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A few recommendations for March 20th, 2026
This is a squiggly week. Hope you like squiggles. Get squiggly with it. DM us if there’s anything here you’d like to acquire… or anything else for that matter.
Colleen - Libres antes del final / Thrill Jockey / Vinyl + CD
The compositions of Colleen, aka multi-instrumentalist Cécile Schott, are as richly varied as they are precise. Each of Colleen’s albums are shaped by her predetermined distinct instrumentation and parameters, including works composed entirely of music boxes, pocket synthesizers, and antiquated stringed instruments. The connective essence of Schott’s music is in her ability to create pieces within this transcendent specificity that are both expansive and imbued with profound emotions. Libres antes del final is an album that reaches for the hope and desire to be truly freed from unnecessary suffering and harmful thoughts before reaching the end of one’s life cycle. Schott composed and performed Libres on the Moog Matriarch, centering the record on a pulse-driven, bubbling energy with constant momentum. She then reamped the music in one of her favorite spaces in Barcelona, Casa Montjuic, accentuating the album’s sense of movement. The reamping process adds a literal physicality to the album, as carefully chosen and placed microphones (including the famous Neumann KU100 binaural head) capture both the venue’s PA sound itself and the venue’s acoustics. Colleen’s music translates snapshots of Schott’s life into singular pieces, often instrumentally transmuting a dense web of sensations into wondrous sonic terrain.
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More Eaze - sentence structure in the country / Thrill Jockey / Vinyl + CD
More Eaze is the moniker of Brooklyn-based composer, orchestrator, and multi- instrumentalist, mari maurice. A renowned collaborator both in performance and on recordings, maurice’s own work is a fantasia, a reflection of her curious and explorative musical mind, encompassing entire spectrums of sound from a wide sonic pallet of electro-acoustic textures, folk traditions, and pop forms that pirouette into fully realized ecosystems. Sentence structure in the country is a definitive statement of the matchless quality of More Eaze’s skill as player and musical thinker. The album relishes the ecstatic in performance and collaboration with an inviting wit and incisive compositions, imbuing tenderness, frustration, and joy into each passage. The title is an acknowledgement of the vernacular that shaped maurice’s musical production. As Coltrane said, “It all has to do with it.” maurice grew up playing fiddle in traditional folk and country tunes, and while playing on her album is entirely different, her reverence for the evolution of folk forms and her playing remain integral to those performances. Informing her production choices were maurice’s well- chosen collaborators: Wendy Eisenberg on electric guitar, piano and voice, Henry Earnest on electric guitar, Alice Gerlach on cello, Jade Guterman on acoustic guitar, and Ryan Sawyer on drums. sentence structure in the country is a collection of compositions, each beautifully realized, self-contained worlds. Sentence structure in the country is a textural marvel, a mosaic of ethereal electronics and loamy acoustics sculpted around deeply moving, enduring songs.
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Damaged Bug - ZUZAX / Deathgod Corp / Vinyl + CD
“ZUZAX” is an abstract and poppy, fried and sugary collection of unreleased solo works from OSEES frontman John Dwyer from the past seven years. “Forty or so Damaged Bug tunes from the past seven years were orphaned/ unfinished, which is pretty rare for me. I just kept having other things going on and life kept getting in the way. And frankly, the songs were all over the place so I didn’t see a thread in there, but in light of current events in the world, I feel like it’s every artist’s calling to construct personal messages cloaked in a moments of escapism. That’s what this record is for me - was something to clear the decks a little bit in my studio and relax my mind and keep the wolf from the door. It’s a bit of a joyous/sad record dealing with hope and forgiveness, two things which I hope end up more in my life” - John Dwyer.
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Green-House - Hinterlands / Ghostly International / Vinyl + CD + Cassette
As Green-House, musicians Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan engage human nature and the natural world through joyous, dynamic synthesis. Overlaying frequencies and expressions like camouflage, their deeply layered collaborative process begins with either artist; Ardizoni is often drawn to melody, Flanagan to harmonics. The power lies in how their ideas helix together, achieving a depth greater than the sum of its parts. For their first LP with new label home, Ghostly International, Green-House grows and refines their vivid instrumental songcraft with uncharted, genre-defying freedom and movement, a more active, percussive, and emotion-filled energy, marked by flowing bodies of sound and sweeping vistas. “Hinterlands” tunes into the beauty of the world with defiant, radical sincerity. Ardizoni and Flanagan aren’t aligned with new age ideologies or spirituality, and the ambient tag feels increasingly limited given all that’s going on in their songs, which skew closer to the realms of IDM or even modern classical on their new album.
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Charif Megarbane & Ali - Tirakat / Habibi Funk / Vinyl + CD
Recorded over an intense three-day window in Berlin, “Tirakat” brings together Charif Megarbane and the Jakarta-based band Ali. Their collaboration builds on a long, organic history of musical exchange between Indonesia and the Arab world, blending shared references, improvisation, and years of band experience. Rather than a conceptual fusion project, the record evolved naturally through spontaneity and the musicians’ overlapping backgrounds. The title “Tirakat” reflects this process; a word rooted in both Arabic and Javanese traditions, capturing discipline, journey, and the layering of influences that shaped the album.
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