Sorting Through Browser Tabs: Playlist for January 2024

To whom it may interest,

2024 is shaping up to be a turbulent installment in the current millennium. The state of the union remains questionable and the adults in the room can’t seem to do anything other than stomp their feet when they can’t get more to add onto their pile of more than enough. The rest of us have to pay taxes.

This month’s virtual mixtape took many hours to compile and list, but this small 22-song sampling of what I’ve heard so far this year leaves me optimistic that the coming months will yield more than a few good reasons to hit the record store.

If you’re reading this, thank you. I remain grateful for any and all engagement as Letters From A Tapehead carries on into its 18th year.

January’s playlist is ready to review and reject.

For Apple Music subscribers:

YouTube playlist:

Individual tracks and links:

Gouge Away: “Stuck In A Dream” (from Deep Sage — releases 3/15/24 via Deathwish Inc.)

Pissed Jeans: “Moving On” (from Half Divorced — releases 3/1/24 via Sub Pop)

Astrid Sonne: “Boost” (from Great Doubt — available from Escho)

Shabazz Palaces: “Angela” (feat. Stas THEE Boss & Irene Barber) (from Exotic Birds Of Prey — released 3/29/24 via Sub Pop)

Erika Angell: “Dress Of Stillness” (from The Obsession With Her Voice — releases 3/8/24 via Constellation Records)

The Body & Dis Fig: “Dissent, Shame” (from Orchards Of A Futile Heaven — releases 2/23/24 via Thrill Jockey Records)

VR SEX: “Real Doll Time” (from Hard Copy — releases 3/22/24 via Dais Records)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: “Hush, Hush” (from of the Last Human Being — releases 2.23.24 via AVANT NIGHT)

Lime Garden: “Mother” (from One More Thing — releases 2/16/24 from So Young Records)

Trash Fiasco: “Ma.Lin.Ger” (from “Ma.Lin.Ger” single — available from Trash Fiasco)

Moor Mother: “Guilty” (feat. Lonnie Holley, Raia Was & Mary Lattimore) (from The Great Bailout — releases 3/8/24 via ANTI- Records)

Eye Flys: “Bananarchy Zoo” (from s/t — available from Thrill Jockey Records)

Persher: “Medieval Soup From The Milkbar” (from Sleep Well — releases 2/23/24 via Thrill Jockey Records)

Pam American & Kramer: “A Mountain Is An Ancestor” (from Reverberations of Non​-​Stop Traffic on Redding Road — releases 3/22/24 via Shimmy-Disc)

Zombi: “The Post-Atomic Horror” (from Direct Inject — releases 3/22/24 via Relapse Records)

Chastity Belt: “I-90 Bridge” (from Live Laugh Love — releases 3/29/24 via Suicide Squeeze Records)

Hannah Frances: “Husk” (from Keeper of the Shepherd — releases 3/1/24 via Ruination Record Co.)

Angry Blackmen: “Dead Men Tell No Lies” (feat. Fatboi Sharif) (from The Legend of ABM — available from Deathbomb Arc)

SAICOBAB: “Nachin Machine” (from NRYTA — releases 3/22/24 via Thrill Jockey Records)

SLIFT: “Weavers’ Weft” (from ILION — available from Sub Pop)

The Narcotix: “The Sun” (from Dying — releases 3/1/24)

Clarion Void: “Sisyphus Wept” (from Failure In Repetition — releases 3/1/24 via Lost Future)

Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead