Sublime ambience, more Latin air, blastin’ frenetics, fuzz-drenched force and jazz grooves that swing.
We are really floating into Monday with such sublime sounds. Temporal Drift presents the first ever reissue of FLORA, Hiroshi Yoshimura’s long-overlooked ambient gem. Completed in 1987 but unreleased until its posthumous release in 2006, FLORA follows the sonic threads of his previous landmark GREEN and SURROUND releases - with meditative environmental soundscapes. Masterful and so graceful, but also punctuated with mischievous and inventive sonics. It bubbles! Gorgeousness to a deep degree.
+ Available on limited double Blue colour vinyl.
Following on from yesterday’s Sunday Classic, Arthur Verocai is back on the stereo today with a new pressing of this 2007 album, Encore. Thirty-five years after his iconic debut, Encore is the second release of his late career. Resurrected by Far Out Recordings, it’s a rich tapestry of samba-soul, cinematic flair and deep grooves that bridge the eras with real elegance.
A couple of more recent reissues next with a couple of really good ones back in press.
Self-released in 2021, underscores’ Fishmonger gets the deadAir Legacy Edition treatment. A genre-blurring cult classic of emo, trap, punk, and hyperpop chaos—now expanded with five remixes (feat. Virtual Riot, Lunice), two bonus tracks, and a 24-page lyric booklet. It can take a spin or so to adjust to the frenetics, but this is wildly ingenious and a proper trip across the stereo.
+ Limited double Cobalt / Blue colour vinyl.
Whisper it, but Mutilator Defeated At Last might be one of our very most favourite slabs from the ever fertile Thee Oh Sees discography. Nine tracks of pulverising, fuzz-drenched force. Sitting in the middle of a four album run in just 16 months, it is less playful than Drop, more colossal than Floating Coffin and full of those irrepressible Dwyer hooks. The synths shimmer, the mellow acoustics creep in, but make no mistake: this one hits hard.
Classic Black wax via DEATHGOD CORP.
Jazz heads are swinging this week.
Lou Donaldson’s Say It Loud is deep-grooves - funky, soulful, and unapologetically bold. Backed by Idris Muhammad, Blue Mitchell, Charles Earland and Jimmy Ponder, it all kicks off with a fiery take on James Brown’s “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud”.
Horace Silver leans even further into late-’60s grooves on Serenade to a Soul Sister - a vibrant set of originals recorded with two killer quintets. From the fiery swing of “Psychedelic Sally” to the soulful sway of the title track and tender charm of “Next Time I Fall in Love.” It really hums.
+ Both albums are Blue Note Classic Vinyl Editions in stereo. All-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
Lastly for today, we have unhinged, damaged art-punk from San Diego’s mid-’90s Gravity scene! Numero turn their gaze this week to Clikatat Ikatowi with the band’s full discography in a lush 3LP box called The Trials And Tribulations Of.. Remixed and remastered from the original tapes, the box includes a 24-page book tracing the chaos, context, and clatter of a vital underground moment.
+ Available on limited Cloudy Clear colour vinyl.
