And here we go again after a quiet week last week with new year’s and all.
Happy New Year with hopes and wishes for a better year than last. Onward…
This Week's New Releases
Individual Release Spotify Links
- Bonobo – From You {deep house, electronic}. Among my favorite artists of the last 20 years, back with an EP for this week and a new full album “Fragments” out next Friday.
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow “My Own Reality” Re-Write) {alternative, electronic} I know it’s King Gizzard, and it’s a single remix, but a DJ Shadow remix? That makes it a must-listen for me.
- David Bowie – TOY:BOX {rock, alternative} Posthumously released new album, which is usually questionable. It”s a 3cd release and the 3rd cd is mostly unplugged which is interesting and promising.
- Burial – Antidawn {electronic, ambient}
- The Weeknd – Dawn FM {pop, synthpop} Yeah, I know. Still have to listen.
- Best Coast – Always Tomorrow (Deluxe Edition) {alternative, indie rock} Reissue of last year’s release with extra goodies
- Daniel Bachman – Lonesome Weary Blues {blues, folk}
- SIS – Gnani {electronic, indie, jazz, soul}
All-in-One Spotify Playlist:
All the releases pulled together for easy consumption:
Last Week's Distilled Gems
Releases from 12/24 turned out well, and all are worth listening to assuming you like the genres. Given this was a two-week stretch between new releases and several long drives, I’ve actually listened to all these several times.
Individual Release Spotify Links
- Groove Armada – Full Crate EP {electronic, house}
- Café Del Mar XXVII (Volumen Veintisiete) {downtempo, electronic}
- Animal Collective – Live at Music Box Village {electronic} Not available on Spotify
- Kyoto Jazz Massive – Message From A New Dawn {electronic, jazz, fusion}
- The KVB – Unity {electronic, shoegaze, new wave}
- Birdy – Earth: Capricorn’s Songs {folk, indie pop}
- Plastic City FX – So Deep, Vol. 2 {deep house, dub techno}
- Winter Chill 2022 {deep house, nu disco}
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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