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Salami Rose Joe Louis – Upstairs

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Lindsay Olsen aka Salami Rose Joe Louis released her new album Lorings on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label last week and it’s excellent. Produced almost entirely on her Roland MV8800 workstation, for a couple of songs, SRJL invited a handful of talented friends to collaborate: guitarist/producer Flanafi (with whom Olsen partnered for the collaborative album ‘Sarah’ in 2024); Omari Jazz (Black Decelerant); Luke Titus and Sergio Machado Plim. The result is satisfyingly dreamy bedroom pop and occasionally glitchy electronica that drifts and tugs in perfect harmony.

https://salamirosejoelouismusic.bandcamp.com/album/lorings

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Lotame – keep the joy inside

Taken from the debut EP from Lotame. Three understated cuts drift through breaks, acid and slow techno — worn, emotional, quietly unresolved. Somewhere between DJ Healer and Tren: soft-edged, half-lit, and heavy with feeling.

https://lotame.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-joy-inside

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Camille Schmidt – Photon Electron Proton

Brooklyn-based Camille Schmidt’s debut album Nude #9 came out last week, and it’s a real mix of genres that I still haven’t quite formed a concrete opinion about. For lots of its runtime it’s fairly traditional singer-songwriter, indie-folk, but then on tracks like Proton Electron Photon it swerves fairly hard into weirdly disquieting electronica. So a mixed bag, but definitely an interesting one.

https://camilleschmidt.com/

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Rozi Plain – Complicated

Rozi Plain’s album Prize came out in January and completely passed me by, despite it being reviewed it various publications I read. She was recently announced for Glastonbury and I’m currently attempting to listen to every act listed: this stopped me in my maniacal tracks. If you like gentle melodies and minimalist, electronic folk that sits somewhere between This Is The Kit and Zero 7, you might well be into this.

https://roziplain.bandcamp.com/album/prize

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Khotin – Lovely

This is exactly the vibe I need for today. Unhurried, gentle melodies bubbling over warm pads alongside soft 8-bit bleeps and the occasional purred ‘yeah’. Like Boards of Canada without even a shred of existential angst. Taken from Khotin’s new album Release Spirit which landed last week on Ghostly.

https://heart.bandcamp.com/album/release-spirit

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Lowly – Happen

A lot of good music has been released today, but nothing excites me more than Keep Up The Good Work, the new album from Danish group Lowly. I love their previous two LPs, and on first listen it sounds like this new one is keeping the bar just as high. Happen is vintage Lowly, with warm, haunting melodies and Soffie Viemose’s distinct vocal becoming ever more anguished as it progresses.

https://bellaunion.ochre.store/release/338316-lowly-keep-up-the-good-work

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Xena Glas – To the A

Brooklyn-based visual artist, poet and musician Xena Glas released her new Movement EP last week, including To the A: a restrained and beautiful slice of electronica heavy on choral vocals and atmosphere. Xena employs content from a single field recording of her walking from her Crown Heights apartment to the A train, and then off the train to the Hudson River in Manhattan, which adds a flavour of the mundane in this otherwise ethereal track.

https://xenaglas.bandcamp.com/album/movement-ep

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Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn – Crimson

Earlier this month Dawn Richards teamed up with multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn on Pigments: an extraordinarily good album that explores themes including “the power of self-expression through living art, through motion”. A hypnotic mix of classical, jazz, soul and electronica, it flits between being deeply meditative and intensely rousing, often within a single song, before segueing seamlessly into the next . A truly impressive body of work.

https://lnk.to/Pigments

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Jenny Hval – Year of Sky

Taken from her new album Classic Objects, Year of Sky is as evocative and transportive as anything Jenny Hval has created, soundtracking a rite of passage into a world only she can perceive but that she’s desperate to share with us.

https://jennyhval.com

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George T and Johnny Aux – Amsterdam

Shout out to Joe Muggs’ always enlightening Bandcamp Daily column for the recommendation on this one. Johnny Aux – aka Quinn Whalley, one half of always interesting acid house group Paranoid London – teams up with George T for a three-track EP that includes this dubby slice of post-punk-techno-industrial-electronica-etc, featuring a dour vocal and even dourer muddy bass thumps. Uplifting it ain’t, mesmeric it most certainly is.

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/making-excuses-for-you-ep