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June 25, 2021

Who’d guess that one day Sir Tom Jones would kick off our weekly playlist, let alone with a 9 minute spiritual psych exploration? Well… he’s doing exactly that with “Lazarus Man,” and we couldn’t be more excited. This week’s playlist is full of other surprises, too! Enjoy.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Tom Jones – Lazarus Man (Universal Music)

Spellling – Boys at School (Sacred Bones (header image)

Low – Days Like These (Sub Pop Records)

Tropical Fuck Storm – G.A.F.F. (Joyful Noise Recordings)

Zahn – Tseudo (Crazysane Records)

Delving – Delving (Stickman Records)

Zement – Soil (Crazysane Records)

Polypores – Exopheromones (Behind The Sky)

Thief – Apple Eaters (Prophecy Productions)

Otay:onii – Child No.22 (WV Sorcerer Productions)

Nuha Ruby Ra – Cruel (Brace Yourself Records)

Backxwash, Michael Go – Burn To Ashes (Ugly Hag Records)

Sugar Horse – Fat Dracula (Small Pond Recordings)

Splinter – Brand New Future (Robotor Records)

Cobra Man – Powered Up (Cool, Nice)

Green Lung – Leaders of the Blind (Svart Records)

Comet Control – Secret Life (Tee Pee records)

Yagow – Getting Through… Is The Where The Magic Happens (Crazysane Records)

June 18, 2021

Thanks to every one of you who ‘likes’ our playlist on Spotify and joins us weekly for the latest offering of Essential Sounds. If you don’t already follow the playlist, please do – it would mean the world! Click through to a freshly picked bunch of new and inspiring tracks!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Lingua Ignota – Pennsylvania Furnace (Sargent House)

MJ Guider – Gloria: Small Dance of Gratitude (Modemain)

Senyawa – Gendang Kiamat (Dekoder)

The Body x Big ‡ Brave – Oh Sinner (Thrill Jockey)

Botanist – Antirrhinum (Prophecy Productions)

Health x Tyler Bates x Chino Moreno – Anti-Life (Loma Vista Recordings)

Filth is Eternal – On The Rake (Church Road Records)

Knoll – Gored Veil (Self-Release)

Wormwitch – Abracadabra (Prosthetic Records)

Hangman’s Chair – Cold & Distant (Nuclear Blast)

Unreqvited – Funeral Pyre (Prophecy Productions)

Greg Puciato x Tyler Bates x Gil Sharone – Now You’ve Really Done It (Loma Vista Recordings)

Unto Others – When Will Gods Work Be Done (Roadrunner Records)

Whispering Sons – Vision (PIAS)

Sven Wunder – Pentimento (Piano Piano Records)

June 11, 2021

This week’s playlist is straddling the line between hope and fear – hope that the world will open up even further (and that we can fully enjoy the summer); fear that these unprecedented times will keep things restrained. Either way, we have these artists to provide the soundtrack as we navigate forward.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Alasdair Roberts, Völvur – The Green Chapel (Drag City) (Header image)

Esther Ann Gove – Dead God (Self-Release)

Martha Skye Murphy – Found Out (Self-Release)

Jorja Chalmers – Bring Me Down (Italians Do It Better)

Deathsomnia, Selofan – Self Sabotage – Apocalypse Version (Isolation Rec.)

Deafheaven – Great Mass of Color (Sargent House)

Amenra – Voor Immer (Relapse Records)

Odraza – Acedia (Godz Ov War Productions)

Wolves In The Throne Room – Mountain Magick (Relapse Records)

Inferno – Stars Within and Stars Without Pr… (Eitrin Editions)

Den Sorte Død – Den Sorte Død (Cyclic Law)

Daniel Davies – Out of the Night (Not Not Fun)

Lustmord, Karin Park – Song of Sol

Acid Twilight – Midnight Sun

Wyatt E., Tomer Damsky – Kol Badai (Self-Release)

Five The Hierophant – The Black Waves (Self-Release)

Slow Fire Pistol – Who Decides (Tripple B Records)

Lantlôs – Magnolia (Prophecy Productions)

June 4, 2021

The sun is shining (at least, it is here!) and a slew of great artists have announced new albums coming this summer! There’s plenty to look forward to, but also plenty to get stuck into already here on your favourite weekly playlist!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

King Woman – Morning Star (Relapse Records)

Midwife – God is a Cop (The Flenser)

Kælan Mikla – Ósýnileg (Artoffact Records)

Hante. – Apnée (Synth Religion)

Cold Cave – Psalm 23 (Heartworm Press)

Microcorps – UVU (Alter)

Zeal & Ardor – Run (Redacted GmbH)

Alexis Marshall – Hounds In The Abyss (Sargent House)

Pus – Oscuras Intenciones (Self-Release)

Sordide – Je n’ai nul pays (LADLO)

At The Gates – The Paradox (Century Media)

Cirith Ungol – Route 666 (Metal Blade)

Twin Temple – Babalon (Self-Release)

Dead Can Dance – Mushin (Holy Tongue Records)

May 28, 2021

If you’re still floating in space by way of last week’s playlist – fear not, as this week you can either keep on trippin’ or enjoy some more earthly delights without crashing the mothership.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Annie Hart – Sun in the Dark (Ordinal Records) (header image)

Trees Speak – Scheinwelt (Soul Jazz Records)

Pictureplane – Blade Addict (Crimson Mist) (100% Electronica)

Curses – Discipline (Eskimo Recordings / N.E.W.S.)

Alicia Breton Ferrer – Red Alert (Self-Release)

Aaron Dilloway, Lucrecia Dalt – Demands of Ordinary Devotion (Hanson Records)

Chelsea Wolfe – Diana (Loma Vista Recordings)

Facs – Alone Without (Trouble In Mind)

Year Of No Light – Alètheia (Pelagic Records)

Hangman’s Chair – Cold & Distant (Nuclear Blast)

White Ward – Debemur Morti (Eitrin Editions)

Black Midi – Ascending Forth (Rough Trade)

The Holy Family – St Anthony’s Fire – Edit (Rocket Recordings)

Shannon Lay – Rare To Wake (Sub Pop Records)

Donovan, David Lynch – I Am The Shaman (Donovan Discs)

Dust Mountain – Village on Fire (Svart Records)

May 27, 2021

With Dust Mountain’s extraordinary international live debut at Roadburn Redux in mind, we’re beyond excited to premiere “Village On Fire,” the first single taken from the band’s forthcoming debut album, ‘Hymns For Wilderness,’ which will be released through Svart Records on Oct. 8.

Emerging from the darkened Wastement in Tampere, Finland, Dust Mountain was founded in 2016 by siblings Toni Hietamäki (Oranssi Pazuzu, Waste of Space Orchestra) and Henna Hietamäki (Cats of Transnistria), accompanied by a stunning band: drummer Jukka Rämänen (Hexvessel, Dark Buddha Rising) bassist Riku Pirttiniemi (Death Hawks) and guitarist/backing vocalist Pauliina Lindell (Vuono).

Equally inspired by ’60s and ’70s acts such as Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Linda Perhacs and Coven, the mandolin-driven “Village On Fire” celebrates the connection between nature and ancient rituals, moving between fictional fantasies and true, close-to-heart beliefs, making Dust Mountain a joyous, occult-soaked, psychedelic folk rock affair.

Now it’s time to get (re-)acquainted below…

May 22, 2021

This week’s playlist is a double whammy – it’s practically two playlists in one. We couldn’t resist adding Neptunian Maximalism‘s Solar Drone Ceremony in there. So you can get stuck into some of the music that we’ve uncovered in recent weeks, and then float away on another plane for fifty two minutes, thirty eight seconds… where you go after that is up to you!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Iosonouncane – Jabal (RCA Numero Uno)

Otay:onii – From Me II to Me (WV Sorcerer Productions)

Clipping. – Wriggle (Sub Pop)

Gost – Coven (Century Media)

Victory Over The Sun – Nowherer (Coarse Air Records)

Sunrot – 1312 (Self-Release)

Filth is Eternal – ZED (Church Road Records)

Colonial Wound – I (New Morality Zine)

Mastodon – Forged By Neron (Loma Vista Recordings)

Panopticon – Know Hope (Bindrune Recordings)

Psychonaut – The Great Realisation (Pelagic Records)

Neptunian Maximalism – Solar Drone Ceremony (I, Voidhanger Records)

May 7, 2021

This week’s playlist is a corker, if we do say so ourselves! How about that HEALTH x NIN collab to get your weekend off to a great start?!

Don’t forget that today is Bandcamp Friday, which means that more of what you spend today on the platform will end up in the pockets of the bands and labels that you love. So, it’s a great day to go shopping.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Health x Nine Inch Nails – Isn’t Everyone (Loma Vista Recordings)

Cold Cave – Prayer from Nowhere (Heartworm Press)

Perturbator – Excess (Blood Music)

Backxwash x Ada Rook – I Lie Here Burried With My Rings And My Dress (Ugly Hag Records)

ORYX – Misery (Translation Loss Records)

Amenra – De Evenmens (Relapse Records)

Bossk ft. Johannes Persson – Menhir (Deathwish Inc)

At The Gates – Spectre of Extinction (Century Media)

An Autumn For Crippled Children – Splendour Unnoticed (Prosthetic Records)

Yautja – The Spectacle (Relapse Records)

Dawn Ray’d – Wild Fire, Pt.I (Prosthetic Records)

Dawn Ray’d – Wild Fire, Pt.II (Prosthetic Records)

Jo Quail, Morley – Angus Dei (Robot Needs Home)

Unreqvited – Autumn & Everly (Prophecy Productions)

Violet Cold – Be Like Magic (Self-Release)

MJ Guider – Viñales (Modemain)

May 5, 2021

We thought you might like a look back on Roadburn Redux, so alongside this years aftermovie (different to any we’ve done before) we thought we’d share some stats.

We had 78,937 unique visitors to the site whilst it was online, which resulted in 247,872 views on the 100+ videos that we had uploaded to the site. There were also over 22,000 plays on the embedded Soundcloud content and over 7000 of you read the articles we put online too.
3975 of you created an account – to chat, like and comment throughout the weekend.

We ensured that content was free to view, so that finances wouldn’t be a barrier to participating in this special event – however we did have a donation option on the site. Over 2000 people donated – for which were are extremely grateful. In total €56,143.49 was raised via donations – which will go some way towards covering the cost of the extraordinary production and ensure that we can continue to put on boundary-pushing festivals into the future. The average was €26.96 – but one Roadburner donated an incredible €500! Every dollar, pound, and euro that was donated is extremely appreciated – no matter how big or small the contribution.

We had people watching from 132 countries – 14,000+ people from the US, 12,000+ from The Netherlands, 8000+ from Germany, 6000+ from France and 5000+ from the UK. Hopefully amongst those numbers are a few of you who are newly converted Roadburners!

And if you added up all the time spent watching Roadburn Redux content from all around the globe, it’d come to 5 years, 188 days, 31 minutes and 58 seconds. Time spent wisely, we think!

It goes without saying – but we’ll say it anyway – that we’re extremely grateful to everyone who participated in Roadburn Redux, and to everyone who made it possible. We hope that next April Roadburn will take place in person, to once again create something very special – together.

Special thanks to: Fonds Podiumkunsten, Gemeente Tilburg, Provincie Noord Brabant, Ticket To Tilburg and Brewery Bavaria.

April 30, 2021

We’re working our way back to reality from Roadburn Redux, waiting for the world to open up for physical shows and festivals. Still might have to wait a little, but we hope you enjoy this week’s weird and wonderful playlist.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Crippled Black Phoenix – Painful Reminder (Season of Mist)

At The Gates – Spectre of Extinction (Century Media)

Domination Campaign – Death Before Dishonour (Prosthetic Records)

Déhà – Blackness in May (Burning World Records)

Shortparis – Moscow Speaking (Universal Music)

A Love Moment for the End – Blacklight Chameleon (Nutriot)

Metropolitan Jam – Heave Blood & Die (Fysisks Format)

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – Ay Dili Dili (Bongo Joe)

The Lords of Altamont – Living with the Squares (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Bobby BeauSoleil – Swamp Gas (Self-Release)

Nun Gun, Michael Salu – The Spectre (Algiers Recordings / Witty Books)

Postcards – Home is so Sad (T3 Records)

Zeresh, Davide Borghi – Air From Afar (Toten Schwan Records)

V.V.I.A., In Atlas, Venus Volcanism – Até (Self-Release / Gateway Music)