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!
Sjellos ~ Dyer Expedition OST (Cryo Chamber, 24 March)
Stine Janvin / Morten Joh ~ Or Gare – funeral procession music from Ryfylke, Norway (Futura Resistenza, 24 March)
Almøst Silent ~ Kaizen (Past Inside the Present, 25 March)
Blurstem ~ Fallen Fragments (We All Speak in Poems, 26 March)
Bruno Duplant ~ athanor (Dissipatio, 26 March)
Clocolan ~ When the Emptying Sun Filled the Sky (26 March)
Zlatko Kaučič & Francesco Cigana – Kako Klicati Zmaja(Dissipatio, 26 March)
Aidan Baker + rsn ~ Bottom Layers of a Surface (okla, 27 March)
Alexander IV ~ Alchemist (Feiertag, 27 March)
Ben McElroy ~ Allotment Tapes #3: We Are All Visitors Here (27 March)
bod kin ~ s/t (MFZ, 27 March)
Brooddark ~ Deliro (Winter-Light, 27 March)
Caroline Davis ~ Fallows (Ropeadope, 27 March)
Danya Pilchen & Kali Ensemble ~ Paper Braids (Moving Furniture, 27 March)
Dobrawa Czocher ~ State of Matter (FatCat/130701, 27 March)
Emil Mark ~ Mellemtid (Tonal Union, 27 March)
the FLV. ~ Land of Siesta (PFR, 27 March)
GLASSxTEETH ~ Whispers Heard Through Waiting Room Windows (okla, 27 March)
Mikael Lind ~ Norðaustur (27 March)
Nene H ~ Second Skin (UMAY, 27 March)
Pan American ~ Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane (kranky, 27 March)
pdqb ~ Future Traumatic Stress Disorder (Synaptic Cliffs, 27 March)
Sanaya Ardeshir ~ Hand of Thought (Karigar, 27 March)
Serpente ~ Visita do Fogo (Discrepant, 27 March)
Shane Aspegren ~ Spiritual Cannibalism (Prohibited, 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)
Wu Zhuoling ~ Uncharted II (Small Projects, 27 March)
Various Artists ~ Piano Day: Places (LEITER, 27 March)
worriedaboutsatan ~ No Knock No Doorbell (27 March)
Yelena Eckenoff ~ Rosendals Garden (27 March)
Zosha Warpeha ~ I grow accustomed to the dark (Outside Time, 27 March)
Bali Gamelan Sound ~ Topeng Semar Pegulingan (29 March)
Emma Baiada, Daniel Jakob & Łukasz Polowczyk ~ Power Manuał (Adventurous Music, 30 March)
Graham Dunning ~ Quern (Jollies, 2 April)
Missing Ear ~ Hotel Infinito (2 April)
Ancient Methods ~ Society of the Spectacle (Persephonic Sirens, 3 April)
Andrew Weathers ~ Haxa (Variable Recordings, 3 April)
Aurelia Evgenia ~ Fierce (EC Underground, 3 April)
Billy Fuller ~ Fragments (BEAK>, 3 April)
Conor Moore ~ Chamber Music (Hollow Gesture, 3 April)
David Cordero ~ La Imagen Muda (Noray, 3 April)
Dog Versus Shadows & Nicholas Langley ~ 16mm (Strategic Tape Reserve, 3 April)
Hilary Geddes ~ Redleaf (Earshift Music, 3 April)
How to See Know and Fall ~ ECOLOGIES (Adhyâropa, 3 April)
Jilk ~ Tetsuo II (Bricolage, 3 April)
Matthew Shlomowitz ~ Explorations in Polytonality and other Musical Wonders, Volume 5 (New Focus, 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)
Ümlaut ~ Because you are alive, everything is possible (Audiobulb, 4 April)
Alexander Eldefors ~ VIVEL (laaps, 6 April)
Carl Stone & Asuna ~ Imu Plastos (Room40, 7 April)
Diogo Alvim ~ Música para Mysterious Heart (Crónica, 7 April)
John Sweenie ~ Mysticism for Individuals (9 April)
Alex Zhang Hungtai ~ Dras (Shelter Press, 10 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)
Ensemble de Feedback Libre ~ 3.1416 (Label – formes ondes, 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)
Mélanie Frisoli ~ Trilogie sinueuse (Label – formes ondes, 10 April)
Nick Fraser ~ Areas (10 April)
~Nois ~ What Is ~Nois (New Amsterdam, 10 April)
Prymek & Sagę ~ Shelter (AKP, 10 April)
Rosa Pistola ~ Incorregible (Eck Echo, 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)
Zachary Mezzo ~ Home Movies (10 April)
Robert R. Thurman ~ Cicadas: Broods XIX and XIII (15 April)
Passenger Pigeon ~ Another New Low (16 April)
Aarp ~ Kadıköy (InFiné Éditions, 17 April)
Annea Lockwood ~ World Rhythms (Room40, 17 April)
Conic Rose ~ wedding (17 April)
Domiziano Maselli ~ Garden of Kira (Torto Editions, 17 April)
Holodec ~ TRU FOLK (Phantom Limb, 17 April)
James Igenfritz & Thomas Buckner ~ Automatic Thinking (Infrequent Seams, 17 April)
Kink Gong ~ The Lisu (Discrepant, 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)
Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble ~ A Moment of Yet (Black Flag Bonsai Club, 17 April)
Radio Hito ~ L’uso e gli attributi del cuore (Maple Death, 17 April)
Rene Wise ~ Johnson’s Theme (Dekmantel, 17 April)
Simon Goff ~ Sparks (Grand Chess, 17 April)
Veiled Existence ~ All the Quiet Hurts (Difficult Art & Music, 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)
bela ~ Korean Love Sonnets (Subtext, 24 April)
Celer ~ Poulaine (Room40, 24 April)
Fiona Brice ~ Think Loops (Bigo & Twigetti, 24 April)
Late Bush ~ Hoarses (vlek, 24 April)
Mahatmos ~ Aurora Spectralis (Superonda, 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)
Near Minerals ~ The Talking Castle (Difficult Art & Music, 28 April)
haana lee ~ deconstructed (29 April)
Amp ~ Isotropic Beacons (Ampbase, 1 May)
Corrado Maria De Santis ~ Thresholds of Light (Lost Tribe Sound, 1 May)
Deaf Center ~ Through Time (Sonic Pieces, 1 May)
Devin Sarno ~ Flowers on the Ocean (Histamine Tapes, 1 May)
Gabriella Smart ~ Parasymbiosis (Room40, 1 May)
Jolanda Moletta ~ Oceanine (Beacon Sound, 1 May)
Kavalcade ~ SIGNAL (Machine, 1 May)
LISA ~ Yamaha Dog (Collapsing Drums, 1 May)
Masker ~ Peril (Oudwijn, 1 May)
pdqb ~ Direct Hits (Synaptic Cliffs, 1 May)
Russell Haswell ~ Let It Go (Editions Mego, 1 May)
SloGlo ~ In Another Language (Flood Music, 1 May)
Pedro Vian meets Ustad Nawab Khan and Naved Nawab Khan ~ The Bubble of Love प्यार का बुलबुला (Modern Obscure Music, 2 May)
Mark Cain ~ Threads (Parenthèses, 3 May)
Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni (Maple Death, 8 May)
Buildings and Food ~ Utori (8 May)
Choz Boyce ~ S/T (Domino, 8 May)
Francis Heery ~ Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue (Flaming Pines, 8 May)
John Hollenbeck ~ Looking for Consonance (Out of Your Head, 8 May)
Johnny Bell ~ Mountain States (Ramble/Centripetal Force, 8 May)
Kreng ~ Wormhole (Miasmah, 8 May)
Living With Tollways ~ Eponymously Titled (Signbearer, 8 May)
Max Cooper ~ Feeling Is Structure (Mesh, 8 May)
Momen ~ Sympathetic Resonance (TAR/MM/UOH, 8 May)
Olof Dreijer ~ Loud Bloom (dh2, 8 May)
Sareban ~ Echoes in the Weave (Worlds Within Worlds, 8 May)
Unwed Sailor ~ High Remembrance (8 May)
Violeta Vicci & Bruno Bavota ~ Be Human (Bigo & Twigetti, 8 May)
Yoal ~ Gloaming (Lost Tribe Sound, 8 May)
Christian Dillingham ~ As It Relates to Now (Shifting Paradigm, 15 May)
Distant Birds ~ VOL. 01 & 02 (Earshift Music, 15 May)
Fumction x Nastia Reigel present Devocion ~ Devocion EP (Dekmantel, 15 May)
KADAPAT & Nova Ruth featuring Siko Sedyanto ~ Ocean Cage (Kuboraum Editions, 15 May)
Matthew Wright ~ Cracked Glaze (False Walls, 15 May)
Rafa Ramos Sania ~ A Broadcast of Your Silence (Lost Tribe Sound, 15 May)
SHHE ~ THALASSA (One Little Independent, 15 May)
SUSS ~ Counting Sunsets (Northern Spy, 15 May)
Van Sur Les ~ Ingrian Tape (15 May)
Various Artists ~ Perceptions Vol. 7 (Bigo & Twigetti, 15 May)
Yulseus ~ Nothing Under Heaven (n5MD, 15 May)
Brunhild Ferrari, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke ~ L’oreille Voleuse (Persistence of Sound, 22 May)
Chris Lippincott ~ Angel in a Jetstream (21 May)
FLOCKS ~ Lagoon (Karlrecords, 22 May)
Fugue State ~ After Nothing Comes (Switch Hit, 22 May)
Hannah Peel ~ The Endless Dance (Real World, 22 May)
Magic Tuber Stringband ~ Heavy Water (Thrill Jockey, 22 May)
Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan Van Der Schyff ~ Waiting Music (Earshift Music, 22 May)
Various Artists ~ Moss and Melee I – Old Growth (Lost Tribe Sound, 28 May)
Amelia Ya’el ~ Voices I (Signbearer, 29 May)
Various Artists ~ Moss and Melee II – Controlled Burn (Lost Tribe Sound, 1 June)
Modern Silent Cinema ~ Passages XXXIII-XLIII (for Piano, Guitar, and Bass) (1 June)
Beatriz Ferreyra ~ A Distracted God (Room40, 5 June)
Teiku ~ Klang (Ginkgo, 5 June)
JOHN 3:16 ~ The Beast (Alrealon Musique, 6 June)
Horse Lords ~ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! (RVNG Intl., 12 June)
Starlings ~ Friend, Thank You (Machine Records, 12 June)
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