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.
All entries in the Choice Releases list are displayed alphabetically. Meanwhile, our Monthly Playlist continues as normal with all the choice tracks from October, taken either from reviews and pieces written by me – that’s Dominic Valvona – and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea. Our resident Hip-Hop expert Matt Oliver has also put forward a smattering of crucial and highlighted tracks from the rap arena.
CHOICE RELEASES FROM THE LAST MONTH OR SO:
Bedd ‘Do Not Be Afraid’
Review
Joel Cusumano ‘Waxworld’
(Dandyboy Records) Review
Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming ‘Ars Ludicra’
(More Is More Records) Review
Will Glaser ‘Music of The Terrazoku, Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future’
(Not Applicable) Review
Amira Kheir ‘Black Diamonds’
(Sterns Music/Contro Culture Music) Review
The Legendary Ten Seconds ‘Ricardian Churchward’
Review
NiCKY ‘with’
(PRAH Recordings) Review
Picniclunch ‘snaxbandwitches’
Review
Cosimo Querci ‘Rimane’
(Quindi Records) Review
Širom ‘In the Wind of Night, Hard-Fallen Incantations Whisper’
(Glitterbeat Records)
Striped Bananas ‘Eternity Forest’
Review
Sum of R ‘Spectral’
Tortoise ‘Touch’
(International Anthem X Nonesuch Records) Review
Vexations ‘A Dream Unhealthy’
(Cruel Nature Records) Review
Violet Nox ‘Silvae’
(Somewherecold Records) Review
THE PLAYLIST::
Howling Bells ‘Heavy Lifting’
Melody’s Echo Chamber ‘Eyes Closed’
Arcigrandone & Sone Institute ‘Ancide Sol La Morte’
Pray-Pax ‘Can’t’
Peter Evans Being & Becoming ‘Pulsar’
Petter Eldh Ft. Savannah Harris ‘MIDSUM BREW’
Myka 9, Blu & Mono En Stereo ‘Battle’
Jesse the Tree & Sage Francis ‘A Bad MFer’
Verb T & Vic Grimes ‘Distraction’
Elsio Mancusco & Berto Pisano ‘Nude per l’assassino’
Joker Starr Ft. AnyWay Tha God & Jazz T ‘Don’t Try to Test’
Summers Sons Ft. Ben B.C ‘Promises’
Sebastian Rojas ‘Pulmon Del Tropico’
Amira Kheir ‘Rabie Aljamal (Spring of Wonder)’
Oswald Slain ‘Cranberry Juice’
NiCKY ‘I Saw You’
The Legendary Ten Seconds ‘Bones in the River’
Edward Rogers ‘Astor Place’
Joel Cusumano ‘Death-Wax Girl’
The Stripped Bananas ‘Vampire of Mine’
Bedd ‘Paulie’s a Bum’
Legless Trials ‘American Russ Never Sleeps’
Vexations ‘Let Me In’
OvO ‘Gemma’
Sum of R ‘Violate’
GRABENFUSSS ‘Broken Kingdoms’
Cosimo Querci ‘Rimanemai’
Valley Voice ‘As Though I Knew’
Samara Cyn ‘vitamins n minerals’
The Strange Neighbour ‘No Mans Land’
Truth by Design ‘Stray Shots’
The Cool Kids, Sir Michael Rocks & Chuck Inglish ‘We Got Clips’
Dillion & Paten Locke ‘Always Never’
Sol Messiah & Connect The Dots Movement ‘Small axe wins the battle’
Tortoise ‘Works and Days’
Sirom ‘For You, This Eve, the Wolves Will Be Enchantingly Forsaken’
Violet Nox ‘Whisper’
Liz Cooper ‘New Day’
Sweeney ‘Silent J’
RULES ‘Run Boy’
Tinariwen ‘Chaghaybou – Adalan’
For the last 15 years both me and the MC team have featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world: ones that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored, and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love or interest in. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to say thanks or show support, than you can now buy us a coffee or donate via https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail
Monolith Cocktail Monthly Revue: January 2022: Trupa Trupa, Jam Baxter, Binker & Moses, Silverbacks…
January 28, 2022
PLAYLIST REVUE/Picked By Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea’ and Graham Domain
The inaugural “revue” playlist of 2022 from the Monolith Cocktail team picks up on a few stragglers from the end of last year plus a load of eclectic treasures from the last month. The Monthly is a sort of summary; an encapsulation of the music we’ve loved, reviewed and picked up on during January.
That track list in full::
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee ‘Kurunba’
Avalanche Kaito ‘Dabalomuni’
Melt Yourself Down ‘Balance’
Detective Larsson ‘Magic Show’
Trupa Trupa ‘Uniforms’
Thyla ‘Amber Waits’
Claptrap ‘Out Of’
Spaceface ‘Long Time’
Kristine Leschper ‘Picture Window’
RULES ‘Ghost’
Labelle ‘élude’
Nyokabi Kariuki ‘Equator Song’
Pleasure Craft ‘Dead Weight’
Lion’s Drum ‘Kami Shintai’
Selci ‘Ghost’
The Jazz Butcher ‘Running On Fumes’
Tom Shotton ‘Here, Always’
Wesley Gonzalez ‘Greater Expectations’
FNKPMPN ‘The Typical Boob’
Sylph ‘Ancient Hole’
Rob Burger ‘Hotel For Saints’
Letters From Mouse ‘Elizabeth’
Sarah Vaughan ‘Inner City Blues’
Kojey Radical Ft. Knucks ‘Payback’
Jam Baxter ‘Go On’
Cephas Teom ‘Primordial Forms’
Buck & Gase And Rahrah Gabor ‘Pass Impasse’
Andrew Heath, Phonsonic & Simon McCorry ‘The Passage Of Time (Live)’
King Kashmere, Cupp Cave, Herrmutt Lobby & Booda French ‘Donuts’
The Doppelgangaz ‘Concord Grapes’
Nelson Dialect & Mr Slipz ‘Only Just Begun’
Binker And Moses ‘Accelerometer Overdose (Edit)’
Ashinoa ‘Disguised In Orbit’
Bollards ‘Plate Up’
Salem Trials ‘Funkytown’
Chris Church ‘We’re Going Downtown’
Michael Rother & vittoria Maccabruni ‘Exp 1’
Laurie Anderson – The Arca Remix ‘Big Science’
Kate Havnevik ‘Dream Her To Life’
Bagaski ‘Campan’
Roedelius & Tim Story ‘Crisscrossing’
EXEK ‘Unseasonable Warmth’
Deserta ‘Where Did You Go’
Silverbacks ‘Archive Material’
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