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)
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.
