sure how, they were both blog darlings in the early and mid 2010s. I’m still holding on, guys! They have a new song “Together” out that’s nice and dreamy, a bit of an underhanded acid jam with echoing chords and a repeating, soothing vocal line. Slip into something nice, in sonic form.

Choir Boy – “I’ll Always Let You Down” [Dais]
I’ve been waiting for the last six years for a breath of life from 80s synth pop goths Choir Boy, and all it took was them getting taken on tour with AFI. This track is quintessential Choir Boy, with glittering, propulsive synths taking duel leads with the dramatic, romantic vocals of singer Adam Klopp. For now it’s a standalone, but I’d love to have a new album at this point! And check out the playlist I made featuring Choir Boy, it’s one of my favorites. It’s called Winter Jacket Love Letter, stream it via Tidal HERE.

DJ Seinfeld – “Everything U” [Ninja Tune]
DJ Seinfeld has been a mainstay in my running playlist for the last six years, so I gotta shout out one of the new singles off his upcoming album If This Is It, out June 5th via Ninja Tune. Maybe it’s the birdsong samples that are stitched into the background, but this really feels like getting out on a brisk, sunny Spring day and walking along a river. It steadily gurgles with sun-soaked production and gentle pads, it’s a lovely tune to usher in the season.

Gregory Uhlmann – “Days” [International Anthem]
Got to dig into LA experimentalist Gregory Uhlmann’s new album (from March) this past weekend and enjoyed its weirdo vibe, almost chiming into vintage game soundtracks. This track “Days” is a really lovely, floating ambient track with free-flowing organ backing and cascading piano. It’s a beautiful landscape, and a little reprieve from the more manic sounds from the LP surrounding.

Marisa Anderson – “Quodlibet” [Self-Released]
One of our premier American guitarists, Marisa Anderson, is readying her new album, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, out May 22nd. I haven’t been as plugged into the prior singles as much as I should, but the album’s first track “Quodlibet” is a shredder with a lovely, foreboding ambiance to it. 

Massive Attack & Tom Waits – “Boots on the Ground” [PIAS]
Two voices I didn’t realize I needed together: Massive Attack are finally back with new music for the first time in forever, and Tom Waits joins them to enhance the dark energy swirling around this track. I saw a few people go against this pairing, but I mean, this makes too much sense. I can’t really say too much about it, because it speaks for themselves. Free Palestine. Big ups Massive Attack.

Maston & Greg Foat – “Designer” [Magic Hollow]
Commissioners of cool, Maston and Greg Foat have come together for an ultra-mellow, super-groovy batch of instrumental tunes on their new album Moving Images that approach the territory of library music and lost foreign film scores, as is their want. It’s a lush, pillowy listen across the board, but the track I’ve highlighted here “Designer,” is thick with ambiance, as a thrumming synth bassline establishes the ambiance as an arpeggiated, mysterious synth line bristles with anticipation. There’s layers to this – so keep digging.

Olof Dreijer – “Plastic Camelia” [Rabid / DH2]
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer is about to release his new solo album Loud Bloom on May 8th and I’m really disappointed to not see more attention around this thing. I had no idea so many singles were already out, like this one that arrived April 8th. His sister Karin Dreijer, aka Fever Ray, gets a lot of attention (and rightfully so), but I mean come on: they both comprised one of the premier electronic duos of the last two decades, and that SHINES through on “Plastic Camelia.” The low end synth bass is thick and rubbery, booming in the mix as a slippery electric sax wiggles through the mix. It feels like a transmission beamed from the planet Shaking The Habitual, an SOS signal that’s just shouting out that everyone is actually doing fine since we last heard them, and that we should join them.

Shabason & Krgovich – “Midday Sun” [Idée Fixe]
If there is no one posting about Shabason & Krgovich, that means I have perished. The blog-favorite duo (of Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich) has a new album Four Days in June, out June 12th via Idée Fixe. Based on the two singles that are out now, this album seems a lot more laid back and sunwashed than their previous records, which were not barnburners by any stretch of the imagination, but seemed a bit more precious with their time, a bit more manicured, plucked and staged for perfection (and yes, they are all perfect). These two tracks stretch out and let out a big, content sigh on a deck chair, or have the car windows down on a summer evening. This is music to put on with a group, not to create your own insular universe to like the others. Let the people in this summer, and invite Shabason & Krgovich to your party.

Smerz – “Spring summer” [Escho]
Is the recipe to a Smerz success an EP rather than an LP? Don’t get me wrong, I was definitely a fan of their 2025 album Big city life, but their debut Believer was a slog. Contrast that to their first two EPs, Okey and Have fun, which I was truly obsessed with for a good three years. In this case, Smerz is readying a new EP, Easy, coming May 15th via pillars of the scene Escho. This track fits right into the Big city life mold, with semi-dramatic, polished-smooth nonchalance that’ll turn you to stone. You know I’m a fan. I want you to be a fan. Why are you not a fan yet?

Widowspeak – “No Driver” [Captured Tracks]
Indie rock + country mainstays (they’ve been doing it longer than everyone else has been these days, seems like!) have a new record, Roses, coming June 5th. It’s shaping up to be a great summer record too, with this song “No Driver” being absolutely stuffed full of SHREDDING. The guitar solos are not to be missed, especially driving down a nice country road. There will be a driver there: it’s you. Or you can be the passenger. Please don’t be the passenger in a driverless car flying down the road. Unless you buy the new Widowspeak album when it comes out… June 5th.