Happy ... er ... new year, it's the 2023 album recommendations thread!

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New Teeth of the Sea out today

 

[braindancer]

Not my sort of thing, but I know there are some fans of endless droney stuff on here - Shone a Rainbow Light On by Setting who are apparently a bit of an Americana drone supergroup:

Enjoying this - thanks! Perfect for WFH.

 

[contadino]

Haven't seen this on here yet, but this is really nice. Well, it's working for me at least... I sorta liked the original but this is great. Would've been better if I'd found it when the sun was out.

 

[stavros]

just finished the Das Koolies album, out today.

Its very good, tho could do with a better vocalist.

I picked this up today. Very good, which is surprising, because I think it's far longer than any SFA album.

 

[braindancer]

This new one from Darren Nye is gorgeous star-gazing spacey techno. Lovely....

 

[Buddy Bradley]

New album from Forest Swords is out on the 20th, but there are a couple of singles out already. I loved Compassion in 2017, this new stuff seems a bit more abrasive but still great.

 

[May Kasahara]

Purelink - Peak Oil

This is some seriously good woozy ambient dub techno business. Really highly recommended....

This is very nice, cheers. I can tell it's going to get heavy WFH rotation

 

[braindancer]

This is very nice, cheers. I can tell it's going to get heavy WFH rotation

Yeah - it gets better with more listens I think. Seriously good

 

[Spandex]

Say She She - Silver

Retro-not-retro post-disco/soul from the NY vocal trio.

 

[Spandex]

Le Couleur - Comme dans un penthouse

More lovely Quebecois electro-pop.

 

[contadino]

So this is amazing. Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet playing various pieces by Moondog (blind Viking who lived rough in NY). Includes Joan As Police Woman, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright amongst others. It's a melodic carnival.

 

[belboid]

The Exbats - Song Machine is out today.

Streaming only so far, other versions will follow eventually (tho I aint paying £30 for a 35 minute album, no sirree!)

 

[MysteryGuest]

New album of coldly warm/warmly cold emotionally oxymoronic ambient from 36 with a (to me anyway) interesting backstory. This guy's so good at this sort of stuff... reminds me of being in the chillout room at a rave in a filthy warehouse in January at 8am on Sunday morning with cold steel grey light finding its way round the gaps where the backdrops don't quite cover the windows, still pilled up but also definitely starting to come down, still wrapped up warm but with a distinct edge to the breeze you're starting to feel coming from somewhere, knowing you're going to have to go out into proper cold soon to start a long journey home... and the whole nostalgic thing where the past is reverb... hence the name of that ambient label The Past in the Present (which Dennis Huddleston aka 36 has released on), perhaps nodding to Bergson...

Cold Ecstasy, by 36

10 track album

3six.net

 

[MysteryGuest]

New Hannah Diamond out on digital, physical to follow in December.



Makes both irony and post-irony look like tiny weeny little things way off down there in the shadowy valley...

 

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Debut from Evian Christ due this week.

 

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This from Nihiloxica on Nyege Nyege...gigs this week in London, Bristol and Manchester

 

[nogojones]

new Spongebob Squarewave

 

[May Kasahara]

This is rather lovely - drifty dream pop from someone I've never heard of.

 

[stavros]

This is quite good, with over two hours of quite abstract stuff. The first half is a little Stars of the Lid, whereas the second goes a bit Matmos and a bit Mouse on Mars.

 

[stavros]

It's only just come to my attention that JOHN released a new album last month. It's what you expect from them, and thus very good.

 

[braindancer]

I was all over Forest Swords when he first turned up with his psychedelic dub / industrial / ambient vibes however long ago that was.

Must admit I kinda forgot about him but his new album is an absolute cracker.

 

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Formerly Lingua Ignota...now The Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

 

[Indeliblelink]

New one from The Mary Wallopers - "Irish Rock n Roll"

 

[braindancer]

Exalt records is coming to an end - one of the finest electronic music labels of recent times - everything they put out is gold.

A final compilation before the curtain comes down.

Absolutely first class tunes throughout - soulful deep techno / electronica - can't recommend it highly enough.

Darren Nye, Posthuman, Morphology, John Shima, Russ Gabriel, Steve Rutter (B12), Shadow Acid and many more - a line-up to die for



I hope it comes out on digital as I've had my free listens on Bandcamp now.... went back for a 3rd spin but was denied....

 

[Indeliblelink]

Enjoying the new ONIPA album. Seeing them at The Jazz Cafe tonight.

 

[Spandex]

AC Soul Symphony - Metamorphosis

Dave Lee (who is still trying to lose the name Joey Negro) has been sampling, producing, remixing, re-editing and compiling disco music for over 30 years. Now he's got a 20 piece orchestra together to make a philly soul/disco album the old fashioned way. It's 2 hours long and relentlessly amazing

 

[Spandex]

Exalt records is coming to an end

 

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Been waiting for this one. OXN, Lankum's Radie Peat on vocals.

 

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New one from Bonnacons of Doom

 

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Laurel Halo...Atlas, ambient jazz.