The mountain goats - Through this fire across from Peter Balkan

The Mountain Goats – Rocks in my Pockets

For me, The Mountain Goats (@themountaingoats.bsky.social) will always be the one-man lo-fi band I fell in love with in the late 1990s. I know they’ve released a million albums as a full band since but it still doesn’t feel ➡️
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Dreamcoaster - Imaginary Reflections

Dreamcoaster – Catch Me When I Fall

The excellent @janglepophub.bsky.social blog — a great source for new music in, well, that particular subgenre — refers to Dreamcoaster’s music as ‘jangle-gaze’. An excellent description, as the ➡️
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@dreamcoasterband.bsky.social

Jovi album cover

Jovi feat. Reniss – B.A.S.T.A.R.D.

I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
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Jovi album cover

Jovi feat. Reniss – B.A.S.T.A.R.D.

I am a sucker for songs that switch between two languages and B.A.S.T.A.R.D. switches between three: French, English and Cameroon pidgin English. Alternating between rappers (Jovi and Reniss, both from Cameroon) is another weak ➡️
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The Laughing Chimes - Whispers in the Speech Machine

The Laughing Chimes - High Beams

Right from the opening keyboard notes of High Beams I knew that this was my favourite song of what their label Slumberland calls The Laughing Chimes’ “sophomore album” (I had to check the US educational system ➡️
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@slumberlandrecords.com

Front cover of Gaze - Mitsumeru

Gaze - Eric Idol

Nothing says that my taste in music isn’t that of most people than the fact that about half the plays of Gaze’s Eric Idol on the various music platforms is me playing the 74-second song over and over again for the past ten years. ➡️
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@krecs.bsky.social

Front cover of Jeanines — How Long Can It Last, which is a blue and white abstract painting

Jeanines — On and On
@jeanines-band.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com @skepwax.bsky.social

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Front cover of Etran de L'aïr - 100% Sahara guitar A mini van with a single front wheel out of which four Black men are hanging, three holding a guitar

Etran de L’Aïr – Imouha

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Front cover of the album Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab

Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie
@stereolabgroop.bsky.social

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Thanks to @rosyoverdrive.com BTW, through whose blog I discovered this song (and album)!

Front cover of Joel Cusumano - Waxworld The letters in yellow/orange capitals in front of a black and white photo of a middle aged man, with a mustache, with a hand in front of his face

Joel Cusumano – Two Arrows
@joelcusumano.bsky.social

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Don't cover of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — perfect right now: a slumberland collection 2008-2010 The front cover has a blue and yellow photo of two people

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher than the Stars @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com

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Front over of All Of A Sudden, Pow! by the Ekphrastics. The album shows drawn fireworks on a black background, with the band name in red.

The Ekphrastics – This Month At The Roman Bros. Gallery
@ekphrastics.bsky.social

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Front cover of Ata Kak — Obaa Sima, which is a yellow and red cassette cover with a black man in sunglasses, a cap and a denim jacket singing in the microphone

Ata Kak — Daa Nyinaa

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Front cover of Shoot the Point by Tullycraft, which is an abstract painting with arrows and circles

Tullycraft – Tarrytown

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Front cover of Tyler Childers's album, with a man sitting in a classic personal library, with a dog in front of him

Tyler Childers – Oneida
@tylerchilders.bsky.social

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Front cover of The Cords' self-titled album, showing two girls on a metro station with a metro in the background

The Cords – When You Said Goodbye
@slumberlandrecords.com @skepwax.bsky.social

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Front cover of Company Car by Snõõper, showing a man with a fake head holding a giant portable phone and smoking a gigantic cigarette

Snõõper – Company Car

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I should have added @krecs.bsky.social there as they released most of Kicking Giant's records.

Front cover of "This being the Ballad of Kicking Giant, Halo" which shows the two-person band in a black and white photo surrounded by colourful cuttings

Kicking Giant – Fuck the Rules

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