Frak: Muzika Electronic

Longtime artist for the Swedish label Börft makes his debut on Digitalis. Modular synths, techno and dance influences abound. At times both minimal and noisy. Walks a nice line between accessible and experimental music. A bit too overtly dancey for me in some moments but not enough to turn me away.

Too-often overlooked as one of the best hip-hop albums of the 1990s.

Radiohead - The King of Limbs
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp

Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley

Excellent 1961 release with a great blend of instrumental and vocal cuts. How good is this album? In the June, 2004 issue of Down Beat, Frank-John Hadley interviewed 73 of the best jazz singers in the world, with the idea of compiling the 30 "best" vocal jazz albums of all time. The consensus had this as #1. I'm not well-versed enough in jazz history to make such a definitive statement myself, but this is certainly a great record and I highly recommend it.

Mind Spiders: Meltdown

Follow-up to last year's lo-fi self-titled album steps up the production a bit as the guy from the Marked Men gets together a full band that features dual drummers and a host of Texans instead of just playing everything himself. A short and sweet selection of hooky garage rock tunes with a hint of synths in the background that you'll totally dig if you liked the last one. Also recommended if you just liked Marked Men in general and stuff like Bad Sports. On Dirtnap and it has that grimy Dirtnap sound.

Pond - "shares members with Tame Impala" was enough to get me to check it out

you can stream it HERE

Panabrite: Sub-Aquatic Meditation

Panabrite is Norm Chambers and damn is he prolific. I can get skeptical about some of these synth artists with so many releases and little quality control but the Panabrite stuff I have come across has been uniformly excellent. This one and Soft Terminal have both been released in the last couple weeks on different labels and they are both quality stuff, alike enough to have a similar vibe but different enough to make it worth multiple releases. This one, as expected from the title, has a bit of that underwater vibe. Reminiscent of last year's Science of the Sea by Jürgen Müller which I liked a lot. This will get a lot of plays.

np: go betweens shuffle

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Ceremony - Rohnert Park
Trash Talk - Awake
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West