Flanked by Laraaji, Shahzad Ismaily, Bill Frisell and more, Merope return to stroom with a set of exquisitely formed future-ancient tapestries, this time vaporising their Lithuanian folk outlines with glassy electronics bit.ly/3YD1yDl

Leave Another Day review up on Pitchfork pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Wrote about a fantastic autumn record by Milan W., from STROOM scoops pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

their most blissed-out tapestry yet daily.bandcamp.com/essential-rele… on Merope's Véjula

3 x Stroom w Vėjula, Aporia and Black Zodiac

A convenient memory is truly an amazing gift

You pay the grocer You fix the toaster Kiss the host good-bye Then you break a window Burn the soufflé? Scream the lullaby

I Want To Have The Master Bedroom Decorated First

💛🧡💚🧡💛 Very happy this one is out worldwide! MEROPE - VĖJULA STRLP-094 / GRAN22 Merope’s most experimental full length to date, Vėjula is a celebration of collaboration and playfulness. Featuring Shahzad Ismaily, Laraaji and Bill Frisell. stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/v-jula

Goodness! 14.12

Nobody asked me but I made another mix. As usual, favourites only, including Stacks, dirt , some STROOM scoops, but also Frankie Knuckles, Carme López, Tara Clerkin Trio... mixcloud.com/het_effekt/but…

My man Ziggy at Meakusma in “Best of 2024” mixes by Mixmag m.soundcloud.com/studioneau/nos…

Substrata

#TodaysListening #BestOf24 Milan W.: Leave Another Day Immaculately composed & arranged, plaintive hazy pastoral dreampop with an instant classic feel... STROOM scoops stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/leave-an…

Our thoughts on all this week's releases in one place... bit.ly/49lzDNr

In The Quietus I review the year in Central and Eastern European music, pick 10 records, 5 reissues and highlight the importance of Raphael Rogiński and the late Vojtěch Havel @mappa_editions Unsound @mondoj_ STROOM scoops Glitterbeat Records @InstantClassicL thequietus.com/tq-charts/colu…

辺境トライバルとポップを結ぶ類稀なレーベルSTROOMよりMilan W.の傑作が再入荷中、そしてMeropeの新作！ lowyardrecords.com/product/milan-… lowyardrecords.com/product/merope…

'No one wants to think about dentistry as being a practice of touch' laments Marianna Maruyama as the production of Hessel Veldman inhales like a suction device, on 'Viktorija' from Salt which gestures towards sensuousness without gleeking. culturedarm.com/marianna-maruy… STROOM scoops

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