A big release week once again and there’s all kinds of greatness both from Finland and abroad.
New Adeem the Artist has to be the album of the week. Otherwise Cuppy will be cross with me and I don’t want to upset the employee of the month. But yeah, love that record for sure. Other big album releases came from Mac Cornish, Emily Nenni, The Lemon Twigs, Jon McKiel, Mammoth Penguins, Jessica Pratt, The Deep Dark Woods, Emily Barker, Cara Beth Satalino, Noel McKay, Jay Gavin, Tylor & The Train Robbers, Nathan Kalish (EP), Jonah Sissoyev (EP), Spencer Hoffman (EP), Camera Obscura and Extra Arms.
The Finnish section has a couple of huge album releases from Nightbird and Amuri. I love both and you will surely find them from the EOTY lists at the end of 2024. We also have a great new album from HXA and a run of singles from Luhtaniitty, Toinen Maisema, Jari Raaste, Vellamo, Pitkä Juoksu, Pink Chameleons and Leija Lautamaja feat Pekko Käppi. Plus new Jukka Nissinen single from the last week, because I messed up and forgot to include it then. Shame on me.
New Melissa Carper can be the international single of the week. Other early faves came from American Aquarium, Luka Kuplowsky, India Ramey, Bella White (Ted Lucas cover), MAITA, The Bird Calls, Nick Delffs, Gabriel Birnbaum and Sam and Louise Sullivan… Again just to name a few.
That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. I paid the domain bill, so I guess you lovely people are stuck with me for another year. Whether things stay completely same. That’s another question. Maybe I’ll again take a few weeks off during the summer and see if that will give me enough boost to continue with this crazy project. Next TOR-BOS game seven. Back next week. Love love love.
1. Adeem the Artist – Nancy (Anniversary, Four Quarters Records / Thirty Tigers)
2. Mac Cornish – Sylvia Anne (Never Made Much of a Lover)
3. Emily Nenni – Lay of the Land (Drive & Cry, New West Records)
4. The Lemon Twigs – Peppermint Roses (A Dream Is All We Know, Captured Tracks)
5. Mammoth Penguins – Blue Plague (Here, Fika Recordings)
6. Jon McKiel – The Fix (Hex, You’ve Changed Records)
7. Cara Beth Satalino – Outlaw (Little Green, Worried Songs)
8. Emily Barker – Fragile as Humans (Fragile As Humans, Everyone Sang)
9. Jessica Pratt – The Last Year (Here in the Pitch, City Slang9
10. The Deep Dark Woods – Bridget O’Malley (Broadside Ballads Vol. III, Victory Pool)
11. Noel McKay – You Only Live Always (You Only Live Always, McKay Records)
12. Ordinary Elephant – Joy Has Not Forgotten Me (Ordinary Elepthant)
13. Jay Gavin – Feels Like Rain (Road Ready, Good Time Charlie’s Records)
14. Tylor & The Train Robbers – On the Go (Hum of the Road)
15. Nathan Kalish – Congrats (Southern Poverty Guitar Center EP, Yellow Canary)
16. Jonah Sissoyev – Payphone (Me, Myself, God EP, American Standard Time Records)
17. Spencer Hoffman – What It Seems To Be (Roses Fly EP, Anxiety Blanket Records)
18. Camera Obscura – Pop Goes Pop (Look to the East, Look to the West, Merge Records)
19. Extra Arms – Mad Dog Blue (RADAR, Setterwind Records)
20. American Aquarium – Crier (single, Losing Side Records / Thirty Tigers)
21. India Ramey – Ain’t My First Rodeo (single, Mule Kick Records)
22. Melissa Carper – Lucky Five (single, Mae Music / Thirty Tigers)
23. MAITA – Girl at the Bar (single, Fluff & Gravy Records)
24. Bella White – I’ll Find a Way (To Carry It All, Rounder Records)
25. Nightbird – Sweet Distraction (Out of These Days, Nighttime Recordings)
26. Amuri – Väsynyt viihdyttäjä (Kun mä kotoa lähdin, Helmi Levyt)
27. Jukka Nissinen – Ryyppään Suomessa (single, Humu Records)
28. Leija Lautamaja feat Pekko Käppi – Ilman sua tää ei ois elämää (single, Leija Organs Records)
29. Toinen Maisema – Usvaa (single, TM-Levyt)
30. Luhtaniitty – Ennen kuin me olemme heränneet (single, Sateen ääni)
31. Vellamo – Laulajan laatikko (single)
32. Jari Raaste – Fresh! (single, Minna Records / Raastepöytä)
33. Pitkä Juoksu – Matkamuistoja (single)
34. Pink Chameleons – Some Sunny Feeling (single, Soliti)
35. HXA feat Lettoman – Fountain of the Hip (Smoke Trails, HXA / Humu Records)
36. Alex Izenberg – Drinking the Dusk Away (single, Domino Recording Co)
37. Nick Delffs – Power and Position (single, Mama Bird Recording Co)
38. Luka Kuplowsky – Fugitive Song (a response to Rainer Maria Rilke) (single, Next Door Records)
39. The Bird Calls – Going Insane (single, Ruination Record Co)
40. Sam and Louise Sullivan – Maybe It’s Love! (single, Historic New Jersey Recordings)
41. Jeffrey Lewis – The Dream Wheel (single)
42. Gabriel Birnbaum – The More They Come Around (single, Western Vinyl)
43. Richard Tripps – Blue Eyed Open Sky (single, Perpetual Doom)
44. Chris Kasper feat Oliver Wood – Getting Right (single, Royal Potato Family)
45. Madeline Hawthorne – Where Did I Go Wrong (single)
46. Freya Josephine Hollick – Graceless (single, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)
47. Kelsey Waldon feat Margo Price – Traveling the Highway Home (single, Oh Boy Records)
48. Jesse Daniel feat Ben Haggard – Tomorrow’s Good Ol’ Days (single, Lightning Rod Records)
49. Ben Arsenault – I’m Changing Too (single)
50. Chris Canterbury feat Leah Blevins – Willin’ (single, Rancho Deluxe Records)
51. Martha Spencer – La La Land (single, Music Maker)
52. Sweet Megg – I Wonder Where You Are Tonight (single, Turtle Bay Records)
53. Jonathan Tyler & Paige Plaisance – Don’t You Think I Feel It too (single, Timeless Echo)
54. Ana Egge – If It Were Up To Me (single, StorySound Records)
55. Malin Pettersen – Speed of Life (single, Die With Your Boots On Records)
56. The Hackles feat Bart Budwig – Oh Honey (single, Jealous Butcher Records)
57. Roses for Paradise – Where I Lay (single, Dirty Rose Records)
58. Rose Hotel – Fruit Tree (single, Strolling Bones Records)
59. Kaia Kater feat Aoife O’Donovan – The Witch (single, Free Dirt Records)
60. Emma Russack – Everything is Big (single, Dinosaur City Records)
61. Stephen’s Shore – Under the Pine (single, Meritorio Records)
62. Redd Kross – Candy Coloured Catastrophe (single, In the Red Records)
63. Thorsten Nesch – Trying to Find a Love Song That Is Not About You (single, Polterzeitgeist Records)
64. Samae Koskinen – Mä näin unta (Mä näin unta että kaikki meni hyvin, KHY Suomen Musiikki)
65. The Lostines – Frankie & Eva (Meet the Lostines, Gar Hole Records)
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.