This Week's New Releases
Individual Release Spotify Links
Heavy on end of year comps, including three from the Anjuna family and MoS.
- Eli & Fur – Found In The Wild (Remixed) {deep house, electronic} Collection of remixes of one of my favorite albums of the year
- Anjunadeep The Yearbook 2021 {deep house, electronic} Anjunadeep can do no wrong with me and everything gets a listen, some more than one.
- Worst Party Ever – Dartland {indie rock, emo}
- Purple Disco Machine – Club Exotica {house, disco}
- bcalm & Banks – Feelings Pt.2 {chillhop, electronic}
- Above & Beyond – 10 Years of Group Therapy {electronic, house}
- Anjunabeats The Yearbook 2021 {progressive house}
- Ministry of Sound: The Annual 2022 {electronic, house}
- Nick Murphy & The Program – Take In The Roses {rock, alternative, indie} Guy fka Chet Faker
- Johnny Marr – Fever Dreams Pt. 2 {rock, alternative rock} Lifelong Smiths fan, so have to listen
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – La Panthère Des Neiges {alternative}
All-in-One Spotify Playlist:
All the releases in one playlist for easy consumption:
Last Week's Distilled Gems
Individual Release Spotify Links
- Teen Daze – Interior {electronic, house} Didn’t know Teen Daze until this release and really enjoyed their Royksopp/Daft Punk reminiscent sound
- Fleet Foxes – A Very Lonely Solstice {alternative, folk rock, indie rock}
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Blind Date Party {alternative, indie}
- San Fermin – In This House {rock, alternative, indie.rock}
- Anjunadeep The Remixes 2021 {electronic, deep house}
- Bar 25 Music: Selektion 2021 {deep house, indie dance, electronic}
- Marsh – Calling EP {deep house, trance}
- Michael Hurley – The Time of the Foxgloves {folk}
- Aeon Station – Observatory {alternative, indie rock} for fans of Built to Spill
- The Timewriter – Kingdom Come {tech house, deep house}
- Big Boi & Sleepy Brown – Big Sleepover {hip hop} 1/2 of Outkast is as Outkast does
Julia sings holiday songs. Some are really great, but it’s still holiday songs
- Julia Stone – Everything Is Christmas {singer songwriter, indie, holiday}
Solid if you know/love the artists but nothing super differentiating:
- Jeff Tweedy – Live Is The King {alternative rock, alternative country, americana}
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barn {rock}
- Mike Watt & The Cutthroat Brothers – Devil in Berlin {garage rock}
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MUSIC:reflections, is mostly new music releases that I am tracking for myself and figured I’d share.
General disclaimer about new releases:
- This is an informed curated pull and, like life, there are no guarantees. There may be some duds, some meh and hopefully some gems that are real keepers that bring you joy.
- This is pulled from artists I know and love, to artists I’ve heard good things about and want to check out their newest output.
- They roughly in stack ranked order from must list immediately to want to get to.
- Not everything in here is for everybody, hell, not everything in here will end up being for me. This is about exploration, getting outside of our bubbles, and ultimately about discovery.
I’ll post on Fridays with an aggregated playlist, roughly in the order I want to listen to them – from first listen to last. I work through it over the coming week, then rinse and repeat.
Bottom line: YMMV