September 7, 2020

Listening selections for the week ahead, best enjoyed with a pour over cup of Stumptown’s Homestead blend, black.

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Highlights include:

• The opening cut from Laura Marling’s deeply affecting Song For Our Daughter

• Vibey post-bop from jazz trumpeter Takuya Kuroda

• A highlight from All Them Witches heaviest outing to date

• What I imagine a collaboration between the Pixies and Prince would have sounded like

• A stomping blues jam from Knaves

• Gorgeous brit pop from one of the genre’s best acts

• Dark experimental pop from the duo of Madeline Follin and Richie Oblivion

• A tranquil and transporting soundtrack to what, in my estimation, is the perfect dinner party

• From the 1:49 mark on, some of the most inspired music Kanye West has ever made

• Ezra Collective’s inspired reworking of Wayne Shorter’s “Footprints”

• Twinkling Beatles-esque pop from Dayton’s M Ross Perkins

• Dream pop perfected on Haley Blais’ newest LP

• A reinterpretation of a Radiohead classic every bit as essential as the original

• The title track from LA-based wunderkind Duckwrth’s newest record

• A perfect song

• Serotonin boosting sass from Matlock, England

• African rumba from one of the continent’s most influential vocalists and prolific songwriters

• Afro-house synthesis from Disclosure’s best outing since Settle

• Spacious grooves from former Late Of The Pier member Sam Eastgate

• Slinky left-field disco from Brooklyn outfit Psymon Spine, featuring producer Barrie Lindsay

• A surprisingly heartfelt Velvet Underground cover from the always excellent Hot Chip

• The latest from UK psychedelic travelers Temples

• Supernatural neo-psychedelia from Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo

• An underrated radical song from one of the greatest acts to ever do it

• An OutKast masterpiece from the groundbreaking duo’s most focused effort