The long awaited return of Glasgow’s LYLO is nigh. On 21/02/24, LYLO release their sublime new single ‘Hush’ to the waiting world. The track comes from their hotly anticipated new album ‘Thoughts Of Never’, the follow up to 2018’s critically acclaimed ‘Post Era’.
To launch the single LYLO will be performing live at @thesociallondon on Tuesday 20th Feb, release day eve w/ special guests @vera.sacra and DJ @emanuelpavlova
Tickets are on sale now from DICE
It’s all different down on the ranch, our best of list isn’t shared around a team, our favourite tracks are not popularised through single releases, Spotify playlists, or backhanders from major labels (we know you buy those top spots!), it’s just an honest wee list of the tracks that hit, mostly hidden in albums. I say that, but a few days working from home with 6Music on meant my ears were ambushed by those English Teacher and The Goa Express tracks!
Listen to the tracks in the playlist below and go seek out the tracks and support the artists if you can!
Kieran Hebden & William Tyler Darkness, Darkness (Psychic Hotline)
African Head Charge – Microdosing (On-U Sound)
Surprise Chef – Spiky Boi
Jonathan Rado – Farther Away (Western Vinyl)
Geese – I See Myself (Partisan)
Girl Ray – Everybody’s Saying That (Moshi Moshi)
Say She She – Reeling (Karma Chief)
Lael Neale – I Am The River (Sub Pop)
Loraine James – I DM U (Hyperdub)
Fievel Is Glauque – I’m Scanning Things I Can’t See (Fat Possum)
Eartheater – Crushing (Chemical X)
Yasmin Lacey – From A Lover (Own Your Own)
Liam Bailey – Dance With Me (Big Crown)
J Mahon – Death of the Ladies Man (Tax Gauche)
Bar Italia – Nurse! (Matador)
English Teacher – The World’s Biggest Paving Slab (Island)
The Tubs – Two Person Love (Trouble In Mind)
The Bug Club – Marriage (Bingo Records)
The Goa Express – Good Luck Charm (The Goa Express)
Eddie Chacon – Sundown (Stones Throw)
Albert – Wild Swimming (Tejas Music)
Sam Burton – Long Way Round (Partisan)
Cut Worms – Ballad of the Texas King (Jagjaguwar)
Hot Apple Band – One Day (I’ll See) (Earth Libraries)
Smokey Angle Shades – Green Eyes (Europa Sun)
@ – Star Game (Carpark)
James Howard – County Line (Faith and Industry)
Joanna Sternberg – I Will Be with You (Fat Possum)
Bonnie Prince Billy – Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You (Domino)
In no particular order, these were the records that I couldn’t get enough of in 2023. New artists and some old discoveries reissued this year - these make the same list in my book.
Bowes Road Band
JIM – Love Makes Magic (Vicious Charm)
The Tubs – Dead Meat (Trouble In Mind)
The Lemon Twigs – Harmony Everywhere (Captured Tracks)
Everything Has A Life – J Mahon (Taxi Gauche)
Christopher Alan Durham & The Peacetime Consumers – Kicks or Macabre (Soft Abuse)
Just A Touch – Various (Athens Of The North)
McNeal and Wilbur Niles – THRUST (We Are Busy Bodies)
Mad Anthony – The Lost Tapes (Earth Libraries)
Bowes Road Band – Back in the HCA (Jakarta)
Randy & The Ghosts – On The Lam (Riding Easy)
Geese – 3D Country (Partisan)
Albert – Time Well Spent (Tejas Music)
The honourable mention list is really good too! These albums just came out in the past month or so and haven’t sunk in yet, they were played a lot and enjoyed, but didn’t quite grip the speakers in the obsessive way the list above did. Saying that, these were great and more than worth checking out…
African Head Charge – Trip To Bolgatanga (On-U Sound)
Jonathan Rado – For Who the Bell Tolls For (Western Vinyl)
Girl Ray – Prestige (Moshi Moshi)
Yasmin Lacey – Voice Notes (Own Your Own)
James Howard – Peek-a-Boo (Faith and Industry)
Smokey Angle Shades - Let Go Of The Past (Europa Sun)
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