Listen: Dan Deacon – “Sheathed Wings” [2015]

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Very Warm

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Dan Deacon’s “Sheathed Wings” has been really doing it for me on my running playlist, so I thought I’d share it here for anyone who had forgotten since 2015 or needs a new spark plug in their rotation.

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Listen: Ryan Dugre – “For Cement” [2022]

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Very Warm

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It’s been a year already. We need some meditative, instrumental guitar pieces to help us recalibrate. Ryan Dugre is here. His new EP Look See is out February 18 via Ruination Records and has definitely reset my internal monologues in the short time I’ve spent with it early on.

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Listen: Lighght – “Rib” [2022]

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Very Warm

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Phew! We got some hotness on our hands. Irish producer Lighght has a new club and techno-focused LP, Seodra, coming March 4 via Doom Trip Records. I was previously familiar with Lighght’s 2021 album Holy Endings, which is much different than what we’re hearing here. 2021’s album was slower, and comprised of spine-tingling field recordings and auditory hallucinations. I’m trying to not just say “it was an ambient album”. This time around? Hoo-wee: it’s got volume, it’s got tempo, it’s got snap.

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Listen: Night Palace – “Jessica Mystic” [2022]

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Very Warm

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Gotta give a quick shout out to one of my favorite rising indie pop acts, Night Palace (fka Avery Leigh’s Night Palace). A friend & rare reader of the blog Tori tipped me to their song “Into the Wake, Mystified” in late 2020, and it eventually found its way onto favorite playlists, Ochre Overture, a dreamy lens into shoegaze, folk, drone and ambient with a little bit of grooves thrown in. They’ve got their debut album Diving Rings coming April 1st and I’m PUMPED – so let’s dive into one of the newest singles!

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Listen: Nyssa Musique – “Comme Au Moulin” [1985]

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Very Warm

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Another bookmark I’ve placed on my journey through 80s albums, Nyssa Musique appeared on my radar after seeing many trusted sources hype this record up as something special. While it may not be mind-blowing, their one record Comme Au Moulin is a fantastic record in the canon of weirdo jazz, “non-western” rhythms + textures and modern minimal composition.

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Listen: The Radio Dept. – “Keen On Boys” [2003]

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Very Warm

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Posting a little shoegaze for myself, as a treat.

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Listen: You’ll Never Get To Heaven – “Eye, Soul and Hand” [2021]

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Very Warm

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One of the magic motifs that occur when you’re constantly ingesting new music is that sometimes you’ll listen to an unassuming record once and find it pleasant enough to listen to again at a later date. Once the later date arrives you find it even better than the last time you listened, and the time in between corresponding listens becomes shorter and shorter. Are you following? This happened to me with the 2021 You’ll Never Get To Heaven album, Wave Your Moonlight Hat for the Snowfall Train, a record I was not anticipating in any way and happened to check out on a whim, only to get lost in its tender limbs and cloudy atmosphere.

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Listen: Alabaster dePlume – “Don’t Forget You’re Precious” [2022]

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Very Warm

Alabaster dePlume, aka Gus Fairbairn, is releasing a fantastic double album GOLD – Go Forward In The Courage Of Your Love on April 1 via International Anthem, following his healing 2020 LP For Cy & Lee, which I woefully lacked coverage of at the time but trust me, I listened! It’s great! This new music is great too!

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Listen: Fairuz – “Rah Nibka Sawa (رح نبقى سوى)” [1987]

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Very Warm

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Another gem in my unending search for the great albums of the 80s, I came across the music of Fairuz, which was new to me but widely regarded as one of, if not the greatest, singer in the Arabic world, even gone so far as to be called “the soul of Lebanon”. The album in question is Maarifti Feek, recorded over four or so years in the 80s, collaborating with her son to create a more modern take on traditional Lebanese and Arabic song structures, themes and motifs. What resulted is a funky, lavish and touching record that every music lover should listen to.

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Listen: Allegra Krieger – “Taking It In” [2022]

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Very Warm

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Folk fans – perk thine ears, for a enlightened presence this way comes! NY-based singer/songwriter Allegra Krieger is releasing her new album Precious Thing on March 4 via Northern Spy, her second for the label. Recorded with Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic + Art Feynman, Krieger taps into deep layers of personal dilemmas that we all encounter in our lives, pulling strings of wisdom out of each, and knitting gorgeous tapestries of thought & introspection.

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