As you can see, our week started with a load of Can albums, and a pretty concerted celebration of Jaki Liebezeit. Here, though, are this week’s key arrivals: three strong new songs by Ryley Walker, performed live for Aquarium Drunkard; an excellent preview of Jaxe Xerxes Fussell’s forthcoming album; Thundercat’s ravishing yacht rock jam featuring Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald; Lambchop covering Prince; a new single from Promised Land Sound; and these three wonderful Erasmo Carlos reissues from Light In The Attic, which made me feel a bit of a fraud thinking of myself as a Tropicalia expert when I’d never come across them before. Am very much looking forward to sharing Arbouretum, Joan Shelley, Wooden Wand and Feral Ohms music as soon as I can but, in the meantime, thanks as ever for listening.
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1 Can – Future Days (Spoon)
2 Can – Ege Bam Yasi (Spoon)
3 Can – Flow Motion (Spoon)
4 Can – Monster Movie (Spoon)
5 Can – Tago Mago (Spoon)
6 Various Artists – The Hired Hands (Scissor Tail)
7 Elliott Smith – Either/Or: Expanded Edition (Kill Rock Stars)
8 Arbouretum – Song Of The Rose (Thrill Jockey)
9 Michele Mercure – Eye Chant (Freedom To Spend)
10 Philippe Baden Powell – Notes Over Poetry (Far Out)
11 Jesus & Mary Chain – Damage And Joy (Warner Brothers)
12 Feral Ohms – Feral Ohms (Silver Current)
14 Erasmo Carlos – Erasmo Carlos E Os Tremendões (Light In The Attic)
15 Erasmo Carlos – Erasmo Carlos (Light In The Attic)
16 Joan Shelley – Joan Shelley (No Quarter)
17 Wooden Wand – Clipper Ship (Three Lobed Recordings)
18 Jake Xerxes Fussell – What In The Natural World (Paradise Of Bachelors)
19 On Fillmore – Happiness Of Living (Northern Spy)
20 Lambchop – When You Were Mine (Merge)
21 Thundercat – Show You The Way (Feat Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins) (Brainfeeder)
22 Promised Land Sound – By The Rain (Paradise Of Bachelors)