The A.M. – Episode August 23, 2021

There's a fine line between gloomy and swoony, and this week's AM tries to walk it. Triumphant minor-key post-rock, stoic jangle-pop, bucolic electronics, and other contradictory sounds for a beautifully grey Monday.

Tracklist

  • On Reflection I Should Have Stayed
    Nigel Mullaney • The Turning
  • Omoide
    Komachi • Omoide
  • Shell Sounds
    Various Artists, featuring Glo Code • 2nd Life Silk
  • Himawari
    Kogane • All Together
  • All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
    Haiku Salut • The Hill, The Light, The Ghost
  • REV02
    Psychic Pollution • OCD Soundsystem
  • An Experience of Color
    Clocolan • Rendered
  • Drag
    Various Artists, featuring Dominic Pierce • FUTURES Vol. 7
  • Golden Years
    Various Artists, featuring Léa Sen • Modern Love
  • Lost and Found
    Stelar Door • Any Colour She Likes
  • Magpie Spring
    Andrew Wasylyk • Balgay Hill: Morning in Magnolia
  • I'm a Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)
    The Avalanches, featuring Belle and Sebastian • Since I Left You (20th Anniversary Deluxe)
  • Don't Leave Me
    Astrud Gilberto • September 17, 1969
  • Forever More
    João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge • João Donato JID007
  • Dazed and Awake
    Aerial M • Aerial M
  • Never Coming Back
    Anika • Change
  • Telephone and Rubber Band
    Penguin Cafe Orchestra • Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  • The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas
    Penguin Cafe Orchestra • Penguin Cafe Orchestra
  • Omicron
    4 Bonjour's Parties • Okapi Horn
  • Sympathy and Vegetation
    Charles Spearin • My City Of Starlings
  • Music is Easy. There are Songs and There are Dances. This Song is a Dance.
    No Birds • Don't Rely on Dying Young
  • His Shining Fur Is Said to Fill the Sky, Trees and Sea With Light
    Jung People • Gold Bristle
  • Lawmaker
    DARKSIDE • Spiral
  • True Blue
    Dirty Beaches • Badlands
  • I Can't Dance
    My Idea • That's My Idea EP
  • Grey Skies
    Women • Rarities 2007-2010
  • Caviar
    Wavves • Hideaway
  • Down an August Path
    Felt • Me and a Monkey on the Moon
  • Spin Out
    Bachelor • Doomin' Sun
  • Have You Seen In Your Dreams
    Miracle Fortress • Five Roses
  • Situations
    Wombo • Keesh Mountain EP
  • Universe (Whatever 'Till You're Dead)
    Faith Healer • Cosmic Troubles
  • Fall Down 7
    All Night Radio • Spirit Stereo Frequency
  • Yeah But Uhhh Hey
    Fiver • Fiver with The Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition