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Whyte Horses Empty Words CRC MUSIC March 9, 2018

Whyte Horses — Empty Words (March 9, 2018)                          Whyte Horses — Empty Words (March 9, 2018)Whyte Horses — Empty Words (March 9, 2018)•ð•      Psychedelic pop from Mancunian sonic explorer extraordinaire.  
Location: Manchester, England
Styles: Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Electronic
Album release: March 9, 2018
Record Label: CRC MUSIC
Duration:     56:02
Tracks:
01. Counting Down The Years     5:00
02. Never Took the Time     3:40
03. Greatest Love in Town     3:36
04. This Dream     3:07
05. Empty Words     2:32
06. Any Day Now     5:01
07. Prelude     0:57
08. Watching Tv     5:21
09. Ecstasy Song     4:15
10. The Best of It     2:30
11. The Return     1:10
12. Fake Protest Song     3:45
13. Dawn Don’t You Cry     3:01
14. Nightmares Aren’t Real     2:52
15. Fear is Such a…     5:18
16. Ride Easy     3:57
℗ 2018 CRC MUSIC
Description:
•★•       Second albums are a tricky business for us fans aren’t they, especially when the band’s debut has set the bar so highly. And that was the case with the mancunians Whyte Horses and their first record Pop Or Not. I was smitten from the moment heard the Stone Rosesey single Snowflake, and for a few months I played little else but their debut. I made it album of the year in 2015 and then (sort of) again in 2016, just in case people hadn’t got the message. It is like a genius band playing the best mixtape you have ever heard as the band career from one genre to another. One minute it’s jangle pop, and then we are heading for Tropicalia and then quirky French 60s pop. And all the way though the standard of the songwriting and arrangements are top notch. It was an album rooted in 60s psych pop and 80s indie, but really could have only ever been released in this decade.
•★•       So I was a tad worried about the second Whyte Horses album. Occasionally there’s a Sinister to a Tigermilk, but invariably on album two bands present you with a pale analogue of the things you loved so much on their first.
•★•       I shouldn’t have worried. Empty Words is an absolute corker of an album. A re~statement of what made the debut album special, but a progression too. It sounds odd to say it but for a band whose eclecticism is their calling card, on Empty Words they have perhaps patented their sound. It is a shuffling jangly psych pop big on melodies and harmonies but invariably taken down strange avenues with the odd bizarre twist or two.
•★•       Take the opener, Counting Down The Years, which bursts in off the back of some twangy guitar and holds your in the palm of its hand for two minutes before a total change of key and direction and an ultra catchy and emotional finale. To prove it is no fluke Greatest Love In Town, track two, boasts a quietly epic intro before flowering into a gorgeous folky tune with a gem of a chorus.
•★•       The album is perhaps at its peak in the middle. Following on from the poppy single and title track Empty Words, is Any Day Now, perhaps the album’s strongest melody which boasts an extended chorus that climaxes with a very 60s staccato moment. Then we get a bit of twisted instrumental guitar psych in Prelude before hitting Watching TV which has a droney intro, progresses into full Eleanor Rigby strings mode before climaxing with a disco beat. It is as bonkers as it sounds. Then comes Best Of It, a magical slab of Dusty style 60s soul of the type that Saint Etienne occasionally treat us too.
•★•       There are plenty of other gems like the Jefferson Airplane~esque Fake Protest Songs and the exquisite jangle pop of Dawn Don’t You cry before the soft landing of Ride Easy, a gentle floaty ballad that drifts into the run out grooves.
•★•       If you loved Pop Or Not, you will cherish Empty Words. It’s massive confirmation of what we knew already that Whyte Horses are about the best thing to happen to British guitar pop in years.   •★•       https://popjunkielondon.wordpress.com/
Review
It’s a remarkable piece of kitchen sink fantasy...
•ð•      Whyte Horses is a project equal parts talented and mysterious.
•ð•      Debut album ‘Pop Or Not’ arrived in 2016, a record praised by Noel Gallagher and lauded by 6Music for its baroque approach to grey~flecked psych pop.
•ð•      Follow up record ‘Empty Words’ is carefully constructed but ultimately carefree, a potent return that expands on Whyte Horses’ innovative universe while refining that essential songwriting voice.
•ð•      Out on March 9th, the album manoeuvres through aural landscapes both lush and sparse, while making room for guest appearances from La Roux, The Go! Team’s Ian Parton, and more.
•ð•      An enchanting, enthralling record, we’re delighted to be able to stream ‘Empty Worlds’ in full, alongside a full track by track guide from Whyte Horses...
1. Counting Down The Years
•ð•      A story of everyday life that jumps to different viewpoints throughout. I wanted this song to set the tone of the album, taking anything and everything around us and moulding into something that could only really have been done today. It's an ‘all~seeing eye’ of a song and a statement of intent.
2. Never Took The Time
•ð•      A fairly universal take on life? I always wanted to write a super~sweet pop song with a swear word in and this was my opportunity. A friend of mine told me it sounds like something Francis Lai would do. It could be classed as ‘retro’ but that would be too easy, we use nice gear that was used in the 60s and mostly vintage instruments but I think we have our own sound and sensibility. One thing I’m relieved about is that we’ve never been labelled as ‘contemporary’, that would keep me awake at night.
•ð•      I threw away three verse melodies on this song til it had that perfect amount of melodic simplicity, the writing process can be torture sometimes especially the ones that sound so fluid. Its now a personal favourite of mine, Melanie Pain’s vocal was made for this song.
•ð•      This is the sort of classic pop song I’d been dying to hear on the radio but no one was really putting out anything like this. I never seemed to get an emotional rush or feel when listening to new music so it was up to us to try and make the kind of records that were missing from our lives.
3. Greatest Love In Town
•ð•      This is a cover version of an obscure Swiss singer~songwriter called Die Welttraumforscher. I heard him play in a record store in Basel a few years back, just him and a guitar playing all these soundtrack recordings he’d composed. It was a tiny record store and at the end of his set he had to go into the toilet and come back out for the encore.
•ð•      That night someone gave me this song on a 7” and I stuck it on about six months later having totally forgotten about it and not recognising the name on the sleeve. It was one of those instantly familiar songs that you feel you’ve always known, I had been working on an intro for a song that fit perfectly in front of it so knew straight away we had to put them together and record it.
•ð•      This song was mainly recorded in Stockholm with Jocke Ahlund and brought back to the UK where we finished at Love Buzz and Boe Weaver.
4. This Dream
•ð•      A song about true love, dreams and happiness.
5. Empty Words
•ð•      A song about the time we’re in, I think it’s pretty self explanatory. ‘Empty Words’ was co~written with Ian Parton from The Go! Team, it has the catchiest, sweetest melody with cutting lyrics, I’ve always loved that combination of hard and soft, like stone and roses. The title kept sticking in my mind throughout the making of the album just rose to the top.
6. Any Day Now
•ð•      Colourful story about looking upon the world from above with feelings of depression and despair, I got the title from a David Bowie book. Audrey, who sings the track, thinks it sounds like an angel singing to the earth. I’d hate to divulge to much information about a particular song, I think it’s important that people can make their own meanings.
•ð•      As a songwriter I think you should always keep something back, I hate artists who have to explain their work, it can cheapen what you do. I’d rather say nothing and let people work it out or attribute their own meanings. Someone like Dali would never have sat there writing out an explanation on each piece of work he did and if he did he’d have had fun with it and thrown in some red herrings for his own amusement.
7 . Prelude
•ð•      Literally a prelude to ‘Watching TV’, using segues are important part of building an album to me, allowing the ears to switch off in the right place. This was designed to fit a certain space and set up the next song, it’s more like sound design than songwriting.
•ð•      I see the Whyte Horses’ albums as mini soundtracks that document points in time. Once the songs are written then the sequencing and completion of certain tracks can take a long time to finalise, I’m a sucker for detail and obsessing until something's as perfect as it can be, it lands me in trouble quite a bit but I’d rather that than be sat with something I don’t totally believe in.
8. Watching TV
•ð•      This is basically fast~forwarding through life in four parts, I suppose it’s our version of a song like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun’ or ‘Paranoid Android’. Four songs joined together in a symphonic way. It was quite challenging to retain focus and merge each part together, building it in stages over a few months. Mostly composed on a guitar which is interesting because when I hear back there’s no guitars on it at all.
•ð•      It started off when I was thinking about how Arthur Russell might tackle a song about childhood. I get those Sorcerers Apprentice / Fantasia images running through my head whenever I hear the outro of the song. Things like broomsticks coming to life, the psychedelic passage in Dumbo, crazy Russian animations, those sorts of things.
9. Ecstasy Song
•ð•      ‘Til tomorrow its fun’ is a line that sums us up pretty well, we can be pretty cynical fuckers at times but only when there’s a bit of joy to be had too.
•ð•      This is not just a song about Ecstasy, its about trying to recapture that feeling of freeness you experience as a youth, lazing around in the sun after the night before on holiday, remembering times before responsibility. Making a wish and watching it happen, scoring the winning goal in a cup final on a Harley Electroglide dressed as Spiderman, then crashing into a dustbin.
•ð•      It’s definitely a nod to an earlier me, I don’t go out anymore so this is almost like a shrine to past feelings. This was co~written in an earlier form with Jez Williams and has now evolved into something quite different from what we started out with. Like Watching TV I think this has a touch of musical cabaret that could make an interesting alternative soundtrack to some of Khrzanovskiy’s works or early Disney.
10. Best of It (feat La Roux)
•ð•      I met Elly during the recording of the album and asked her to guest at our gig at the Barbican, this was the song we chose to cover, it meant something to both of us.
•ð•      The original is by an obscure West Coast group from late 60s I used to listen to it and think it had a timeless quality which you couldn’t pin down. I kept hearing extra little hooks on it so when it came to recording I think we managed to add something to make it our own without taking away any of the feeling from the original.
•ð•      The worst thing in a cover version is when people change the chords or try and stamp their identity all over it, there’s a reason why you want to cover a song.
11. The Return
•ð•      During the recording process my initial idea was to make an album all about John and Yoko during their time at the Dakota, I’d been reading heavily about that particular time in their history thinking it had the potential to inform an amazing concept record but in the end using one subject became a bit restrictive. So I kept some of the ideas and started to bring in other observations and allowed things that came into my life to affect the writing.
•ð•      In a fairly uninspired month I was looking for something to re~ignite my writing and as soon as Twin Peaks The Return aired its first episode I was hooked. It became an hour each week where I would look forward to watching something you just knew would have a moment in it that had never quite been done before.
•ð•      The balls Lynch showed in putting together the episodes was mind blowing, terrestrial TV with five minute stargate~inspired sequences that dropped back into soap~opera, it was ridiculously brave. I started to take little lines from the show and the audacious nature of the narrative rubbed off on me in a profound way, it really helped to shape the last few months of recordings. This track serves as a segue between Best of It and Fake Protest Song but also as a short tribute to the best series on television in the last twenty years.
12. Fake Protest Song
•ð•      Grabbing hold of the zeitgeist and shoving it headfirst into a song that I was desperate to make work. I wanted to hear a tune with some modern words and observations but present it with fuzz guitars, key changes and pseduo~eastern tendencies.
•ð•      I think it really sums up where we are today, like 'Empty Words’ and ‘Counting Down The Years’ its up~to~the~minute social commentary but told using classic songwriting structures. Essentially we’re just making songs we want to hear ourselves, we aren’t the best musicians or greatest ever performers but we’re real and have something to say. Sometimes the message is clear, sometimes its layered, sometimes we take the piss a bit.
13. Dawn Don’t You Cry
•ð•      I’d call this a kitchen~sink fantasy song. A musical equivalent of the images of Northern England found in early Ken Loach films or Tony Richardson’s Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. It has quite a monochrome feeling, a modern day Cinderella story with nice guitar parts. I’m fond of the drum sound on this, the reverb fill is a great hook, that was the foundation for the song.
14. Nightmares Aren’t Real
•ð•      I stumbled across a chord structure that seemed to work on a couple of the songs, it somehow let my melodies come really naturally. ‘Nightmares Aren’t Real’ almost didn’t make the record, I had forgotten it completely until it came on in my car one night unexpectedly from my voice memos, just a super rough hummed idea and I’d written down with ‘Nightmare...’ as the title.
•ð•      I sat down for an hour after that it just came out really naturally, the images of the song come from two or three different ideas with a bit of Dale Cooper and Dougy thrown in there.
15. Fear Is Such A...
•ð•      The evolution of this song came over time with lots of melodies being stitched together and an intro taken from fragments of synth and lead ideas. Possibly one of the most original songs we’ve done. I wouldn’t really know how to describe it, it feels alien and familiar all at once.
•ð•      There was another song which didn’t make the album that was all about love, I was thinking about love and fear and all that’s between and how that would be a great narrative to follow for the album. Basically the album is about the dark and the light. Our songs might have melancholy and negativity within them but I’m always looking for hope to override any sense of dread.
•ð•      It’s a Manchester thing seeing the grey sky most of the time and looking for the chink of blue to poke through. Kicking fear down is a pretty positive message and a good mantra for modern adult life.
16. Ride Easy
•ð•      An unashamed love song and perfect closing track to the album. Pure love, no pretence.   •ð•      http://www.clashmusic.com/
Also:
AllMusic Review by Tim Sendra; Score: ****
•ð•      https://www.allmusic.com/album/empty-words-mw0003148974 

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Sea Wolf — Through a Dark Wood (March 20, 2020)
Locate S,1 — Personalia (April 3, 2020
Anna Burch — Quit The Curse (Feb 2, 2018)
M.Ward — Migration of Souls (April 3, 2020)
Peel Dream Magazine — Agitprop Alterna (3rd April 2020)
ANDREW BIRD — CAPITAL CRIMES (April 1st, 2020)
Spy Machines — Spy Machines (April 3, 2020)
Richard Barbieri ‎— Past Imperfect / Future Tense (Mar 2020)
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Born Ruffians — Juice (April 3, 2020)
LENKA NOVÁ — DOPISY (21.03./24.04., 2020)
Ezra Bell — This Way to Oblivion (3rd April, 2020)
Songdog — Happy Ending (27th March, 2020)
Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood (July 13, 2018)
Laurel Halo — Possessed (April 10, 2020)
Laura Marling — Song for Our Daughter (April 10th, 2020)
Hamilton Leithauser (The Walkmen) — Dear God (Aug. 2015)
Hamilton Leithauser — The Loves of Your Life (10 April 2020)
Don Gallardo — The Lonesome Wild (April 2, 2020)
Cowboy Junkies — Ghosts (30 Mar 2020)
The Mountain Goats — Songs for Pierre Chuvin (April 10, 2020)
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Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20, 2020)
Erik Griswold — All’s Grist That Comes To The Mill (03/20 2020)
Varga Marián — Solo in Concert (1. feb. 2018)
Joe Bonamassa & The Sleep Eazys — Easy To Buy, Hard To Sell
Midwife — Forever (April 10, 2020)
Moondog — On The Streets Of New York (Feb. 14, 2020)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble — Where Future Unfolds (2019
Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All~Stars — Memory Game (03/27/20)
Pharoah Sanders — „Live In Paris (1975): Lost ORTF Recordings“
I Like to Sleep — Daymare (April 17, 2020)
MoE/Mette Rasmussen — Tolerancia Picante (March 25, 2019)
The Tiger Lillies — Cold Night in Soho (10 Feb. 2017)
The Tiger Lillies — Edgar Allan Poe’s Haunted Palace
Sarah Jarosz — World On The Ground (June 5, 2020)
Kate Amrine — This Is My Letter to the World (Jan. 24, 2020)
Fiona Apple — Fetch The Bolt Cutters (17 Apr., 2020)
The Tiger Lillies — Covid~19 (April 10, 2020)
Veneer — Recovery (April 15, 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — The Departure (10 May, 2019)
BC Camplight — Shortly After Takeoff (24 April 2020)
Siobhan Wilson — There Are No Saints (14 Jul, 2017)
Brendan Benson — Dear Life (April 24, 2020)
Ali Holder — Uncomfortable Truths (April 10, 2020)
From Atomic — Deliverance (April 2020)
Whyte Horses — Hard Times (17th of Jan., 2020)
Gerald Cleaver — Signs (March 27, 2020)
Sophie Tassignon — Mysteries Unfold (April 24, 2020)
HOUPACÍ KONĚ: SOULKOSTEL 8 11 2019 (April 25, 2020)
Sarah Longfield — Dusk (April 22, 2020)
Ariel Pink — House Arrest (2002/Mar 2011/April 24, 2020)
All The Best, Isaac Hayes (A Spoken Word Album)
Prophecy Playground — Comfort Zone (Feb. 15, 2020)
Mark Lanegan — Straight Songs Of Sorrow (8th May, 2020)
Genesis Revisited: Live at The Royal Albert Hall — 2020 Remaster
Joan As Police Woman — Cover Two (May 1, 2020)
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Kuře v hodinkách — Flamengo
Devon Williams — A Tear in the Fabric (May 1, 2020)
Johanna Warren — Chaotic Good (May 1, 2020)
emozpěv — Spolu (1st May 2020)
THE LEAGUE OF ASSHOLES — UNPLUGGED (1st May 2020)
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The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
The Fratellis — Half Drunk Under A Full Moon (8th May, 2020)
Cocteau Twins — Victorialand (April, 1986, Reissue 2020)
Coloured Clocks — Flora (May 2, 2020)
I Break Horses — Warnings (08 May 2020)
Hawkwind — Acoustic Daze (25 Oct. 2019)
Indoor Voices — Animal (Feb. 14, 2020)
I Break Horses — Chiaroscuro
Einstürzende Neubauten — Alles In Allem (May 29th, 2020)
100 Gecs — 1000 gecs (May 31, 2019)
Evergreen — Overseas (15 Jun 2018)
Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio — Angels Around (May 8, 2020)
The Feather — Room (10 July, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Eyvind Kang — Ajaeng Ajaeng (May 1, 2020)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Mosaic of Transformation (May 15, 20
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Mr. Alec Bowman — I Used to Be Sad & Then I Forgot (May 1, 2020)
György Ligeti — Lontano (22. Oct.,1967)
OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (March 3, 2014)
Badly Drawn Boy — Banana Skin Shoes (22nd May, 2020)
A.O. Gerber — Another Place to Need (May 22, 2020)
Kaleidoscope — Faintly Blowing (11 April 1969, Reissue, Remaster
Perfume Genius — Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (15th May 2020
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) BC
Perfume Genius — No Shape (5 May, 2017) FC
Sungazers — Wasting Space (May 18, 2020)
Cermaque — Lament (22nd May, 2020)
Mountaineer — Bloodletting (May 22nd, 2020)
Jetstream Pony — Jetstream Pony (May 22, 2020)
Steve Earle — Townes (May 8, 2009)
Steve Earle & The Dukes — Ghosts of West Virginia (May 22, 2020)
Sixth June ‎— Trust (17 Jan 2020)
White Tail Falls — Age of Entitlement (May 29, 2020)
Weyes Blood — “Wild Time” from Titanic Rising
Nicole Atkins — Italian Ice (29 May 2020)
Deerhoof — Future Teenage Cave Artists (May 29, 2020)
Deradoorian — Find the Sun (Sept. 18, 2020)
Bob Dylan — Rough and Rowdy Ways (June 19th, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
The Magnetic Fields — QUICKIES VINYL BOX SET (June 19, 2020)
This Will Destroy You — Vespertine (June 9, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Jake Blount — Spider Tales (May 29, 2020)
Yoko Ono, Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore — YOKOKIMTHURSTON
Psychic Markers — Psychic Markers (29 May, 2020)
The Memories — Pickles & Pies (May 29, 2020)
Songs for the Late Night Drive Home (Feb. 5, 2016)
Spc Eco — Dark Matter (Nov. 20, 2015)
SPC ECO — June (June 1, 2020)
Yves Tumor — Heaven to a Tortured Mind (April 3, 2020)
Norah Jones — Pick Me Up Off the Floor (June 12th, 2020)
Larkin Poe — Self Made Man (June 12th, 2020)
Ezra Furman — Sex Education [Original Soundtrack] (April 24, 202
Endless Field — Alive in the Wilderness (June 12, 2020)
Wesley Gonzalez — Appalling Human (June 12, 2020)
Noveller — Arrow (June 12, 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Kim Myhr & Australian Art Orchestra — Vesper (17.04. 2020)
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) inner cover
Andrej Šeban — Triplet (March 22, 2019) cover
The Crossing & Donald Nally — James Primosch: Carthage (05/2020)
Jerskin Fendrix — Winterreise (April 17, 2020)
Zoongideewin — Bleached Wavves (June 19, 2020)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS — A Long Way To Fall — Rebound (3rd April, 2020)
Sports Team — Deep Down Happy (5th June, 2020)
Wrekmeister Harmonies — We Love to Look at the Car (2020)
Midlake — Antiphon (Nov. 4, 2013)
ANASTASIA MINSTER — Father ©Michael Haley
Jessie Ware — Glasshouse (Deluxe; 20 Oct 2017)
Teen Daze — Morning World
Jessie Ware — What’s Your Pleasure (June 26, 2020)
Art Feynman — Half Price At 3:30 (June 26th, 2020)
Bo Ningen — Sudden Fictions (26th June, 2020)
Khruangbin — Mordechai (June 26, 2020)
Pottery — Welcome to Bobby’s Motel (June 26th, 2020)
Orlando Weeks — A Quickening (June 12, 2020)
John Craigie — Asterisk the Universe (June 12, 2020)
Kavus Torabi — Hip to the Jag (May 22, 2020)
Nadine Shah — Kitchen Sink (June 5, 2020)
Paul Weller — On Sunset [Deluxe Edition] (3rd July, 2020)
Corb Lund — Agricultural Tragic (June 26, 2020)
Christine Ott — Chimères (pour ondes Martenot) (May 22, 2020)
The Beths — Jump Rope Gazers (July 10th, 2020)
Ashley Paul — Window Flower (May 13, 2020)
Grey Daze — Amends [Deluxe Edition] (July 3, 2020)
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Ajimal — As It Grows Dark / Light (June 26, 2020)
Ajimal — As It Grows Dark Light (June 26, 2020)
Eleanor Friedberger — Rebound (May 4th, 2018)
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER — NEW VIEW (January 22, 2016)
Immigrant Union — Judas (June 19, 2020)
Julianna Barwick — Healing Is a Miracle [Japan Edition] (2020)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse — Colorado (Oct. 25, 2019)
Neil Young — Homegrown (19th June, 2020)
The Jayhawks — XOXO (July 10, 2020)
Joy Division — Closer (40th Anniversary) [2020 Digital Master] (
Daniel Bachman — The Morning Star (July 27, 2018)
Daniel Bachman — Green Alum Springs (June 6, 2020)
Becca Mancari — The Greatest Part (June 26, 2020)
Ytamo — Vacant (June 12, 2020)
Bright Eyes — Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was (Aug.
Thin Lear — Wooden Cave (24th July, 2020)
Devendra Banhart — Vast Ovoid (July 24, 2020)
Cub Sport — LIKE NIRVANA (24 July, 2020)
Sara Serpa — Recognition (June 5th, 2020)
Sara Serpa, Ingrid Laubrock, Erik Friedlander — Close Up (2018)
Klara Lewis — Ingrid (1st May 2020)
Buju Banton — Upside Down (June 26, 2020)
Son Lux — Learning Structures vol. 1~4 (Oct. 11th, 2019)
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The Boomtown Rats — Citizens of Boomtown (13 March, 2020)
Ralph of London — The Potato Kingdom (19th June, 2020)
Mike Polizze — Long Lost Solace Find (July 31, 2020)
Land of Talk — Indistinct Conversations (July 31, 2020)
The Heliocentrics — Infinity Of Now (Feb. 14, 2020)
TANYA DONELLY: Swan Song Series bonus tracks (FC)
The Heliocentrics — Telemetric Sounds (Aug. 7, 2020)