The seasons are changing and the release schedule is bursting into bloom. Spring brings the first massive crop of new music, enough to lift us out of those late-winter doldrums. As the birds return and the earth awakens, the sounds of the great outdoors mirror our musical discoveries. May you find your next favorite album right here!
Cleared ~ Lustres (Room40, 1 March)
Mod Cog ~ Consensus Trance Induction (1 March)
Aukai ~ Chambers (3 March)
anthéne ~ perennials (Past Inside the Present, 4 March)
Stefan Goldmann ~ Automation Studies (Macro, 5 March)
Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie ~ Live at Moldejazz (Sonic Transmissions, 6 March)
Andrew MacKelvie’s Many Worlds ~ Many Worlds (Watch That Ends the Night, 6 March)
Bono / Burattini ~ Ora Sono Un Lago (Maple Death, 6 March)
bvdub ~ The Catastrophe Machine (Dronarivm, 6 March)
Caterina Schembri ~ a birch forest seen, imagined, and remembered (Ergodos, 6 March)
Devin Gray feat. Andrea Parkins & Frank Gratkowski ~ Hz of Gold (6 March)
Fletina ~ Terrow (6 March)
Gabriel Vicéns ~ Niebla (6 March)
jjjacob ~ Afbrudt Evighed (Janushoved, 6 March)
Joachim Spieth ~ Vestige (Affin, 6 March)
Last Scene Alive ~ World Class Pep Talk (6 March)
The Mountain King ~ Pike Dreams (Void Key, 6 March)
OHYUNG ~ IOWA (6 March)
Quintelium ~ continuums (Somewherecold, 6 March)
Smag På Dig Selv ~ This Is Why We Lost (Stunt, 6 March)
taupe ~ waxing | waning (Minority Records, 6 March)
Teerath Majumder ~ Dust to Dust (Infrequent Seams, 6 March)
Those Who Walk Away ~ Afterlife Requiem (Constellation, 6 March)
Tomu DJ ~ antagonist (sound as language, 6 March)
Autistici ~ Familiarity Unfolded (Audiobulb, 7 March)
Bradford Reed ~ PETAL TONES (9 March)
The Lizard Point ~ In the Red Earth (Hidden Shoal, 10 March)
Luke Lund ~ Peel the Scab (Explorations, 9 March)
Wil Bolton ~ Barbican (Home Normal, 10 March)
Unknown Mobile ~ Field Work (Pacific Rhythm, 12 March)
Bentley Anderson ~ Valence (Digital Regress, 13 March)
Drum & Lace ~ Terra (Mesh, 13 March)
José Martínez ~ Short Stories (New Focus, 13 March)
Laurel Halo ~ Midnight Zone (Original Soundtrack to the Film by Julian Charrière) (Awe, 13 March)
Mary Ocher ~ Weimar (Underground Institute, 13 March)
Matthieu Mazué Trio ~ Turn of Events (577 Records, 13 March)
Paperclip Minimiser ~ II (peak oil, 13 March)
Shutterspeed Duo ~ All-American Futurity Trials (New Focus, 13 March)
Terrence Dixon ~ When Stars Remember (Tresor, 13 March)
Válek Merta Tarnovski ~ Punctum (Flaming Pines, 13 March)
Adrian de Roover ~ Chansons de Trottoir / Stoepliedjes (Edições CN, 17 March)
JC Leisure Group ~ Low Tide, Hi Grypus! (Edições CN, 17 March)
Adam O’Farrill ~ ELEPHANT (Out of Your Head, 20 March)
Barry Hudson-Taylor ~ Flutter (Moderna, 20 March)
Ben Glas ~ “music* *?” (Room40, 20 March)
Blair / Huber ~ In a New Order (LEITER, 20 March)
Carlos Niño & Friends ~ Bubble Bath for Giants (20 March)
Cassia Streb & Tim Feeney ~ Lampworking (kuyin, 20 March)
Colleen ~ Libres antes del final (Thrill Jockey, 20 March)
Entidad Animata ~ Pequeño clima doméstico (Umor Rex, 20 March)
Eva Novoa ~ Solo (I) (577 Records, 20 March)
immerweiter ~ Live at Morphine Raum (Unit, 20 March)
John the Silent ~ Florida Man (Somewherecold, 20 March)
Laur Pihel ~ no na me (Schole, 20 March)
Leila Boudreuil + Kali Malone ~ Music for Intersecting Planes (Ideologic Organ, 20 March)
Loom & Thread ~ Dispersion (Macro, 20 March)
Marco Avitabile ~ Now Transitioning (20 March)
Mativetsky, Amiri, and Pagé ~ Metamorphose (Fifth House, 20 March)
more eaze ~ sentence structure in the country (Thrill Jockey, 20 March)
MT Gemini ~ Hawk Deh Near (vlek, 20 March)
Nagløed ~ Everything Is In Everything Else (Icarus, 20 March)
odd person ~ dream rituals of the flower cult (20 March)
Pan•American ~ Fly the Ocean in a Safer Plane (Kranky, 20 March)
Pietro Bardini ~ Parallel Rooms (STRATA, 20 March)
Plankton Wat ~ The Vanishing World (Sun Cru, 20 March)
Red Largo ~ Hotel Neuf (Boudoir, 20 March)
Saba Alizadeh ~ Last Rituals (Karlrecords, 20 March)
Walker Farrell ~ Crocus (Ceremony of Seasons, 20 March)
Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart ~ BODY SOUND (International Anthem, 20 March)
:zoviet*france: ~ The Gate Is Open (Xevarion Institute, 20 March)
HARA-KITTY!! ~ paint the dead like gods (21 March)
Water is the Sun ~ Ritual Fever (Trome/Tocco Magico, 21 March)
Stine Janvin / Morten Joh ~ Or Gare – funeral procession music from Ryfylke, Norway (Futura Resistenza, 24 March)
Blurstem ~ Fallen Fragments (We All Speak in Poems, 26 March)
Alexander IV ~ Alchemist (Feiertag, 27 March)
bod kin ~ s/t (MFZ, 27 March)
Caroline Davis ~ Fallows (Ropeadope, 27 March)
Dobrawa Czocher ~ State of Matter (FatCat/130701, 27 March)
Emil Mark ~ Mellemtid (Tonal Union, 27 March)
Nene H ~ Second Skin (UMAY, 27 March)
Sanaya Ardeshir ~ Hand of Thought (Karigar, 27 March)
Serpente ~ Visita do Fogo (Discrepant, 27 March)
Simon Berz ~ Tectonic (Karlrecords, 27 March)
Simon Hanes ~ GARGANTUA (Pyroclastic, 27 March)
Taroug ~ Chott (Denovali, 27 March)
Till Hillbrecht & Zimoun ~ Warp Slow (Room40, 27 March)
Tristan Allen ~ Osni the Flare (RVNG Intl., 27 March)
Tyler Friedman ~ METLASR (27 March)
WaSaBi Trio ~ S/T (577 Records, 27 March)
Various Artists ~ Piano Day: Places (LEITER, 27 March)
Zosha Warpeha ~ I grow accustomed to the dark (Outside Time, 27 March)
Bali Gamelan Sound ~ Topeng Semar Pegulingan (29 March)
Ancient Methods ~ Society of the Spectacle (Persephonic Sirens, 3 April)
Billy Fuller ~ Fragments (BEAK>, 3 April)
How to See Know and Fall ~ ECOLOGIES (Adhyâropa, 3 April)
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Frédéric D. Oberland ~ Eternal Life No End (Constellation, 3 April)
Rave at Your Fictional Borders ~ Analogue Nomadism (meakusma, 3 April)
Yui Onodera & Arovane ~ Stillform (Affin, 3 April)
Carl Stone & Asuna ~ Imu Plastos (Room40, 7 April)
Blue Hour ~ Selva (Blue Hour Music, 10 April)
Chessie + Contriva ~ Black Jacket (Watusi, 10 April)
El Ten Eleven ~ Nowhere Faster (Joyful Noise, 10 April)
Felicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou ~ Reflections Vol. 3: Water Poems (RVNG Intl., 10 April)
Flore Laurentienne ~ Volume III (Secret City, 10 April)
Juha Mäki-Patola ~ Momentary Movements of Landscapes (FatCat, 10 April)
~Nois ~ What Is ~Nois (New Amsterdam, 10 April)
Thomas Stone ~ The Shunned Path (Cloudchamber, 10 April)
Tony Woollard ~ The Moon on the Istrian Riviera, Pt. 1 (Bigo & Twigetti, 10 April)
upsammy & Valentina Magaletti ~ Seismo (PAN, 10 April)
We Stood Like Kings ~ Pinocchio (Kapitän Platte, 10 April)
Robert R. Thurman ~ Cicadas: Broods XIX and XIII (15 April)
Aarp ~ Kadıköy (InFiné Éditions, 17 April)
Annea Lockwood ~ World Rhythms (Room40, 17 April)
Domiziano Maselli ~ Garden of Kira (Torto Editions, 17 April)
Holodec ~ TRU FOLK (Phantom Limb, 17 April)
Marta Sanchez ~ For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head, 17 April)
Meitei ~ AGATE / 瑪瑙 (Kitchen, 17 April)
Mike Lazarev ~ Gradiscence (bigo & twigetti, 17 April)
Radio Hito ~ L’uso e gli attributi del cuore (Maple Death, 17 April)
Simon Goff ~ Sparks (Grand Chess, 17 April)
Dionée ~ Mille-feuilles (Tour de Bras, 22 April)
Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach ~ Gentle Hum (FUU, 24 April)
Anenon ~ Dream Temperature (Tonal Union, 24 April)
Aynan Fanous ~ Brooklyn Stories 1-5 (Infrequent Seams, 24 April)
Celer ~ Poulaine (Room40, 24 April)
Fiona Brice ~ Think Loops (Bigo & Twigetti, 24 April)
OOIOO/Lightning Bolt ~ The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral (Thrill Jockey, 24 April)
Setting ~ S/T (Thrill Jockey, 24 April)
Tacoma Park ~ Baltimore (Centripetal Force, 24 April)
TROUM ~ EmphasYs (Cyclic Law, 24 April)
Jolanda Moletta ~ Oceanine (Beacon Sound, 1 May)
Kavalcade ~ SIGNAL (Machine, 1 May)
Living With Tollways ~ Eponymously Titled (Signbearer, 8 May)
Momen ~ Sympathetic Resonance (TAR/MM/UOH, 8 May)
Sareban ~ Echoes in the Weave (Worlds Within Worlds, 8 May)
Violeta Vicci & Bruno Bavota ~ Be Human (Bigo & Twigetti, 8 May)
Christian Dillingham ~ As It Relates to Now (Shifting Paradigm, 15 May)
Matthew Wright ~ Cracked Glaze (False Walls, 15 May)
Magic Tuber Stringband ~ Heavy Water (Thrill Jockey, 22 May)
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