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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #316

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A slightly flu-ish edition of the new music weekly. I have even less brain capacity than normally, so I’m sure there’s stuff missing.

New Lou Hazel is the album of the week. I’ve loved everything he has released so far and I’m thrilled that there’s now a full album of his songs. Other big album releases came from Kristin Daelyn, Will Stewart, Echolalia, Domestic Drafts, Jacob Miller (EP), Yves Jarvis, Paradise Motel Lounge, Charles Wesley Godwin (EP), JD Clayton, Ponyhustle (this one is a few weeks old, but I had missed the email until now), Buffalo Kin, The While (EP) and Midwestern Medicine (EP).

The big one from Finland is the long-waited Sonja Selene album. Another cool new album is from New Silver Girl. A lot of great singles too from Slack Bird, Poni, Ghost World, The Moontwins, Moonwards, Hattara, Tinyhawk & Bizzarro, Cats of Transnistria, Wilma, Eidetic Dreams, Thelma’s Dream and Janeveera. A lot of stuff in the dream pop / shoegaze spectrum, if you are into such things. Kind of a reason I included Ahti Kulo’s Hattara remix too, because it fit so well in there. Well of course I love the band too, but usually I leave out remixes and live stuff because these playlists are already longer than anyone will listen.

Some early faves in the international single category came from Colin Miller, Craig Finn, Sharp Pins, 54 Ultra, Michael Cloud Duguay, Blue Cactus and Judy Blank. Again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. I’ll go back to bed and try to shake off this cold/flu. Love.

1. Lou Hazel – Heat Wave (Riot of the Red, Superboco)
2. Will Stewart – Regulars (Moon Winx, Earth Libraries)
3. Kristin Daelyn – An Opening (Beyond the Break, Orindal Records)
4. Echolalia – Dreams of You (Echolalia, Full Time Hobby)
5. Domestic Drafts – Geometric Proof (Only the Singer, Glamour Gowns)
6. Jacob Miller – Beautiful Thing (In a Season of Loving EP, Only One on the Mountain)
7. Yves Jarvis – With a Grain (All Cylinders, In Real Life)
8. Paradise Motel Lounge – Dividing Line (Welcome to the…, Halloween on Raspberry Hill Records)
9. JD Clayton – Madelene (Blue Sky Sundays, Rounder Records)
10. Charles Wesley Godwin – Lonely Mountain Town (Lonely Mountain Town EP, Big Loud Records)
11. Ponyhustle – Chartreuse (Ponyhustle)
12. Buffalo Kin – The Ballad of Jodi Kline (Vaquera)
13. The While – Bitter (3 Track EP)
14. Midwestern Medicine – Next Door Hell (Ripped Headline EP, Website Records)^
15. Colin Miller – Cadillac (single, Mtn Laurel Recording Co)
16. Sharp Pins – With a Girl Like Mine (single, perennial)
17. Michael Cloud Duguay – Immutable White Light (single, Watch That Ends the Night)
18. Ken Yates – Perennials (single, Tone Tree Music)
19. Craig Finn – Bethany (single, Tamarac / Thirty Tigers)
20. Jo Schornikow – Upstream (single, Keeled Scales)
21. Marc Anthony Samuel feat Triptides – Free Yourself (single, Skyforest Sound)
22. 54 Ultra – Talk 2 Me (single)
23. Spencer Kilpatrick & The Sand Gators – Doug Christie (single)
24. Slack Bird – Hallitus palamaan (single, Harava Records)
25. Tinyhawk & Bizzarro – Tokyo No Go (single, Humu Records)
26. Sonja Selene – Vaaran merkkejä (Pimeä Pää, Helmi Levyt)
27. Poni – Julle, Tupu, Hanski ja minä (single, Minna Records)
28. Ghost World – Making Coffee (single, Svart Records)
29. New Silver Girl – Hurricana (Wild Carnation)
30. The Moontwins – Big Silence (single, Playground)
31. Moonwards – Out of Place (single)
32. Cats of Transnistria – Thunder as an Arrow (single, Soliti)
33. Eidetic Dreams – The Truth About My Fall (single, All That Plazz)
34. Thelma’s Dream – Wildfire (single)
35. Hattara – Leiju (Ahti Kulo Remix) (single, Cotton Candy Company)
36. Wilma – Kalifornia (single, Augusti)
37. Janeveera – Aamuyö (single, Eclipse)
38. Uwade – (I Wonder) What We’re Made Of (single, Ehiose Records / Thirty Tigers)
39. Darci Phenix – Truth and Clear Water (single, Get Loud Recordings)
40. Jacquelyn Roy – Shoot Your Arrow (single, Ghost Carnival of Eternity)
41. Samantha Crain – Gumshoe (single, Real Kind Records)
42. Sarah Quintane feat Leyla McCalla and Louis Michot – laisse le bon temps rouler (single)
43. Via Mardot – Constructor (single)
44. Shura feat Cassandra Jenkins – Richardson (single, Play It Again Sam)
45. Icarus Phoenix – Poor Sad Indie Everything (single)
46. I Was a King – Lighthouse (single, Hype City Music)
47. Mike Frazier – World Without Empires (single, Geneva Records)
48. Ryan Allen and His Extra Arms – I Should (But I Don’t Really Wanna) (single, Setterwind Records)
49. Jeffrey Lewis – Just Fun (single, Vintage Voltage)
50. Daughter of Swords – Money Hits (single, Psychic Hotline)
51. Eli Winter – Cracking the Jaw (single, Three Lobed Recordings)
52. Chris Brain – Into the North (single, Big Sun Records)
53. Liam Cole – New Map (single, Watch That Ends the Night)
54. Blue Cactus feat Erin Rae – Resolution (single, Sleepy Cat Records)
55. Angela Autumn – Just Like My Lover (single, Tone Tree Music)
56. Carter Felker – Stranger in the Mirror (single, Department Store Records)
57. Will Payne Harrison – High as Willie (single)
58. The Lowtimers – Flesh and Bone (single, Alabama Sound Company)
59. Chris Leggett & The Copper Line – All Riled Up for Nothing (single)
60. Good Co. – Paint Fumes (single, No Less)
61. Todd Day Wait – Just Because I’ll Be Gone (single, Cloverdale Records)
62. Ramsey Thornton – Rope Dancer (single, La Honda Records)
63. Cactus Lee – Rabbit (single, Western Vinyl)
64. Reed Turchi – Get Back Train (single, Xenon)
65. JPW & Dad Weed – Far Off Road (single, Fort Lowell Records)
66. Mojohand – Long Way Home (single, Mojohand Records)
67. David Ramirez – Nobody Meant to Slow You Down (single, Blue Corn Music)
68. Junius Meyvant – Raining over Fire (single, Record Records)
69. NUTANA – Live Again (single)
70. Anna Ash – Good God (single)
71. Lily Seabird – How Far Away (single, Lame-O Records)
72. Anna St. Louis – Everything (single)
73. Melody Duncan – In Time (single)
74. Judy Blank – Fading Star (single, Rounder Records)
75. Sarah Jane Scouten – The Sweetest Homewrecker (single, Light Organ Records)
76. Juliet McConkey – Roll Me Down Gentle (Southern Front, Soggy Anvil Records)
77. Justin Wells – Queen of Queens (Cynthiana)
78. Sunny War – No One Calls Me Baby (Armageddon in a Summer Dress, New West Records)
79. Rapt – Attar of Roses (Until the Light Takes Us, Start-Track)
80. Cici Arthur – No Fight or Flight (So Much Tenderness) (Way Through, Western Vinyl)

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 #315

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Another week, another new music weekly.

A lot of great albums this week. So far I’ve spent most time with Cici Arthur and I love the album. So let’s call that the album of the week. We also have great new albums from Sunny War, Justin Wells, Juliet McConkey, Patterson Hood, Cristina Vane, The Rishis, Kendall Lujan, Jesse Welles, Human Culture, Timothy Nelson, Katy Pinke, Mirrored Daughters, Basia Bulat, Laurie Torres, The Look Aways, Bella Cloud (EP), David Ivan Neil and Rapt.

A bit more quiet on the Finnish side of things, but there’s some wonderful ones for sure. New Figaro is the lone album here, but there’s a run of awesome singles from myrtsi, Rosettes, Emmy June, Itcevät, Helmi Antila, Siina Suutarinen and Juha Mäki-Patola.

The international singles part of this full of gold. New Fust is the song of the week. Other early faves came from Will Johnson, Friendship, Lucky Cloud, Emily Hines, Eliza Niemi, Brian D’Addario, Jerry David DeCicca, Gum Parker, Silver Synthetic, Attention Bird Utopia, lulu melons and many others.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Oh and sorry for being so bad at answering the emails. It’s overwhelming, because this is just a spare time hobby and there’s hundreds of emails each week. Nevertheless, I’m still horrible at it and I have cloud of guilt hanging over me all the time because of it. But I do try to listen quite a bit, so feel free to send submissions. If you want to be on the playlist, send the submission (or a reminder) on the release week though. I have close to zero chance to remember something sent me weeks before release, because it’s like on page seven on my inbox before the song is out and available. Sure if it’s something I really loved, I will probably click the follow button on the streamers and might get a notification that way. But if it’s a new artist / project, that might not even be possible if there’s no artist profiles on the evil platforms yet. Anyway, just a helpful tip, if you want to be on this little playlist. Back next week with another one. Love.

1. Cici Arthur – Felt It an Instant (Way Through, Western Vinyl)
2. Sunny War – Rise (Armageddon in a Summer Dress, New West Records)
3. Juliet McConkey – Another Time and Place (Southern Front)
4. Justin Wells – Little Buildings (Cynthiana)
5. Patterson Hood feat Waxahatchee – The Forks of Cypress (Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams)
6. Cristina Vane – Whims of Good Men (Hear My Call, Blue Tip Records)
7. Kendall Lujan – Lucky Penny (Lucky Penny, ROLA Records)
8. Jesse Welles – Certain (Middle)
9. The Rishis – Criminal Activities (The Rishis, Cloud Recordings)
10. David Ivan Neil – Haircut (I Hope Yer OK, Perpetual Doom)
11. Timothy Nelson – Summer They Say (Debaser Tapes)
12. Human Culture – Montmartre (Human Culture, Unsound Records)
13. Katy Pinke – Strange Behavior (Strange Behavior, Glamour Gowns)
14. Bella Cloud – Two Good Actors (The Limerent EP, Sad Optimist Records)
15. Mirrored Daughters – Waiting at the Water (Mirrored Daughters, Fika Recordings)
16. Basia Bulat – Daylight (Basia’s Palace, Secret City Records)
17. Laurie Torres – Lisiere (Apres coup, Tonal Union)
18. The Look Aways – You Must Believe in Spring (Silhouette, Tableaux Records)
19. Rapt – A Theory of Resistance (Until the Light Takes, Start-Track)
20. Jerry David DeCicca feat BJ Cole – Long Distance Runner (single)
21. Will Johnson – Floodway Fall (single, Keeled Scales)
22. Friendship – Free Association (single, Merge Records)
23. Lucky Cloud – Foreground (single, Ruination Record Co)
24. Emily Hines – Cowgirl Suit (single, Keeled Scales)
25. Eliza Niemi – Melodies Like Mark (single, Tin Angel Records)
26. Brian D’Addario – Till the Morning (single, Headstack Records)
27. myrtsi – Hipit (single)
28. Emmy June – Old School (single)
29. Rosettes – Spirals (single, Timmion Records)
30. Juha Mäki-Patola – Trails (single, Moderna Records)
31. Siina Suutarinen feat Oona Mattsson – That Kind of Love (single, Flame Jazz Records)
32. Helmi Antila feat Jarmo Saari – Unissain sua kaipaan (single, Kuohu Records)
33. Figaro – Kun mä tapasin sut (Taivaankappaleet, Lördag Records)
34. Itcevät – Paras sattuma (single, Itcevät Records)
35. The Infinites – Jen’s Antiques (single)
36. Gum Parker – Hive (single, Repeating Cloud)
37. Fust – Mountain Language (single, Dear Life Records)
38. Silver Synthetic – Cool Blue Night (single, Curation Records)
39. M Ross Perkins – I Don’t Wanna Be So High (single, Karma Chief Records)
40. Ian M Bailey – Never Read The Sings (single)
41. Attention Bird Utopia – Infinity Inside a Shopping Cart (single)
42. lulu melons – Prozac (single, The Dime Store)
43. Eyed Jay – Footsteps (single)
44. Hannah Cohen – Draggin’ (single, Congrats Records)
45. Hurray for the Riff Raff – Pyramid Scheme (single, Nonesuch Records)
46. Noeline Hofmann – The Bullfighter (single, La Honda Records)
47. Charley Crockett – Game I Can’t Win (single, Island Records)
48. Pug Johnson – Hole In Me (single, Break Maiden Records)
49. Drayton Farley – Luck on the Bright Side (single, Hargrove Records)
50. Rebecca Porter – The Laundry Pile (single, Holding All the Roses)
51. Alex Amen – Got to Go (single, Country Worm Studios)
52. Leon Majcen – Highway One (single, Cloverdale Records)
53. Jacob Furr – Hard Ways (single)
54. Brown Horse – Dog Rose (single, Loose Music)
55. Janet Simpson – 214 (single, Cornelius Chapel Records)
56. Caitlin Cannon – Love Addict (single)
57. Golden Shoals – Everybody’s a Somebody (single)
58. Annie Dressner feat Kathryn Williams – For the Thrill of It (single)
59. Mess Esque – Let Me Know You (single, Drag City)
60. Lotta St. Joan and Claudio Donzelli – Eye to Eye (single, Rebel Records)
61. Cathy Hamer – The Hurt is Still There (single, The Numero Group)
62. Will Fox – Rounding Down Infinity (single, Second Wind Records)
63. The Delines – Don’t Miss Your Bus Lorraine (Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, Decor Records)
64. Jacksonport – You Are Good (Ting Ting, Ay Caramba Records)
65. Skyscraper Stan – 21st Century Lullaby (Those Were Days, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)

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 #314

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Another quick and late edition of the new music weekly. I was on winter vacation away from home for the past five days and just quickly put this together on Sunday evening. So a lot is probably missing, because I didn’t have time to search and listen. But here we go anyway.

The Delines is the album of the week. There’s also great new albums from Jacksonport, Dead Gowns, Skyscraper Stan, Horsegirl, Anna Arboles (EP), Truman Sinclair, James Felice, Frog, Outro (EP), Pacific Walker, Richard Dawson, Ron Pope, Gary Louris, Darrin Bradbury (EP), The Altons, Brennan Edwards (EP) and Denison Witmer.

The Finnish part has new albums from Honey Crisp, Tiina Vanhapelto & Rosazol and Tuomo & Markus and Verneri Pohjola plus a Kismet EP. And too many singles to type again, but you’ll find them below. The Finnish part starts with #23 Viitasen Piia and ends with #41 Vellamo. A lot of great songs there like the new one from Tanssiva Karhu.

Will Stratton’s new song Bardo or Heaven is the international song of the week. I love this sad and beautiful song. Maybe my favorite song of the year so far. Other early faves came from Weaving, Kristina Murray, Clara Mann, Joni, Moontype, Jason Isbell, Mike Frazier, Toria Wooff… 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 hopefully less rushed effort. Love.

1. The Delines – Her Ponyboy (Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, Decor Records)
2. Jacksonport – Your Own World (Ting Ting, Ay Caramba Records)
3. Skyscraper Stan – Those Were Days (Those Were Days, Cheersquad Records & Tapes)
4. Dead Gowns – See People (It’s Summer, I Love You, And I’m Surrounded By Snow, Mtn Laurel Recording Co)
5. Anna Arboles – Joni (Pure Fanfiction EP, Anxiety Blanket Records)
6. Horsegirl – Well I Know You’re Shy (Phonetics On an On, Matador Records)
7. Truman Sinclair – Gold Star (American Recordings, R&R)
8. Outro – Fool (Broken Promise EP, Repeating Cloud)
9. Frog – Where Do I Sign Var. III (1000 Variations on the Same Song, Tapewormies / Audio Antihero)
10. James Felice – Pick Up Line (The Little Ones, Million Stars)
11. Gary Louris – Listening to Bobby Charles (Dark Country, SHAM / Thirty Tigers)
12. Darrin Bradbury – Chuck (What the Heaven? What the Hell? EP, Like You Mean It Records)
13. Denison Witmer – Confessions (Anything at All, Asthmatic Kitty)
14. Richard Dawson – Bolt (End of the Middle, Domino Recording Co)
15. Pacific Walker – Some Kind of Gury (Lost in the Valley of the Sun)
16. The Altons – I Try, I Try (Heartache in Room 14, Daptone Records)
17. Brennan Edwards – Stones (Appalachia Untold Sessions EP, Cloverdale Records)
18. Ron Pope – Nobody’s Gonna Make It Out Alive (American Man, American Music, Brooklyn Basement Records)
19. Kristina Murray – Watchin’ the World Pass Me By (single, Normaltown Records)
20. Toria Wooff – That’s What Fallinf in Love Will Do (single, Sloe Flower Records)
21. Will Stratton – Bardo or Heaven (single, Ruination Record Co / Bella Union)
22. Weaving – Moon (single, Glamour Gowns)
23. Viitasen Piia – Muuttolintu (single, Utopiia)
24. Tanssiva Karhu – Hiljaisuus (single, Alakulttuuritalo)
25. Satu Lii – Pelastetaan toisemme (single, Young Diamond)
26. Kirsikkapuu – Olen rakastunut taas! (single, Minna Records)
27. Neiti Olga – Kyllä jalat kantaa (single, Humu Records)
28. Nikita Titov – Uhrilampaat (single)
29. Helmi Ada – Onnensulka (single, Stupido Records)
30. Tiina Vanhapelto & Rosazol – Pat ja Mat (Soolopolis, Mydog Records)
31. KIUSA – Baby (I’m In Love With You)
32. Kismet – Answering Machine (Fast and Sweet EP, Kammio Records / Tobold Piipari Records)
33. The Snake – To Be Alone (single, Svart Records)
34. Klara LaFleur – Flame Girl (single, Luova Records)
35. Carla Aakre – life (single, Kieku Records)
36. Honey Crisp – Darkness and Light (Yesteryears, Honey Crisp Musique)
37. Tuomo & Markus and Verneri Pohjola – Standing Rock (Music For Roads, Grandpop Records)
38. Timo Kämäräinen feat Arppa and Esa Kotilainen – Kuusamo (single, Lördag)
39. Väisänen – Rauhassa maatuen (single, Valassaaret)
40. J. Karjalainen – Sineadin laulu (single, Warner Music)
41. Vellamo – Spring Will Come (single)
42. Clara Mann – Doubled Over (single, The State 51 Conspiracy)
43. Joni – Things I Left Behind (single, Hand In Hive / Keeled Scales)
44. Moontype – Long Country (single, Orindal Records)
45. Florist – Gloom Designs (single, Double Double Whammy)
46. Cassidy Waring – Hold Me Tight (single)
47. Will Stewart – Late for the Banquet (single, Earth Libraries)
48. Jason Isbell – Foxes in the Snow (single, Southeastern Records / Thirty Tigers)
49. The Lowtimers – Thunderstorms (single, Alabama Sound Company)
50. Justin Wells – Up There With Angels (single)
51. Todd Day Wait – That’s Not My Pal (single, Cloverdale Records)
52. Matthew McNeal – Chipped Teeth (single, Matte Black Sound Company)
53. Renaldo Domino – Chemistry (single, Modern Jive Records)
54. Jason Joshua – I Really Love You (single, Sheridan Music)
55. Thee Illusions – Just Like Magic (single, Black Bird Records)
56. Yves Jarvis – Decision Tree (single, Next Door Records)
57. Ben Kweller feat Waxahatchee – Dollar Store (single, The Noise Company)
58. Mike Frazier – Ballard Avenue (single, Geneva Records)
59. John Davey – When Pennies Were Dimes (single)
60. Dewey Lester & The 6:03 – I Always Knew (single, Starboard Records)
61. Edwyn Collins – The Heart is a Foolish Little Thing (single)
62. Butler, Blake & Grant – One and One is Two (single, 355 Recordings)
63. The Minus 5 – Words & Birds (single, Yep Roc)
64. Fine China – Fraught with Danger (single, Velvet Blue Music)
65. Tom Henry – Art House (single, Royal Oakie Records)
66. Lucy Dacus – Best Guess (single, Geffen Records)
67. Skylar Gudasz – Lean Closer to Me Now (single, Perseids Records)
68. Sarah Quintana feat Emily Mikesell – Be My Love (single)
69. Leipä – Alkemisti (Auttaa jaksamaan, Tulli-levyt)
70. The Bird Calls – Butterfly Strokes Home (Melody Trail, Ruination Record Co)

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.

Continue Reading