Definitely with you on Julia Jacklin. Pool Party deserves a mention. She sounds like she’s stepped right out of a David Lynch movie
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I won’t post them all here but I do a round up of singles and EPs that are grabbing me every now and then on the blog. It’s a real mixed bag from Japanese ambient to dreamy techo via reissued gospel and wierdy fusions…
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If you haven’t caught this series of seasonal releases on the ever interesting Cached Media then dive in. This is the most recent, but they all hover around the neo-classical-ambient-folk fusion world. I don’t know how they’ve been so prolific in a short space of time and managed to hold down such quality.
There’s hardly any African producers making ambient music - discuss! So it’s nice to hear KMRU is not letting his new Berlin home affect the warmth & swing of his ambient transmissions as he hits send from Kenyan Space Program HQ with his most rhythmic offering for a while, for Injazero Records.
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Curated by the ever reliable @jeffreee check this wonderful Acid folk tribute to Ted Lucas, one of Detroit’s psyche rock 70’s originals by an A-List of modern folk voyagers on @perpetualdoom. A real purple tinged, future fringed look into a visionary mind & freakier time.
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The broken beat scene was a behind studio doors game with little live endeavour but Turbulance are helping rectify that by putting some three piece jazz fusion bump & future funk into the still bubbling scene for Cooperation Records. Get your midweek shuffle on.
Hitch a ride with Car Culture & Lighthead Records as they light New Age psychedelic pathways through the VC corrupted digital desert & rubbish strewn consumer society wastelands to reveal 5D printed cottages in a greener, cleaner, happier place with their pleasingly unhinged psilocybin powered chill out collages on repeat, lest we forget where we came from.
Just got this on now, the ambient tracks are as lush as always, but I’m not as convinced with the beats on the second track
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It’s rare foray into beats from him and it shows a bit for sure, he’s more a vibes man 
Tel Aviv’s Sababa 5 are always worth a spin. I’m not sure if it’s where music is at in 2021, but it’s certainly where I’m at 
Sababa 5 (feat. Yurika) - Nasnusa - ナスヌーサ - 7" Vinyl | Batov Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0Sn9g8l5Y
Tokyo Midnight - 東京ミッドナイト
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Massive fan of Julianna Barwick (third in on the playlist) and didn’t know of the collaboration with Will Tyler so double thanks. Splendid playlist.
I wouldn’t claim to know where anything’s at but with a few honorourable exceptions like that amazing new Rude Movements Francois K remix, I hardly bother with the classic house sound now, whereas the slower stuff via Hardway Brothers, Dan Wainwright, Clandestino, Zillas on Acid et al is far more my thing. + the real soundscape specialists like Steve Moore or Seahawks.
The term deep house has sadly been completely corrupted by those that don’t know and if anyone talks about melodic techno (code for prog) that’s usually an instant red flag/card
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This is so achingly beautiful. Thank you for that.
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Future classic.
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There is something magical about the best Brazilian music and @dominuslancelius has always been a conduit between the country’s greats & the best contemporary sounds of this most musical of lands. From his new Portuguese home he ploughs a largely sweet furrow with brief swerves into 21st century microdosed Tropicalia for @bananaandlouierecord. It’s a start to finish joy sure to brighten up any day.
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Just the fact that John Andrews has an imaginary band called The Yawns was enough to sell me on the sunny West Coast delights of his new LP for WOODSIST RECORDS, the fact it is a reassuring arm around the acid folk vanguard & great singer songwriters of the 60s means I’m now a fan.
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Ever stylistically restless but always quality assured, Colleen strips back her musical toolkit to concentrates on squeezing human emotions & otherworldly sounds out of the few boxes at her disposal, then ices them with her dreamy vocals, on this poignant exploration of life’s up & downs for Thrill Jockey Records.
Taking a trip back in musical time is a fitting way for Marinero to say farewell to the San Francisco of his youth as he surfs the gentrification wave to LA for Hardly Art, buoyed by his easy breezy somewhat cheesy, 60s singer songwriter, vintage Latin pop & orchestral exotica board.
With echoes of Long Beach’s free thinking, freak friendly past & the spirit of West Coast jazz strong, the improvised acid folk fusion of Chris Schlarb & Chad Taylor for Astral Spirits, recorded in a single session, is a cosmic joy - tune in and turn on.
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Great funky global fusion. We’re in the golden age of musical fusion as well as a period of intense Retromania (see the book of the same name by Simon Reynolds for a great read on the subject), so it’s definitely where music is at - as is anthing released in 2021 really 