Spunflower

California experimental band Spunflower just released their self-titled effort to the world, and it's a doozy.  It's hard to pin down exactly, with elements of psychedelia, drone, jazz, krautrock, and other assorted weirdness all mixing together in a proverbial soup.  Dig on the film noir jazz meets cosmic devotional drone vibes of album opener "Calumet" below and get the LP here from Cardinal Fuzz(UK) and Feeding Tube(US).

Myriam Gendron

Montreal singer/songwriter Myriam Gendron is set to release her new album "Mayday" next month.  Check out the absolutely haunting folk track "Terres Brulees," or "Scorched Lands" in English below and pre-order the record here from the artist in Canada or from one of her American distributors, Thrill Jockey and Feeding Tube Records respectively.

The Left Outsides

I broke my own self-inflicted rule of not drinking during the middle of the week yesterday.  I'll probably break it again today.  But i still have to work, and i still have to take care of my kids, so for now, i'll just try to calm my frayed nerves with music.  "Are You Sure I Was There?" is the latest album from UK psych folk husband and wife duo The Left Outsides.  It and everything else i'm going to listen to today have some heavy lifting to do.  Check out "A Face in the Crowd" below and get the LP here (US) or here (elsewhere).

Big Blood

Back in February, Maine family band Big Blood released and excellent LP, "Do You Wanna Have a Skeleton Dream?" which i missed because a whole lot of stuff started happening right around that moment.  Anyway, you can never be too late to this kind of thing, so just appreciate the sounds you find when you finally find them.  The trio trades in psych folk, lo-fi reverb, and garage and bedroom pop, throwing in elements of dream pop, '60s girl group aesthetics, and more.  They've also got a back catalog of 20 albums or something, so i've certainly got some digging to do.  Anyway, the new record closes with a lovely cover of Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria."  Check it out below, download the album here from Dontrustheruin and grab the LP here from Feeding Tube.