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OCTA New Music Weekly – Episode #317

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What a giant release week. I think there’s 29 international albums/EPs on this one. Way too much to fully listen in one weekend, but here’s what I managed to put together.

Will Stratton made the album of the week. I’ve loved that album since I first heard it a month or two ago. A work of art. AOTY quality. There’s other special gems too. I mean Fust. Hell yeah. What a record. And The Burning Hell, Clara Mann, Reb Fountain, Jason Isbell. Oh dear what a week. Then there’s also Carter Felker, Darci Phenix, Ryan Necci and The Buffalo Gospel (EP), Tobacco City, Kris Delmhorst, Benmont Tench, Arny Margret, Chris Brain, Fine China, Silver Synthetic, Star 99, Consumables, Charles Moothart (EP), Donna Allen, The Tubs, The Medium (EP), LAKE, Sylvie Lewis, Justin Jeansonne, Bob Mould, Dylan Golden Aycock, Nick Garza’s Get Along (EP) and Haroula Rose & Oliver Hill.

A bit more quiet on the Finnish side of things, but we do have EPs from Kissa and Hanhani and an album from Hanna-Maria Lifländer. Plus singles gold from Tender Lakes, Kaikki turhat haaveet, 1980 AD and JUNTTU.

New Kassi Valazza is the international single of the week. Can’t wait to hear the new album. Other early faves came from Dean Johnson, Steady Holiday, Patton Magee, Hectorine, Chad Price Peace Coalition, Jay Gonzalez, Jerry David DeCicca, Coltt Winter Lepley.. again just to name a few.

That’s all for now. Like, share, follow and all the usual promotional nonsense. It all matters. Sorry for everything I forgot to include. This week was too much for one man to handle. Good luck to everyone who tries to listen this whole thing. Love.

1. Will Stratton – Delta Breeze (Points of Origin, Bella Union / Ruination Record Co)
2. Fust – Gateleg (Big Ugly, Dear Life Records)
3. The Burning Hell – Summer Olympics (Ghost Palace, BB*Island / You’ve Changed Records)
4. Clara Mann – Rift (Rift, The State51 Conspiracy)
5. Reb Fountain – How Love Bends (How Love Bends, Fountain Records)
6. Darci Phenix – In Plain Sight (Sable, Get Loud Recordings)
7. Jason Isbell – True Believer (Foxes in the Snow, Southeastern Records / Thirty Tigers)
8. Carter Felker – Piece of Time (Loser, Department Store Records)
9. Ryan Necci and The Buffalo Gospel – Pretty Good Way To Go (The Letting GO: Part 1 EP)
10. Tobacco City – Fruit From the Vine (Horses, Scissor Tail Records)
11. Kris Delmhorst feat Jabe Beyer – Ghosts in the Garden (Ghosts in the Garden)
12. Arny Margret – Greyhound Station (I Miss You, I Do, One Little Independent)
13. Chris Brain – New Dying Day (New Light, Big Sun Records)
14. Benmont Tench – Under the Starlight (The Melancholy Season, Dark Horse Records)
15. Silver Synthetic – Yr Gonna Be Happy (Rosalie, Curation Records)
16. Charles Moothart – The Path (I’d Like to Follow) (Chaotic Shimmer EP, In the Red Records)
17. The Tubs – Strange (Cotton Crown, Trouble in Mind Records)
18. The Medium – Me and My Glove (Sports! EP, Earth Libraries)
19. Star 99 – Simulator (Gaman, Lauren Records)
20. Fine China – Like it Or Not (I Felt Called, Velvet Blue Music)
21. Consumables– Ten Toes Down (Infinite Games, Fierce Panda Records)
22. Bob Mould – When Your Heart is Broken (Here We Go Crazy, Granary Music / BMG)
23. Donna Allen – Naked, Biological, Free (Atom-ic Citizen of the Dying Empire, Ever/Never)
24. LAKE feat Nicholas Krgovich – Glad Rags (Bucolic Gone, Don Giovanni Records)
25. Dylan Golden Aycock – No New Summers (No New Summers, Feeding Tube Records / Worried Songs)
26. Haroula Rose & Oliver Hill – Humanist (Cycles, Ba Da Bing!)
27. Sylvie Lewis – Ordinary (Lives Wisely, Clover Music Group)
28. Nick Garza’s Get Along – Silver to Hold (Silver to Hold EP)
29. Justin Jeansonne – Little Jake (Little Jake, Warpaint Records)
30. Patton Magee – Be On Time (single)
31. Dean Johnson – Blue Moon (single, Saddle Creek)
32. Kassi Valazza – Your Heart’s a Tin Box (single, Loose Music / Fluff & Gravy Records)
33. Dean Wareham – Yesterday’s Hero (single, Carpark Records)
34. Steady Holiday – Seasonal Optimism (single)
35. Case Oats – Seventeen (single, Merge Records)
36. Hanna-Maria Lifländer – The Bucket Song (Supernumeraries)
37. Hanhani – Oma huone (Oma Huone EP, HanHan Music)
38. Kissa – Katoava kesä (POP // ROCK EP, Svart Records)
39. Kaikki turhat haaveet – Leskenlehdet (single, Minna Records)
40. 1980 AD – Rotta (single, Alakulttuuritalo)
41. Tender Lakes – Unforced Terror (single, Tinder Mistakes Music)
42. JUNTTU – Yellowhouse (single)
43. Robert Forster – Strawberries (single, Tapete Records)
44. Jerry David DeCicca feat BJ Cole – Knives (single)
45. Damien Jurado – The Last Great Washington State (single, Maraqopa Records)
46. Kyle Cox – I’m Doin’ Fine (single)
47. Mae Powell – Rope You In (single, Karma Chief Records)
48. Hectorine – Is Love an Illusion? (single, Take a Turn Records)
49. Jay Gonzalez – Invitation (single, Chunklet Industries)
50. Sloan Brothers – Off the Record (single, Chunklet Industries)
51. The High Water Marks – Postcard (single, Meritorio Records)
52. Smug Brothers – Take It Out On Me (single, Anyway Records)
53. Chad Price Peace Coalition – A.M. (single, Sofaburn Records / Double Helix Records)
54. Rodeo Boys – All American Man (single, Don Giovanni Records)
55. Graham Hunt – I Just Need Enough (single, Run for Cover Records)
56. Alien Boy – Changes (single, Get Better Records)
57. King Husky – Wish I Had a Dog (single, Hype City Music)
58. Jeremy Bradley Earl – Let the Snow Fall (single, Woodsist)
59. The Reds, Pinks and Purples – The World Doesn’t Need Another Band (single, Fire Records)
60. Lucky Cloud – Invitation (single, Ruination Record Co)
61. Butler, Blake & Grant – The 90’s (single, 355 Recordings)
62. Matthew McNeal – Sad Songs (single, Matte Black Sound Company)
63. Coltt Winter Lepley – The Bandito (single, Keystone Artist Connect)
64. Charley Crockett – Jamestown Ferry (single, Island Records)
65. Travis Feutz – Outlaws & Armadillos (single)
66. The Pendulum Hearts – A Song for Phaedrus (single)
67. Toria Wooff – See Things Through (single, Sloe Flower Records)
68. Ken Pomeroy – Days Getting Darker (single, Rounder Records)
69. Valerie June – Sweet Things Just For You (single, Concord Records)
70. I’m With Her – Ancient Light (single, Rounder Records)
71. Caroline Spence – The Sound of You (single, Tone Tree Music)
72. Paige Hargrove – Big Sky (single)
73. Pitney Meyer – Blue Water (single, Curb Records)
74. Cameron Knowler – Secret Water (single)
75. Trevor Beld Jimenez – Storms (single, Gertrude Street Records)
76. The Hard Quartet – Lies (Something You Can Do) (single, Matador Records)
77. Destroyer – Cataract Time (single, Merge Records)
78. Will Fox – I Still Believe In You (single, Second Wind Records)
79. I Am Oak – No Known Known (single, Snowstar Records)
80. Laura Fell – Outlines (single)
81. Peter Donovan – Last Dance (single)
82. Anthony Ruptak – Ptarmigan (single)
83. Dillon Warnek – Other People’s Money (single, Soggy Anvil Records)
84. The Bones of J.R. Jones – Savages (single, Tone Tree Music)
85. Lou Hazel – Long Sleeve Summer (Riot of the Red, Superboco)

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.

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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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