https://oldmillioneye.bandcamp.com/track/sister-rock
4. Old Million Eye – "Sister Rock". Old Million Eye's music is as uncanny and enigmatic as a dream. It all makes perfect sense as you float along through it, yet when it's over, it becomes elusive, ungraspable to the conscious mind. Luckily, unlike a dream, you can listen to it again (and again). #music

https://youtu.be/b4uOvP-sqBY
3. Haley Heynderickx – "Foxglove". Second single from her new album is another '60s-inflected folk/pop gem. #music

https://youtu.be/poO4oicbPw8
2. Blossoms – "I Like Your Look". Mod disco from Manchester band's fifth album "Gary". "I'm suiting insouciant finery". #music

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 38):
https://youtu.be/tQjcGbaABgE
1. The Soundcarriers – "The City Was". A sonic portal opened up to suck you directly back to 1966 or '7: fuzzed-out guitars, trippy organ and druggy lyrics like "the days only go to one place: to the place where the city was". #music

My best of 2024 (so far) playlist is updated regularly and can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=ZVqklnxTIwkgAQKq
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https://youtu.be/352TSvVyjqg
5. (Honorable mention) Hugo Largo – "Blue Blanket". Hugo Largo were one of my favorite bands of the late '80s and early '90s, featuring a drumless configuration (two bassists and a violinist) and the angelic voice and childlike openness of Mimi Goese. There's a new set out collecting the two albums and previously unreleased miracles like this one they recorded before disbanding in 1991. #music

https://youtu.be/ljI7vtKrMOI
4. R. Missing – "Jane Four". a darkwave chiller from New York's R. Missing, "Jane Four" features a busy, anxious synth riff and the detached vocals of Sharon Shy. #music

https://youtu.be/-xtq4Qek0Uo
3. Disintegration – "Hideaway". Fellow Ohioans Devo live in the processed guitar shrapnel and stuttering drums of "Hideaway", creating the perfect foil for Haley Himiko's urgent vocal. #music

https://youtu.be/VXe_9IxsAvY
2. Clementine Douglas – "Slippin' ". A near-perfect pairing of '80s-'90s dance club sounds and peaks soul horns and singing from Birmingham, England's Douglas. #music

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 37):
https://youtu.be/XLgmuj-Gnuo
1. Naima Bock – "Feed My Release". Ex-Goat Girl Bock has a new solo album out which includes this jazzy (saxophone!) folk-pop gem. She uses the full range of her voice and amazing harmonies to great effect. #music

My best of 2024 (so far) playlist is updated regularly and can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=ZVqklnxTIwkgAQKq
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https://youtu.be/EBsIag0TJKk
3. Jungle – "Let's Go Back". West London's Jungle are back with a groovy club concoction anchored in retro soul that, like "The Last Time" by Brooke Combe, feels utterly current. The choreography in the video is great, too. #music

https://youtu.be/gFxVi_JkJN8
2. Brooke Combe – "The Last Time". Northern Soul rave-up from the Edinburgh-born singer which, like Jungle's "Let's Go Back", manages to sound both classic and contemporary. #music

My Top 3 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 36):
https://youtu.be/806NwmR6VR4
1. Dummy – "Soonish…" This track from Los Angeles band Dummy starts out evoking the spae-age bachelor pad grooves of Stereolab and then adds a few blasts of My Bloody Valentine (i.e. loud & distorted, but still melodic) guitar shredding. #music

My best of 2024 (so far) playlist is updated regularly and can be found here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDJeO4dNUaIn2mN9hFpBK1szGAA07d8pq&si=ZVqklnxTIwkgAQKq
#music

https://youtu.be/n6zF4Xl5vDU
5. Gardens – "Flaws". Moody, psychedelic/garage inflected indie rock from Vienna, Austria's Gardens. #music

https://youtu.be/nIjQr6J8qLw
4. Oceanator – "First Time". With its introductory power chord riffing, you half expect Brooklyn's Oceanator to start singing about the boys being back in town or some such. But once the harmony vocals kick in, what emerges is a pretty good modern power pop tune. #music

https://youtu.be/zIYfSXPk2Eg
3. Tasha – "Love's Changing". Chicago singer-songwriter Tasha with a beautifully sung jazz-folk meditation rooted in a shuffle beat, strummed acoustic guitar and piano fills that wouldn't be out of place on a Nick Drake record. #music

https://youtu.be/pbDBGuOM718
2. Wunderhorse – "Arizona". Another moody UK indie-rock gem from Wunderhorse. Based on their other material, I kept expecting the full band to burst in, but no, they left this one simple with just an acoustic guitar and lone voice. And it totally works. #music

My Top 5 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 35):
https://youtu.be/pe5Bsr-wpuA
1. The Waeve – "Broken Boys". You could picture this song showing up in the middle of a Blur record with its punk guitars and quirky effects, and not for nothing: The Waeve is Blur guitarist Graham Coxon's project with partner and ex-Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall. Pushes my Britpop buttons for sure. #music