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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
2025.6
Salvator Dragatto: Thoughts of You
Released late last year, this alter ego of producer Joseph Reina is inspired by black and white photography. Sounds strange, but you can actually hear it. This one plays like the high-contrast shadows in a film noir, short and engaging tracks like scenes from a single story. Shades of gray, some mystery, and plenty of cinematic groove. Enjoy!
Album links: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.7
Early James: Medium Raw
Two weeks in & we're ready to dip into some '25 releases, like the newest from EJ. The Alabaman sits comfortably in the spot where country, blues, folk became rock & roll. Latest is more acoustic, but no less primitive & gritty with a voice & songwriting style to match. Medium raw indeed. One of those guys that feels like should be bigger, maybe one day. Until then... Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.8
Jakob Bro: Taking Turns
Bro is like the Danish Bill Frisell, so having Bill sharing guitar duties on his album is like a fresh coat of snow on an already frosty landscape. This is indeed wintertime jazz: cool, sparse, quiet, beautiful. An impressive band (Konitz! Moran! Morgan! Cyrille!) follows Jakob through unfolding sonic meditations, thoughtful music for the mindful listener. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.9
Ben Chapman: Downbeat
Released mid-December, this one might've gotten missed in the year-end hubbub, which would be a darn shame. Chapman's latest is, in my opinion, cosmic country perfection, threading the needle between Isbell and Sturgill with killer songs and a killer sound. Ending with a chef's-kiss Dylan cover, every track is a keeper. Enjoy!
#newmusic #MusicDiscovery #country #cosmiccountry
Album links at LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.10
Sam Cohen: Continuum
So far, my favorite music released in 2025 is this one, the 2nd release in his Slow Fawn series. Working with Stuart Bogie + Photay, tracks blend one to the next, lines between instruments, sounds, genres blurred, a true continuum. Barely 15 minutes long, a singular vision with a triumphant coda, but you can listen on repeat and continually discover new goodies within. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.11
Will Stewart: 90 Acre Farm
I'm a sucker for a covers album & I'm a sucker for anything Morphine related, so stands to reckon I'd be way into this EP of Morphine covers. Stewart imagines these as alt-country songs, giving a stripped-down feel even while fleshing out the dark songwriting. If you don't know Morphine well, go immerse yourself in "Cure for Pain" posthaste. If you do... Enjoy!
#newmusic #MusicDiscovery #morphine
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#recommNeds
2025.12
Chris Joss: Classic Lineup
Pick any 30 sec stretch from this & you're almost guaranteed to be moving some part of your body before the final tick. Joss finds an addictive groove, works it for all it's worth & then on to the next, the listener moving from one warming tray to another in a delicious funk buffet. Released last Dec, this is why you should never make a year-end list before Xmas. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.13
Himalion: WYSIATI
Explicitly inspired and encouraged by Robin Pecknold and featuring drummer JT Bates throughout, Portuguese songwriter Diogo Sarabando creates an art folk dense with lush orchestration, all his own while still, at times, strongly reminiscent of Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, and the like. The title stands for "what you see is all there is" and there's plenty here to chew on. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.14
Twoosty Mayonez: Niezłe Bagno
Polish synth/drums duo with a new psychedelic jazz weird-out that's possibly part of a grander sci-fi story? Who's not into that? Sure, it's a story so epic it has both a prologue *and* an introduction, but once it gets rolling, it's a darkly ominous, occasionally epic electric thing. Plenty of guest musicians and vocalists fill out the sound. Check it and... Enjoy!
Album links at LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.15
Brown Spirits: Cosmic Seeds
More heavy stuff from Down Under. Like Eurojam, spiritual jazz, and funk got mixed together in some hellacious music laboratory. Seamlessly shifts between psychedelic and groove, you barely even notice except to snap out of the zone every once in a while to say "good shit!" and then right back into it. Enjoy!
Album links at LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.16
Benjamin Booker: Lower
Booker is a classic "what happened to that guy?" guy and, I looked it up, it's been quite a few years since his last release. The latest builds on his rootsy bluesy indie rock with scribbles of Radioheadesqueness and the snarls of political bent. As it was then, it's the songs and the voice that make it. And hopefully here to stay. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.17
Songhoy Blues: Héritage
On one hand, there's a glut of Malian desert blues out there. On the other hand, it's all pretty amazing with each artist & album creating something wonderfully unique. On Héritage, these stalwarts go acoustic and without the heaviness of electric fuzz, the music is light and pastel vibrant with a crisp separation between all the contributing sounds. What a delight! Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.18
Carl Allen: Tippin'
Judge a man by the company he keeps goes especially true for jazz recordings. So if the band on your album is Chris Potter + Christian McBride, you must be doing something right. Drummer Allen definitely is, providing a set filled with lots of warmth, space for each guy to shine, & plenty of straight bop. The recording sounds real nice, fit for the old school vibe. Enjoy!
#newmusic #MusicDiscovery #jazz
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.19
numün: Opening
Not sure how to categorize this one, somewhere near the intersection of classical, ambient, and post-rock maybe? It's moody, pensive, somber but triumphant. Lots of interesting sounds from guitars, strings, and who-knows-what. Gentle music with teeth, for those who need some of that. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
2025.20
John Zorn Bagatelles: Mary Halvorson Quartet
One facet of Zorn's genius is matching his music to the right musicians, a potion master combining ingredients. Always magic of some sort, but occasionally it transcends. This transcends. Halvorson going guitar-to-guitar w/ Okazaki, a monster rhythm section of Fujiwara + Gress. Together they lay waste to quaint notions like jazz & rock. Unreal. Enjoy!
Album links in LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/recommneds
@Neddyo love this album