Week of March 28, 2021

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Listening selections for the week of March 28, 2021, best enjoyed with Counter Culture Coffee’s Field Trip: Home Edition, for sweet and savory notes of brown sugar, orange and raisin.

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Highlights include:

  • Jungle’s latest embrace of disco’s finer qualities, this time with glorious strings

  • Buzzing jazz-rock improv from Ill Considered’s new Band (Re)Selects

  • An African proverb set to music by Falle Nioke, softened by sir Was’ characteristic sonic sensitivity

  • Burbling funk ferocity from the A Side of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain

  • Never before heard music from Ethiopian bandleader Hailu Mergia and the Walias

  • Sandro Perri’s unique brand of soft electro-acoustic pop

  • A Cate Le Bon produced synth odyssey from John Grant

  • Ethereal, layered textures from James K

  • Cacophonous cult-inspired calamity from music force of nature black midi

  • Homey guitar hum from Brian Eno’s still revelatory Here Come The Warm Jets

  • A psychedelic pop highlight from Italian duo Dumbo Gets Mad’s newest record

  • Anjimile’s creative take on contemporary folk

  • An uplifting new jam from James Lavelle, aka UNKLE

  • Tightly choreographed indie funk from Long Beach’s half·alive

  • Breezy New York reggae from The Far East’s New York Is For Lovers

  • The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week: under-the-radar Eurodance from Clio and producer Roberto Ferrante

  • Synthetic funk groove from Moscow producer Phil Gerus’ new EP Too Close to Love

  • Carefree English bedroom pop from Easy Life

  • A chilly take on off-kilter trip hop from alt-R&B duo Sad Night Dynamite

  • The spacious, harmony-laden new single from Mom+Pop’s Evann McIntosh

  • Swaggering, background jazz swelter from Niia featuring Khruangbin’s Laura Lee

  • The bombastic return of BROCKHAMPTON’s raucous side, sporting an exhilarating feature from underground hip hop veteran Danny Brown

  • A glittering monument to electronica and shoegaze from Chicago’s New Canyons

  • Floating Points and Pharoah Sander’s new symphonic collaboration, that mostly finds the former providing a compelling foundation to showcase the latter

  • Shapeshifting, auto-tuned indie pop from Katy Kirby’s debut album Cool Dry Place

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