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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 7h
Jess Williamson’s 6th LP is a desert curiosity shop’s worth of inspirations pulling storytelling techniques from Lucinda Williams’ gravel-road realism, a dash of Leonard Cohen’s everyday spirituality, and the delivery of so many worn-leather country starlets. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/06/j...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 8h
Antonio Adolfo hated his 1972 solo debut and banned it from his discography. But its slightly off-kilter vocals—somewhere between Robert Wyatt and Scott Walker—may be exactly what makes this strange, beautiful record so compelling. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/06/a...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 06/10/2026
The Lagniappe Sessions :: Squirrel Flower aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/05/t... Tunnel of Love-era Springsteen, the Alex Chilton narcotica that is Big Star’s “Kanga Roo,” Guided By Voices’ “Awful Bliss,” and Joan Osborne’s “Lumina.”
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 05/10/2026
The Beach Boys :: Radiant Radish aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/05/t... True story: in the late ’60s, Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health-food store called Radiant Radish in West Hollywood. Untrue story: there was a Beach Boys album named after it. There wasn’t ...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 05/10/2026
Miles Davis :: Recorded On Stage, 1973/1974 aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/02/15/m... 5 selections from a stash of stage recordings, capturing the band at the Shaboo Inn in Willimantic, CT, London’s Rainbow Theater, and a pair of dates on its extraordinary tour of Brazil in the summer of ‘74.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 04/10/2026
Sunday newsletter . . . us18.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=2275...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/10/2026
The Sagegazers :: A Mixtape aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/02/t... The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the 1980s and ’90s ...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/10/2026
The Sagegazers is an ongoing project devoted to the strange and beautiful world of privately released ambient, electronic, and New Age cassette music of the 1980s and ’90s. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/02/t... This mix offers a journey through that world, bringing together 15 recordings.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 01/10/2026
Andy Boay returns with an opus crafted with ecstatic care: a journey of reverbed vocals and guitar noodles, a lo-fi love letter, a bedroom SMiLE, and its own thing completely: Doomed. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/01/a...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 01/10/2026
Jeremy Cunningham’s Passing Fires slips between free jazz, electronics, funk, post-rock and pop. Restless, strange and constantly in motion, with Cunningham’s drumming keeping everything tethered. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/01/j...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 30/09/2026
Dur-Dur Band :: Volume 3 (1988) & Volume 4 (1989) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/30/d... This latest Dur-Dur Band archival set finds the Somali hotel band tightening their sound—sharper hooks, locked-in rhythms and grooves, with Motown, disco, reggae and Afrobeat in the mix.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 29/09/2026
Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 16 is both a forecast and a wormhole. Across two discs, Michael Reinboth and Michael Rütten move through jazz, dub, electronic music, improvisation, and psychedelia with the intuitive logic of a late-night DJ set. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/29/f...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 28/09/2026
Lee Ranaldo :: Guitar-Centric Film Soundtracks aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/28/l... Lee Ranaldo waxes on nine guitar-centric soundtracks that serve as conceptual inspirations for his score of the film The System.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 24/09/2026
Orchestral power pop, Asher White goes maximalist. A heartbreak LP touching on dysphoria, precarious labor, Jerry Garcia, Citi Bikes, and Flatbush in the snow, it transforms falsettos, arpeggiating guitars, and toy piano into a luminous vision of love. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/24/a...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 24/09/2026
Dungen's most pared-down, elegant record finds the veteran Swedish outfit operating on a psychedelic wavelength all their own. Built around Gustav Ejstes’ panoramic piano progressions, its ballad-centric songs drift with a weightless, springtime atmosphere. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/24/d...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 23/09/2026
For many, Forever Changes is where the Love story ends. But Four Sail is essential: Arthur Lee’s superb new lineup brings a driving, hard-rock edge to Love, fusing East and West Coast sounds with European influences and Lee’s own vision. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/23/l...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 22/09/2026
Índio da Cuíca turned the cuíca into an uncanny melodic instrument. On Zing Zing, samba, capoeira, Afro-Brazilian spirituality, guitars, synths and samples collide. Samba music from a parallel universe. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 22/09/2026
At 80, Neil Young remains gloriously unfinished. Second Song is a weathered, luminous meditation on memory, mortality, love, and time. An elegiac, deeply human record from an artist still searching for the song. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/22/n...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 21/09/2026
At 50, Maddy Prior & June Tabor’s Silly Sisters remains a magical hinge album: two transcendent voices, ancient songs, and luminous harmonies. Recorded in 1976 but somehow outside of time, it’s a raw, sophisticated, mysterious gem hiding in plain sight. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/21/m...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 21/09/2026
Hug is music for the small hours, when the world comes in and out of focus—a warm, comforting record that drifts through the mind’s open windows, moving from the warmth of the past through the uncertainty of the future toward the solace of the blossoming present aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/21/h...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 20/09/2026
Autumn Signals: Nigeria 80, Psychonauts, Third World Underground & Sounds for the Long Descent us18.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=2275... sunday newsletter ...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 18/09/2026
Bandcamping :: Autumn 2026 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/18/b... Are things feeling autumnal at long last? Not quite. But maybe this selection of recommended sounds, old and new, can help usher in the cooler, crisper season.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 17/09/2026
90 minutes of instrumental pleasures from Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions, spanning MPB bliss-outs, Takoma School dreamscapes, free-funk workouts, orchestral jazz, and beyond. A decade-plus of artists putting melody, rhythm & texture first. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/17/t...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 17/09/2026
Strut’s Nigeria 80 catches Nigerian popular music in that beautiful, unruly stretch between Afrobeat’s explosion and whatever came next—juju, funk, highlife, reggae, proto-hip-hop, and plenty of glorious cross-pollination along the way. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/17/n...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 16/09/2026
Minneapolis lifer Jim Blaha goes it alone on a raw, bedroom-recorded set of wistful garage-psych and punk songs that crackle with romantic desperation. Decades in the underground distilled into something intimate, ferocious, and beautifully unvarnished. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/16/i...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 15/09/2026
Wendy & Bonnie’s Genesis is stunning psychedelic slice of baroque pop meets Latin-influenced West Coast jazz. Recorded in 1969 on Cal Tjader & Gábor Szabó’s Skye label, the teenage sisters’ lone album is a sublime, quietly astonishing achievement. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 15/09/2026
Abdullah Ibrahim, Don Cherry & Carlos Ward embark on a joyous, lyrical and profoundly stomping set on The Third World-Underground, a newly reissued Japanese-only gem teeming with fanfares, shouts and unruly dances. No bass or drums required. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/15/d...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 14/09/2026
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s Ghosts of American Psychonauts captures the rare full-band incarnation of his live show: eight songs recorded at LA’s Pico Union Project, where old and new material finds unexpected, revelatory contexts. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 14/09/2026
Ry Cooder joining Pentangle? Peter Green playing on Bryter Layter? Sonic Youth covering Avocet? Rose Delta Rising can stand up to any such fanciful daydreams, but it adds up to much more ... aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/14/n...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 13/09/2026
Well Travelled :: Talk Talk’s Final Live Performances 40 Years On aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/13/w... Today marks the 40th anniversary of the band’s final live performance in Spain. To commemorate, we’re pleased to share an edited extract from In Another World.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 11/09/2026
Mike D :: Thank You aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/m... Thank You, the first solo work from Mike D, ascribed to the appellation Mike D 5D.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 10/09/2026
SMG have now released three LPs of rapturous sounds—pure melody, meditative rhythm and immersive textures, all captured on vintage 4-track ¼” tape. Like Gil Evans arranging Natural Information Society: pastel hues and minimalist restraint. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/10/s...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 10/09/2026
Maisy Owen turns to 4 songwriters who share her gift for making difficult things sound beautiful. From Rosa Lee Carson’s “The Drinker’s Child” to Townes Van Zandt, David Olney, and Amy Winehouse, Owen finds sweetness in songs that are anything but sweet. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/10/t...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 09/09/2026
Walt Dickerson, an unsung pioneer of jazz vibraphone, made his masterpiece with 1962’s To My Queen. A tender, beautifully crafted suite of plush metallic tones, featuring a young Andrew Hill and Andrew Cyrille. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/09/w...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 09/09/2026
Laidback at an almost glacial pace, Massive Shoe blurs the line between golden ’70s AM pop and something stranger. Dylan Young’s silky third record is sparse, radiant, and timeless—part Chris Cohen, part Nilsson/McCartney. “ aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/08/w...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 08/09/2026
Jake Xerxes Fussell :: The Old Beloved Path aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/08/j... Fussell returns with another set of meticulously curated old-time songs played and sung with warmth and grace.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 07/09/2026
Ghosted deepen their sleek, skeletal jazz with Swedish multi-instrumentalist Christer Bothén, whose bluesy bass clarinet and earthy donso n’goni bring new life to the trio’s haunted groove. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/07/c...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 06/09/2026
Sunday newsie .... mailchi.mp/a52eb58b750b...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 04/09/2026
Rão Kyao’s 1976 debut Malpertuis feels like an offspring of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended four decades of dictatorship and unleashed a cultural outpouring stifled by censorship and efforts to block outside influences deemed subversive. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/04/r...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 04/09/2026
Dan Friel is having a summer with a surprise resurgence of 00s noise mainstays Parts & Labor and now 4th album from guitar-centric, astronomy-centric Upper Wilds. P&L veered toward proggy excess, but Mercury runs a tight ship: loud as hell, nothing wasted. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 03/09/2026
Bill Orcutt’s “Louie Louie” deconstruction mashes up Steve Reich’s “Four Organs” with the rock staple, finding a seam between avant-garde repetition and garage rock’s dumb, beautiful riff obsession. Live, it’s all organ-stabbing, maraca-shaking glory. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/09/2026
American Spring :: S/T aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/02/a... Mired in copyright limbo, American Spring’s lone 1972 LP is a captivating slice of baroque pop, produced by Brian Wilson and Stephen Desper, drawing from the Beach Boys’ Sunflower, the Shirelles, country standards, and Goffin-King.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/09/2026
Transmissions :: Sun Ra: Door of the Cosmos aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/02/t...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/09/2026
Melô do Embaixador: Brazilian Soul, Funk & Disco Covers 1968-2015 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/01/m... Forget the Beatles. Dig into Brazil’s forgotten history of American soul, funk & disco, with 27 cuts from 1968–2015. Tim Maia, disco cash-ins, anonymous studio bands & one-hit wonders. 🇧🇷
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 01/09/2026
Melô do Embaixador: Brazilian Soul, Funk & Disco Covers 1968-2015 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/01/m... Forget the Beatles. Dig into Brazil’s forgotten history of American soul, funk & disco, with 27 wild cuts from 1968–2015. Tim Maia, disco cash-ins, anonymous studio bands & one-hit wonders. 🇧🇷
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 28/08/2026
Black Duck with Elena Setién aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/28/b... The songs are loose-jointed and exploratory. A bass-line snakes around glittering piano runs, the guitar picks out blues-shaded licks and eerie vibrations of slide, and above it all, a woman’s voice winds...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 28/08/2026
Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds: Blue Hour (1961) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/28/s... Like the blue light between day and night, Blue Hour captures a brief moment when four like-minded musicians’ paths intersected, seared brightly for a short while, and then faded into jazz history.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 27/08/2026
Bondo :: Bondo aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/27/b... Bondo’s self-titled third album resurrects the glacial, improvisatory spirit of ’90s slowcore and post-rock, channeling Codeine, early Mogwai, and Tortoise through a sound that is at once knotty, menacing, and unexpectedly melodic.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 26/08/2026
On Isle Peaks, Bitchin Bajas turn three Inland See outtakes into an immersive journey through imagined landscapes. “Ajami,” “Isle Peaks,” and “Watch Your Step” move between wonder, discovery, darkness, and unease. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/26/b...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 26/08/2026
Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner has always sung like he’s brushing up against melody. On Punching the Clown, he gets deep into lined-out singing, an old gospel tradition that opens up an entirely new dimension in his music. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/25/l...
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