March 7, 2021

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Listening selections for the week of March 7, 2021, best enjoyed with a French press of Stumptown Coffee Roasters’ Holler Mountain for sweet and creamy notes of caramel.

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Highlights include:

  • Effortless folk soul from Lebanese talent Rogér Fakhr, unearthed by Habibi Funk

  • A wet Egyptian guitar meditation from the legendary Omar Khorshid

  • The 7” edit of Kit Sebastian’s reverb drenched “Rain (باران)”

  • Glorious harmonies and slithering electric guitar that represents one of the few unified moments from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s Déjà Vu

  • Sweet and swaggering saxophone and mesmerizing percussion from Cochemea’s 2019 All My Relations

  • The jittery disco meets breezy bossa nova gem you didn’t know you needed from Ana Frango Elétrico

  • Huffing, puffing electro dance from the King of Pop

  • Atmospheric synth fluff from Toronto producer Harrison and vocalist Aaron Tiem

  • Early San Francisco psychedelia from Sopwith Camel

  • Gorgeous ‘70s soul revival from aptly-named Silk Sonic, aka Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak

  • Bullshit rap with a beat just the way I like it: horn driven and boom bap-y.

  • The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week, smooth R&B pinings from Musiq Soulchild

  • The beautiful sound of Ray Flanagan in love

  • Mogwai’s best rendition of the Smashing Pumpkins from their UK No. 1 album As The Love Continues

  • A dank rare groove offering from Pepe Sánchez y su Rock Band

  • Angular Israeli indie from Tel Aviv-based iogi and Raw Tapes Records

  • Resplendent rays of sonic sunshine from Martin Wirén, aka Bear Garden

  • Exquisite piano fusion from Ian Carr of Nucleus

  • Gnarly jump blues from famed scorer of Hair Galt MacDermot

  • Savory vaud-Americana from Cleveland singer-songwriter Brian Bacon

  • Honey-harmonized roots rock from The Lone Bellow

  • Modern vaporwave dripping with nostalgia  from auditory dreamweaver George Clanton

  • The mix of flash and brutality we demand from hip hop uber-talent Danny Brown

  • Sexual bliss and pleading from the singular that is Prince

  • The illuminating musical experiment that is dance music constructed by one of hip hop’s elite producers

  • Shimmering left-field pop from polyglot Kali Uchis’ recent Amor y Otros Demonios) ∞

  • Bo Diddley worship that results in a fruitful Dan Auerbach reworking of “How Soon Is Now?”

  • The bittersweet title track from Fruit Bats’ excellent new The Pet Parade

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