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Jason Dungan & Johan Carøe :: Routine

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Copenhagen-based composers Jason Dungan (Blue Lake) and Johan Carøe join forces on Routine, a quietly transportive collection of ambient folk and new age soundscapes shaped through an exchange of musical fragments. Blending acoustic instrumentation, electronics, and Dungan’s self-designed 36-string zither, the duo arrive at something intimate and unhurried—a luminous meditation on domestic ritual, the rhythms of everyday life, and the quiet wonder of being alive . . .

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Panamint :: S/T

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Panamint began as a studio experiment between longtime collaborators Anna St. Louis and producer Jarvis Taveniere, who reunited to put Taveniere’s new Los Angeles studio through its paces. What started with left-field covers of Post Malone and Helene Smith soon evolved into a set of original recordings, joined by Danny Garcia, aka Reverend Baron. Out this week, their self-titled debut EP draws on the timeless pull of vintage soul and classic pop . . .

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Sam Gendel :: Advanced White Trash

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In his classic book Mythologies, French thinker Roland Barthes criticizes plastic because it can be molded into anything—cheap, colorful surfaces open to infinite transformation. Contemporary pop is made of the same stuff, and Sam Gendel’s Advanced White Trash makes the case for what’s beautiful, even freeing, about it. The record sounds like something that was uploaded to SoundCloud at 3 a.m., a Roland Sound Canvas emulator buffering on a dying phone someone found in a Walmart parking lot, and still it comes out strangely appealing, almost hypnotic . . .

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Ana Palindrome :: A MAN A CURE

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Cork trio Ana Palindrome make a hypnotic blend of art-pop, droning vocals, sawing fiddle, and glitchy folktronica on “A MAN A CURE,” their first release for London’s World of Echo. Beneath its pulsing rhythms and woozy electronics, the track questions the idea of self-made identity, as Niamh Dalton’s voice shifts between the organic and the artificial . . .

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The Aquarium Drunkard Show (The Halloween Edition)

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Trick or treat. Broadcasting from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery … The Aquarium Drunkard Show. The Halloween edition, Wednesday night / 7pm California time. SIRIUS/XM ~ Channel 35 . . .

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Boards of Canada :: Hi Scores

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Earlier this year, Boards of Canada unexpectedly released their fifth album Inferno, a case of an influential artist demonstrating that their style remains eminently relatable in 2026 a.d. To close out the year, the group has dipped into its archives, re-releasing the 1996 EP Hi Scores. There’s plenty to savor here, especially for longtime BOC listeners, but there’s also something compelling about being able to hear the group’s roots in such close temporal proximity to their current venture . . .

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Transmissions :: Shabazz Palaces

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Our guest this week on the show, Ishmael Butler of Shabazz Palaces and Digable Planets, is used to swimming in waters where science fiction weirdness and musical expression mingle. Shabazz Palaces' new album, It’s a Style Sport, represents a new high water mark for the Seattle-based rapper; at once memoiristic and mystical, it’s a strange and beguiling listen. This week, he joins Transmissions host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss basketball, his "Afro-fractal" artistic approach, the influence of artists like the Cocteau Twins, and of course, that goofy old standby: what's it like being a middle . . .

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All Hallows’ Aquarium Drunkard III

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The music of autumn comes in many shades, but none of them without a little smoke and shadow. The days are growing shorter, the air a little cooler, and it is once again time to light the jack-o-lanterns. In our third installment of All Hallows' Aquarium Drunkard, the writers reveal the secrets of their spooky season soundtracks. Inside you'll find doomed teenagers, dissociative episodes, ghost planets, grisly murders and all sorts of monsters, real and imagined. Whatever kind of menace you are looking for, we've got you covered . . .

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Willis Alan Ramsey :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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More than 50 years after releasing one of the great cult albums of the early ’70s, Willis Alan Ramsey remains an enigma: a singular songwriter whose long-awaited second record has yet to materialize. But as a recent live appearance and a first-ever vinyl reissue of his self-titled debut attest, Ramsey is very much still here — and already thinking beyond the follow-up he once abandoned. We caught up with the Texas songwriter to talk about the making of a classic, the decades since, and the music still to come . . .

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Surprise Chef :: Frogs In A Pond

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Like the best giallo scores, Surprise Chef's Frogs In A Pond finds beauty in the uneasy marriage of the sinister and the seductive. Its analog warmth and locked-in grooves evoke a bygone era without becoming trapped in it, blurring the line between recordings from 2026 and 1976. The eerie mood of the compositions, mixed with the 8-track recording, creates an auditory twilight zone that’s both nostalgic and immediate . . .

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders :: (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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This Halloween when the usual horror soundtrack fare begins to feel a little too familiar, there is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Released in 1970, Jaromil Jireš’s surreal Czech fairy tale is a bizarre, beautiful collision of vampires, witchcraft, religious repression, erotic awakening and dream logic. Paired with Luboš Fišer’s score, the whole thing feels like an intermittent phantasmagoria . . .

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Videodrome :: Psycho II (1983)

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About midway through Psycho II (1983), you realize you’re not watching a horror sequel, but a carefully constructed character study. Psycho II isn’t really interested in being a sequel or a horror film; it’s interested in the rehabilitation of Norman Bates, and how those in Bates’ orbit react to that. We may have entered the film expecting a boogeyman, but instead we’re watching a fatally flawed hero, and…we’re rooting for him? Yes, we’re actually rooting for Norman Bates . . .

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A La Altura: Visionary Mexican Music 1977-1999

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Experimental music history is still, in large part, a Euro-American project. Rare are the efforts that highlight Latin American pioneers like Beatriz Ferreyra or Jocy de Oliveira, and rarer still are histories of electronic scenes with a pop, new age edge. A La Altura: Visionary Mexican Music 1977-1999 excavates the ambient underground of Mexico City, tracing a vibrant, largely overlooked circuit of independent cassette culture, dubbed tapes, and street stalls. Compiled by Carlos Icaza and Mark McNeill after a decade of research into the city’s cassette history, it offers a long-overdue portrait of Mexico’s experimental . . .

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Chris Lyons :: New Love for the Old Flame

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After a pair of excellent albums fronting his New Orleans quartet Silver Synthetic, last year's Painters Street saw musician and vocalist Chris Lyons venturing into promising solo pathways. On sophomore record New Love for the Old Flame, Lyons presents a dazzling collection hovering like the forlorn days of the golden AM dial. The comfort of a lazy afternoon personified in sound . . .

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Jimmy Webb :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

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Jimmy Webb has written some of the great songs in the modern American songbook. After turning 80 in August, he's releasing Yours For The Taking: The Found Songs of Jimmy Webb, via the revived Sun Records. Featuring guests like Michael McDonald, Graham Nash, and Amy Grant, the new album features both new recordings of long lost songs and original demos. With songs that stretch back across the decades, it's a collection that showcases Webb's mastery. He joins us to discuss the magic of a song demo, his upbringing in the church, and his lifelong love of science . . .

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