The A.M.

Fall is officially a week away, but The AM couldn't wait to explore the sounds of autumn. Slightly spooky, oddly pretty, melancholy but resilient—it's a tricky mood to pin down, but a wonderful one to wander through.

Playlist:

• Group Listening - Sunset Village
• Haiku Salut - Try Again and Again and Again
• Ryan Hemsworth - Nashville
• Teen Daze - Autumnal
• Julien Mier - Diamond Sleeper
• The Advisory Circle - Hocusing for Beginners
• Boards of Canada - Oscar See Through Red Eye
• Caribou - Kid You'll Move Mountains
• Walt Rockman, Joël Vandroogenbroeck - Fairy Tale
• JOYFULTALK - Butterfly 12 Komokyo
• Fuubutsushi - Cicada Season
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Beside April
• Gilroy Mere - The Age of the Train
• Mercury Rev - Planet Caravan
• Lhasa - Anywhere on this Road
• Brightblack Morning Light - All We Have Broken Shines
• Múm - Green Green Grass of Tunnel
• Mid-Air Thief - White Room 하얀방
• Azeda Booth - Well
• The Kinks - Autumn Almanac
• Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II
• Julie Doiron - No More
• The Clientele - Harvest Time
• Galaxie 500 - Flowers
• Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
• The Brazda Brothers - Gemini
• Giuliano Sorgini - John Dalton Street
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Enormous Profit
• wasmarkhere - A Bright Spark
• Charles Spearin - When Tigers Used to Smoke
• Torngat - You Could Be

It's Labour Day, so I'm at least somewhat hoping you had the chance to sleep through this week's episode and are listening back somewhere in the future. Whenever you hear it, enjoy the mix of dream pop, shoegaze, artful electronics and the purest of Pure Moods.

Playlist:

• Leaving Laurel - Winter in the Woods (Daniel Avery Remix)
• Phortah - Landscape
• K.D.A.P. - Dooms Dive
• The Album Leaf - Glimmering Lights
• El Búho - Porro del Tucán
• Mansur Brown - Heiwa
• Kogane - Long Distance Calls
• Various Artists, featuring Metic - By the Creek
• The World Next Door - Planet Ghost Dad
• Ecotype - Stereoscopic Vision
• SUUNS - The Trilogy
• Kate NV - Marafon 15
• Liars - Leisure War
• Gang Gang Dance - Lotus
• Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby
• The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (7" mix)
• Andre Ethier - Wild Goldfish
• Nick Hakim, Roy Nathanson - Small Things
• Shiny Joe Ryan - Pub Boat
• LUMP - Animal
• koleżanka - In a Meeting
• Motorists - Hidden Hands
• The Holydrug Couple - Main Theme
• The Besnard Lakes - Superego
• Anika - Critical
• Piroshka - Scratching at the Lid
• Sunglaciers - Annie
• Lightning Bug - Song of the Bell
• High Parade - Stare
• Jane Weaver - Flock
• Brainticket - (There's a Shadow) Watchin' You

The full episode, from the beginning this time.
Shelley Youngblut joins to talk about the staggering amount of programming Wordfest has coming up in September. Enjoy the range of literary events, plus dream-pop tunes, experimental electronics, summer-y jazz, and other sounds suited to a late August morning.

Playlist:

• LNRDCROY - I Met You On BC Ferries
• Botany - F*ck This Whole Day
• Wish Lash - Lonely Among the Sleepers
• Santpoort, featuring Tennyson - Eons Away
• Dokkodo Sounds - Light Through the Leaves
• FHANG - Stanza Fresca
• Ross From Friends - The Daisy
• Galaxius Mons - On a Flaming Line
• Rival Consoles - Recovery
• untrained animals - Survive Outside
• Helado Negro - Outside the Outside
• Various Artists - Mazinger High
• Fuubutsushi - Suzushii Kaze
• Jack Name, Aoife Nessa Frances - Watching the Willows Burn
• Meggie Lennon - Jardin
• Maston - Ghost
• Tiny Doors - Marigold Sun
• Björk - Sun in My Mouth
• Björk - Heirloom
• le vaisseau d'or - Sunshine
• Send Medicine - Roses are Contagious at Dawn
• Possum - Guest of the Moon
• Various Artists, featuring Lollipop - Don't Go
• Living Hour, featuring Peel Dream Magazine - Double Bus
• The Limiñanas, Laurent Garnier - Promenade Oblique
• Japanese Breakfast - Glider
• Vanishing Twin - Phase One Million
• Absolutely Free - Still Life
• Hélène Barbier - Equal Sign
• Soccer96, featuring Salami Rose Joe Louis - Sitting on a Satellite
• The Luvmenauts - 71 Shuttle
• Evolfo - Zuma Loop

Shelley Youngblut joins to talk about the staggering amount of programming Wordfest has coming up in September. Enjoy the range of literary events, plus dream-pop tunes, experimental electronics, summer-y jazz, and other sounds suited to a late August morning.

Playlist:

• LNRDCROY - I Met You On BC Ferries
• Botany - F*ck This Whole Day
• Wish Lash - Lonely Among the Sleepers
• Santpoort, featuring Tennyson - Eons Away
• Dokkodo Sounds - Light Through the Leaves
• FHANG - Stanza Fresca
• Ross From Friends - The Daisy
• Galaxius Mons - On a Flaming Line
• Rival Consoles - Recovery
• untrained animals - Survive Outside
• Helado Negro - Outside the Outside
• Various Artists - Mazinger High
• Fuubutsushi - Suzushii Kaze
• Jack Name, Aoife Nessa Frances - Watching the Willows Burn
• Meggie Lennon - Jardin
• Maston - Ghost
• Tiny Doors - Marigold Sun
• Björk - Sun in My Mouth
• Björk - Heirloom
• le vaisseau d'or - Sunshine
• Send Medicine - Roses are Contagious at Dawn
• Possum - Guest of the Moon
• Various Artists, featuring Lollipop - Don't Go
• Living Hour, featuring Peel Dream Magazine - Double Bus
• The Limiñanas, Laurent Garnier - Promenade Oblique
• Japanese Breakfast - Glider
• Vanishing Twin - Phase One Million
• Absolutely Free - Still Life
• Hélène Barbier - Equal Sign
• Soccer96, featuring Salami Rose Joe Louis - Sitting on a Satellite
• The Luvmenauts - 71 Shuttle
• Evolfo - Zuma Loop

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.

Playlist:

• Nigel Mullaney - On Reflection I Should Have Stayed
• Komachi - Omoide
• Various Artists, featuring Glo Code - Shell Sounds
• Kogane - Himawari
• Haiku Salut - All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
• Psychic Pollution - REV02
• Clocolan - An Experience of Color
• Various Artists, featuring Dominic Pierce - Drag
• Various Artists, featuring Léa Sen - Golden Years
• Stelar Door - Lost and Found
• Andrew Wasylyk - Magpie Spring
• The Avalanches, featuring Belle and Sebastian - I'm a Cuckoo (Avalanches Remix)
• Astrud Gilberto - Don't Leave Me
• João Donato, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Forever More
• Aerial M - Dazed and Awake
• Anika - Never Coming Back
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Telephone and Rubber Band
• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas
• 4 Bonjour's Parties - Omicron
• Charles Spearin - Sympathy and Vegetation
• No Birds - Music is Easy. There are Songs and There are Dances. This Song is a Dance.
• Jung People - His Shining Fur Is Said to Fill the Sky, Trees and Sea With Light
• DARKSIDE - Lawmaker
• Dirty Beaches - True Blue
• My Idea - I Can't Dance
• Women - Grey Skies
• Wavves - Caviar
• Felt - Down an August Path
• Bachelor - Spin Out
• Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams
• Wombo - Situations
• Faith Healer - Universe (Whatever 'Till You're Dead)
• All Night Radio - Fall Down 7
• Fiver - Yeah But Uhhh Hey

With a throwback to Fugazi's 2001 classic The Argument (a perfect headphone album for an eerie, apocalyptic morning), this week's episode often embraces the melancholy and the slightly spooky. Seems like autumn's creeping in, despite my best intentions.

Playlist:

• Yes/And - Melt Away
• AVRIG - Lofty Diffidence (elation)
• Seahawks - Mystic Beach
• Future Museums - Hum Body
• Alyson McNamara - After Hours - Yu Su Remix
• Dawn to Dawn - Care
• Flying Lotus - Mind Flight
• amiina - Beacon
• Andrew Wasylyk - The Morning of Magnolia Light
• Various Artists, featuring Martin $ky - Arriving Soon
• Santpoort - World Building
• Body Corp - Everything is Talking
• Deep Throat Choir - Alchemilla
• Charles Spearin - Sometimes It Hurts to Be Alive
• untrained animals - For Toumani
• Various Artists, featuring Casual Fridays - Sure Thing
• Fugazi - Strangelight
• Fugazi - Life and Limb
• L'Rain - Blame Me
• Crumb - Seeds
• Angel Olsen - Eyes Without a Face
• Astral Swans, featuring Juile Doiron - Flood
• Various Artists, featuring Jeff Tweedy - For You (I'd Do Anything)
• Wire - Outdoor Miner
• Red Ribbon - Planet X
• La Luz - Here on Earth
• The Garrys - It's Over
• Floor Cry - I Don't Really Know
• Bleach - Paint My Face
• Love Kills - Teenage Girls
• Jesuslesfilles - Auditorium
• Holy - Wish ㍛
• Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising
• Absolutely Free - Still Life
• Yoo Doo Right - Join, Be Curst

The news is full of doom, but this week's A.M. aims for at least a bit of calm in the midst of it. From Taoist sounds to drifting international folk, take a deep breath and find your ground.

Playlist:

• Liila - Appa Wú Wéi
• Various Artists, featuring Just Big Hills - Acacia
• untrained animals - Five Slides
• Kogane - Aquarium
• The Vendetta Suite - Morning Star
• Yvois - Heimlangeweil
• Stelar Door - Essence of You
• Various Artists, featuring Santa Rita - Malachite
• Various Artists - Sunbeams
• Emze - refraction(s)
• Various Artists, featuring Bullion - Where Are We Now
• Lake Night, featuring Miles Cooper Seaton - Bound
• SALOMEA - Outdoors (Salami Rose Joe Louis rework)
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Nymphea
• Low - Disappearing
• Ryan Bourne - Hopeless
• Grouper - Unclean Mind
• Anika - Rights
• Dashiell Hedayat - Long Song for Zelda
• Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Gregorian Chance
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Signal from the Noise
• The Luvmenauts - Follow Your IC 1805
• Chrisma - C.Rock
• Cold Beat - Mandelbrot Fall
• Hélène Barbier - La Peur
• Meggie Lennon - Can't Stop Us
• Holy Hive - Deadly Valentine
• Spencer Cullum's Coin Collection - Seaside
• Gordon B Isnor - So the River
• Mega Bog - Flower
• Aldous Harding - Old Peel
• Yuma Abe - Omaemo
• Vanishing Twin - Big Moonlight (Ookii Gekkou)
• Mauv, Pixx - Change Will Come Anyway

After a month off, Peter returns to shake off the cobwebs with a selection of favourites from the first half of 2021. Tune in for an eclectic mix of mornign moods, beginning with Floating Points and Pharaoh Sanders' meditative collaboration Promises, and moving in no particular order through neo-classical soundscapes, exotica re-creations, folksy songwriting, neo-soul grooves, and soaring post-rock.

Playlist:

• Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 6
• Masayoshi Fujita - Bird Ambiance
• Colleen - Implosion-Explosion
• Hannah Peel - Emergence in Nature
• NETRVNNER - Silver Gate
• Yu Su - Xiu
• Green-House - Sunflower Dance
• Sarah Neufeld - With Love and Blindness
• Sven Wunder - Prussian Blue
• Ìxtahuele - Manna
• Andre Ethier - Nature Compels Me
• Bernice - Infinite Love
• Lael Neale - Every Star Shivers in the Dark
• The Notwist - Ship
• Nightshift - Power Cut
• Bell Orchestre - V: Movement
• Mdou Moctar - Bismilai Atagah
• Madlib, Four Tet - Road of the Lonely Ones
• SAULT - Bitter Streets
• El Michels Affair - Fazed Out
• Cool Ghouls - The Way I Made You Cry
• Lab Coast - Take the Skinheads Bowling
• Chad VanGaalen - Starlight
• The Besnard Lakes - Our Heads, Our Hearts On Fire Again
• Mogwai - To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth
• No Joy - Four - From Heaven
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Cliffs Gaze / cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise / ASHES TO SEA or NEARER TO THEE

Playlist:

• Billy Lemon, Omar Apollo, Maxwell Young - 12:34 AM
• zeus the elevated - Heaven's Gate
• Hanorah - Saturn Return
• Cap Kendricks - Still Life
• SALES - Pope is a Rockstar
• Autumn Dog - First Flight
• Naji, The Kount - Angel
• SZA - Drew Barrymore
• 070 Shake - Guilty Conscience
• Joey Geriach - Outer Space
• Postmark - So On It Goes
• Nimkish, ASCXNSION - YSB
• Still Woozy - BS
• Maeta, Buddy - Teen Scene (ft. Buddy)
• Dacey - SUMMERTIMEISDONE
• Cautious Clay - Dying in the Subtlety
• Spill Tab - Calvaire
• Vanjess, Phony Ppl, Phony Ppl - Caught Up (feat Phony Ppl)
• Mia Gladstone - GO
• redress - hearing a hundred bells ring
• redress - goodgood (for gg)
• Alpha & the Van - Sliding Kicks
• VanJess - High & Dry
• Hope Tala - Lovestained
• Tayla Parks - Dance Alone
• Moonshine - Onward
• Arlo Parks - Hope
• Arlo Parks - Too Good
• Pursuit Grooves - Jovial
• Willie Jones III - Something for Ndugu
• BLK JKS - Harare
• DJ Phoenix - Midnight Maverick
• Shawnee - Wild Woman
• IAMTHELIVING and Teon Gibbs - Distance
• Jim-E Stack, Kacy Hill - Can We
• Banx and Ranx, Ella Eyre, Kiana Ledé - Mama
• Hope Tala, Aminé - Cherries
• Alexis Lynn - In This
• Lemon Stella - Pretty Boy
• Anachnid - Summer Hunting
• Serena Isioma - Meadows in Japan
• Serena Isioma - Stop Calling the Police On Me
• Orion Sun - Coffee For Dinner
• Remi Wolf - Disco Man
• Jungle - Keep Moving

The last A.M. with Peter at the helm until August. Starting off with chilly synths for scorching days, ending with breezy dream-pop from White Poppy and No Joy, and finding room in between for journeys into turntablism, soul grooves and country-and-western tangents. See you in a month!

Playlist:

• Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka - You've Come Far, Ness
• loscil - Lumina
• Stilz, Ian Urbina - Dream Rain
• Stelar Door - The Opening (Dolmen Gate Mix)
• Sinewave - Love It Up
• Morgan Greenwood - ssities
• Driveagalaxy - Tiny Orbs
• NETRVNNER - Yearn
• Psychic Pollution - WHSTL
• Buildings and Food - Motherwell on the Stairs
• Golden Hallway Music - Foggy Summit
• Mort Garson - Plantasia
• Mort Garson - Symphony for a Spider Plant
• Mort Garson - Baby's Tears Blues
• Mort Garson - Ode to an African Violet
• Glass Beams - Taurus
• SAULT - Bitter Streets
• Helado Negro - Gemini and Leo
• Bernice - Groove Elation
• Kid Koala - Fender Bender
• Kid Koala - Barhopper 1
• The Gaslamp Killer, featuring Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - God Willing
• Flying Lotus - Your Lord
• Crumb - Tunnel (all that you had)
• SUUNS - Witness Protection
• Poggy - Amidst the Ocean Pines Peak
• Michael Boddicker - Buckaroo Banzai End Theme
• TEKE::TEKE - Sarabande
• Thee Silver Mountain Reveries - More Action! Less Tears!
• Anastatica - So On the Earth Below
• nêhiyawak - Tommasso
• Status / Non-Status - Find a Home
• Shane Ghostkeeper - Why Do I Hide
• Fiver - Leaning Hard (On My Peripheral Vision)
• Jorge Elbrecht - Ancient Grief
• Body/Negative, featuring Vinyl Williams - Song to the Siren
• White Poppy - Orchid Child
• No Joy - Four - From Heaven