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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #299

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Another bit late edition of the new music weekly, but managed to put something together on Sunday evening. I hope I didn’t forget too much stuff.

There’s new albums from Christo Graham, The Hard Quartet, Fred Thomas, Joan Shelley (EP), Erisy Watt, Darrin Bradbury, Nick Flessa, Kasey Anderson, Hayes & The Heathens, Roger Harvey & Simon Flory, Holy Matter, Yasmin Williams, Taylor Hollingsworth, Garrett T. Capps and The NASA Country , Henry Parker & David Ian Roberts, Slowforce, Peter Bruntnell, Pop Filter, Mr. Husband, Dan Reeder, Thee Sacred Souls and Leon Bridges.

A bit shorter Finnish part this time around, but there’s two big album releases from Arppa and Joose Keskitalo & The Mystic Relevation of Teppo Repo. Also singles from Saara Heikkilä, Emilia Sisco and Cold Diamond & Mink, Juhlat feat Ty Roxy and Jere Valkonen. I think Saara’s was last week, but I just found out some days back and liked it a lot.

From the international singles category some early faves came from The Weather Station, Leponds, Emma Munger, Chris Acker, Tedo Stone and Drew Beskin, Mt. Misery, Zachary Lucky, Snowgoose, Dakota Theim, Max Bien Kahn… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Next week episode 300 and then I’m done. Well not really, but this 299 was a struggle. Love and all that.

1. Christo Graham – Hunker Down (Music for Horses, We Are Busy Bodies)
2. The Hard Quartet – Hey (The Hard Quartet, Matador Records)
3. Fred Thomas – Season of Carelessness (Window in the Rhythm, Polyvinyl)
4. Joan Shelley – Fire of the Morning (Mood Ring EP, No Quarter)
5. Ërisy Watt – Say It Louder (Not either or but everything, First City Artists)
6. Darrin Bradbury – Time Pushed Jim (Freeman’s T.V Repair Shop, Like You Mean It Records)
7. Nick Flessa feat Austin Leonard Jones – Any Given Sunday (The Politics of Personal Destruction, Anxiety Blanket Records)
8. Hayes & The Heathens – Adeline (Hayes & The Heathens, BOH Records)
9. Kasey Anderson – Leave an Echo (To The Places We Lived, Nervous Kid Records)
10. Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country – What If We Did? (Everyone Is Everyone, Spaceflight Records)
11. Roger Harvey & Simon Flory – I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister (Progress)
12. Taylor Hollingsworth – Never Be Lonely (Yahola, Dial Back Sound / Well Kept Secret)
13. Henry Parker and David Ian Roberts – Windy Pike Blues (Chasing Light)
14. Yasmin Williams feat Kaki King & Darian Donovan Thomas – Harvest (Acadia, Nonesuch Records)
15. Holy Matter – Lore Green and Blue (Beauty Looking Back, Royal Oakie Records)
16. Kasey Chambers – Dart n Feather (Backbone, Essence Music)
17. Slowforce – Lightbulb (Shift)
18. Peter Bruntnell – The Flying Monk (Houdini and the Sucker Punch, Domestico Records)
19. Pop Filter – Everywhere Where I Want to Be (Ray & Lorraine’s, Bobo Integral Records)
20. Dan Reeder – I’ve Got the Blues (even though nothing is wrong) (Smithereens, Oh Boy Records)
21. Mr. Husband – I Might Go (WILDFLOWER, Airloom / Good Soil)
22. Leon Bridges – Panther City (Leon, Columbia Records)
23. Thee Sacred Souls – My Heart is Drowning (Got a Story to Tell)
24. Emilia Sisco and Cold Diamond & Mink – Too Late (single, Timmion Records)
25. Arppa – Missä sä oot (Muovipussi kummittelee, Johanna Kustannus)
26. Joose Keskitalo & The Mystic Revelation of Teppo Repo – Kun tähdet palaavat paikoilleen (Tähdet palaavat paikoilleen, Helmi Levyt)
27. Saara Heikkilä – Lupaus (single)
28. Jere Valkonen – Vakavaa (single, Eclipse)
29. Juhlat feat Ty Roxy – Tarinoita (single)
30. Office Culture feat Jackie West – Everything (single, Ruination Record Co)
31. lulu melons – Heads (single, The Dime Store)
32. Leponds – Frog Song (single)
33. The Weather Station – Neon Signs (single, Fat Possum Records)
34. Emma Munger – Pattern (single)
35. Keren Ilan – Soon Summer’s Gone (single)
36. Florist – This Was a Gift (single, Double Double Whammy)
37. Snowgoose – Descendant (single, Violette Records)
38. Dakota Theim – Sad Eyes (single)
39. Tedo Stone and Drew Beskin – I Want a Love Like This (single, Super Canoe)
40. Mt. Misery – Sunday Song (single, Prefect Records)
41. Slack Times – Coattails (single, Meritorio Records)
42. The Eggmen Whoooooo! – It’s Just Your Mind (single, Strangetown Records)
43. Nap Eyes – Dark Mystery Enigma Bird (single, Paradise of Bachelors)
44. Conor Donohue – Wasteland (single)
45. Call Me Rita – Get Ready With Me (single)
46. Spencer Kilpatrick and the Sand Gators – Fires (single)
47. Taco Tapes – No Retreat (single, American Standard Time Records)
48. Chris Acker – Stubborn Eyes (single, Gar Hole Records)
49. Zachary Lucky – Water in the Fuel (single, Wroxton Recordings)
50. Benjamin Tod – Mary Could You (single, Benjamin Tod / Thirty Tigers)
51. Wild Earp feat Michelle Billingsley – Cheap Checks (single, Western Myth Records)
52. Max Bien Kahn – Stranger (single, Max Bien Kahn / Well Kept Secret)
53. Jeremie Albino – So Many Ways To Say I Love You (single, Easy Eye Sound)
54. Kathleen Edwards feat Bahamas – Human Touch (single, Dualtone)
55. Lilly Winwood – What’ve We Got To Lose (single)
56. Waxahatchee – Much Ado About Nothing (single, Anti)
57. Rachel Sermanni – No Way Blues (single, Jellygirl Records)
58. Anne Malin – Stories (single, Dear Life Records)
59. VanWyck – Burning of Dawn (Dust Chaser, Maiden Name Records)
60. Susanna Leppänen – Henrikin pojan häävalssi (Kaikki on kaikki, Panama-levyt)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #298

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Another more than a little bit overwhelming release week. About 30 new albums on this one and most likely still missed some good ones.

Long time favorites Christian Lee Hutson, VanWyck and Adeline Hotel can share the album of the week honors. There’s also new ones from Andre Ethier, Big Share, Jenina MacGillivray, Ilia Nicoll (EP from April, but Jenina led me to this), Styrofoam Winos, Feeling Figures, Best Bets, John Davis (from Superdrag), Naima Block, Merce Lemon, Trace Mountains, Auguste Patino, Kate Bollinger, Leif Vollebekk, Luke De-Sciscio, Julian Taylor, Billy Strings, The Bobby Tenderloin Universe, Selland & Starr, Rayvon Pettis, Spectator Bird, Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders, Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin and Kolumbo. That took a while to type, let alone listen.

The Finnish part was pushed to the late twenties on the playlist by that flood of international albums, but there’s plenty to love here as well. The big ones are the awesome new albums from Pekka Laine & The Enchanted and Susanna Leppänen. Then there’s also a bunch of gorgeous singles from Mikko Juvonen, Kansalainen, Peissu feat Jenna-Marie Laine, Henna Emilia Hietamäki, Lintudisko, Monsuuni and The Wrong Car.

International single of the week is the new beauty from Jennifer Castle. Other early faves came from Lou Hazel, Sam Blasucci, Dakota Theim, St. Lenox, Erisy Watt, Michael Cloud Duguay… again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Two more to go 300 and another milestone. That’s a few weekends and hours that I’ve dedicated to compiling this new music playlist, because it takes 5+ hours to make this each weekend. It doesn’t really make any kind of sense, if I think about it that way. So I rather not. And well heart runs this operation instead of the brain anyway. So back next week for episode 299. See you then.

1. Christian Lee Hutson – Carousel Horses (Paradise Pop.10, Anti Records)
2. VanWyck – Another to Do (Dust Chaser, Maiden Name Records)
3. Adeline Hotel – Preying On (Whodunnit, Ruination Record Co)
4. Andre Ethier – B.C.E. (Cold Spaghetti, Telephone Explosion Records)
5. Big Share – Barely There (Printed Pictures)
6. Jenina MacGillivray – Sadie (Perseids)
7. Ilia Nicoll – Neener (Long Leaving EP)
8. Styrofoam Winos – Master of Time (Real Time)
9. Feeling Figures – Everything Around You (Everything Around You, Perennial)
10. Best Bets – Autumn Morning (Come What May, Meritorio Records)
11. John Davis – Indiffirent Stars (JINX, Lost In Ohio)
12. Trace Mountains – Crawling Back to You (Into the Burning Blue, Lame-O Records)
13. Auguste Patino – Yogi Berra (A World of Windmills, Forged Artifacts)
14. Leif Vollebekk – Rock and Roll (Revelation, Secret City Records)
15. Kate Bollinger – I See It Now (Songs From a Thousand Frames of Mind, Ghostly International)
16. Merce Lemon – Rain (Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, Darlig Recordings)
17. Naima Block – Moving (Below a Massive Dark Land, Sub Pop Records)
18. Luke De-Sciscio – For the Poems (Theo, Folk Boy Records)
19. Spectator Bird – Pink Azaleas (Fall Down in a Small Town)
20. Julian Taylor – Love Letters (Pathways, Howling Turtle)
21. The Bobby Tenderloin Universe – Rollin’ Back to You (Satan is a Woman, Country Moon Records)
22. Rayvon Pettis – Forever is a Long Long Time (Pueblo, Like You Mean It Records)
23. Selland & Starr – High Life (Rides Again, Chiles Records)
24. Billy Strings – Gild the Lily (Highway Prayers, Reprise Records)
25. Jeffrey Alexander and the Heavy Lidders – Mt. Airy Mind (Planet Lidders, Arrowhawk Records)
26. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin feat Taylor Ho Bynum – Stars Begin to Fall (symbiont, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings)
27. Kolumbo – Night Blooming Jasmine (Sandy Legs, Calico Discos)
28. Pekka Laine & The Enchanted – Veronica Was Here (In Slumberland, Svart Records)
29. Susanna Leppänen – Sato (Kaikki on kaikki, Panama-levyt)
30. Peissu feat Jenna-Marie Laine – Kuinka saatoitkaan (single)
31. Mikko Juvonen – Matkalla Johannan luo (single, Helmi Levyt)
32. Kansalainen – Muovipussi (singe, Helmi Levyt)
33. Henna Emilia Hietamäki – Lähteet laaksojen (single, Soliti)
34. Lintudisko – Muistojen bumerangi (single)
35. Monsuuni – Kalevankadun herra liikennemerkki (single, Villa Molo Underground Alliance)
36. The Wrong Car – Apples (single, Haarakiila Records)
37. Dakota Theim – Love You Inside Out (single)
38. Ruby De Anda – 83 (single, Karma Chief Records / Colemine Records)
39. Jalen Ngonda – Anyone in Love (single, Daptone Records)
40. Camden. – There’s No One To Blame (single, Mango Hill Records)
41. Sam Blasucci – Flower (single, Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos)
42. Mr. Husband – It Was You (single, Airloom / Good Soil)
43. Shirley Hurt – Hell of a Life (single, Telephone Explosion Records)
44. Reb Fountain – Come Down (single, Fountain Records)
45. Advance Base – The Year I Lived in Richmond (single, Run for Cover Records)
46. St. Lenox – Courtesan (single, Don Giovanni Records)
47. Erisy Watt – Rachel (single, First City Artists)
48. Jennifer Castle – Earthsong (single, Paradise of Bachelors / Solstice Radio)
49. Lila Tristram – Closer (single)
50. Michael Cloud Duguay – Stethoscope (single, Watch That Ends the Night)
51. John Cathal O’Brien – Can’t Be Only a River That Winds (single)
52. Wilder Adkins feat Erin Rae – You Can Never Lose My Love (single, Wings Music Group)
53. Lou Hazel – Little Peace (single)
54. Todd Day Wait – Time Will Let You Know (single, Cloverdale Records)
55. Noeline Hoffman – Rodeo Junkies (single, La Honda Records)
56. Samantha Crain – Dragonfly (single, Real Kind Records)
57. Ex-Vöid – Swansea (single, Tapete Records)
58. Ceylon Sailor – Cambridge Streets (single, Stunning Models on Display)
59. Real Estate – Daniel (single, Domino Recording Co)
60. Trust Fund – The Mirror (single, Tapete Records)
61. Jenny Owen Youngs – Someone’s Ex (single, Yep Roc)
62. Humbird – Vienna (Humbird sings Billy Joel, Nettwerk)
63. Nick Flessa feat Austin Leonard Jones – Theme from the Dick Gibson Show (single, Anxiety Blanket Records)
64. This Lonesome Paradise – Strange Door (single, Bad Vibes Good Friends)
65. Angela Autumn feat Lockeland Strings – Waltz About Death (single, Tone Tree Music)
66. Rachel Baiman feat Kaia Kater – Playing God (single, Signature Sounds Recordings)
67. Whitehorse – Sweet Surrender (single, Six Shooter Records)
68. Bailey Bigger – Resurrecetion Fern (single, Madjack Records)
69. Stelth Ulvang – Let It Fall (Stelth Ulvang and the Tigernips, First Thought Best Thought)
70. Essi Leppänen systeemi – Planeetaltapoistumiskysymys (Zverynasin talo, Helmi Levyt)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #297

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Time to wrap up the 23rd music blog anniversary with the new music weekly.

This week we have new albums from AJ Woods, Lea Thomas, Tasha, JP Harris, Jesse Welles, Stelth Ulvang, Sophie Gault, Christopher Paul Stelling, Guy Capecelatro III, Iji, P:ano, Cassie Ramone, Mo Dotti, Gurry Wurry, Mike Viola, Steve Slagg, Kelly McMichael, Dogs at Large (EP) and Dark Canyon.

Big Finnish release week too. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with the new Essi Leppänen systeemi album early on, but there’s also great albums from Ocelot, D.O.P.A., Lempi Elo. Country-blues singer-songwriter Jantso Jokelin also has a streaming EP now (he released a full album on CD last summer). Lots of awesome singles too. Pelko, Bad Sauna and Miika Leivo some early faves there, but I like them all. We have new songs from Litku Klemetti feat Sumuposauttaja, Hanhani, Janeveera, Aleksi Mattila and Carla Aakre.

International single of the week is the new Haley Heynderickx song that I already posted earlier in the week. Other early faves came from Chris Acker, Dorothea Paas, Widower, Office Culture, 2nd Grade.. again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Back next week with another of these. Might be a bit of rushed effort, if I hit Helsinki on the weekend. Pelko, Hattara, Salaliitto on Friday and Iron Country Sisters on Saturday would be a good double feature in the big city. But there’s a whole lot of good concerts here in Turku too, so perhaps it’s more likely I’ll just stay here. Anyway, thanks again for the 23 years and thanks to anyone who is following this new music adventure regularly or occasionally. Love love love.

1. AJ Woods – Wind on a Wildfire (Hawk is Listenin’, Perpetual Doom)
2. Lea Thomas – Cosmos Forever (Cosmos Forever, Triple Dolphin Records)
3. Tasha – Good Song (All This and So Much More, Bayonet Records)
4. JP Harris – Write It All Down (JP Harris is a Trash Fire, Bloodshot Records)
5. Jesse Welles – See Arkansaw (Patchwork)
6. Stelth Ulvang – What Three Dogs (Stelth Ulvang and the Tigernips, First Thought Best Thought)
7. Sophie Gault – Things Are Going Good (Baltic Street Hotel, Strong Place Music)
8. Christopher Paul Stelling – Fear the Long Night (Forgotten But Not Gone & Few and Far Between)
9. Guy Capecelatro III – Unworthy (These Moments Will Disappear, Burst and Bloom Records)
10. Iji – Abandon Thing (Automatically, We Be Friends)
11. P:ano – Mikey’s new house (ba ba ba, C.O.Q. Records)
12. Cassie Ramone – The Only Way I Know How (Sweetheart, CD-R Records)
13. Mo Dotti – really wish (opaque, MD)
14. Gurry Wurry – Singin (When the Truck Hit) (Happy For Now)
15. Mike Viola – Audrey Forever (Rock of Boston, Lojinx)
16. Steve Slagg – The Newest Soil (I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World)
17. Kelly McMichael – All Over Again (After the Sting Of It, LHM Records)
18. Dogs at Large – Moonlight (Moonlight EP)
19. Dark Canyon – Lonesome Town (Long Days, Pleasant Nights, Sound Schematic)
20. Bad Sauna – Muista, että kaikki ei vihaa sinua koko ajan (single, All That Plazz)
21. Essi Leppänen systeemi – On tullut syksy (Zverynasin talo, Helmi-levyt)
22. Ocelot – Omenoita (Siskoni on noita, Soliti)
23. Pelko – Hattara (single, Pelko-levyt)
24. Litku Klemetti feat Sumuposauttaja – Sumun jälkeen (single, Is This Art!)
25. Lempi Elo – Ullakko (Aavat veet, Eclipse Music)
26. Hanhani – Sydän menee paikoilleen (single, HanHan Music)
27. Janeveera – Vaara (single, Sofia)
28. Aleksi Mattila – Jossain on jo aamu (single)
29. Miika Leivo – Valmet 502 (single, Valassaaret)
30. Jantso Jokelin – Don’t Go There (Taxi to a Housefire EP, Musakonttori)
31. D.O.P.A. – Mussels (Vivid Dreams, Soit Se Silti)
32. Carla Aakre – watercolour (single, Kieku Records)
33. Dorothea Paas – Autumn Roses (single, Telephone Explosion Records)
34. Haley Heynderickx – Foxglove (single, Mama Bird Recording Co)
35. Widower – The Way Love Always Goes (single, Jenny Invert Records)
36. Chris Acker – Wouldn’t Do For You (Buddy) (single, Gar Hole Records)
37. Sean Thompsons’s Weird Ears – Roll On Buddy (single, Ears Over America / Missing Piece Records)
38. 2nd Grade – Made Up Your Own Mind (single, Double Double Whammy)
39. Fightmilk – That Thing You Did (single, Fika Recordings)
40. Bananagun – Gift of the Open Hand (single, Full Time Hobby)
41. Andre Ethier – S.C.U.D.S Over Broadway (single, Telephone Explosion Records)
42. Office Culture – Open Up Your Fist (single, Ruination Record Co)
43. Casual Technicians – Midnight Moon (single, Repeating Cloud)
44. Greg Mendez – First Time (single, Dead Oceans)
45. Mr. Husband – Silver Rings (single, Airloom / Good Soil)
46. Auguste Patino – Let Me Be Loved (single, Forged Artifacts)
47. Charlie Kaplan – Mescalore (single, Glamour Gowns)
48. Beau Jennings & the Tigers – Norman Nights (single, Black Mesa Records)
49. Grayson Capps – Columbus Stockade Blues (single, Royal Potato Family)
50. Teddy and the Rough Riders – Fast Livin’ (single, Appalachia Record Co)
51. Pete Posie – Lead Blanket Blues (single, Low Rent)
52. Benjamin Tod feat Sierra Ferrell – One Last Time (single, Benjamin Tod / Thirty Tigers)
53. Reece Sullivan – Very Near (single)
54. Tucker Zimmerman feat Big Thief, Iji & Twain – Idiot’s Maze (single, 4AD)
55. Max Garcia Conover – sue and buz catch up during fireworks (single)
56. Joe Kaplow – Let Us Stay (single, Sonder House)
57. Adam Remnant – When You Get Back Home (BIG DOORS, Coiled Myth Records)
58. Willie Watson – Already Gone (Willie Watson, Little Operation Records / Thirty Tigers)
59. Iron Country Sisters – Your Heart (Grace, Soliti)
60. Samanna – Hei mieli (Mittasuhteet, Humu Records)

Spotify Playlist

Tidal Playlist

YouTube Playlist

A few Bandcamp cuts for the lovely non-streamers:





Oh and do buy the vinyl/cd/download. Spotify and other streaming services are perfect for these introductory purposes, but try to buy at least the music that matter the most to you

I’ll make the playlist on Spotify and then transfer it to other platforms. This means a few tracks might be missing from the from the other platforms, if they are not available there. Oh and there’s a bunch of older episodes on my Spotify profile, if you miss an episode or want to revisit.

If you are looking this after a week has gone, the embedded Spotify will show the latest playlist. I’ll just update the same playlist because if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each weekend.

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