rfi: new albums i might like? 2023? any genre. i am craving some newness. thank you in advance.

i search and i check out links and youtubes on here. i DO the work. i promise.

but i was thinking people here might have heard something new that they love a lot.

the only thing recently - yesterday - that i've heard and liked is the new pj harvey. i love it. so sad and autumnal like me.

but you know me. unless you don't. i like everything. sorta.

feeling like a fuddy duddy. how many ancient 400 song tech-house playlists and forgotten 80s aor records can a guy listen to? i'll tell you. A LOT.

also i hooked up some decent little speakers in my back work room at the shop and i have a new desktop for work. #taxdeductible

sounds pretty good.

didn't feel like waiting for one of your epic year-end polls to check stuff out. its only roctober!

The new Baroness album Stone is great.

Hi Scott, here are some of my favorite pretty jazz and weirdo dance music releases this year, copied from the 2023 AOTY thread just for you -

The Necks - Travel
Holly Waxwing - The New Pastoral
Coen - Slop, Drop & Roll (Maloca)
Kendrick Scott - Corridors (Blue Note)
Daniel Ake - Green Thumb
Lukas Traxel - One-Eyed Daruma
Metrist - Pollen pt. III (Timedance)
Mark Giuliana - Mischief
Kurt Rosenwinkel - Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard
Alabaster DePlume - Come With Fierce Grace
Autechre - Sydney 8/27/2023 bootleg
DJ Znobia - Inventor vol. 1 (Nyege Nyege)
John Zorn (Brian Barsella / Ches Smith / Jorge Roeder / Julian Lage) - Full Fathom Five
Daniel Villarreal - Lados B (International Anthem)
Barker - Unfixed EP
Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band - Kings Highway
aya and BFTT - Up and At Them! EP
Rezzett - Meant Like This (The Trilogy Tapes)

new october tide???? it's raining and it's the only album i wanna listen to today

Also here is the consensus favorite off the autumn-friendly duo record we released a few weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXw-oa9nN4s

I am biased but the new Sampha is out today and it is brilliant brilliant, scott I think you’d love it

ooh cool so much stuff already. TY! oh wow new october tide. that's just fred from katatonia now, right? i hven't heard the newer ones. i still play the old CDs!

I just realized I should have responded with the two new albums on my label! I am bad at marketing. Here they are, one track from each anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwFeIJtPK04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1DC0Ih1YPE

Also feel like you might like this new hyperspeed drone record out today on Nyege Nyege

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1hhtv7_zY

loving this Anuar 5 album Jordan

those covers look awesome, unphil. and congrats on the new releases. i will definitely check them out.

i think i see a very cool 2023 playlist in my future.

i will listen at home later. i gotta go take my dad home and go shopping.

jordan, you have given me a lot to chew on!

I do like the idea of an electronic musician in search of his celtic heritage becoming possessed by singeli

thanks ums <3 <3 <3

(that's just the song title btw)

i don't listen to a lot of new stuff these days but my aoty is this year's fire-toolz record

https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-upset-because-i-see-something-that-is-not-there

(that's just the song title btw)

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, October 20, 2023 1:54 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ahhh sorry thought you were going for a pizzicato/minus five thing haha

Vaporwave’s not dead ! Some recent favorites:

https://jpro.bandcamp.com/album/--22

https://yokohama.bandcamp.com/album/--18

https://countingsheep00.bandcamp.com/album/--14

cheers! i am gonna make a playlist of all this stuff on youtube when i have a minute. i should check and see if orange milk has any good new stuff. i loved that label. speaking of vaporwave. but i forgot about them a little.

Another unperson release---from last year, but not overexposed---dig:

"Bypassing the structure of compositions, the trio ebbs and flows as one, as rhythms slacken and coalesce, density thickens and thins, and sonic landmarks shuffle, always remaining seductively amorphous." — Peter Margasak, The Quietus

Brandon Ross - guitar
Charles Burnham - violin
Warren Benbow - drums

if i can break the rules slightly, this one isn’t that new but i feel like it’s pretty underrated and might be new to you/others? (and is also stronger than their newer stuff)

anatomia - cranial obsession

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3bpOF4a6zM

it accompanied me on a lot of high speed rail journeys on a recent trip and my already existing love has only deepened. to me, one of the all-time doom-ed out death greats, i just can’t get enough (esp that middle stretch, “morbid hallucination,” damn)

the new voidceremony is prob my fave “actually new” thing tho. i also really liked this years chepang and endless swarm records if you want something a bit more circle pit-ey

Hi Scott! If you dig freeform psychedelic kind of krauty and very ravey electronic stuff there's this one. Disclaimer: I did the album artwork.

https://jamesholden.bandcamp.com/album/imagine-this-is-a-high-dimensional-space-of-all-possibilities

I've loved loads this year but my aotysf is the same as rusho's. Might suggest some other stuff later we'll ser

see

"Also feel like you might like this new hyperspeed drone record out today on Nyege Nyege"

you feel right! i haven't listened to anything on that label since i had a two month love affair with spotify in 2020. the only time i ever really listened to spotify.

that was when i discovered sault. who i haven't really listened to since but it was one of those OH WOW this FEELS really NEW kinda feelings.

jesus, imago, did you pay people to make this fire-toolz album or did they just pry it whole from your brain? hahaha! you should get a tattoo of the cover. i'm digging it!

her album covers are all exceptional :)

gonna limit myself to 3 (okay, 4) links on top of Fire-Toolz

this is my extreme metal aoty*, interpolating Turkish folk into something sheer, violent and splendid
https://kostnateni.bandcamp.com/album/pal

this is some UK garagey/dubsteppy/idky sepulchral r&b sorta vibe, except how it gleams
https://tirzah.bandcamp.com/album/trip9love

this is some lovely weirdo bedroom pop by a pal of mine. it's so lovely and weird!
https://coriandher.bandcamp.com/album/anadromous-squelch

*okay have a bonus level. metal and jazz in Marston's glorious blender, except from track 3 onwards it's palpably more jazz than metal and so so good for it
https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/determined-to-strike

i will check it all out. thank you, wild man. its funny that now you guys have me searching bandcamp for the first time! haha! just in time for it be destroyed by venture capital or whatever. (it does help that i set up my new work desktop yesterday and it is swift like the wind. i was using a sluggish laptop forever.)

i've already discovered a new Kolsch album!

https://koelsch.bandcamp.com/album/i-talk-to-water

(i might have spoken too soon. the new kolsch has perry farrell on it...)

putting this on which is also new.

https://kompakt.bandcamp.com/album/velvet-desert-music-vol-3

i just checked out that AOTY thread and it is a little overwhelming. yeesh. and that's me saying that! i made a YT playlist from the ILM listening thread and it has 92 videos on of it of all this avant pop stuff and lots of people wearing masks but my fave thing on it is the totally normal moroder freestyle of this track. hey, the heart wants what the heart wants. i LOVE this song and video though. can't remember who posted it but thanx! been meaning to check if there is a whole album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5v9r2vlfrY

you guys would like that kompakt velvet desert music record i'm playing. very nice and spacey.

I like that it's literally called Velvet Desert Music, and they Kompakt is still going.

yeah, i love volumes 1 and 2 of the velvet desert mixes/comps.

omg i love wolfgang voigt so much....(was listening to earquake 1997...so damn good. i need the CD.)

but now to check out some more of these links.

the james holden is so cool! congrats on the artwork jay vee it's awesome! wow. gonna share it here. hope you don't mind.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0450233298_10.jpg

oh yeah the Holden is very cool, musically and visually

the interior art is swell as well. damn. you should be proud of that one JV.

james holden is cool. definitely something i would listen to on cd a bunch.

sometimes i buy small orders of new records and at this one distro i buy from they have pretty good prices on electronic stuff and through that distro i learned about this label. i just love this stuff. and there is so much of it! and the vinyl is cheap and looks and sounds awesome.

https://n5md.bandcamp.com/

(every time i make an order i always buy 3 or 4 fabric mix CDs that i don't have. gotta catch 'em all. they are so cheap. like $5.99 wholesale. i still listen to the old ones all the time. haven't bought any of the new fabric vinyl though. i need my tins! they should put the vinyl in tins.)

scott you might like the tubs

the tubs

Cheers Scott! Yes, it was a real pleasure to work on that one. I just need an agent now to get me some more illo work! Would love to do more.

oh wait YOU did that lol i didn't quite twig! gj!

scott i have been spending time (in my imagination) deep in dank norwegian forests. maybe this appeals to you too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZZV8ggqdk

I saw Lewsberg the other night at the Middle East, and am really infatuated with their indie-by-numbers sound and schtick. Comfort music for people that like this sort of thing. Their new record is Out and About:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9j4AxEhe8

xxpost Thanks imago!

people i know were posting video of that lewsberg gig and i'd never heard of them! and then one of them said that downstairs that night Judge were playing and i thought...i'd want to see Judge! haha. but i dig the vids i've been seeing. i am always up for velvets worship.

Holly Waxwing so great Jordan, thanks for reccing