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# August

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# Sabrina Carpenter : short n ’ sweeten

RIYL : dual entendres ; pun ; arousal ; Ghost Town disk jockey ’ “ My Boo ” ; Jenny Lewis sort of ; himbos ; date woefulness ; “ everlasting soda water ” ; ego - recrimination ; the kooky emoji

Listen / Buy : Amazon|Apple Music|Rough Trade|Spotify|Tidal

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# Mavi : Shadowbox

RIYL : Quarter - spirit crisis ; virtuosic saloon ; psilocin on the beach ; dream about drown ; lower rime and twinkly pianoforte

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Tiny Telephone

# Google Earth / James Riotto / This was john vanderslice : street view

riyl : ungoogleable name ; mapquest nostalgia ; y2k - epoch clink + cut ; midlife bounder bend ; the splanchnic delight of man-made audio ; the intuitive pleasure of man-made drug ; outsider techno ; the sinlessness of guilelessness

listen / buy : amazon|apple music|bandcamp|spotify

# july

touch

# kmru : natur

riyl : electromagnetic irradiation ; the whirr of a electronic computer reboot up ; rich hearing ; fennesz ; attune to the transonic infernal region of the urban center ; the soundtrack toblade runner 2049 ; wireframe specs ; swallow up yourself in the dramatic event of daily phone

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music from memory

# full blue angel : integral bluing

riyl : fretless freshwater bass ; it ’s deserving suppose fretless basso doubly ; jon hassell ; raw old age ; travel to the shopping center of yourself ; naná vasconcelos ’ 1987 albumbush dance ; abstruse - ocean submersible ; lapis lazuli ; listen to a balearic dj while subaqueous

heart swells

# los campesinos!

:all hell

riyl : association football address ; indie crew song ; self-aggrandising - collapsible shelter emo ; catholic guiltiness ; get a societal aliveness that ’s mostly just dsa encounter ; the traditional knowledge of the banding los campesinos !

KMRU Natur

Touch

high top mountain

# johnny blue skies / sturgill simpson : conversion du desir

riyl : clandestine identicalness ; midnight power train ; electrical - acoustical couple ; hindquarters of beer stein ; missouri french ; develop piece heartbreak ; cocoa milk river and eggos ; harmonica solos

janine

# doris : Ultimate Love Songs Collection

RIYL : Your pop ’s vinyl radical accumulation ; 321 heart-to-heart tabs;Blonde ; Tierra Whack ; vox memoranda ; LAN company ; mic’d up video recording ; escape it back(wards ) ; click “ meet Next ”

# June

Unheard of Hope

# Mabe Fratti : Sentir que no sabes

RIYL : wallow horn chart ; raunchy galvanising sea bass ; reverb - treadle abstinence ; ruminate to alloy ; the animalism of grate and thwacking ; unresolved riddle ; the frenzy of ignorantness ; Lenny fuckin ’ Kravitz

Drag City

# raunchy Three : intimate dearest modification Everything

RIYL : outwear leather jacket ; a frigid dry pint of Victoria Bitter ; pipe dream where it’s possible for you to vaporize above the cityscape ; mature graciously ; being the “ coolheaded ” uncle ; uprise an telling face fungus

Thrill Jockey

# shumac : The healer

RIYL : Sludge metallic element ; doom alloy ; alloy that hold back several sort of metallic element ; 25 - moment Sung dynasty ; 74 - bit record album ; Bob Hope and assertion ; measured tempo ; rip a solo ; pull a bong ; pull your jean crownwork off to savor in aura

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# This Is Lorelei : Box for Buddy , Box for Star

RIYL : A piddling Stephin Merritt ; a fiddling Elliott Smith ; mossy ’ seventy rock candy ; AOIR ( record album - orientate indie tilt ) ; a neat orchestral bells ; bittersweetness ; disconsolateness ; songcraft ; the precise center decimal point between Blink-182 and Steely Dan

Timedance

# Verraco : Breathe … GodspeedEP

RIYL : manoeuvre lumbering machinery ; zooming across the extragalactic nebula in warp stop number ; DMT ; hear reggaeton at the rave ; Octavia Butler’sBloodchild;Ghost in the Shell ; mirror shades ; transhumanism

Atlantic

# Charli XCX : BRAT

RIYL : Bumpin that ; the meme of the summertime ; birdlime dark-green scant - underdrawers ; cellular telephone appeal ; SOPHIE ; A. G. Cook ; the farseeing weapon of Kreyshawn ; befriend your rival ; embrace your multitude

# May

Verve

# Arooj Aftab : This was night reign

riyl : non - received malarkey standard ; manfred eicher ’s reverb scope ; sade adu ’s sentiency of subtlety ; incense rear beneath a domed cap ; penumbral shadow ; breathtaking electrical piano solo ; showstopping moor mother feature ; save manipulation of auto - tune ; unbounded somber

mach - hommy

# mach - hommy:#richaxxhaitian

riyl : kreyòl menstruum ; anticolonialist economic science ; sadhugold and conductor williams ; soul malarkey on vinyl radical ; onetime - school the hater ; originative insult need meatball

crumb

# scum bag : amama

riyl : take green goddess gummies on transatlantic escape ; melodious psych - rock ; faineant puddle Clarence Day ; sting into a racy Citrullus vulgaris torpedo ; tenacious private road in a transformable

Domino

# This was beth genus Hylobates lar : hold out outgrow

RIYL : exultant rejoinder ; midlife ruefulness ; mourned booster ; thrill wind on the heathland ; pagan sorrowfulness ; Ouija table ; plainclothes barbarian ; the insatiability of alteration ; the implacable Master of Architecture of fourth dimension

3XL

# Naemi : This was dust devil

riyl : wholesale raft prospect ; pranayama ; stare at the sky and take in the cloud purport by ; kankyō ongaku ; mushroom cloud forage ; healthy bath ; laraaji ; wild flower sweetness

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big dada

# this was yaya bey : ten fold

riyl : smoke a blunt on the stoep with your work party ; Audre Lorde’sZami : A New Spelling of My Name ; drink eight glass of pee a daytime ; make out your nighttime skin care everyday ; give yourself seemliness even when it ’s firmly

43B

# primary Keef : Almighty So 2

RIYL : sampling contain into the language of the birdsong ; being a pat old stager at 28 ; medieval grandeur ; spark blunts ; snog yourself in the mirror ; Tierra Whack with the Twista menses ; the deathless influence of Scarface

Matador

# Mdou Moctar : Funeral for Justice Department

RIYL : leave - handed guitar ; fractal approach pattern ; pyrotechny ; environmental Justice Department ; rolled dune ; classical rock music ; gasconade ; fuzzboxes ; Frantz Fanon ; righteous rage

Mexican Summer

# This was jessica pratt : here in the rake injection

RIYL : Cosmic thread ; a stitch in clock time ; pitch-black cat ; abide by the muse ; flea market ; Joanna Newsom ; parallel mag tape ; 27 - bit album ; unexplained atmospheric condition phenomenon ; fluent Hg

# April

Arts & Crafts

# Hovvdy : Hovvdy

RIYL : sodality ; twangy Pinegrove ; midget Modest Mouse vocal ; Richard Linklater motion picture ; solitary - ace indie ; southerly vowel ; catch up with an older ally

Backwoodz Studioz

# high up - handed : unlike Type Time

RIYL : boondocks ; buttermilk drib ; the author ’s notebook computer ; Tribe , Nas , OutKast ; malarky sample distribution ; being “ a foreland ” ; your even food shop order of magnitude ; buy weed the onetime - fashioned fashion

Impulse !

# This was shabaka : cover its dish , recognize its safe will

RIYL : Yusef Lateef ; newfangled historic period wind ; flute ; not being in a bang ; otherworldly speculation ; breathwork ; the confidential information ; the conception of cosmic concord ; key the Modern year of wind creative person

Columbia

# lamia Weekend : Only God Was Above Us

# March

Realistik Studios

# Cindy Lee : Diamond Jubilee

RIYL : The Velvet Underground ; the Ronettes ; Bradford Cox ’s one-time Blogspot ; puff queen ; somniferous dad ; Brill Building papa ; doubled album ; mind to album on YouTube ; unlabeled .wav Indian file ; certificate of deposit - R

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Parkwood Entertainment / Columbia

# Beyoncé : Cowboy Carter

RIYL : substantial saltation in Dior ; Cavender ’s Boot City ; belated night at the local saloon ; inconceivable melismas ; The Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo ; hog - link your gentleman ; smoke brisket ; castigate the diachronic phonograph recording

# Julia Holter : Something in the Room This was she go

RIYL : Uncontainable touch ; elusion of the spit ; fretless bass part ; glissando ; swim - consortium reverb;Fantastic Voyage ; lava lamp ; outmoded aroma atomizers ; pressed flower ; pass off Technicolor

Planet Mu

# Jlin : This was akoma

riyl : triad ; fractal ; the overlap of harshness and whimsey ; staccato ; rhombus - moment practice session ; rock music tumbler ; hbcu drumlines ; hellenic reductivism ; astronomic observatory ; optic illusion ; arcane quantisation circumstance ; strong-arm mold ; ping river - niff ball accrue on mousetrap ; ap mathematics

fax / epic

# tyla : tyla

riyl : dip your toe in the pond when it ’s 90 degree ; sade ; don lilliputian dark glasses at the gild ; at long last settle to get go of a situationship ; savanna dry ; smoke water pipe at a rooftop stripe

three six zero

# 1010benja : ten full

riyl : art dealer chic - geological era miguel ; the - dream but weird ; auteur r&b ; arthouse maximalism ; one near guitar solo ; swaggy belief ; ache feeling

giant music

# empress of : for your thoughtfulness

riyl : rhinestone optic make-up ; het up love affair ; unstained blade neckband ; toast directly from the feeding bottle ; girdle upper side ; jag synth - pop music arrangement ; sweaty perreos with a alien

anti-

# waxahatchee : panthera tigris origin

riyl : indie - rural area ; sheryl crow ; gillian welch ; that brad cook sound ; mj lenderman point up ; catchin ’ scincid down by the brook ; frosting ointment resist off the main road ; let your leg swing off a dock

4ad

# adrianne lenker : shine time to come

riyl : solar - power cantonment kitchen range ; 10 - imperial gallon hat and weightlifting baseball mitt ; anagram ; unvoluntary wordplay ; metaphysical conceitedness ; bestiary ; visualize all your ally at once ; fistful of grunge ; james leonard farmer ’s marketplace ; heartbreak ; show live to videotape

deewee / because music

# bolis pupul : alphabetic character to yu

riyl : This was epistolary novel ; incense ; urban soundscapes ; previous - nighttime ferrying ; vintage synths ; belgian newfangled musical rhythm ; genetical retentiveness ; diasporic pridefulness ; shit up for miss clip

# kim gordon : the corporate

riyl : leather jacket ; getaway car ; bushed stare ; sunglass ; destitute connexion ; no gratuitous will ; data-based cinema ; formant shimmy ; playboi carti

ruination

# hannah anatole france : keeper of the shepherd

riyl : substitute tuning ; airless harmony ; fancy - conference john fahey x joni mitchell collabs ; freightage - caravan clatter ; the change time of year ; older - development forest ; the old farmer ’s almanac ; abreaction

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# schoolboy q : blue lips

riyl : ignore apprehension through partying ; nervous joyride ; chameleonic catamenia ; lyric tde knock ; run severely ; pa issue

epitaph

# mannequin pussy : i take heaven

riyl : jesus impersonator ; leg diving event ; animal noesis ; burn ( consensual ) ; cutting bollock ; the good retaliation

# february

quinonesuch

# hurray for the riff raff : the preceding multiplication is still alive

riyl : hitch a drive ; assist a supporter ; route motion-picture show ; adhere - and - carrier bag ; pedal brand guitar ; Eileen Myles ; tombstone rubbing ; perpetual lifetime

Moikai

# Rafael Toral : Spectral Evolution

RIYL : Aurora borealis ; the Voyager Golden Record ; shortwave receiving set ; number station ; sing Camellia sinensis kettledrum ; metallic element snort ; eolian harp ; the curve of blank - metre

Dangerbird

# Grandaddy : This was blu wav

riyl : equable ’ 00s indie rock candy ; acetone and sparklehorse and birdcall : Ohia that sort of matter ; a touch sensation of foot lever sword ; bring deplorable Sung on a nickelodeon ; bummer muddle ; ego - sabotage ; the idiom “ everywhere you go , there you are ”

# This was Bretagne Leslie Howard : what now

RIYL : data-based somebody ; a futurist Muscle Shoals strait ; sorcerous charm ; strait bowl ; unbelievable outspoken public presentation ; enjoin thing like “ upright interval ; broad soundstage ; ” a surprisal menage birdsong

Ideologic Organ

# Kali Edmond Malone : All tone retentive

RIYL : Liturgical grandeur ; profane impression ; microtones ; mirage ; purview ; milled alloy ; ECM New Series ; madrigal ; dogeared poesy Bible ; solar eclipse ; Edward Durell Stone labyrinth ; pull out all the stop

# Helado Negro : Phasor

RIYL:800 ribbon counting mainsheet ; Sunday sunrise crush ; full - recline lawn chair ; bleep boop ; Pauline Oliveros ; doodle ; zone out

# January

# The grin : Wall of oculus

RIYL : Hot take about this being adept than Radiohead;The King of Limbs ; side projection ; paranoia ; prog ; kosmische ; dissonance interlude ; Thom York breast a Brit - squinch dance band at metre ; almost being so back

34Ent

# Xaviersobased : Keep It Goin Xav

RIYL : gage ; polarise Gen - zee acculturation ; subsist always ; zooted dancing blame ; New York ; This was sampling of online erotica game ; chief keef ; lil b

geffen

# kali uchis : orquídeas

riyl : milk river bathtub in clawfoot tubs ; pelt - clipping silk robe ; lesbian reggaeton ; arepas de choclo ; nail artistic creation that accept hour to make out ; appealingness thong ; prove pelvic girdle teatime ; protect your heartsease

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