To whom it may interest, Collecting sounds over the past couple weeks for a new entry for my  2020 Playlist . I'd been largely absent for most of July thanks to the demands of my day job, the high doses of pain killers I had to ingest thanks to a severe back issue, and other distractions and otherwise tiring things that required attention and focus. I'm hoping to have more to say in the coming months, (though I've made THAT promise before). If you've hung in there, thank you. If you haven't, maybe I can win back your approval. Hope you're all well and staying safe. Please wear your masks. Enjoy. _________________________________________ numün :  "voyage au soleli" (via Clandestine Label Services / Musique Impossible / YouTube) Album Pre-Order https://music.joelmellin.com/album/voyage-au-soleil via Clandestine Label Services Numün is a trio of New York City soundscape designers who combine a wide range of music ...

Mouths by Psychic Graveyard was released for Bandcamp Friday on May 1st via Deathbomb Arc . A quick 5-song listen built purely from the time and frustration that extensive periods of quarantine have made available, Mouths is an electro-jolt of urgent, and mostly negative, energy. With commentary informed by the pandemic and the subsequent behaviors manifested by the American public, every track is a "mouth" and every mouth has a lot to say. "He gets drunk / He attends the protest / His American heart is rotting … inside his chest." — "American Mouth" The album is available digitally for purchase: https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/mouths Mouths by Psychic Graveyard Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Lithics Wendy Kraemer EP Moone Records Released:  2.7.20 No Ripcord review. Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Touch and Go Records continues its reissue streak, announcing today that there are plans for two new Brainiac reissues: the Electro-Shock for President EP and Hissing Prigs in Static Couture LP. Both are limited edition color variants with bundle options that include a t-shirt. And, there's news of a documentary as well.  The release info and links below were provided by Touch and Go Records. To coincide with Eric Mahoney 's upcoming 2019 Brainiac documentary, Transmissions After Zero , we are excited to announce these limited edition reissues of Electro-shock for President EP on white vinyl and Hissing Prigs in Static Couture full-length on blue swirl vinyl. From now until February 11th, you can bundle your pre-order for Electro-shock for President white vinyl or both Electro-shock for President white vinyl and Hissing Prigs in Static Couture blue swirl vinyl with a NEW limited edition Brainiac t-shirt. The limited edition t-shirt will not be av...

Sorry to have quiet on the singles front for a while. Enjoy. HARMS : "Car Outside" (via Good Eye Records / Substream Magazine / Soundcloud) Via Good Eye Records: While playing with his other band, What Moon Things , Brooklyn-based artist Jake Harms began to start to feel an itch to make something wholly his own. It didn't start as a record - just a group of songs that seemed to make sense out of a fog of journal entries and scraps and demos and half-finished ideas throughout the years.  Working as HARMS , the inspiration for his forthcoming, debut EP, Aquarium , came from a poem he had previously written about the feeling of living in New York City for the first time as an adult: walking around is like being at the aquarium observing 6 tons per square meter of pressure on the glass dividing you and everything else The resulting EP finds Harms crafting pressurized dark rock fusing the goth grandeur of The Cure with the lonely indie pop of Porc...

Some songs to end the week. Enjoy! Tera Melos : "Lemon Grove" ft. Rob Crow (via Us-Them Group / Sargent House / YouTube) Via Us/Them Group: Tera Melos share a new song from their forthcoming EP today. The track "Lemon Grove" features Rob Crow ( Pinback ) sharing vocals with vocalist/guitarist Nick Reinhart . The song is culled from the forthcoming 3-song Treasures and Trolls EP on Sargent House. Hear and share "Lemon Grove" via YouTube HERE . Tera Melos also launch extensive North American tour dates in November, first headlining with support from Mouse On The Keys , followed by the main support slot on the farewell tour of Minus The Bear . Please see dates below. Treasures and Trolls will be available November 2nd, 2018 on 7" vinyl and download via Sargent House. Pre-orders are available HERE (all store & streaming links) and via HelloMerch and Bandcamp . TERA MELOS TOUR 2018 NOV 02 SLC, UT @ Kilby Court * NOV 03 Denver, CO @ L...

AD.UL.T A Dainty Bit EP Released: 7.13.18 AD.UL.T is what Lightning Bolt or Hella may have sounded like had their members sat down for a month with Frank Zappa ’s 200 Motels and spun its host of ensemble-led absurdities while absorbing every intense, complex, and comedically taut second. From the vocal performance of the opening track “Pole Shift,” a nonsensical and undulating wall of queasy sound that glazes its otherwise reductive bass-n-drum musical progressions, AD.UL.T aims to generate and twist density and atmosphere into something both engaging and strange. For the span of its 10-minute runtime, A Dainty Bit is a packed listen, AD.UL.T’s shape of garage-infused punk prog to come demonstrated via raw harmonized calculation (“Slutty”), start-stop rhythmic and melodic shifts (“SELAH”) and a rather sinister closer (“700,000 FEMA Coffins”). For all its sensory plentitude, four tracks is the perfect length.  A Dainty Bit by AD.UL.T Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Here are some songs to consider.  Please enjoy.  Maff : "Desfile" & "Hawaii" (via Shameless Promotion / Bandcamp ) "Desfile" and "Hawaii" are both featured on Maff 's newly released digital EP, Melaniña , which can be purchased at the band's Bandcamp site. Melaniña by Maff Melaniña by Maff __________________________________________________________ Jaye Jayle : "Ode to Betsy" (via Rarely Unable/ Sargent House /YouTube) From Rarely Unable:  JAYE JAYLE ANNOUNCES NO TRAIL AND OTHER UNHOLY PATHS , NEW ALBUM OUT ON JUNE 29TH ON SARGENT HOUSE IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THE SMOKEY, HYPNOTIC SONG " ODE TO BETSY " Jaye Jayle , Evan Patterson ’s Americana-noir project, has not only opened a new chapter for the Young Widows frontman—it’s blossomed into a universe all its own. The newest arc in the Jaye Jayle narrative has been revealed with the announcement of the band’s latest album No T...