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Monday, Dec 31 2018, 2AM
The Cleveland collective "traffics their signature gritty strain of DIY Afrofuturist soul music, balancing hip-hop production techniques with lo-fi experimentation to create a sonic suite that eulogizes victims of police brutality, including Tamir Rice and Eric Garner"
Songs of the diaspora from Baltimore's Joy Postell - joypostell.bandcamp.com
L.A.'s Brainfeeder label celebrates 10 years with this new compilation featuring 22 all new songs from its terrific catalogue of artists, plus remixes and selected older tracks - brainfeederx.com
Second studio album from Blackalicious (Gift of Gab and Chief Xcel)
Psychedelic electro cumbia vibes from Seattle's Terror / Cactus out now! - terrorcactus.bandcamp.com
Off the Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop from Europe 1980-1991 compilation (one of my fave releases of 2018) - music-from-memory.bandcamp.com
New record from Portland's Y La Bamba out February 8th! - www.ylabamba.com
Giving it that BoC touch - triassictusk.bandcamp.com
In the style of Boards of Canada, ace 7" from the Leipzig-based Australian artist Carmel - lobstertheremin.com
Drexciya-like cuts from Morocco! (Casablanca, to be exact) - soundcloud.com
Forthcoming 12" from Seattle's Flora FM! - iswaswasis.bandcamp.com
First new solo record from German musician Gudrun Bredemann in some time (best known for her time in Malaria! and running the Monika Enterprise label)
Astral R&B vibes from Steve Spacek - stevespacek.bandcamp.com
Took a long time to type into the playlist but well worth it! - maxgraef.bandcamp.com
Second single from Crater member Ceci Gomez's new solo work as Ceci G! - www.instagram.com
"[Cape Town's] multi talented producer, singer-rapper, nu-queer advocate and NON Worldwide co-founder" Angel-Ho is releasing Death Becomes Her March 1st! - angel-ho.bandcamp.com
"Emotionally-charged, biographical anthems drawn from Rostron’s lived experiences as a non-binary genderqueer artist, experiences around family, identity and music itself"
Great track off her split with BFTT on London's Whities label (everything they've put out in 2018 is worth investigating, too) - whities.bandcamp.com
Terrific new one from Sunday Soul host OC Notes! - ocnotes.bandcamp.com
Check out all the great trax here - rushhourmusic.bandcamp.com
"The transcendent realm of Okonkolo - Yoruban Santeria music" (led by NYC percussionist and Yoruba Chango priest Abraham Rodriguez) - okonkolo.bandcamp.com
Covering Jamaican rocksteady group The Paragons
Great tune and fortunately they were not invited to last year's disastrous Fyre Festival
Nice EP of indie pop psych tunes sung in Portuguese from French artist Laure Briard - youtu.be
Total Stereolab vibes from NYC musician Joe Stevens - slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com
Terrific pastoral folk from Manchester, UK musician Caoilfhionn Rose! - caoilfhionnrose.bandcamp.com
(No need for a comment, the description's in the album title)
"Recorded in the wake of the Ghost Ship fire and in a haze of psychedelics, these luminous pop songs articulate grief as a means of moving past it" - stephensteinbrink.bandcamp.com
