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!
City of Dawn ~ Silent Portrait (Past Inside the Present, 15 April)
Robert R. Thurman ~ Cicadas: Broods XIX and XIII (15 April)
Passenger Pigeon ~ Another New Low (16 April)
Aarp ~ Kadıköy (InFiné Éditions, 17 April)
Analog Tara ~ Life of the Mother (Imprec, 17 April)
Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio ~ Ride to Heaven (17 April)
Annea Lockwood ~ World Rhythms (Room40, 17 April)
Ard Bit ~ Juxtaposed (Dronarivm, 17 April)
Bhajan Bhoy ~ Live at Guess Who? (Wormer Bros./Feeding Tube, 17 April)
Camilo Ángeles ~ Flautas Ahogadas para Jacobo Grinberg (Dinzu Artefacts, 17 April)
Carlo Costa ~ Ashes (Dinzu Artefacts, 17 April)
Conic Rose ~ wedding (17 April)
Domiziano Maselli ~ Garden of Kira (Torto Editions, 17 April)
Drew Wesely ~ Silence Is a Sharpened Blade (Dinzu Artefacts, 17 April)
Electronic Death Black Dogs ~ The Bornless One (Winter-Light, 17 April)
Eric Chasalow ~ …arching, reaching, breathless (New Focus, 17 April)
Eulipion Corps ~ Beyond Kurama (Wormhole World, 17 April)
Holodec ~ TRU FOLK (Phantom Limb, 17 April)
James Igenfritz & Thomas Buckner ~ Automatic Thinking (Infrequent Seams, 17 April)
Jonas Cambien ~ Man Eating Tree (Sonic Transmissions, 17 April)
Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Demoulin ~ ITERAE (greyfade, 17 April)
Josephine ~ Unexplained (Vicious-cph, 17 April)
Kink Gong ~ The Lisu (Discrepant, 17 April)
Laura Cocks ~ A Pearl in the Jaw (Dinzu Artefacts, 17 April)
Lester St. Louis ~ The End Site (Dinzu Artefacts, 17 April)
Marta Sanchez ~ For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head, 17 April)
Meitei ~ AGATE / 瑪瑙 (Kitchen, 17 April)
Michael Jones ~ The Promise of Escape (New Focus, 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)
Raid2 ~ Uncorrect (17 April)
rand ~ Peripherie Live at OSD (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)
Old Amica ~ Bländverk (Whitelabrecs, 18 April)
Toàn ~ Solitarium (Whitelabrecs, 18 April)
The Heartwood Institute ~ Plague Dogs (Folk Police Recordings, 20 April)
Dionée ~ Mille-feuilles (Tour de Bras, 22 April)
Sapphire Goss ~ Light Sensitive Materials (Fr33zehead, 23 April)
Adam Schatz ~ Civil Engineering Vol. 1 (Jealous Butcher, 24 April)
Ah! Kosmos & Hainbach ~ Gentle Hum (FUU, 24 April)
Anenon ~ Dream Temperature (Tonal Union, 24 April)
Ann DuHamel ~ Prayers for a Feverish Planet: New Music About Climate Change, Vol. 1 (New Focus, 24 April)
Ayman 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)
Joe Fujinoki ~ Glass Torso (enmossed, 24 April)
Late Bush ~ Hoarses (vlek, 24 April)
Mahatmos ~ Aurora Spectralis (Superonda, 24 April)
Matteo Stella ~ Radeche Fonne (24 April)
Mesmer ~ Terrain Vague II (arbitrary, 24 April)
Mochyn Daer ~ Riverloom (24 April)
OOIOO/Lightning Bolt ~ The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral (Thrill Jockey, 24 April)
Setting ~ S/T (Thrill Jockey, 24 April)
SydeBoob Duo ~ Au Naturel (New Focus, 24 April)
Tacoma Park ~ Baltimore (Centripetal Force, 24 April)
TROUM ~ EmphasYs (Cyclic Law, 24 April)
Lasus ~ PSALM028: Conjure (Phantom Limb, 25 April)
Ruben ~ Chambers (25 April)
Heimito Künst ~ Vol. 3 (Dissipatio, 26 April)
Andy Nechaevsky ~ Secret Life of Button Boxes: Red Box (Right Brain, 28 April)
Near Minerals ~ The Talking Castle (Difficult Art & Music, 28 April)
haana lee ~ deconstructed (29 April)
Ramilda ~ Cracked (Scrawl, 29 April)
Heli Hartikainen ~ Interbody (30 April)
Phantom Horse ~ Primal Forms (Umor Rex, 30 April)
Amp ~ Isotropic Beacons (Ampbase, 1 May)
Concrete Fantasies ~ MISERERE (Drowned by Locals, 1 May)
Corrado Maria De Santis ~ Thresholds of Light (Lost Tribe Sound, 1 May)
Dario Calderone ~ The Infinite Garden (Moving Furniture, 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)
Glissando 70 ~ Bones of Dundasa (Constellation, 1 May)
It Was Her Idea ~ Daughter of War (PNL, 1 May)
Jolanda Moletta ~ Oceanine (Beacon Sound, 1 May)
Kavalcade ~ SIGNAL (Machine, 1 May)
Large Unit: Small Units ~ “What Just Happened?” (PNL, 1 May)
Large Unit with Hakira Sukata ~ Hohai Bushi (PNL, 1 May)
LISA ~ Yamaha Dog (Collapsing Drums, 1 May)
Masker ~ Peril (Oudwijn, 1 May)
Paal Nilsen-Love Circus + The Ex Guitars ~ Calls! (PNL, 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)
Solar Seas ~ kraken (Somewherecold, 1 May)
Trem 77 ~ Reflective (1 May)
Yu Su ~ Foundry (Short Span, 1 May)
ZÖJ ~ May the Devil’s Ear Be Deaf (Parenthèses, 1 May)
Mark Cain ~ Threads (Parenthèses, 2 May)
Neuro… No Neuro ~ MemLoss (Audiobulb, 2 May)
Pedro Vian meets Ustad Nawab Khan and Naved Nawab Khan ~ The Bubble of Love प्यार का बुलबुला (Modern Obscure Music, 2 May)
HWXXNG ~ K-Core (Chinabot, 7 May)
[Ahmed] ~ Play Monk (Otoroku, 8 May)
Anastasia Kristensen ~ Bestarium Sombre (Intercept, 8 May)
Blak Saagan ~ Un Sequestro Lungo 10.000 Anni (Maple Death, 8 May)
Buildings and Food ~ Yutori (8 May)
Croz Boyce ~ S/T (Domino, 8 May)
Francis Heery ~ Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue (Flaming Pines, 8 May)
Jake Muir ~ Pareidolia (enmossed, 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)
Luca Cimarusti ~ Repetition, Resonance (Island House Recordings, 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)
Teatre ~ All Constellations Weaving Into One (Amulet of Tears, 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)
Yvonne Rogers ~ The Button Jar (Pyroclastic, 8 May)
Aspetuck ~ Immersion (A Strangely Isolated Place, 15 May)
Christian Dillingham ~ As It Relates to Now (Shifting Paradigm, 15 May)
Discovery Zone ~ Library Copy Do Not Remove (RVNG Intl., 15 May)
Distant Birds ~ VOL. 01 & 02 (Earshift Music, 15 May)
Federico Balducci & nobuka ~ Depth is Not a Place (Difficult Art & Music, 15 May)
Fumction x Nastia Reigel present Devocion ~ Devocion EP (Dekmantel, 15 May)
Jeff Parker TTA IVtet ~ Happy Today (International Anthem, 15 May)
KADAPAT & Nova Ruth featuring Siko Sedyanto ~ Ocean Cage (Kuboraum Editions, 15 May)
Lawrence English / Werner Dafeldecker ~ Fathom Tides (Hallow Ground, 15 May)
Lea Bertucci ~ The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity (Cibachrome, 15 May)
Martyna Basta ~ Winged in Collapse (7K, 15 May)
Matthew Wright ~ Cracked Glaze (False Walls, 15 May)
Mei Honeycomb ~ Clairvoyant Dimensions (Meakusma, 15 May)
Phillip Golub ~ Partisan Ship (Berthold, 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)
V0LAND ~ PLÜSCH (15 May)
Yulseus ~ Nothing Under Heaven (n5MD, 15 May)
Potliquor ~ All I Know In the City (Amalgam, 19 May)
Aho Ssan ~ The Sun Turned Black (Subtext, 22 May)
Brunhild Ferrari, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O’Rourke ~ L’oreille Voleuse (Persistence of Sound, 22 May)
Chris Lippincott ~ Angel in a Jetstream (22 May)
FLOCKS ~ Lagoon (Karlrecords, 22 May)
Fugue State ~ After Nothing Comes (Switch Hit, 22 May)
Hannah Peel ~ The Endless Dance (Real World, 22 May)
Ivo Perelman and Damon Smith ~ Duologue: Core of Existence (Squid Note, 22 May)
Justina Repečkaitė ~ Tapestries (miclithuania, 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)
Richard Pike ~ Redemption Suite I-IX: For Pianos and Textures (22 May)
Gigi Masin ~ Movement (Sacred Bones, 26 May)
Akira Uchida ~ Nusa (IIKKI, 28 May)
Various Artists ~ Moss and Melee I – Old Growth (Lost Tribe Sound, 28 May)
Amelia Ya’el ~ Voices I (Signbearer, 29 May)
Columbia Icefield ~ A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head, 29 May)
David Torn ~ now i imagine a place not the same (Kou, 29 May)
Hanry ~ What Came From Silence (Pelagic, 29 May)
Kikù Hibino & Merzbow ~ Rococo ∞ Echomatter (Superpang, 29 May)
Laurence Pike ~ Possible Utopias for Jazz Quintet (Lapsus, 29 May)
Robin Katz ~ Hypnos (Gearbox, 29 May)
Seamus O’Muineachain ~ Island of Flowers (29 May)
Vilhelm Bromander and Fredrik Rasten ~ Astral Twins (Fönstret, 29 May)
The Hands Free ~ Upturned Cup (New Amsterdam, 31 May)
Susana Santos Silva, Vasco Trilla ~ Mushin (defkaz, 1 June)
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)
American Cream Band ~ Twin (Quindi, 5 June)
Beatriz Ferreyra ~ A Distracted God (Room40, 5 June)
Galán | Spieth | Guentner ~ Obreel (Affin, 5 June)
Teiku ~ Klang (Ginkgo, 5 June)
JOHN 3:16 ~ The Beast (Alrealon Musique, 6 June)
Savina Yannatou, Gonçalo Almeida, and Costis Drygianakis ~ Independent / Interdependent (defkaz, 7 June)
Chaz Underriner ~ Flicker (12 June)
Horse Lords ~ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! (RVNG Intl., 12 June)
Micha Acher ~ Henry and the Ghosts Songbook (Alien Transistor, 12 June)
Puce Moment ~ O.R.G. II (odd doo, 12 June)
Starlings ~ Friend, Thank You (Machine Records, 12 June)
Tujiko Noriko ~ PON (Editions Mego, 12 June)
Ai Yamamoto ~ Seasons (Someone Good, 19 June)
Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun (Black Knoll, 26 June)
Helen Svoboda ~ Headwater (Room40, 26 June)
Zacc Harris ~ American Reckoning (Shifting Paradigm, 26 June)
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