Playlist 577 - 2026 Mid Year Review

it's the middle of the year...here's the middle of the year review

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Playlist
1. The Notwist – Projectors (Morr Music)
2. Boa Morte – The following on (Gare du Nord Records)
3. Marisa Anderson – Taqsim for guitar (Thrill Jockey) (playing Boole Library, University College Cork, Sept 10)
4. Les Imprimés – Get lost (Big Crown Records)
5. Blumi – Jaguar (Capitane Records)
6. Yael Naim – Solaire (Mouselephant)
7. Micha Acher/Henry & The Ghost Project – Radio Four (Alien Transistor)
8. Rattling Ark – Omos Silverskin (bandcamp) (playing Boole Library, University College Cork, July 23)
9. Magic Tuber Stringband – Where the place becomes forgetting (Thrill Jockey)
10. Season 2 – Abundance of power (Upset The Rhythm)
11. Library Card – Out of context (At Ease)
12. The Telescopes – Revolutionary blues (Tapete Records)
13. Dog Chocolate – Employee (Upset The Rhythm)
14. Bill Wells feat Norman Blake – El El El (Karaoke Kalk)
15. Bill Wells feat Aby Vulliamy – Tie your hands (Karaoke Kalk)
16. Colleen – Antidoto (Thrill Jockey)
17. Peals – Believers (Thrill Jockey)
18. Juha Maki-Patola – Moment 2 (130701)
19. Dan Moore – A shift in the land (bandcamp)
20. Le Millipede – Lovelock 1974 (Radical Hope)
21. Anadol & Marie Klock – Rentrer a la maison (Pingipung)
22. Tanya Donnelly & Chris Brokaw – Novus annus adlit (Fire Records)
23. Penny Arcade – Everything’s easy (Tapete Records)
24. Special Friend – Clipping (Skep Wax)
25. Haylie Davis – Wandering star (Fire Records)
26. Richard Neuberg – Saltwater (bandcamp)
27. Bill Callahan – Stepping out for air (Drag City)
28. Seamus Fogarty – Fire (Lost Map Records)
29. Spencer Cullum – Jackie paints (Full Time Hobby)
30. Shannon Lay – Past the veil (All the best)
31. Memorials – Cut glass hammer (Fire Records)
32. Wings of Desire – Nothing left to give (WMD Recordings)
33. Miss Grit – Tourist mind (Mute)

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