Our Monthly Playlist selection of choice music and Choice Releases list from the last month.
We decided at the start of the year to change things a little with a reminder of not only our favourite tracks from the last month but also a list of choice albums too. This list includes both those releases we managed to feature and review on the site and those we just didn’t get the room for – time restraints and the sheer volume of submissions each month mean there are always those records that miss out on receiving a full review, and so we have added a number of these to both our playlist and releases list.
Keep an eye out next month for our end of the year lists; a compilation of all the choice releases from 2025.
November’s Choice Albums (in alphabetical order):
Babau ‘The Sludge of the Land’
(Artetetra) Review
Bad Trips ‘Nothing But Trouble’
Review
The Cindys ‘S-T’
(Breakfast Records/Ruination Records) Review
The Flower Press ‘Slowdance’
Review
Imperial Motors ‘Charlie Don’t Surf’
Review
Neon Kittens ‘21 Minutes of Adventure’
(Metal Postcard Records) Review
The Noisy ‘The Secret Ingredient Is Even More Meat’
(Audio Antihero) Review
Plants Heal ‘Forest Dwellers’
(Quindi) Review
Shoko Nagai ‘Forbidden Flowers’
(Infrequent Seams) Review
SML ‘How You Been’
(International Anthem) Review
Super Grupa Bez Fałszywej Skromności ‘The Book Of Job’
(Huveshta Rituals) Review
Suntou Susso ‘Jaliya Silokang: The Path Of A Griot’
Review
The Playlist:
Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist #65: Karen Dalton, Dr. John, Taylor Hawkins, Mira Calix…
April 10, 2022
PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona
The blog’s imaginary radio show, the Social is a rummage through Dominic Valvona’s record collection, and an accumulation of music he’s picked up other the decades, plus some newish tracks that didn’t make the Monolith Cocktail’s monthly playlist of brand new releases. With no themes, no lines drawn, choice music comes from across the generations, from across the world, and from any genre you can think of.
As with previous editions Dominic marks certain picky album anniversaries (Dr. John’s Gumbo, and Big Star’s #1 Record albums from ’72, and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Henry’s Dream from ’92) and deaths (really in this case, the all too soon loss of experimental electronic innovator Mira Calix, and Bonham incarnated, and here on this track, an incarnation of Dennis Wilson, Taylor Hawkins).
Smattered amongst that lot are 30 other eclectic tracks from Karen Dalton (a Beat Club of ‘One Night Of Love’, recently unearthed and released by Light In The Attic), Jamie Branch, Bruiser Wolf, Gil Trythall, July, Bill Nelson, Yukihiro Takahashi, Donny Hathaway and Clinic. See the full 38-track list after the link below:
IN FULL, THOSE TRACKS ARE::::
Joyce Street ‘That Man Of Mine’
Karen Dalton ‘One Night Of Love (Live at the Beat Club, 1971)’
Dr. John ‘Little Liza Jane’
Jaimie Branch ‘theme 001’
Caetano Veloso ‘Alfömega’
Eris Drew ‘Quivering In Time’
Bruiser Wolf & Danny Brown ‘I’m An Instrument’
Dead End & Secondson ‘Let The Music Talk’
Rodney P, DJ Die and Indigo Kid ‘Holes In The Building’
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath ‘MRA’
Saãda Bonaire ‘Woman’
Léa Sen ‘Hyasynth’
Mira Calix ‘I’m In Love With The End’
Gil Trythall ‘Last Date’
Marcello Gigante, Aristide Bascerano, Nora Orlandi ‘Gardenia’
Franco Battiato ‘Bandiera Bianca’
Krisma ‘C.Rock’
Stark Reality ‘Pretty Music’
July ‘Jolly Mary’
The Stroppies ‘No Joke’
Ed Dowie ‘Number Eight wire’
Body/Head ‘Actress’
Coágul ‘L’edat de bronze’
Paul Leary ‘What Are You Gonna Do’
Nick And The Bad Seeds ‘Brother, My Cup Is Empty’
Bill Nelson ‘Banal’
Big Star ‘The Ballad Of El Goodo’
Loose Fur ‘Laminated Cat’
Willie Dunn ‘I Pity The Country’
Taylor Hawkins ‘Holy Man’
Ghost Funk Orchestra & Golden Rules ‘Asphalt Homeland’
Dashiell Hedayet ‘Long Song For Zelda’
Yukihiro Takahashi ‘2021 – Youshinori Sunahara Remaster’
Von Südenfed ‘The Rhinohead’
Pacho Dávila, Daniel Correa, Hector Marín ‘Sombras de Siboney’
Donny Hathaway ‘I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (Pts. I & II)’
Clinic ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’
The Brothers And Sisters ‘Just Like A Woman’
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