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Joshua Idehen – This Is The Place

Apparently at Joshua Idehen’s live shows he strongly encourages you to turn to your neighbour and give them a hug / some show of love, which means I’ll probably never see him perform. This song is great though! And his entire album is pretty fun and positive – I just want to listen to it in solitude, without having to interact with other people, thanks very much. I also just found out that he was in Benin City who did some interesting stuff a while back, which has made me like him ever more.

https://joshuaidehen.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-the-place

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OHYUNG – Nevada

Bruce Springsteen had his Nebraska, a bare-bones, notably bleaker record. OHYUNG now has her IOWA; stripped-down and self-produced. Ghostly echoes, mouth sounds, simulated tape hiss, late night gloom. Though beautiful, there’s an illness-of-ease to the music, a fog of threat, numerous points of rupture in otherwise serene tracks, massive subwoofer activations that could be heaven’s kick drum or the slam of a bomb. Sampled choirs in rapture, a fine line between terror and reverence. Happy Friday!

https://ohyung.bandcamp.com/album/iowa

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Maria BC – May this rain

Written and recorded throughout the US West Coast, Maria BC’s new album Marathon is both expansive and intimate, ranging from aerial acoustic songs, to glitchy distorted tracks channeling chaos and disillusionment, all while maintaining a strong lyrical through line. “For this record I decided to spend less time on production and recording and more time on songwriting” she says. “The result, I think, is more thematically consistent, lyrically speaking, and more concise”. On first couple of listens, I agree.

https://mariabc.bandcamp.com/album/marathon

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Choker – Geppetto

Choker put out two excellent albums close to a decade ago – 2017’s Peak and 2018’s Honeybloom – and then disappeared, so it was excellent to see Heaven Ain’t Sold appear last week. Often compared to Frank Ocean (for good reason), the latest LP sees him pick back up where he left off, with deeply reflective and beautifully restrained r&b. The story of his rise and disappearance is a sad and interesting one, and his music has lost none of its promise and power in the intervening years.

https://chokerchokerchoker.bandcamp.com/album/heaven-aint-sold

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Isabel Pine – Sun Dog

Loads of interesting stuff out today including albums from Choker, Altin Gun and perennial TPW favourite 36, but I’m choosing to highlight Isabel Pine’s new album Fables as it’s been the perfect, chill start to the day I needed.

https://isabelpine.bandcamp.com/album/fables

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Placid Angles – Sainte Anne

With over 20 LPs under his belt, John Beltran returns to his much loved ambient / IDM / electronica alias Placid Angles with one of his strongest albums to date. Canada has properly blown me away and I’ve listened to it twice this morning already. Inspired by “everything from the scenery to the people … I decided to dedicate this record to them and that beautiful country”, Sainte Anne is a beautiful opening track and definitely gives you a sense of the musical world he inhabits, but I urge you in the very strongest terms to go listen in its entirety, ideally right now.

https://oathcreations.bandcamp.com/album/canada

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Mandy, Indiana – Life Hex

I really didn’t get on with Mandy, Indiana” celebrated debut i’ve seen a way, at all, despite multiple listens and various people telling me how brilliant it was. Their new album URGH, however, has definitely got me. Written during a residency outside Leeds and completed between Berlin and Manchester – with the band working through ongoing some pretty significant health issues at the time – URGH moves between industrial pressure, fractured club textures and metal (probably?), creating moments that feel both at times deeply claustrophobic, at others spacious yet still uneasy. But most prominently of all, it’s ragey – in a very satisfying way.

https://mandyindiana.bandcamp.com/album/urgh

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Gia Margaret – Everyone Around Me Dancing

Yay! Gia Margaret is back with a new album, Singing, her first since 2023’s Romantic Piano. I’ve totally loved everything she’s put out for the last decade, the ludicrously beautiful 3 movements being a personal favourite – and based on this lead single from the upcoming LP I expect that trend to continue. “I wanted to make something that sounded hopeful” she says of the recording process, “which is a little ironic because I felt essentially hopeless during the entire process.” This is the energy I need I my life.

https://giamargaret.bandcamp.com/album/singing

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Reinartz – A Point for Everything to Spread

Appendix.files rolls out its second LP with Irradiated, an eight-part excursion from Berlin-based sound artist and producer Kurt ‘Reinartz’ Salgado. If you’re a fan of Barker’s beatless techno deconstructions, you’ll likely find plenty to like here.

https://reinartz.bandcamp.com/album/appx-lp02-irradiated

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Imarhan – Tamiditin

Imarhan started out around 2008, a loose collection of friends who began to play together and whose style reflects their cultural and generational background; dry guitar riffs, pop melodies and pan-African rhythms which draw on traditional Tuareg music, African ballads and the modern pop and rock the band heard growing up.This is taken from ESSAM, their fourth album, recorded with the same core lineup, but with a significant shift in their sound and approach, moving toward something more open, modern, and exploratory.

https://imarhan.bandcamp.com/album/essam