Playlist 574 - Mar 2026: be sure to spiral

spring has thrown up a bumper crop

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Playlist
1. Colleen – Mis armas se habían caído al suelo (Thrill Jockey) (playing Silent Green, Berlin, May 26, w/ Midori Hirano)
2. Juha Maki-Patola – Moment 2 (130701)
3. Seamus Fogarty – Ships (Lost Map Records/Sing a Song Fighter) (playing Kilkenny Roots Festival, May 3)
4. Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection – Jackie paints (Full Time Hobby) (playing Kilkenny Roots Festival, May 3)
5. Craig Fortnam & Laurent Valero – Cries of London (Dark Companion Records)
6. Anadol & Marie Klock – Rentrer a la maison (Pingipung) (playing Point Ephemere, Paris, May 29)
7. Special Friend – Clipping (Skep Wax)
8. Bill Wells feat. Norman Blake – El, El, El (Karaoke Kalk)
9. Memorials – Dropped down a well (Fire Records) (playing The Lexington, London, Apr 29)
10. Penny Arcade – Everything’s easy (Tapete Records)
11. Heavenly – Scene stealing (Skep Wax) (playing Wales Goes Pop, Cardiff, Apr 4)
12. Le Millipede – Lovelock 1974 (Radical Hope) (playing Pathos, Munich, Apr 30)
13. The Notwist – Projectors (Morr Music) (playing Astra, Berlin, Apr 27)
14. Marla Hansen – I inside the old I dying (Karaoke Kalk)
15. Maisy Owen – On my way down (Tompkins Square)
16. Haylie Davis – Wandering Star (Fire Records)
17. Titus Maz – Anja (Titus Productions)
18. Dobrawa Czocher – Phoenix (130701) (playing Scena MONK, London, May 18)
19. Dan Moore – A shift in the land (bandcamp)
20. Dreamwave – Over you (Stolen Body Records) (playing Manchester Psych Festival, Sept 5)
21. Graham Reynolds – Pevensey (Fire Records) (playing Moth Club, London, Apr 30)
22. Magic Tuber Stringband – Tribute to the angels (Thrill Jockey)
23. Hiro Ama – Booster (PRAH Recordings)
24. Les Imprimés – Get lost (Big Crown Records)
25. Homer feat Kendra McKinley – New wellness (Big Crown Records)
26. lucky break – Crush (Fire Records)
27. Miss Grit – Mind disaster (Mute)
28. Marco Benevento feat Marianne Mirage – Turandot (Big Crown Records)
29. Marisa Anderson – Taqsim for guitar (Thrill Jockey) (playing UCC Library, Cork, Sept 10)
30. OOIOO – Gamel BE SURE TO SPIRAL (Thrill Jockey)
31. Richard Neuberg – Saltwater (bandcamp)
32. Cormac O Caoimh – Saving a song (bandcamp) (playing The Woodstack Café, Kildare, Apr 18)
33. Setting – Gum bump (Thrill Jockey)
34. Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw – Novus Annus Adiit (Fire Records)
35. Wings of Desire – Nothing left to give (WMD Recordings)
36. Bill Callahan – Pathol O.G. (Drag City)
37. Bhajan Bhoy – Yangqin Beach (Cardinal Fuzz/Feeding Tube Records)

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