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‘Collabs’ – are they anything more than product placement these days? Well in some worlds driven less by the algorithm, collaboration still has a meaning and a purpose. Step forward the indispensable Thrill Jockey Records and news of an incoming album ‘Orchards of a Futile Heaven’ due 23rd Feb, from the artistic coupling of The …

Existing as a trans person in 2023 is itself an act of reclamation, resistance, discovery and—above all—self-acceptance, so it could be said that Portland’s Julian Morris has been well-placed to write a record like this. All these things are cornerstones of the narrative arc surrounding the release of his second album as Layperson. Massive Leaning …

We are very honoured to premiere the new single ‘Jigsaw’ from Portland, Oregon duo Phosphene. It is a dreamy floating jewel of a song that seems to hang suspended in the ether and drift languidly though your consciousness. The single is taken from Phosphene’s upcoming full-length album ‘Transmute’, which will be out on 15 September. …

So what do you make of tribute albums? Are they places to be seen, a rag bag of cover versions by a bunch of people who have nothing in common except convenient admiration? Well ‘Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems’ by José Medeles may pay homage to John Fahey but there’s a gulf between this album …

If the single artwork, above, seems gaudy, then that’s entirely the point: the New Orleans-via-Portland producer and songwriter Tatum Gale is asking you not to judge the book (or in this case, the song) by its cover. About two years since his Both EP, he returned last month with ‘Botanical Babe’, and is quickly following …

SAM WENC and Carl Laukkanen, while resident in that cultural hub in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon, got together and, sharing an interest in the textures and spaces of slow-moving ambient electronica, got together and laid down three albums’ worth of exploration of sonics as RON. Together they developed a language of sound at the interstice …

‘Words Write Hear’ is the first single from the forthcoming LP from Mother Mariposa, and BSM brings you the video premiere. To be released later this year on Little Cloud Records, Mother Mariposa is the newest project of Thomas Mudrick and Jsun Atoms (The Upsidedown, Daydream Machine, PIA). Two years in the making and joining forces with New Zealand’s Dan …

Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. which is released on Thrill Jockey Records this Friday. The quartet of Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, Nash Whalen and Ripley Johnson augment their already rich sound with laid back, classic summer songs. The songs were written during the summer of 2017 …

Portland-based four piece Chromatics this week confirmed that they will have a new album out in the Autumn on Italians Do It Better. The four piece made up of Ruth Radelet, Johnny Jewel, Adam Miller & Nat Walker have shared a new track and video, ‘Black Walls’, taken from the forthcoming album which will be their fifth …

Legendary Portlanders Wooden Shjips are set to release a new album on 25th May, their first in five years. The release of V. will be accompanied by a full UK tour, bringing their peaceful resistance to cities around the country, with mainland Europe dates to be added. V. is long awaited and is anticipated to be a …