Fresh Tracks

**HIGHLIGHTS****Most impressive and infectious result of only 2 nights recording: Pottery: No. 1**Best result of a solitary year as a woodworker on the English hillside: Cate Le Bon: Reward**Best impression of themselves: The National: I Am Easy To FindBAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENREAmon Tobin/Fear In A Handful Of...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best revisit of musically exploring and adoring the human body: Esperanza Spaulding: 12 Little Spells (Deluxe Edition)**Best band who has the best words: The Dream Syndicate: These Times **Best thing to come out of Salinas since Steinbeck: The Mystery Lights: Too Much Tension!**Best reason to move to Sydney so you...

May 3, 2019**HIGHLIGHTS****Best vocally-angelic earworm tune wizard: Aldous Harding: Designer**Best love child of Elvis Costello and Nathaniel Rateliff : Craig Finn: I Need A new War**Best way to re-enact a musical montage on the Left Bank in the 60s: Les Bof!: Voila!**Best album shot out of a cannon after a...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best DJs in the whole damn world: The all-volunteer air crew at KZMU!!!! Happy Radiothon, and donate today on our home page. We have a short list of adds today with focus on our Spring Radiothon fundraiser. Enjoy!BAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENREDrug Apts/Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances/Mt.St.Mtn./Garage Punk/**digital**Eric...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best joint master class on the American songbook from Resilience Music Alliance: Ulysses Owens, Jr.: Songs of Freedom & Alicia Olatuja: Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women**Best grooves to accompany the sunny spring breeze: Bibio: Ribbons**Best boot-stomping, head shaking, hop-dancing tunes: Fontaines D.C.: Dogrel**Best contact-trip: Jack Waterson: Adrian Younge...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best reason to go out on a Sunday night in Moab: Shana Cleveland: Night of the Worm Moon**Best upbeat swamp outta Brooklyn: Daddy Long Legs: Lowdown Ways**Best original hip-hop voice balancing the scales of beauty and badassery: Little Simz: GREY AreaBAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENREAlexis P Suter Band/Be...

**Best album to set aside the time for a deep listen: Maverick Sabre: When I Wake Up**Best Zappa licks for a new age: Michelle Blades: Visitor**Best master class in old school soul: Lee Fields & the Expressions: It Rains Love**Best psych rock for Brooklynites: Garcia Peoples: Natural Facts**Best Steely Dan...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best power rock trio featuring one of my musical idols Mary Timony: Ex Hex: It’s Real**Best EP by a band steeped in their parents’ vinyl: Acid Tongue: The Night We Broke Our Lease**Best indicator Surf Rock is alive and well in the Sonoran desert: The Rebel Set: Smidgen PigeonBAND /...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best cosmic collision: Karen O & Dangermouse: Lux Prima**Best whistler of all time who does everything else amazingly too: Andrew Bird: My Finest Work Yet**Best fresh insight into a classic artist: Townes Van Zandt: Sky Blue**Best party in your ears and everyone’s invited: Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe: Gnomes & Badgers**Best reason...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best reason to put on your dancin’ shoes: Ibibio Sound Machine: Doko Mien**Best reason bathrooms and garages still make great recording studios: Charlie Christmas: Weird Old ManBAND / ALBUM / LABEL / GENREAG Weinberger/Reborn/Bigfoot Records/BluesBlind Raccoon and Nola Blue/Collection Volume 1 /Blind Raccoon/Nola Blue/BluesBone Acre/Oll Korrect/s/r/RockBrandon Santini/The Longshot/American Showplace/BluesBuddahfly/Ancient Fire/Roots...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best use of both ears and an afternoon of undivided attention: Yves Jarvis:The Same But By Different Means**Best reason to crank the subs: Sugaray Rayford: Somebody Save Me**Best way to fist pump to the end of the world: FEELS: Post Earth**Best reason to look up the word ‘chanteuse’: Mary Lane:...

**HIGHLIGHTS****Best musical re-mapping: Christian Scott aTunde Adjua: Ancestral Recall**Best west coast fuzzzzz: Frankie & the Witch Fingers: Zam**Best psychedelic super-duo: The Claypool Lennon Delirium: South of Reality**Best Rolling Stones cover: Dennis Brennan and the White Owls: Live at Electric Andyland**Best musical encapsulation of love and humanity: Rocky Dawuni: Beats of...