Singles & EPs round Up - September 30th, 2020

Eskimoh - Untitled 01 (Self Release)

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Eskimoh is a ridiculously talented, versatile young producer from the north of England. Not content with producing UK Garage mutations and Drum and Bass, she recently popped up with this stunning slice of neo-classical loveliness, and if that wasn't enough she got one of her mates - Boz Miz, to make a stunning and pefectly complementary video for the track. I'm glued to what she's going to come up with next.

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Marker Starling - Silk Rock (Tin Angle Records)

Welcome to one of this years' finest soul records with its jazz juiced pop, AOR/MOR, breezy, care free, top down with the wind in your hair on a winding coastal road through red wood forests somewhere in California vibe to it.

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Sasso - Sometimes I get It (Northern Life Records)

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I lost track of Sasso somewhere in my transition from nu-jazz disciple to the more laid back lad that I am now so it was with interest I stumbled across him on Bandcamp the other day and low and behold he's still putting out some cracking tunes, I'd be straight on the dancefloor if I heard this. Now where are those old 12"s?

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Holy Tongue - Holy Tongue (Amidah)

One for the dancers with attitude reading this and what a melting pot gem it is. Post punk nodding, dub winking, Fourth World hat tipping fusion of the highest order here, not sounding like too much else out there and with an oversized pair of cojones to boot.

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Lonnie Holley - I'm A Suspect, Galcher LustwerK Rmx (Jagjahuwar)

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I've had a bit of thing for Holley since those two CD releases in 2012/13 which I'll probably get buried with, just in case there is an afterlife & I need some tunes. I was gutted when I didn't really click with his last LP, but this bumping but perfectly weighted house remix from Lustwerk has restored all my faith & I'll probably stick it on a USB to go into the ground with me and the CDs as well..

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Blessed are the Hearts that Bend - Palace (Bandcamp)

Another fine slice of neo-classical music with a lovely visual pairing, this time accompanying one man's late night look and early hours soul searching around London. Not available to stream yet but if you like the music it is available on Bandcamp and apparently it's the first track from a forthcoming LP.

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PALACE from Luke Seomore & Joseph Bull on Vimeo.

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Baba Stiltz - Running To Chad, DJ Python Rmx (Bandcamp)

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I jumped all over Python's work as soon as I heard his first EP a few years back now but have been less enamoured of late. I'm back with the program now though, as he utterly transforms the indie pop of Baba Stiltz into this extended, stripped back, hypnotic, late night smokers delight.

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Miljon - Callin' It Quits (Studio Barnhus)

Apparently this is a taste of an LP due later in the year, and bring it on I say. What a lovely, sorrowful slice of laid back dreamy pop. Breaking up never sounded so pleasant, it's almost worth getting divorced for just so you can play it in between sobs.

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Calabashed - Behold A Black Wave

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More jazz fusion freshness coming out of the 24/7 jazz factory of London that brings together spoken word, hip hop, soul and electronics like it's the most natural thing in the world, which it damn well should be in 2020. Also interesting to see Alabaster DePlume cropping up on this as a sideman rather than director of operations.