2025.1
Jenny Scheinman: All Species Parade
Still working through some 2024 recs. It's possible that an album featuring the holy trinity of Frisell, Lage, Cline slipped past your radar. Despite the guitar starpower, it's Jenny's violin that shines: hop, skip, and jumping through genres & moods. Guaranteed smiles. Enjoy!
Bandcamp: https://jennyscheinman.bandcamp.com/album/all-species-parade
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6kgGOkd4IetJbTuEUy7kTc?si=6qu4TG0yQGGHg_yPOkdzFw
Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-species-parade/1756611762
2025.2
MOMO.: Gira
At every moment of this album, it sounds like two things at once. It's Brazilian party music overlapped with ambient then it's psych rock nested inside funkjazz and so on. The result is Russian-doll rhythms and delightful left turns... and a whole lotta fun. Betcha dig it! Enjoy!
Album links: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.3
Body Meπa: Prayer in Dub
Pupil-dilating instrumental jams from a quartet of NYC under-radar you-should-knows. Like Greg Fox, whose drumming on this record is an amusement park ride of thrills. Two guitars, bass, and drums and lots of heavy-leaning improv, plays like one straight shape-shifting studio mess-around. Enjoy!
Album links: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.4
Yesness: See You at the Solipsist Convention
Kristian Dunn one half of the post-rock duo El Ten Eleven has started a new post-rock duo that sounds a bit like... El Ten Eleven, if you can believe it! It's a darn good thing as he and drummer Damon Che make triumphant, mathy instrumental music with some serious bounce that'll have you saying yes. Enjoy!
Album links: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.5
Clem Snide, Oh Smokey
Eef Barzelay (aka Clem Snide) has been writing ridiculously good songs for a couple decades, but this may very well be his best. Poignant, lovely songwriting and a sound that's dead center between lush and sparse. Folky production courtesy of Josh Kaufman, it sounds good, it feels good, it is good. Enjoy!
Album links: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
@Neddyo Huge fan. Love this new one.