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Release show for Andy Boay (Tonstartssbandht)

"Andy Boay’s vocal-guitar-based psychedelia taps the euphoric and the sorrowful, both onstage amongst friends and strangers, and tracking alone at his 8-track in the studio. He has played in the duo Tonstartssbandht with his brother Edwin since 2007. He spent six years playing guitar in the touring band for Mac DeMarco. These days he lives and works in the East Village neighborhood of New York City."

"Julian Bozeman performs off-kilter avant pop songs about love, loss, hope, and regret…intense, raw, and absurd. Like in ancient Greek theater, Julian becomes a mask through which the audience can experience and ultimately release intense human emotion. Julian performs immersed in projections made from old and new technologies, creating a visual landscape that feels both nostalgic and eerily future-facing."

Tubby’s Gear Swap – Rules & Guidelines

1. What’s Allowed

• Accepted items: Musical instruments, amps, pedals, cables, synths, DJ gear, recording equipment, accessories, etc.

• No junk: All gear must be in working condition unless clearly labeled AS-IS or FOR PARTS.

• No sales of unrelated items (clothes, furniture, etc.) unless pre-approved by the host.

2. Trades / Sales / Pricing

• Sellers and traders set their own prices or trade terms.

• Haggling is fine—be respectful and chill.

• Tubby’s takes no responsibility for pricing, quality, or deals—all transactions are between individuals.

3. Space & Setup

• Table space or designated floor area— is first come, first served.

• Bring your own power strips or extension cords if you need to demo anything plugged in.

4. Testing & Demos

• Keep volumes low—no shredding or 808 face-melting.

• Small amps or headphones are ideal for demoing gear.

• Be patient if someone’s testing something—take turns and don’t hover.

5. Conduct & Responsibility

• Be honest about the condition of your gear.

• Keep an eye on your stuff—you’re responsible for what you bring.

• No aggressive sales tactics or shady behavior—we’re here to hang, not hustle.

6. Wrap-Up & Clean-Up

• Clean your area when you leave—take all unsold gear and trash with you.

• If you make a mess, help fix it.

• Any gear left behind may be considered a donation.

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A night of bedroom pop/twangy indie college rock/slowcore type of thing. Fraternal Twin is the project of former Tubby's bartender Tom Christie, originating in New Paltz and now based in NYC, known for its intimate, slowcore‑tinged folk-pop and lo-fi charm.

Ghost Prom is a Hudson Valley husband-and-wife indie rock band featuring our very own Stephen. Indie folkrock with pedal steel.

Wesley Wolffe relocated to the city from Memphis, Tennesse and has a new band to round out the evening

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Loboko is a Congolese dance band based in New York City led by Yohni Loboko (Yohni Djungu-Sungu) a virtuosic guitarist, singer and multi-instrumentalist from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yohni has performed with legends of Congolese music Fally Ipupa, Soukous Stars and Zaiko Langa Langa. He founded Loboko in 2019 along with drummer, DJ and journalist Morgan Greenstreet, with additional support from multi-instrumentalist and producer Nikhil P. Yerawadekar.

Loboko’s unique style draws on classic Congolese rumba and soukous, Baluba and Bakongo traditional music, and a heavy dose of contemporary seben delivered in a punchy, small-band format. In 2023, Loboko released the vinyl '45 "Kanyunyi / Ekenge" with the acclaimed Brooklyn label Names You Can Trust, featuring special guest Ngouma Lokito, veteran bassist with iconic acts such as Soukous Stars, Tshala Muana and Pépé Kallé.

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Solo project from Andrew Bernstein of Horse Lords.
Silk Fence is Arian Shafiee (Guerilla Toss), Booker Stardrum (SML), and Justin Frye (PC Worship).
and Lea Bertucci a Kingston-based experimental musician, composer and performer whose work explores relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance.

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A three band bill to get your mind off of things.

Dominick and the Family Band: "Kingston's best indie rock band that stretches things out a bit"
Katy The Kyng & Domestic Drafts: Power couple Katie Battistoni of The Flying Luttenbachers and Andy Cush of Garcia Peoples join forces for a set of each other’s songs.
Irrevery: "We make music: country-punk noise. We make books. We make art. We make a scene."

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Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement, and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, Caveman Wakes Up belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul.

Over the years, dedication has paid off. Friendship has become a kind of reverse supergroup, wherein the band itself and each individual member is located centrally in an increasingly prominent scene of young folk and country musicians and songwriters. Drummer Michael Cormier O’Leary leads the instrumental collective Hour and, along with bassist Jon Samuels, run Dear Life Records, home to friends and peers who count Friendship as a major influence, including MJ Lenderman, Florry, and Fust. (Samuels also plays lead guitar in MJ Lenderman and the Wind). Guitarist Peter Gill’s band 2nd Grade records prolifically. Wriggins began writing the songs of Caveman Wakes Up on a downtuned classical guitar of Lenderman’s, and finished on a barely-tuned piano in an apartment he shared with Sadurn’s G DeGroot.

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Julie Doiron’s musical journey spans decades, marked by her distinct voice, raw vulnerability, and unwavering commitment to make authentic and deeply personal music. She is a beloved and influential figure in Canada’s indie music scene having been a founding member of Eric’s Trip, the first Canadian act signed to Sub Pop, and recipient of 2017’s Polaris Prize Heritage Award. In 1993 she co-founded Sappy Records and in 2006 she co-founded Atlantic Canada’s Sappyfest, cementing her role as a passionate advocate and supporter of independent music

Julie’s solo career launched with Broken Girl in 1996 and has spanned nearly three decades, including Polaris-nominated and Juno-winning releases like Woke Myself Up, So Many Days, and 2021’s I Thought Of You. Along the way she’s made two full length albums with Mount Eerie, recorded for labels like Numero Group, Sub Pop, Jagjaguwar, and You’ve Changed, and collaborated with Gord Downie, Herman Düne, and Daniel Romano.

Caged Animals is the recording project of songwriter Vin Cacchione. Born in a bedroom in the DIY haze of early 2010’s Brooklyn, Caged Animals' lo-fi roots led them to release records on Lucky Number Music, tour internationally, and share stages with DIIV, Darwin Deez, The Rapture, Blood Orange, and Mac Demarco. In 2011 “Teflon Heart” became a top 10 single in Germany and their songs have been used in film,TV, and podcasts. Vin recently co-composed the score for The Space Within which stars Jessica Chastain.

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John Carroll Kirby is a producer, composer and keyboardist from Los Angeles. Though Kirby's background is steeped in jazz, his signature sound blends genres and styles. An in-demand collaborator for artists ranging from superstars Solange, Frank Ocean and Harry Styles to beloved indie musicians Connan Mockasin and Liv.e, and many more, Kirby has lately focused on his own prolific solo output, releasing five LPs on Stones Throw Records in a little over two years.

My Garden (2020), a blend of jazz and exotica, was praised by Pitchfork, The Fader, LA Times, Q, and Mojo. The same year, Kirby released Conflict, a calming piano album in response to the year’s chaos. Following his first film score for the animated feature Cryptozoo, Kirby’s 2021 jazz-fusion release Septet marked a return to ensemble playing, while Dance Ancestral (2022) with additional production from Canadian artist YuSu, saw him take a more electronic-forward approach.

Alongside these albums, Kirby has released episodes of Kirby’s Gold, a web series inspired by Huell Howser’s California Gold. In the series, Kirby chats and improvises with artists ranging from a painter to an Eastern European choir and Costa Rican calypso band. Most recently, Kirby received a Grammy nod for his work on Steve Lacy’s smash hit “Bad Habit”. In 2023 he released an album-length collaboration with R&B singer Eddie Chacon entitled Sundown and a new solo album Blowout which one the LiberamAward for best Jazz Album.

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"Leopardo, the well-mannered and quirky Swiss group from Fribourg, are back once again with SIDE A / SIDE B, an album that invites the world into their jagged and naïve psych-pop and electrified tape experiments that undercuts conventions and create a scanty, but vivid compendium of absurdity, delicacy, and humor, à la The Velvets, Slapp Happy, Desperate Bicycles, and the Performing Ferret Band. While 2021’s Malcantone displayed sketches of a group in progress and 2023’s full-length was a somewhat “best of” solo recordings from bandleader Romain Savary, Side A / Side B seems to identify a new chapter of the group’s knowingly charming perfect unpop with a fully observant long-term trajectory and naïve spirit that makes humanity more believable." -Joe Massaro

Two Kingston bands round out the evening with Tiny Blue Ghost's first show in ages AND Jelly Kelly's nu wave sounds kicking it off!
JAM LEOPARDO!

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Join us for a special SWDYT evening with... William Hooker, Alan Braufman, and James Brandon Lewis performing the recently unearthed 1977 album “A Time Within”

Featuring William Hooker (drums), David S. Ware (tenor saxophone), and Alan Braufman (alto saxophone), this recording captures a rare and electrifying moment in time. Recorded live at the New York Jazz Museum on January 14, 1977, the album has been newly mastered by Joe Lambert and is now released for the first time on March 28, 2025 via Valley of Search.

This album was recorded at a pivotal moment in each musician's career. William Hooker, already recognized as one of the most innovative drummers on the free jazz scene, was forging new paths with his fiercely creative compositions and collaborations. David S. Ware was on the verge of debuting as a bandleader with Birth of a Being (Hathut), foreshadowing the spiritually charged and deeply expressive playing that would define his influential career. And Alan Braufman had recently released his debut album, Valley of Search (India Navigation), establishing himself as a key figure in the loft jazz movement.

Together, they created a dynamic, raw expression of New York City free jazz at its purest—urgent, unfiltered, and brimming with the energy of the era. The trio's collective histories include collaborations with Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Cooper-Moore, William Parker, and Thurston Moore, underscoring their deep roots in the avant-garde jazz tradition.

William Hooker and Alan Braufman continue to perform and release music, bringing their uncompromising artistry to audiences worldwide. David S. Ware, who passed away in 2012, left an enduring legacy as one of the most revered saxophonists of his generation. This recording stands as a testament to their shared vision and a vital piece of jazz history.

Shoutout to Rocket Number Nine for the Sponsorship

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The new BASIC EP “Dream City” is a minimalist fusion of taut, experimentally-minded funk: think Bo Diddley with a chorus pedal, Yo La Tengo on a Congotronics bender, or The Pop Group gone chill. The trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI), BASIC produced this three-track, 25-minute release over a two-day recording session in December, concluding an eventful 2024 for the group. The recordings were done fast and live, the three members cutting them together in a room at Philly’s Kawari Sound with minimal overdubs. And although just a trio these tunes sound like more than that. Ample detail is provided by the interlocking guitars and Avery’s unique combination of electronic beats and acoustic percussion that he treats and manipulates live with various self-built electronic processors

New kingston crew Wilde Vier kicks it off!

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After an 8 years hiatus, psychedelic cumbia group Chicha Libre is back with a new EP - Tequila y Aguardiente, a collaboration with Mexico’s Son Rompe Pera and Colombia’s La Sonora Mazuren - and just played a series of shows in Mexico City including an epic show for Dia de Los Muertos Son Rompe Pera and legendary chicha band Los Mirlos.

Chicha Libre is probably the first non Peruvian band to disseminate Chicha and psychedelic cumbia outside of Peru. The group started out in 2007 as a tribute to Peruvian pioneers but quickly evolved into an original project. Chicha Libre's music draws from all of its members' backgrounds. The 6 musicians hail from Mexico, Venezuela, France, Puerto Rico and the US and use synth sounds, treated guitars, French songs, classical music and pop debris from three continents all contribute for its freeform take on tropical genres.

The band has proven especially popular in South America and Mexico but has also toured extensively in Europe and North America.

One of the world's preeminent Tropical Psychedelic band. MTV

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Steve Marion, the critically acclaimed–and completely wordless–songwriter and guitarist known as Delicate Steve, has unveiled a new album called Delicate Steve Sings. Is the album title a reference to the instantly recognizable “voice” of his guitar? Does he actually sing this time? Has he not been singing all along? That’s the crux of Sings—Marion is the rare guitarist where you can put on any of his records and know exactly who’s playing. In an indie rock landscape stuffed end-to-end with guitars and amplifiers, nobody else sounds like this.

That unique voice has kept Steve busy in an unpredictable variety of settings. The sheer spread of his work outside his own records—collaborating with Miley Cyrus and Paul Simon, playing in Amen Dunes and the Black Keys, and being sampled by Kanye—doesn’t mean Steve’s a chameleon. It means he’s singular.

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Bex Burch: Whether combining the rhythmic timbres of wood, metal and audience claps or duetting with the atmospheric and elegiac echoed sounds of water dripping into a metal basin, Bex Burch is a composer, percussionist, instrument maker and improviser who emphasises space, repetition and aspects of chaos. These themes characterise an ongoing approach she describes as “messy minimalism”. Burch’s critically acclaimed 2023 solo album, 'There is only love and fear' was released via Chicago’s International Anthem and named The Guardian's Contemporary Album of the Month. She runs the label, Vula Viel Records, the domestic music event, Kantine Musik, and has collaborated with influential artists including Thomas Sekgura, Leafcutter John as part of ‘Boing!’, Tamar Osborn and Danalogue in ‘Flock’, Peter Zummo, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ben LaMar Gay, Dan Bitney and Macie Stewart.

https://bexburch.com/

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-only-love-and-fear

Che Chen is a musician, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bass, percussion, winds and homemade instruments), bandleader and concert organizer based in Queens, NY. An energetic presence in New York City’s experimental underground since the early 2000s, he has tread an idiosyncratic path from noise-song duo True Primes to playing in groups led by drone minimalists and Japanese outsider artists, to studying guitar in Mauritania and improvising with veterans from NYC’s storied free jazz community. He has been organizing concerts for as long as he has been playing them, stemming from the belief that music is social and must take place in community. In 2012, he and “plywood crate” player Rick Brown founded 75 Dollar Bill, a group with flexible personnel whose hybrid music synthesizes modal and rhythmic concepts from the “non-Western” world, Sun Ra’s space chords and the minimalist and No Wave histories of their hometown. Chen’s solo performances explore improvisation as an extension of listening, setting the spontaneous invention of his playing within electronic drones, noise and an immersive sense of space that attempts to invoke the meditative, ecstatic and the sounds of everyday life.

chechen.bandcamp.com/

75dollarbill.bandcamp.com

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Girls Against Boys is a New York City based noise rock band. Initially begun as a studio project in Washington, DC, the band solidified as a band with the release of their 1992 album Tropic of Scorpio. The went on to release 3 records on Touch & Go, 1 record on DGC records, 1 on Jade Tree and an EP on Epitonic Records. They have toured through most of the world

The Brain Child of Afro-Brazilian Bassist, Composer And Vocalist Flora Lucini,(The 1865 band/Mass Appeal Records) "MAAFA" Seeks To Expand The Sound Of Hardcore-Punk By Infusing Into Their Music The Rhythms & Percussive Instrumentation Found Throughout The African Diaspora. Creating What Flora Calls "Afro-Progressive Hardcore."

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Deep breath: It’s been nearly 20 years of high marks Mr. Lars Aldric Finberg, shocking as that calculation may be to make. Be it as basher in A-FRAMES and THEE OH SEES, secret weapon of WOUNDED LION, architect of PUBERTY and administrator of this peroject here THE INTELLIGENCE, his whirlwind presence has been a reliable one; that of an artist that people look for and look toward—excited to have them stop by!

On solo debut Bright and Blue, Alice Sandahl (La Luz) excavates with unvarnished vulnerability themes of loss, grief, and hope for the future with keyboard-driven music that combines pop, jazz, and the Great American songbook—Nina Simone meeting Harry Nilsson in a smoky bar anywhere in the world.

Local hero Shana Falana sprinkles in the hometown flavor with a debut of a new backing band!

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A night of industrial, goth, post punk, and darkwave! Tonight is a benefit for the Trans Youth Emergency Project.

Bel’s brother Quinn needs some financial aid on medical bills. We’ll cry some tears in our beers and you can throw a couple bucks his way if you are able.
DJ SETS
RICH CALI
ADAM THE HOT DOG MAN
OLD TOM
PLUMB LOCO

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Formed in Boston in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy, Karate added Jeff Goddard on bass in 1995. The band released six studio albums, two EPs, numerous singles, and split 7”s between 1994 and 2005. From punk roots, the band ventured widely—veering into jazz-rock, post-rock and a unique version of slowcore in its progressive indie experimentation.

The band re-emerges in Fall 2024 with Make It Fit, its first new studio record since 2004’s Pockets. Make It Fit, the band’s first album in 20 years, doesn’t try to recapture a youthful, DIY-era magic. Instead, it picks up where Karate’s three musicians are today: with a deeper skillset, adult angst cut through with moments of joy, punctuated with searing instrumental performances.

Make It Fit is the opposite of a cynical cash-in. It’s daring, requiring a full commitment from band and audience. And Karate’s reunion is soaking in gratitude. This time around, Farina says he appreciates it all more. “I appreciate that I’m playing a show. I used to get up on stage and be annoyed at this and be annoyed at that. Now I get up on stage and feel incredibly lucky. Just being able to do it again is so much fun. Just hearing us together on stage feels so right.

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Songwriter and recording artist Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalog. Her work with four-track production in the late '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for decades of indie rock that followed. During her most active times, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases, but her early approach to bedroom pop was revisited on the 2021 compilation Til Another Time (1988-1996).

Cindy is a key part of the San Francisco/Bay Area dream pop, fogpop, lo-fi scene. Led by Karina Gill, the band is Will Smith of Now, Staizsh Rodrigues of Children Maybe Later and Oli Lipton of Now and Violent Change. The songs are hazy and nostalgic pop-craft with lyrical backbone.

Chronophage are tough, tender, precise and unconstrained. Can you envision a midpoint between Big Star and the Homosexuals? Imagine Nick Lowe constructing defiant rejections of the civil structure? Chronophage’s unconstrained melodies and gleefully imaginative structures enact such original, liberatory music.

Chronophage began five years ago in Austin, Texas. Stout participants in the transgressive DIY punk community patchworked throughout the world, the band have released two LPs and a handful of cassettes, always demonstrating a kind of risk-taking that feels both gleeful and dire. It’s clear that they delight in making hard, unexpected decisions, but there’s a colder sense that their existence depends on this daring.

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Cornelia’s Murr’s newest album began with a question: What do I want? The answer is everything, and it’s never felt more urgent.

On her first LP in six years, Run To The Center, out February 28, 2025 on 22Twenty, the London-born singer-songwriter delivers her most confident, expansive album yet. Across 10 hypnotic pop songs is a fully realized portrait of a woman and an artist in her thirties, standing triumphantly in uncertainties, asking the crucial questions one needs to sustain a life: How can you fit everything you want into a life? How can you do this if you want so much?

Run To The Center, which Murr will tour internationally next year, is her first release since her self-produced, six-track EP Corridor in 2022 and her first LP since her 2018 debut Lake Tear of the Clouds, produced by Jim James of My Morning Jacket. For years, Murr tried to make another LP, but extraneous forces kept getting in the way, whether economic or global.

But in the spring of 2023, Murr started working with prolific producer Luke Temple (Adrienne Lenker, Hand Habits), adding to her impressive list of collaborators, which includes Rodrigo Amarante, Alice Boman, Reverend Baron, and Oracle Sisters among many others. Temple was an old friend whom she had met in New York more than a decade prior. Finally, forces coalesced for them to work together. The result is a sweeping album of Murr’s most spectral and tender pop yet, born of a need to excavate her desires and experience of time, both in new songs born spontaneously out of an easy collaboration with Temple, as well as older songs that, for years, had been knocking around in her brain.

Run To the Center is the most updated expression of who Murr is now, both sonically and emotionally, particularly as questions around artmaking have become more urgent for her over the better part of the last decade

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Multi-generational, gender, genre non-conforming amalgam of Black culture, Mourning [A] BLKstar, is dedicated to sharing stories and songs of America’s unfolding apocalypse. Their music melds live instrumentation with hip-hop production creating sonic frequencies that illuminate the African Diaspora. Founded in Cleveland, the US-based Afrofuturist collective continues touring their music globally across Europe and the US, playing festivals from Crossing Border in Berlin with Lonnie Holley to Big Ears Festival and Le Guess Who? in Utrecht.

Founded in Cleveland, Ohio. 

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Psych-Electro-Cumbia y Digital Folklore

Terror/Cactus is the musical project of producer and multi-instrumentalist Martín Selasco. Born in Argentina and based in Seattle, he creates a hypnotic fusion of Latin American folk traditions with deep electronic beats, psychedelic textures, and immersive visuals. His live performances blend pulsing rhythms, field recordings, and vibrant guitar work, creating an atmosphere that is both otherworldly and deeply rooted in tradition.

Through his music, Terror/Cactus bridges cultural landscapes, offering a sonic journey that resonates with both modern Latin communities and global audiences. His work has been featured on platforms such as KEXP and Remezcla, and he has performed across the U.S., Mexico, and Argentina, including stages at THING Festival, Offbeat, Timber, Departament, & Teatro Margarita Xirgu.

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OHYUNG aka Lia Ouyang Rusli describes their new album as “my trans self and my former self in conversation, from both perspectives.” The record represents their lengthy, complicated, but crucial journey between lives, strewn with both doubt and excitement. It is an ecstatic, pop-oriented shift in direction from an artist primarily known for noise, experimental hip-hop, and ambient music, but carried with sleek confidence, maturity, and a silvery, hallucinogenic shimmer that reveals Rusli’s experimental background. It is, writes Rusli, “sometimes written from a dark place and other times from a place of happiness.” Throughout, darkness and light rise and fall in layers of phased strings, trip-hop drum production, and earworming vocal lines.

Also a film score composer, Rusli’s songwriting craft is meticulous and nuanced. You Are Always On My Mind was, perhaps surprisingly, formed primarily from processed “generic string loops” found in online sample packs - a strange and wilfully jarring reminder that what seems to be is not always what is. Recontextualised, these string loops enshadow the simplicity of their origins and reveal a grace and purposefulness perhaps not even imagined by their authors, subtly drawing out euphoria and tension in equal balance.

Rusli also writes of the influence of rave culture central to their transition, and of the record’s production and theme. “It’s a declaration of love for raves and the dark hazy rooms that helped me to be free and true with myself— seeing other people who are so free and beautiful and thinking that one day that can be me— that’s me in the future.” But there is also a fear and unease present. Key moment “no good” explores “the worst version of myself as a trans person, feeding doubt to my pre-transition self” with its core lyric anyone can see / I’m no good for you, delivered over a relentless beat, swooning strings, and glistening synthesis.

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A strange Sunday of sounds. Ralph White plays a transcendental type of fretless banjo / accordion music that wanders into the desert. Lubelski/Nace experiment with drones, scrapes, strings and squelch. A wild pairing