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Durand Jones & The Indications’ Flowers leans into 70s soul with a soft-focus touch, exploring heartbreak and healing through lush arrangements and falsetto warmth. billy woods’ golliwog is unsettling and magnetic, weaving dense, poetic verses over fractured beats that leave room for silence and suspicion. The Gastr Del Sol reissue of Upgrade & Afterlife still stuns, its strange beauty and cerebral sprawl undiminished. Lightheaded’s debut Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming is effortless jangle pop, steeped in warmth and teenage yearning. Jeanines’ How Long Can It Last is brisk and bittersweet, all tight hooks and Byrdsian shimmer. Botch come back swinging with 0161524, a furious and intricate live set that never lets up. Chat Pile’s This Dungeon Earth / Remove Your Skin Please is bleak and brilliant, doubling down on their crushed-America noise.

Also out this week, but not pictured - The Lijadu Sisters’ Danger is fierce, funky, and unrelentingly cool — Lagos psych-pop with bite and swagger. Stephen O’Malley’s But Remember What You Have Had is a glacial, immersive drone piece, like standing inside a cathedral built from distortion and memory. Jim O’Rourke’s Shutting Down Here is an eerie, meticulously crafted ambient descent, unfolding like a forgotten dream slowly collapsing in real time.