Week of October 10, 2021
Listening selections for the week of October 10, 2021—featuring the latest from BADBADNOTGOOD, Pond, Tenderlonious and more—best enjoyed with Koppi’s Diima Bensa for rich and creamy notes of blueberry and caramel.
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Highlights include:
A gorgeous piano meditation from Yumiko Morioka’s recently reissued Resonance
The sonorous closing track of BADBADNOTGOOD’s excellent new Talk Memory, as reviewed this past week
Shimmering psychedelia stretched to its limit on Pond’s energetic new 9
An ambient, Detroit house-influenced teaser from flutist Tenderlonious’ new album, Still Flute
Nation of Language’s anthemic take on post punk
The return of Placebo, carried by soaring melodies and synth leads
The Chayla Hope Choice Find of the Week: levitating contemporary alternative revival from gabriel black and phem
A sprawling psych-rock rager from Oregon Space Trail of Doom’s Time Is A Mirror
Sunny instrumental soul from The Rugged Nuggets new collection Odds & Ends
An hypnotic first preview of Bonobo’s next record Fragments, out January 14 on Ninja Tune
Glorious Brazilian yacht rock from the master Marcos Valle
An aqueous lo-fi jam from Elujay and serpentwithfeet
An Earl Sweatshirt featuring highlight from Armand Hammer and The Alchemist’s Haram, one of 2021’s finest underground hip hop releases
Habibi’s first, dance floor ready single for Kill Rock Stars
The finest of Ray Flanagan’s monthly singles yet
One of many fiery Hound Dog Taylor covers from GA-20’s Try It…You Might Like It: GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor
A favorite of the 14 perfect pop songs on The Beatles’ Revolver
Big Thief, continuing to stun with their powerful simplicity
The smooth lyrical musics of Andy Shauf and his latest effort Wilds
The unexpectedly dreamy, but welcome, return of Mitski
Porches’ most succinct and enjoyable songwriting to date
Gross proto-punk a la The Stooges’ “T.V. Eye” from Birds of Maya’s latest
A tantalizing teaser from Silas Hite’s forthcoming Fushigi, inspired by memories of Japan and the Pacific Ocean
Golden hour grooves from Jim James’ 2016 Eternally Even
A poignant instrumental featuring saxophonist Gary Bartz from Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhmmad’s sublime Jazz Is Dead album series