What's your medicine?

Park Avenue Music | For Your Home or Office
It seems that the 'girl-singer coupled with a laptop wielding electronic musician type boy'band is perhaps a dime a dozen these days, but Park Avenue Music is an exceptional blossom in that venue. Glitchy, yes, but tasty. Breathy, yes, but so interestingly rendered and edited an composed, I can't stop listening to it. It being an EP makes me want more, and keep an ear out for more, because these two have really got something going.

Milosh | Meme
Mike Milosh does it again. So much soul and richness from a white man. Sonically consistent, with a great use of FM bass sounds, gorgeous syncopated multi-tracked vocals. Oh so funky for eclectica. Girl music, for sure. Can't be beat or compared.

Kuchen Meets Mapstation | Kuchen Meets Mapstation
A wonderful fusion of pretty and clever. Mellow, innovative and optimistically pensive. This makes some of the best background music with its cut-up gentle guitars and warm electronics. Damn, where did the afternoon go?

Worm is Green | Automagic
What a perfect combination of my old-school dark days interests and my current northern sound ones. Inventive, warm, odd, and evocative. Such variation in sound as well from their cover of Joy Divisions Love Will Tear Us Apart" to soundscapes of "Small Reverb. This album has it all. Sultry trip-hop style vocals at times, glitchy and experimental at others, this album somehow is very cohesive and doesn't come off ass skitzo. I highly recommend this to anyone.

Geniuser | Mud Black
The album title is so appropriate I can't imagine a better one. It's a dark and mellow album, and kind of a downer, but in a really comforting healthy way. Featuring Michael Allen (the singer from the amazing Wolfgang Press). It's a dark glassed soho club/lounge with dark wall and candlelight. You just don't know what will happen there and it's O.K. Very Lynch in experience, you just don't really know what's going on under the skin of it all.

Populous | Queue For Love
If you ever need a pick-me-up after listening to Geniuser, then this is the perfect opposite. Bright, cheery, toe-tapping and playful. Like a drive around town on a hot day with the top down, Populous always manages to make interesting and fun music. Not an easy task for sure, fun usually ends up being dippy and trite, whereas this album is thougthful, AND optimistic. Very italian, actually.

Sybarite | Nonument
Arty New York musicians are so cool. Just when you think things have gotten stagnant in the US, this album demonstrates why living on the East Coast can be enjoyable and life affirming. With a really lovely combination of instruments and textures, this album is very well crafted and thoroughly enjoyable. It hearkens to what 4AD should have been doing for the last 7 years.