Jam City – My World feat. Aidan, Bawo & Ox Eye
I first heard this only a couple of days ago, and it has already brought a ludicrous amount of joy into my life. As my brother said when I sent it to him: “It’s the DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ x Blood Orange x Two Bears mashup I didn’t know I needed, but absolutely do”.…
Fog Lake – Bogus
Newfoundland-raised, Montreal-based Aaron Powell returns as Fog Lake with Bogus, the lead single from his forthcoming seventh album Hollowbody. The new LP continues a project that’s spent well over a decade finding interesting ways to make beautifully worn-out indie rock, with Bogus landing pleasantly between the stoned, shambling warmth of Kurt Vile and the more…
Maxime Denuc – Atlantis
To continue along the distinctly trance-themed path of recent selections, next up we have Maxime Denuc and his excellent new LP Club Imperiale. Named after a now-shuttered nightspot that overlooked the beach on Italy’s picturesque Tuscan coast, the album is framed as a work of speculative historical fiction, imagining a point of creative symbiosis between…
Donato Dozzy – Ryoma (Lò Song)
Even arguably the most credible techno producer ever, King Doz, is now making trance. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Bullion – Roo
Nearly arrives two years after Nathan Jenkins’ previous album as Bullion, Affection, and is full of the kind of yearning bedroom pop I really enjoy, landing halfway between Bayonne and John Moods. And if you don’t know either of those references, shame on you. Go and read every page of this blog, immediately. https://bullion.bandcamp.com/album/nearly
Space Afrika – Regards
Space Afrika, the Manchester/Berlin-based duo of Joshua Tarelle Reid and Joshua Inyang, make raw, intensely detailed, visceral music with shades of ambient, trip-hop, techno, and modern classical, drawing spacious urban dubscapes from the contours of their city. Their new album Quiet Storm is the duo’s highly anticipated follow-up to their 2021 LP on Dais Records,…
