Playlist 538 - March 2023: a time to blossom

New music for the spring.

Enjoy.

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Playlist
1. Modern Cosmology – A time to blossom (Duophonic UHF Disk)
2. The Telescopes – Butterfly (Tapete)
3. Arborist – Matisse (Kirkinriola Records)
4. Audioweb – Remember that Monday (Nowhere)
5. Naima Bock – Lines (Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction) (playing Wide Awake Festival, London, May 27)
6. Nation of Language – Sole obsession (Play It Again Sam) (playing Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona/Madrid, June 2/9)
7. Okay Kaya – Jazzercise (Jagjaguwar) (playing The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, Apr 3)
8. POZI – Pest control (Prah Recordings) (playing 100 Club, London, June 14)
9. Rozi Plain – Painted the room (Memphis Industries) (playing Brighten the Corners Festival, Ipswich, June 10)
10. Sara Wolff – Don’t feed the birds
11. Tony Njoku – Lost forever (Moshi Moshi Records) (playing Wanderfal Festival, Falmouth, Apr 8)
12. Henrik Lindstrand – Hvid (One Little Independent)
13. Cormac O Caoimh – Didn’t we
14. MD Pallavi & Andi Otto – Song for broken ships (Pingipung)
15. Chalk – Asking (Dutch Tilt) (playing Road to the Great Escape, Dublin, May 8)
16. Decisive Pink – Destiny (Fire Records)
17. Aoife Nessa Frances – Automatic love (Partisan Records)
18. Christian Cohle – Another life
19. Cory Hanson – Twins (Drag City)
20. Robert Forster – It’s only poison (Tapete) (playing Cyprus Avenue, Cork, July 26)
21. Heart Shaped – Felt (Poison Moon Records) (playing Ulster Sports Club, Belfast, Apr 15)
22. House of All – Magic sound (Tiny Global Productions) (playing The White Hotel, Manchester, May 25)
23. Terry – Gold duck (Upset The Rhythm)
24. The Toads – Nationalsville (Upset The Rhythm)
25. Josephine Foster – Haunted house (Fire Records) (playing Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, Sept 3)
26. Nagasaki Swim – The weight Pt 2 (Excelsior Recordings)
27. Bill Pritchard – Lance (Tapete)
28. Panic Pocket – Mad half hour (Skep Wax) (playing Skep Wax Summer Fete, The Lexington, London, June 30)
29. Shangri-Lass – Parallel (Redundant Span)
30. Special Friend – Bete (Skep Wax/Howlin’ Banana Records/Hidden Bay Records)
31. Ghost Woman – Anne, if (Full Time Hobby) (playing The Moth Club, London, May 6)
32. Calexico – Not even Stevie Nicks (City Slang) (Feast of Wire 21st Anniversary)
33. Immaterial Possession – To the fete (Fire Records)
34. Surprise Chef – Rosemary Hemphill (Big Crown Records) (playing Village Underground, London, May 30)
35. Me Lost Me – Eye witness (Upset The Rhythm) (playing Hyper Inverter Festival, Ulverston, June 30-July 2)
36. Robocop Kraus – On repeat (Tapete)

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