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how i'm feeling now (LP)

Charli XCX
Created in the isolation of lockdown, how i’m feeling now is raw, claustrophobic, and her most personal album. It traded polished production for distortion and frantic energy. It’s not just pop; it’s a document of a world vibrating at maximum anxiety. Read more

SOS Deluxe: LANA (LP)

SZA
LANA doesn't bother with a cohesive structure; it just spills everything out. SZA leans into the insecurity and the impulsive choices with a level of comfort for us to relate to. It’s a sprawl, but here, the lack of filter is the point. Read more
Jake Turner
Amoeba Hollywood

I'm a musician who grew up in Georgia before landing in California fifteen years ago. I toured internationally for nearly a decade as lead guitarist for the band Say Anything. These days I play guitar in Heavenward, and make music with my twin brother in our band, XO. I also run Shire Sound, a home studio where I mix, master, and session play on records. I worked at Fingerprints Music in Long Beach for seven years, and now I'm happy to be part of Amoeba Hollywood. Music has been the constant through every chapter of my life, and I'm grateful to be surrounded by it every day. You can find XO at xotheband.net & Heavenward at heavenwardband.bandcamp.com

Location Lost (LP)

Failure
If you've slept on Failure, this is your entry point. Seven albums in, these space-rock legends sound hungrier than ever, massive guitars, killer hooks, zero filler. Read more

Wired (LP)

Basement
Their first record in eight years sounds like a band hitting reset. Loud, unpolished, and honest, with just enough maturity to keep it from being a retread. Read more

Alone Together (LP)

Show Me The Body
Their fourth album, and their most powerful yet. New York hardcore heavyweights bring in an unlikely pair of first-time producers, Kenny Beats and Teddybears' Klas Åhlund, trading some of the noise for clarity without losing an ounce of intensity. If you only buy one hardcore record this year, make it this one. Read more

bitknot (LP)

feeble little horse
Fuzzy, glitchy indie rock with a pop sheen and a weird, endearing charm. Short and sharp at twenty-five minutes, it's the kind of record you'll want to run back the second it ends. Read more

Gospel Music (LP)

Joel Ross
One of the most exciting young voices in jazz right now. This vibraphonist channels his upbringing in the church into a sprawling, 17-track suite of soulful, groove-driven post-bop. Deep, spiritual, and endlessly rewarding, a must for any serious jazz collection. Read more

Inferno (LP)

Boards Of Canada
Thirteen years of silence, broken with their darkest, most cinematic work yet. Muffled rhythms, ghostly voices, and hints of the occult run through this eighteen-track return from the reclusive Scottish duo. Dense, mysterious, and worth the wait. Read more

If This Is It (LP)

DJ Seinfeld
His third album is his most mature and emotionally direct yet, weaving nostalgic house, UKG, and shimmering 2000s-tinged trance into a record about letting go. Confidence Man and SG Lewis both collab, but the real draw is how personal it feels, euphoric with a real ache underneath. His best work to date. Read more

I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try (LP)

Joshua Idehen
This British-Nigerian poet's debut album turns real hardship, divorce, depression, grief, into a euphoric dancefloor sermon. Paired with producer Ludvig Parment's soulful house beats, spoken word becomes something you can actually move to. Built around the viral "Mum Does The Washing," it's raw, honest, and somehow uplifting from start to finish. Read more

Swallowtail / Chrysalis (LP)

She's Green
This Minneapolis quintet calls their sound "moss music," and once you hear it, you'll get why. Two EPs combined into one gorgeous record, dreamy and wondrous on one side, rock-forward and driving on the other, all wrapped in lush, ethereal atmosphere. If you love getting lost in a record, this one's built for it. Read more

FEAR (LP)

Jared Mattson , Ruban Nielson
Two guitar greats, one pool day in Palm Springs, seven tracks of pure instrumental magic. Recorded almost by accident during their very first session together, this is warm, hazy, guitar-driven music that feels completely unforced. A must-hear for fans of either Mattson 2 or Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Read more
hiland
Amoeba Hollywood

Nitrous Nightmare Halloween Live '75 (LP)

Devo
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I Don't Know Who Needs to Hear This Right Now But They Are Never Coming Back and You Will Die Alone (LP)

B.A. Johnston
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The Golden D (Reissue) (LP)

Graham Coxon
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12 Golden Country Greats (Deluxe Edition) (LP)

Ween
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Returning Home: The Music of Marnie Weber (LP)

Marnie Weber
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Disque 4 -'76 Studio et Live (LP)

Les Rallizes Dénudés
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Lisa L.
Amoeba Hollywood

TIP: use the algorithm- don't let it use you! Question: Who wants to live in a world without artists? (Not me.) Observation: I'll never get over how awesome it is to talk to so many people, from all over the world, that consider music and movies to be an important part of who they are. What an honor.

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind (Other)

Yoko Ono

I'm so lucky that I got to see this. What an incredible thinker. I'm very late to a better understanding of what it was like for so many from that era to run into the buzzsaw of such a brilliant mind. Her art invites you to join in- to be present both physically and mentally. To make choices. Another unintentional member of the "subversives" that, through history, have the audacity to question power brokers and the status quo. And another glimpse into the gamut of reactions those types of questions evoke: fear, humor, kinship, etc. Go see it before it's gone!

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Rumspringa (Other)

ear

Stumbled across this and am intrigued by its oddness. I little like flipping through the FM dial (dating myself I know) that’s picking up random conversations with a sort of “found” electronic field under it all. It’s only available digitally right now, but had to mention it.

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