Daily Jam - Sleep a Million Years

California artist Kathy Heideman released one album of folk and country back in the '70s and then faded into obscurity.  Naturally, the good folks at Numero Group sniffed it out a few decades later and re-released it back into the wild.  Here's a wonderful track from it to help move us towards the end of the week.  Listen to "Sleep a Million Years" below, our Daily Jam.

Cigarettes After Sex

New York band Cigarettes After Sex dropped a new track yesterday.  Check out the hazy and melancholy (aren't they all?) "Pistol" below and download it here from Partisan Records.

Daily Jam - Song for a Blue Guitar

Someday i may have to do a "Daily Jam (Problematic Artist Week)" to test the waters around these parts.  Speaking of, here's Red House Painters with "Song for a Blue Guitar," our Daily Jam.

Julien Wilson

Australian saxophonist Julien Wilson makes spacey, improvised, and atmospheric jazz that hits your brain like radio waves broadcast to you from...somewhere.  Music for ambient spaces.  New album "Mutations" is out now.  Get it here from Lionsharecords, and listen to the wandering and mysterious "There Wasn't a Race" below.

Daily Jam - Saviour Piece

Here's a piece of '00s electro pop that's always put a little bit of sway in my step.  Listen to "Saviour Piece" by Snap Ant below, our Daily Jam.

FVNERALS

It's actually been cold the last couple of days (for Central Texas anyway), and it looks like it's going to stay that way for the next week or so.  That calls for some appropriate music.  How about some German atmospheric doom metal about the void and the silence of extinction?  Yeah, that will do.  And so we have "Let the Earth Be Silent," the upcoming new album from FVNERALS.  Check out the ominous "For Horror Eats the Light" below and pre-order the record here from Prophecy Productions.

Daily Jam - So This Is It

Here's a track from the gone but not forgotten Austin alt-rock duo Slow Reader to kick start our week.  Listen to "So This Is It" below, our Daily Jam.

Fever Ray

When we got new music from Fever Ray a couple weeks ago, i wondered if it was an indication of a new record on the way, and it turns out that it was.  "Radical Romantics" comes out in March.  Listen to our second taste of the album with "Carbon Dioxide" below and pre-order the record here from Mute.

CS + Kreme

In the '00s, i was a big fan of Australian band Devastations.  They've been broken up for over a decade now, but i do my best to keep track of the former members and their current projects.  One of those former members is Conrad Standish, currently making strange music with fellow Aussie Sam Karmel as the experimental duo CS + Kreme.  It's hard to really pin down the sound the duo create, a hypnotic mix of electronic, folk, drone, ambient, and more.  New album "Orange" is out now.  Get it here from The Trilogy Tapes and listen to "Would You Like a Vampire" featuring vocals from UK folk singer Bridget St John below.

Shirley Hurt

Cure those Sunday morning blues with the Sunday morning folk sounds of Toronto's Shirley Hurt.  The artist's self-titled album comes out next month.  Get it here from Telephone Explosion Records and listen to "Empty Hands" below.