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    Chet Sounds

    Chet Sounds :: Changes Happen To Everyone, Everywhere

    Performed, produced, and mixed by the Australian-based Chet Tucker in a shipping container on his family’s property in the Sutherland Shire, the album takes a lo-fi glossy and groove-laden trip across 70s-am pop, yacht rock, private press outsider folk, library funk, and Rundgren-esque psychedelia.

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    Corey Madden

    Corey Madden :: Taste the Hour

    Released on the peripatetic Worried Songs, Taste the Hour finds camaraderie in the label’s ever-expanding ilk of freaks, heady rockers, and ardent songcrafters. Sure to stand above the fray in a growing world of blissed-out jammers, Madden has founded a realm where folk-rock grit is further refined in fuzz and adorned with sparks of power-pop benediction.

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    Itasca

    Itasca :: Imitation of War

    “My past albums feel like growth experiences, but with this album I’ve gotten to a place where I still feel like it’s me, now, and we recorded it two years ago.”

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    Soft Power

    Soft Power :: Raw Bites

    Add Helsinki sextet Soft Power to the growing list of jazz-rock revivalists. On their third album Raw Bites, Soft Power marries krautrock musculature to the jazz dynamics of Canterbury-scene stalwarts like the Soft Machine. But where one might expect fusion excess, Raw Bites delivers a punchy, rollicking album, brimming with riffs and hooks. This band is one to watch.

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    Kurt Stenzel

    Kurt Stenzel :: Jodorowsky's Dune Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    … the soundtrack to the story about the greatest film that never was.

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    Yura Yura Teikoku

    Yura Yura Teikoku :: Hollow Me

    Prior to founding Zelone Records and becoming the emperor of mellow groove, Shintaro Sakamoto fronted Yura Yura Teikoku. A scrappy psych trio with humble origins in the Tokyo’s DIY underground, the band cut a unique trail guided by an eclecticism that pushed their sound ever further to new heights.

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    Jessica Pratt

    Jessica Pratt :: Here in the Pitch

    Jessica Pratt returns with “Life Is,” the first taste off her forthcoming album, Here in the Pitch. The track, which has been on serious repeat, finds Pratt orbiting a Blossom Dearie-like sphere—its big 60s girl group backbeat, staccato strings, and kaleidoscopic production accompanying her on an existential carousel.

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    Mal Waldron

    Mal Waldron :: The Call

    Everybody knows that Mal Waldron was the first artist released by Manfred Eicher’s fledgling label ECM. Less well known is that the veteran pianist also had the maiden release on Eicher’s experimental jazz imprint JAPO. That album, The Call, placed Waldron right at the heart of the burgeoning krautrock scene, teaming him up with affiliates of Amon Düül, Tangerine Dream and Et Cetera. The result was tripped-out, electrified space jazz of the very highest order.

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Truckload Of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen

For more than fifty years, Terry Allen has navigated an artistic path that bears little resemblance to the flat straightaways of his Lubbock youth. There’s a good chance he’s your favorite artist’s favorite country singer, or your favorite country singer’s favorite artist. Enter Truckload Of Art: The Life and Work of Terry Allen, Brendan Greaves’ 500+ page epic released on Hachette Books on March 19th. We sat down with Greaves to discuss this exhilarating investigation of a life spent in the act of constant creation.

Rosali :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Rosali joins us for a discussion about her fourth full-length, Bite Down. It’s her best record yet and it embodies the healing power of art: “Music and songwriting have always been a spiritual healing practices for me. I think it’s trying to help people feel something, to have a connectedness in our humanity.”

Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: March 2024

Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab. Airing every third Sunday of the month, RFAD on dublab features the pairing of Tyler Wilcox’s Doom and Gloom from the Tomb and Chad DePasquale’s New Happy Gathering. This month, Chad offers up a misty portal into spring — orchestral pop, psychedelic folk & earthy jazz; then, Tyler delivers some Stereolab-ish situations, from solo efforts and side projects to similarly styled space age bachelor pad music. 4-6pm PT.

Morris Belknap :: My Lost Friends

Morris Belknap’s lone 1976 LP Jesus Saves was reissued last year by the dedicated crate diggers at cult Arizona label Skull Valley Records. It oozes honesty and earnest, faithful fervor. Though the album is informed predominately by the sounds of blues, country, and folk, “My Lost Friends” carries in it some nascent Velvets-like quality.

Ryan Power :: World of Wonder

Four years after the brilliant Mind the Neighbors and seven after the highly-praised They Sell Doomsday, World of Wonder brings back Ryan Power’s multi-genre kaleidoscope of kosmische sensibility, toy aesthetics, and chamber pop sublime. It closely follows Fievel is Glauque’s now-famed brand of indie jazz psychedelia, with broken and demented (and yet perfectly refined) melodies going through unexpected harmonic progressions, modulating right before the phrases can find a conclusive stage.

Oisin Leech :: Cold Sea

Oisin Leech is an Irish singer-songwriter who had his brush with commerce with the 1990s band 747s and a more ruminative sort of acclaim with the Lost Brothers, his folk duo with Mark McCausland “October Sun.” Cold Sea is his first solo album, and while you might miss the Lost Brothers’ shadowy harmonies on it, he is not exactly alone.

Indeed, on the translucent opener “Cold Sea,” both producer Steve Gunn and long-time collaborator M. Ward lend a hand, and later, Dylan bassist Tony Garnier turns up for some lovely acoustic low-end.

Waxahatchee :: Tigers Blood

Katie Crutchfield hit an artistic and commercial high water mark in 2020 with the full-throttle country rocking St. Cloud, an album which doubled her audience and established her as a significant force in Americana music. Tigers Blood comes four years later, past a global music industry shutdown, a world health crisis and Crutchfield’s own battle to get sober. If anything, it’s a bigger, brighter album, its rough, confessional poetry charged with triumph, its instrumental sound bolstered by a full complement of collaborators.

Corey Madden :: Taste The Hour

Reeling off the success of Color Green’s last few years, guitarist Corey Madden has set aside the time to assemble a record that embodies the freewheelin’ ethos of the former while propagating a singer-songwriter persona of his own design. Released on the peripatetic Worried Songs, Taste the Hour finds camaraderie in the label’s ever-expanding ilk of freaks, heady rockers, and ardent songcrafters. Sure to stand above the fray in a growing world of blissed-out jammers, Madden has founded a realm where folk-rock grit is further refined in fuzz and adorned with sparks of power-pop benediction.

Harold Land Quintet :: The Peace-Maker

Like many great collaborations, Harold Land joining forces with Bobby Hutcherson was the fruitful artistic spark needed to elevate his career. Beginning in late 1967, The Peace-Maker was recorded in two sessions and offers the perfect, lively synergy of Land’s collaboration with Hutcherson. Transcending the tradition of hard bop standards, Land had also taken a five year hiatus as a bandleader, making this offering all the more dazzling.