Shfl Update, 11/24
Ned Raggett on Stereolab miscellanea, plus new recommendations from Shy Thompson, Philip Freeman, Beatriz Miranda, Jon Dale, Nate Patrin, Sasha Frere-Jones and Jeff Treppel
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope you have a good holiday and thanks for reading the newsletter. This is the album I can’t stop playing over the last week, thanks to Joe Muggs for the recommendation.
Guides
Ned Raggett on Stereolab side-projects
Recommendations
Shy Thompson on David Tholfsen, U.S. Saucer and Sobs
Philip Freeman on Ryoji Ikeda, Bernhard Günter, Seefeel and some excellent Morton Feldman recordings
Beatriz Miranda on Johnny Alf and Conjunto A Voz do Morro
Jon Dale on Ellen Arkbro, Mister Water Wet, Bruce Gilbert, kaito, Edvard Graham Lewis, Kendall Turner Overdrive, Danny Ben-Israel, Ulla, Tower Recordings, High Rise, New North Wales, Robert Hampson and more
Nate Patrin on Swamp Dogg, John McLaughlin, Johnny Jenkins, Led Zeppelin, The Three Degrees and Spirit
Sasha Frere-Jones on Rotary Connection, Dungen and something of a career retrospective on John Martyn
Jeff Treppel on Mr. Bungle, Amorphis, Strung Out, White Noise, ISIS, Iron Butterfly and Rush