Different Noises 156

A loose, exploratory current runs through this set, pulling together guitar‑driven haze, electronic drift, post‑punk edges, outsider pop, chamber stillness and a few sharp archival turns. The mood shifts without fuss: ambient bloom into jangling indie shapes, dub‑touched folk into synth shimmer, noise‑bitten punk into spacious improvisation, all threaded by a sense of artists working their own corners with clarity rather than chasing a single style. It plays like a long, unhurried walk through parallel scenes — familiar textures, odd detours, and the occasional jolt — unified more by curiosity than genre.

PLAYLIST

1. Deardarkhead - Flamethrower - The Pendulum Swings

2. Windy & Carl with Optigan Conservatory - Alvin Loving — Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory

3. Ups And Downs - Out Of Thin Air - Out Of Thin Air

4. Hard Ons and Jerry A - My One Regret - Hard Ons, Jerry A

5. Professor and the Madman - Tolerant World - Dreamworld

6. Pressgang Mutiny & Sunray Grennan - Hill and Gully - Hill and Gully/Sally Rackett

7. Cohen Almonte Duo - Siena - Timelines

8. Suzanne Ciani - Section 6 : The Vamp - CIANI/ORKEST

9. My Face Is Dancing - Anytime Forever - My Face Is Dancing

10. Robyn Jacobs - Pith - New Forevers

11. Linda Catlin Smith, Cheryl Duvall - The View From Here - The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023) Volume II: The Underfolding and Early Works

12. Moff Skellington - Four Speed Knock Knock - Dawn Ablutions

13. The Go-Betweens - Poison In The Walls (Acoustic Demos) - G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology - Volume 3

14. Dave Graney and Clare Moore - Death By A Thousand Sucks - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

15. Smoked Salmon - Making Me Better - Totally Sick !!

16. The Junta - Interstate - Exposure

17. Fancy Weapon - Following You - Fancy Weapon

18. The Dream Syndicate - John Coltrane Stereo Blues (Live at the Lexington, London, 2023) - Live Through the Past, Darkly

19. Peter Hammill - Fireships - A Headlong Stretch: The Fie! Albums 1992-1996 (2026 Remaster)

20. The David S. Ware Quartets - Mikuro’s Blues - Live In The World

21. Eldritch Priest - nape…wrinkle…linger - Too, So Like Nothing