Another week, another weekly playlist.

This little playlist thing is getting out of hand and this contains 50 songs this week. Fully aware that nobody is going to listen the whole thing, but it proved to be too difficult to make it any shorter. Sorry about that, but I suppose it shouldn’t really matter. Listen as much as you desire and then move on to other things.

This week the albums by Weyes Blood, Charlotte Cornfield and Roseanne Reid were on the top of my list. All three are so great. Sure the Weyes Blood album does challenge my taste from time to time, but such a magical album is able to drag me away from my comfort zone. It’s good to expand one’s listening habits every now and then. Friday also brought new albums from Viking Moses, Rod Melancon, Jimbo Mathus, Lee Fields & Expressions, Martha, Sarchasm, Flying Fish Cove, Adam Ostrar, Simon Linsteadt, Molly Tuttle, Bohannons, The Prescriptions, Ages and Ages, The Proper Ornaments, Shana Cleveland, Swimming Bell, Lady Lamb and Kora Feder. Oh my, ain’t that enough. And then some say that there’s no new interesting music. I even had to leave a few objectively great ones that aren’t the closest thing to my own personal taste (like PUP and I Love Your Lifestyle for example). On the EP front, there’s the new one from Partner and a couple of weeks old Lily McKown EP.

The Finnish section is pretty small this time. There’s only a new single by Maanvaiva and a song from the new Pelko album. I’m sure there had to be more, but I just didn’t get the memo.

Favourite song/single of the week is the second outtake Pink Symphony from the forthcoming Bart album. Caroline Spence, Ian Noe, TK & The Holy Know-Nothings and Mammoth Penguins also released new singles from their forthcoming albums. I have super high expectations for all of those albums, because I’ve loved everything I’ve heard so far. Some of the week’s biggest music news for me were also that Darrin Bradbury signed with Anti- and released a new single and that Jake Xerxes Fussell has a new album coming out in June. All the other singles would be worthy of a namedrop just as well, because they are all on this playlist because I like them all.

Also revisiting some of my favorite albums from last week as usual, but enough with this pointless rambling. Here’s the playlist of the week.

OCTA Weekly Playlist Episode #36

1. Bart – Pink Symphony (single, Idee Fixe Records, 2019)
2. Weyes Blood – Picture Me Better (Titanic Rising, Sub Pop Records, 2019)
3. Charlotte Cornfield – Balladeer (The Shape Of Your Name, Next Door Records, 2019)
4. Roseanne Reid – Levi (Trails, Last Man Music, 2019)
5. Caroline Spence – Wait On the Wine (single, Rounder Records, 2019)
6. Ian Noe – Between The Country (single, National Treasury Recordings, 2019)
7. Viking Moses – Let This Trouble Pass (Cruel Child, Epifo Music, 2019)
8. Darrin Bradbury – Newark (single, Anti-, 2019)
9. Rod Melancon – Heartbreakers (Pinkville, Blue Elan Records, 2019)
10. Jimbo Mathus – You Are Like A Song (Incinerator, Big Legal Mess Records, 2019)
11. Lee Fields & The Expressions – Blessed With the Best (It Rains Love, Big Crown Records, 2019)
12. Jake Xerxes Fussell – The River St. Johns (single, Paradise of Bachelors, 2019)
13. TK & The Holy Know-Nothings – Tunnel of a Dream (single, Mama Bird Recording Co, 2019)
14. Mammoth Penguins – You Just Carry On (single, Fika Recordings, 2019)
15. Martha – Sight For Sore Eyes (Love Keeps Kicking, Big Scary Monsters, 2019)
16. Partner – Long and McQuade (Saturday The 14th EP, You’ve Changed Records, 2019)
17. Sarchasm – Mountain Time (Beach Blanket: Bummer Pop!, 2019)
18. Kitty Kat Fan Club – Dreamy Little You (single, Asian Man Records, 2019)
19. Flying Fish Cove – Sleight of a Hand (At Moonset, Help Yourself Records, 2019)
20. Adam Ostrar – Bloody Waves (The Worried Coat, Super Secret Records, 2019)
21. Simon Linsteadt – Morning in December (The Fool, 2019)
22. Courtney Hartman – January First (single, Reckoner Records, 2019)
23. Molly Tuttle – Take The Journey (When You’re Ready, Compass Records, 2019)
24. Lost Dog Street Band – Without a Doubt (Weight of a Trigger, 2019)
25. Frankie Lee – Downtown Lights (single, Loose Music, 2019)
26. A.O. Gerber – Stranger (single, 2019)
27. Saintseneca – Wait a Minute (single, Anti-, 2019)
28. LeAnna Eden – Trade Ya In (single, 2019)
29. Bohannons – Refills (Bloodroot, Cornelius Chapel Records, 2019)
30. The Prescriptions – Night Before I Lost My Mind (Hollywood Gold, Single Lock Records, 2019)
31. Ages and Ages – Needle and Thread (Me You They We, Needle and Thread Records, 2019)
32. The Proper Ornaments – Where Are You Now (Six Lenins, Tapete Records, 2019)
33. Shana Cleveland – Face of the Sun (Night of the Worm Moon, Hardly Art, 2019)
34. Karine Polwart – The Whole of the Moon (single, Hegri, 2019)
35. Swimming Bell – Cold Clear Moon (Wild Sight, Adventure Club Records, 2019)
36. Steven Lambke – Dark Blue (Dark Blue, You’ve Changed Records, 2019)
37. Pelko – Sukupuuttoaalto (Sukupuuttoaalto, 2019)
38. Maanvaiva – Rakkauslaulu (single, 57 Records, 2019)
39. Lady Lamb – Deep Love (Even in the Tremor, Ba Da Bing!, 2019)
40. Big Thief – Cattails (single, 4AD, 2019)
41. Field Medic – The Bottle’s My Lover, She’s Just My Friend (single, Run For Cover Records, 2019)
42. Blue Wilson – Above Us (single, 2019)
43. Kora Feder – Dance With Me (In Sevens, 2019)
44. Abby Crerie – When (single, 2019)
45. Vera Sola – Crooked Houses (single, Spectraphonic Records, 2019)
46. Lily McKown – Sea of Junk (Sea of Junk EP, 2019)
47. Johanna Samuels – Dylan’s Third Verse (single, Basin Rock, 2019)
48. Nathan Seeckts – Old Blood (The Heart of the City, 2019)
49. Son Volt – The Symbol (Union, Transmit Sound, 2019)
50. M. Lockwood Porter – Nowhere Left To Run (Communion in the Ashes, Black Mesa Records, 2019)

Playlist link

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

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 a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.

Another week, another weekly playlist.

Last week this little playlist reached 100 followers, which is nice and gives a bit of motivation to continue this journey. Not that I have any desire to stop, because even though this takes hours to do every week, I’ve learned a lot by doing it and trying to find all interesting new releases has really expanded my listening habits. Sure I still miss a ton of new stuff, but at least a bit less than before.

There were lots of interesting new albums and I’ve only skimmed through some of these at this point. My most anticipated for this week were the new albums from long time favourites M. Lockwood Porter and Steven Lambke. That’s just a tip of the mountain though and there were also new albums from Jo Schornikow, Lost Dog Street Band, Nathan Seeckts, Son Volt, Ohtis, German Error Message, Laura Stevenson, Chris Cohen, Thayer Sarrano, Marry Waterson & Emily Barker, Weston Harris Hill, Paul Otteson (bonus points to Paul for writing a dinosaur themed album for ukulele and somehow making it work), Nightmarathons, Mekons, Eric Bolander and Tim Bluhm. Damn it took a while to even write that list, let alone listen to all of them. Dark Tea’s album came out a week ago, but I missed it then. It’s gorgeous, so I added a song this week.

A few great EPs too. Courtney Marie Andrews released an EP of acoustic versions of some of the highlights of her masterful 2018 albums, Emily Brown released some b-sides from her 2018 album sessions and then there were also the Garden Sessions from Kasey Anderson. NY-based band The Weird Years and artist Bill Waters and Danish songwriter Jacob Faurholt are less familiar to me, but I really like these new EPs.

The Finnish section in the middle revisits the wonderful Sur-rur album and features the new albums by Pekko Käppi & K:H:L:L and J.A.Mäki. Two new singles from long time favorites V.Härkönen and H.C.Slim. The last one might not bring a bell, but if you listen you’ll find a familiar voice just singing in English this time around.

There was a bit less space for singles, because there were so many albums and EPs. But there’s a few important ones like the new songs from Micah Schnabel, Craig Finn, Bedouine, Run Coyote, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Justin Townes Earle, Partner and Koda Feder. Oh and Christopher Gold & The New Old Things deserve some sort of culture award for releasing a great song every two weeks. A crazy project and it’s even crazier that they can keep the quality so high all the time.

Ian Daniel Kehoe reappears, because the album is so good. That’s all for now. Take care, remember love.

1. Micah Schnabel (feat. Thanks Buddy) – New Shoes (single, 2019)
2. M. Lockwood Porter – Communion in the Ashes (Communion in the Ashes, Black Mesa Records, 2019)
3. Steven Lambke – Both of Me (Dark Blue, You’ve Changed Records, 2019)
4. Jo Schornikow – Martingale (Secret Weapon, Keeled Scales, 2019)
5. Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain (Acoustic EP, Loose Music, 2019)
6. Emily Brown – Someone Will Be Kind (Bee Sides EP, Song Club Records, 2019)
7. Ohtis – Runnin (Curve Of Earth, Full Time Hobby, 2019)
8. Lost Dog Street Band – Bring Back Someday (Weight of A Trigger, 2019)
9. Nathan Seeckts – Sirens (The Heart of the City, 2019)
10. Son Volt – Reality Winner (Union, Transmit Sound, 2019)
11. Dark Tea – Variable Reward (Dark Tea, Fire Talk, 2019)
12. German Error Message – Hopelessness (Mend, 2019)
13. Craig Finn – Something to Hope For (single, Partisan Records, 2019)
14. Laura Stevenson – Hum (The Big Freeze, Don Giovanni Records, 2019)
15. Bedouine – Bird (single, Spacebomb Records, 2019)
16. Chris Cohen – What Can I Do (Chris Cohen, Captured Tracks, 2019)
17. The Weird Years – Ticking Time (The Weird Years EP, 2019)
18. Thayer Sarrano – Red Sun (Wings Alleluia, 2019)
19. Lee Fields & The Expressions – You’re What’s Needed in My Life (single, Big Crown Records, 2019)
20. Run Coyote – The Chase (single, So Sorry Records, 2019)
21. H.C. Slim – The City is Burning (single, Svart Records, 2019)
22. Pekko Käppi & K:H:L:L – Suruvaippa (Väärä laulu, Svart Records, 2019)
23. Sur-rur – Katsaus liftaamisen nykytilaan (Hattarahiukset, 2019)
24. J.A. Mäki – Outo päivä (Aavaa, If Society, 2019)
25. V. Härkönen – Sata kertaa liian naiivi (single, Soit se silti, 2019)
26. Paul Otteson – Penelope Parasaurolophus (Dinocore, 2019)
27. Marry Waterson & Emily Barker – I’m Drawn (A Window to Other Ways, One Little Indian, 2019)
28. Kasey Anderson – Lithium Blues (Garden Sessions EP, 2019)
29. Justin Townes Earle – Frightened By The Sound (single, New West Records, 2019)
30. Weston Harris Hill – Time and Place (When You Least Expect It, 2019)
31. Christopher Gold & The New Old Things – Colorado Quarter (single, 2019)
32. Nightmarathons – Waiting Room (Missing Parts, A-F Records, 2019)
33. Mekons – How Many Stars? (Deserted, Bloodshot Records, 2019)
34. Eric Bolander – The Wind (The Wind, 2019)
35. Partner – Les ailes d’un ange (single, you’ve Changed Records, 2019)
36. Ian Daniel Kehoe – Doing Fine (Without Your Trust) (Secret Republic, You’ve Changed / Tin Angel Records, 2019)
37. Bill Waters – Pure (Honey Hi EP, Forged Artifacts, 2019)
38. Jacob Faurholt – Halloween Pumpkin (Sad People EP, Raw Onion Records, 2019)
39. Tim Bluhm – Where I Parked My Mind (Sorta Surviving, Blue Rose Music, 2019)
40. Kora Feder – He Wants to Live Forever (single, 2019)

Playlist link

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

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 a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.

Another week, another weekly playlist.

Your sorry excuse of a music blogger is again here with a new playlist and it’s time for the episode #34. After one slow week, the release schedule got back on track and it was tough to find room for everything on this little playlist and so left out a couple of high profile singles. Also my favorite songs of the week, the new songs by Micah Schnabel and Matthew Milia are not available on this Spotify thing (at least not yet).

Let’s start again with the new international albums. Ian Daniel Kehoe released the first one under his own name (he released several great albums under the name Marine Dreams). This new album is very 80s and very brilliant. K.Skelton is someone that I didn’t know about before seeing his name on China’s feed some days ago. I followed him then out of interest and when the album become available on Friday, I found out that it’s really good. The new find of the week for me. Long time favorites Strand of Oaks, Andrew Bird, Jenny Lewis, Weeping Willows and Lambchop also released great albums (ok, Lambchop’s album is not exactly my cup tea, but that doesn’t make it bad. Lambchop gets to decide what they sound like, not some narrow-minded twat who writes a blog in his bedroom). There’s also songs from the most likely excellent new albums by Orville Peck, Lucy Rose, Matt Andersen, Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert and Paulusma (new solo from frontman of the legendary Dutch group Daryll-Ann). I used the phrase most likely, because I’ve only skimmed through these very briefly at this point. B.B. Palmer’s gorgeous country album came out on in February, but your ignorant blogger missed it back then. It’s pretty damn good, so I featured it this time around. The new EPs on the playlist are from Sun June and Sofia Wolfson.

That Terry Allen & the Panhandle Mystery Band set that just came out on Paradise of Bachelors is also super interesting, but I’m not sure does that narrative stuff really fit that well to a playlist so I left it out from this.

The Finnish section is pretty strong this time. We have a new Sur-rur album, which is a parade-worthy event even on its own. Plus then there’s a new song from Veli (Tolbiac, Red Carpet etc). How sweet is that. Oh and there’s more. There’s a new single from Hulda Huima! A new double-single from Hot Heros & Janne Laurila. Eikä siinäkään vielä kaikki. New singles from Tams, Matti Sakari and Samae Koskinen.

And last but not least the new international singles. Every song would be worth a namedrop, because I like all of them. Some major ones for me were the new singles by Taylor Knox, Damien Jurado, Bob Hund, TK & The Holy Know Nothings (new Mama Bird family band from Taylor Kingman), Reb Fountain, Swimming Bell and Charlotte Cornfield. But that’s all for now. Remember love.

OCTA Weekly Playlist Episode #34

1. Ian Daniel Kehoe – Evil People (Secret Republic, Tin Angel Records / You’ve Changed Records, 2019)
2. Strand of Oaks – Final Fires (Eraserland, Dead Oceans, 2019)
3. K. Skelton – How Do I Keep From Missing You (Night Consumes The Day, 2019)
4. Sur-rur – Fleetwood Macin Välikausi (Hattarahiukset, Roku Records / Joteskii Groteskii, 2019)
5. Hulda Huima & Hitaat sekunnit – Outo Tyttö (single, Helmi Levyt, 2019)
6. Taylor Knox – City at Night (single, Cadence Music, 2019)
7. Martha – The Void (single, Big Scary Monsters, 2019)
8. Jenny Lewis – Hollywood Lawn (On The Line, Warner Bros, 2019)
9. Veli – The Director (single, Evil Veli Recordings, 2019)
10. Bob Hund – Vi är såå lyckliga som bara olyckliga människör kan bli (single, Adrian Recordings, 2019)
11. Andrew Bird – Olympians (My Finest Work Yet, Wegawam Music, 2019)
12. Damien Jurado – Throw Me Now Your Arms (single, Mama Bird Recording Co / Loose Music, 2019)
13. TK & The Holy Know-Nothings – Emmanuel (single, Mama Bird Recording Co, 2019)
14. B.B.Palmer – Lee County Blues (Lee County’s Finest, 2019)
15. Elijah Ocean – Bring Back That Bakersfield Sound (single, 2019)
16. Will Beeley – U.S. 85 (single, Tompkins Square, 2019)
17. John Paul White – The Good Old Days (single, Single Lock Records, 2019)
18. Mariee Sioux – Snow Knows White (single, Night Bloom Records, 2019)
19. Charlotte Cornfield – Silver Civic (single, Next Door Records, 2019)
20. Sofia Wolfson – Self-Fulfilled Prophecy (Adulting EP, 2019)
21. Sun June – NYC (Younger EP, Keeled Scales, 2019)
22. Weeping Willows – Let Go (After US, Razzia Records, 2019)
23. Tams – En halua nähdä sun lähtevän (single, 2019)
24. Hot Heros & Janne Laurila – Anna vähän siimaa (single, Soit Se Silti, 2019)
25. Samae Koskinen – Mummu (single, Johanna kustannus, 2019)
26. Matti Sakari – Parkkihalli (single, 2019)
27. Reb Fountain – Faster (single, Fountain Records, 2019)
28. Calexico and Iron & Wine – Father Mountain (single, Sub Pop Records, 2019)
29. T.Hardy Morris – Scare Easy (single, Normaltown Records, 2019)
30. Conor Donohue – Getting Better (single, 2019)
31. Orville Peck – Winds Change (Pony, Sub Pop Records, 2019)
32. Swimming Bell – For Brinsley (single, Adventure Club Records, 2019)
33. Lucy Rose – Treat Me Like A Woman (No Words Left, Communion, 2019)
34. Gold Light + Snakemusk – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (single, 2019)
35. Paulusma – No Harm Done (Somehow Anyhow, Excelsior Recordings, 2019)
36. Benedict Benjamin – The Way You Talk To Strangers (single, 2019)
37. Edward + Jane – Blue Ridge Goodbyes (single, 2019)
38. Lambchop – Flower (This (Is What I Wanted To Tell You, City Slang, 2019)
39. Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert – What Would You Do (When The Sun Goes Down, 2019)
40. Matt Andersen feat. Amy Helm – Something To Lose (Halfway Home By Morning, True North Records, 2019)

Playlist link

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

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 a) if someone wants to follow it, they can just follow that one list and will get a new set of songs each Sunday b) so that I don’t have a trillion of different playlists on my Spotify account.