Equipment Pointed Ankh — From Inside the House: "Charming like a wind-up toy, but with some dangerous edges, the tune explores chaos in a framework of tight discipline, wild blots of brass bursting through the tick-tocky measures" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdNRTfJKm00

Ulaan Passerine — Dawn: "Smith has a gift for crafting tunes that take you somewhere, and adorning them in ways that will populate the resulting imagined spaces with images and incidents" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdMWEao4W00

S.H.I.T. — Demo 2023: "The band’s sound remains trebly and raw, like a cascade of sparks off the blade of a pavement saw" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdMTf_78e00

Kid Congo Powers and the Near Death Experience — Live in St. Kilda: "the unctuous, pungent charms of this flamboyant performance nonetheless transcend its sometimes overly streamlined edges" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdMBeEqKa00

Guided by Voices — La La Land: "These are songs like Gaudi architecture, friendly and childlike at a glance, ungodly complicated underneath" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdM93bziq01

Howdy Glenn — I Can Almost See Houston: The Complete Howdy Glenn: "Against a mix of racism, bad timing and, probably, some hesitancy by multiple parties, Glenn's career did the only thing it could: it stalled." tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLt2jH0q00

Wheatie Mattiasich — Old Glow: "It’s as if by singing, Mattiasich allows her listeners to experience a sense of lucidity within the dreamy worlds she weaves, a comforting presence amidst the eeriness." tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLqTXPiu00

Marc Cetilia — The New Way: "The music often tilts and sways in not entirely foreseeable fashion, no doubt due to the fact that Cetilia himself cedes control to the machines, allowing them to forge their own path forward until they sputter out or... tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLYSOgq

Andy Shauf — Norm: "He’s no show-off, though; all the parts are executed in a languid, off-hand manner, as if he’s just crawled out of bed and is lazily capturing his soft-focus dreams on tape" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLVsxTKe00

Quasi—Breaking the Balls of History: "The good news, for Weiss fans, is that one of rock and roll’s great drummers has been fully liberated" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLDs3NGe00

Art Ensemble of Chicago — The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris: "Its repertoire spanned old themes and new compositions spanning spoken word ceremonials, contemporary classical, funky grooves and rolling percussion." tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdLBGtOqi00

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Stella Kola — S-T: "Stella Kola is not a person, but rather an idea of a music that runs from Vashti Bunyan’s breathy purity to the Incredible String Band’s raucous multi-cultured reels" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJxT7rem00

Act of Impalement — Infernal Ordinance: "The record is better understood as a sonic version of Thermopylae: purposefully narrowed, bristling with sharp edges and full of grim intent" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJutos4a00

Boldy James & RichGains — Indiana Jones: "with Boldy’s more relaxed than usual flow it reminds you a drive through a desert in the night" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJcrp8ay00

Laraaji — Segue to Infinity: "It is as if each of these eight excursions presents one facet of that harmonic revelation that put Laraaji on the path" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJaGszmi00

Deathprod — Compositions: "Whether the bottom end of a string quartet playing out the last days or the murmuring of Atlas straining beneath his burden, there an almost heroic splendor in the delicacy of Stern’s discipline" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJIFud0i00

Human Hand — Tremor: "As is often true with the post-lockdown record, listening to Tremor feels a bit like eavesdropping on a moment of long-delayed abandon" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdJFgaqie00

Heavy Blanket—Moon Is: "the main reason you’re likely to be interested is Mascis himself, and he’s definitely here and in fine form, whether his high school buddies exist or not" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdIzfz5Sa00

Speed Plans — Statues of God: "a blistering dose of lo-fi, slashing hardcore, always teetering on the brink of chaos and then deliberately, hilariously leaning over" tmblr.co/ZLJ4tpdIx4gjmu00