The A.M.

A throwback to one of the all-time great psychedelic sci-fi scores with Alain Goraguer's Fantastic Planet, plus a wide-ranging mix of hazy beats, neo-classical explorations, shoegaze blasts, and other arguably AM-appropriate sounds. Hope you enjoy it all.

Playlist:

• Shuta Hasunuma - Designers
• Akusmi - Oblique I
• JOYFULTALK - Part I • I've got that trans-dimensional feeling again
• Melodien - Phantom
• GoGo Penguin - Fallowfield Loops
• Asta Hiroki - Understanding
• Harrison - Come Alive
• Kogane, Thomas White - Peacemiel
• Bonobo - Rings
• Domenique Dumont - Visages Visages
• Dirty Art Club - Vogue Apparition
• The Dirty Sample - Just One
• Underground Wires - The Luau Beat (Sinister Party Atmosphere)
• Test Card - Cassette Ears
• Arms and Sleepers - Muse
• Dalham - Chalk
• Alain Goraguer - Les fusées
• Alain Goraguer - Déshominisation (I)
• Peggy Lee, Cole Schmidt - fall ride
• Franck Dervieux - Dimension "M" (Pour Moebius)
• Okonski - Summer Storm
• BADBADNOTGOOD - Weird & Wonderful
• Modern Nature - Pharoah
• The New Eves - Rivers Run Red
• Daphne's Demise - Food for the Worm
• Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - Full of Fire
• Deradoorian - Set Me Free
• Gwenno - Dancing on Volcanoes
• Disiniblud, featuring Julianna Barwick - Give-upping
• wihtikow - rust (remaster)
• No Joy - Bugland
• SIANspheric - Ending is Better Than Mending
• The Radiation Flowers - Spaceship

What better soundtrack to a sunny summer morning than... somewhat depressing folk tunes, laid-back folktronica, horror-themed synth workouts, and pastoral psych-rock instrumentals? Somehow it all sort of works—or at least I think it does. Hopefully you enjoy it as well.

Playlist:

• The Cube of Unknowing - Breeder of Enchantments
• Dummy - Ethereal Security Guard
• Chloé Antoniotti - Magnolia
• Solent - Ezüthíd
• The World Next Door - Blinking Vortex
• Ray Barbee - a particular time
• Sankt Otten - Goodbye, Düsseldorf
• Floating Points - Wires (Lazarus Version)
• Baths - Lung Tile
• Teen Daze - Endless Light
• Various Artists, featuring Daisy Rickman - Hanging on a Star
• Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me - Take 4, 11th November 1968
• Bells Larsen - Might
• Various Artists, featuring The Watson Brothers Band - Just Whistle
• Michael Cloud Duguay - Immutable White Light
• Tunng - Tale from Black
• Tunng - Mother's Daughter
• Azeda Booth - ARA
• Caribou - Hello Hammerheads
• Nobody, Mystic Chords of Memory - The Seed
• Mid-Air Thief - No Answer
• John Stammers - Idle I'm - Colorama Coloured In Remix
• Twïns - Sprits Sing, But You Are Gone
• Peace Within - Peace Within
• Ultimate Painting - Skippool Creek
• Eliza Niemi - Green Box
• Stereolab - Immortal Hands
• Bibi Club - Orgiastic
• Winged Wheel - Smudged Textile
• Sounds of New Soma - Liquide Gravitation
• No False Suns - Divine Cadence

A bit of a dreary holiday Monday—but that's Victoria Day in Calgary. As always, The AM is here to trace the lines between the dreamier sides of neo-classical, dream pop, hip hop, jazz, folk, from new releases to decades-old oddities.

It's also The AM's 11th anniversary, so thanks for tuning in for about 17,000 songs over 572 episodes (give or take). Hope they've made your Mondays at least somewhat more bearable.

Playlist:

• Kalaisan Kalaichelvan - Hatsuyume
• Penguin Cafe - From a Blue Temple
• Felbm - summer ii
• Ash Ra Tempel - The Fairy Dance
• Apta - Emerge
• Cate Francesca Brooks - Aspect from the Window
• Nash the Slash - The Million-Year Picnic
• Elaine Howley - Hold Me In A New Way
• Suicide - Dream Baby Dream (Long Version)
• Sunalta - Green
• Hermitess - Band of Fools
• Myriam Gendron - Lully Lullay
• Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - Esperanza
• Ben LaMar Gay - Yowzers
• Beach for Tiger, Rooskin - Searchin' For A Reason
• Loving - The Light In You
• John & Beverley Martyn - Auntie Aviator
• John & Beverley Martyn - New Day
• Jennifer Castle - Mary Miracle
• Joe Harvey-Whyte, Bobby Lee - The Babalon Working
• Mess Esque - Take Me To Your Infinite Garden
• Black Milk & Fat Ray - From the Gods
• Leroi Conroy - No Return
• Postnamers - Little Baby Flutter (Birdy, Bye Bye)
• Koushik - Be With
• Various Artists , featuring Dreamsploitation - Questionable Eyelevel Stars
• Men I Trust - Another Stone
• Cornelius - Sketch For Spring
• The Durutti Column - Otis
• Cocteau Twins - Fluffy Tufts
• Black Taffy - Danses
• Contagious Yawns - Infinite Mirror
• The Besnard Lakes - The Specter

Hazy electronic sounds dominate the first two hours of this week's AM—including new Matmos, new-ish mortality-contemplating Blockhead, and a throwback to a 2010 release from Carbon Based Lifeforms. Then, a more organic, singer-songwritery third hour wraps up a rainy Monday morning.

Playlist:

• Kara-Lis Cloverdale - Flickers in the Air of Night
• Buildings and Food - Clear Skies
• Djrum - A Tune For Us
• wihtikow - ᐸᐦᑭᓯᒧᑖᕁ (ᐊᐦᒐᕽ remaster)
• Underworld, featuring Nina Nastasia - Iron Bones
• Matmos - Changing States
• Ezra Feinberg - Pose Beams (Gold Panda Remix)
• uh - i want my life back
• Minor Sine Project - Summer Luck
• Erki Pärnoja - Acapulco
• Blockhead - They Got Therapy For That
• Yetsuby - Where is my...
• Kogane, Thomas White - time&place
• Carbon Based Lifeforms - Interloper
• Carbon Based Lifeforms - M
• Sanctums - Magnum Opiate
• Cylindricon - Numbers & Letters
• Wechsel Garland, World Standard - Octant
• Cici Arthur - Prior Times
• Jim O'Rourke - Ghost Ship in a Storm
• Snailhouse - Look What I've Done
• Ben McElroy - The Howling
• Sackville - Blue Lips
• Takènobu - Shizen Ni 自然に (Naturally)
• Robert Wyatt - Heaps of Sheeps
• Lael Neale - All Good Things Will Come To Pass
• Three Quarter Skies - Crows - Drab Majesty Remix
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Grey Rubble – Green Shoots

Lots of new and soon-to-be-released music in this week's AM, including tastes of upcoming albums from Stereolab and BMSR, brand-new sounds from Jenny Hval, Thanya Iyer, The World Next Door, Milkweed, and Hermitess, and an eclectic mix of exotica, MPB, dream pop, post rock, neo-classical, and other grounding sounds to start the month on solid footing.

Hope you enjoy it!

Playlist:

• Hollie Kenniff - Running Through the Rain
• The World Next Door - Ergodicity
• Milkweed - How Conchobor was Begotten
• Hermitess - In That Country
• Thanya Iyer - Doctor
• Viviane Audet - Barlicoco
• Michael Cloud Duguay - In the Teeth of the Freshing Fohen
• Sunalta - Drip
• Thought Bubble - It's Best Not To Look At The Sun
• The Baker Fields - I Can See for Miles and Miles...
• Moon Mullins - Tini Town
• Castle If - Cosmic Lover
• Jenny Hval - I don't know what free is
• Stereolab - Melodie Is A Wound
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Unknown Potion
• Satomimagae - Dottsu
• Do Make Say Think - Goodbye Enemy Airship
• Klint - Index Naturae
• BADBADNOTGOOD, featuring VCR - Found a Light (Beale Street)
• Everything Is Everything - Witchi Tai To
• Pedro Mizutani, Skinshape - Sozin
• Monde UFO - Sunset Entertainment 3
• Dada Plan - End of the Trees
• Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
• Astrobal - Galassia M81
• Jolie Laide - No Shape I Know
• White Poppy - Pearl
• Men I Trust - The Landkeeper
• Kikagaku Moyo - Fluffy Kosmisch
• Anika - Walk Away

The week is ramping up, April is winding down, and The AM is here to see you through another Monday morning. Enjoy new sounds from AM favourites like Salami Rose Joe Louis, Khotin, and Felbm, a throwback to atmospheric Bristolians Movietone, fresh sounds from Blind Yeo, Rogê, and Immersion, and plenty more to make Monday more bearable.

Playlist:

• Simon Harry Piers Jeffes, Penguin Cafe, NATURE - Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter
• Jelena Ćirić, Snorri Hallgrímsson, Cécile Lacharme, Oliver Patrice - Green Grass
• Dissolve in Sepia - Farewell Letter
• Pye Corner Audio - Self Synchronise
• AeTopus - Why Not Now
• shn shn - Outerlands
• DeadDeer - Love in Japan
• Kogane, Thomas White - porcelain frogs
• Salami Rose Joe Louis - Arm Fell Asleep
• Khotin - Oasis Bioreference
• Memory Pearl, featuring Joseph Shabason, Moritz Fasbender, Sam Prekop - Music Travel II
• Laurie Torres - Feux fuyant
• Felbm - spring ii
• Rogê - Curyman
• Avi C. Engel - Cocoon
• Jairus Sharif - Mawu
• Movietone - Sun Drawing
• Movietone - Useless Landscape
• Mess Esque - Light Showroom
• Dosh - Mpls Rock and Roll
• 8know8 - Brighter Days
• Blind Yeo - Half Light
• Dean Wareham - Reich der Träume
• Babe Rainbow - Now and zen
• Persica 3 - Sundog
• Maria Somerville - Garden
• NETRVNNER - Forecast
• Immersion, SUSS - In Between Us
• The Radio Dept - The new improved hypocrisy
• Miracle Fortress - Blasphemy
• Omertà - Moments in Love

Sharing some Easter/420-appropriate psychedelic religious music for the 8:30 throwback. Otherwise, your usual mix of ambient electronics, dream-pop, experimental tangents, and other sounds to start your week right.

Hope you enjoy it!

Playlist:

• Vega Trails - Murmurations
• Miyauchi Yuri - hukk rework
• Test Card - Looking back like hours for fools (Octophonic remix)
• Kara-Lis Coverdale - Daze
• Various Artists, featuring Britton Judd - Caterpillar Treehouse
• Wume - Ravel
• Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - All You Need In Five Minutes Brisk Walk
• 8know8 - Make It Work
• Ashi Shonen - Entendre
• Zachary Gray - Trippin' Drummachinemike Remix
• Rachel Kitchlew, featuring SHOLTO, David Bardon - Opium Lounge
• Various Artists, featuring Felbm - Bloesem
• Snails - Sunny Day
• Dana Gavanski - Hang in for Us Both
• Nap Eyes - Dark Mystery Enigma Bird
• Pulp - Spike Island
• The Electric Prunes - Holy Are You
• The Electric Prunes - General Confessional
• Hermitess - Green Blade
• Adrian Younge - Esperando por Voce
• SAULT - I.L.T.S.
• Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, stargaze - More Mania
• The Garrys - Cakewalk
• Population II - Cardinaux
• Melody's Echo Chamber - Norfolk Hotel
• Kairos Creature Club - Exile
• Men I Trust - Paul's Theme
• Orange Crate Art - Mystery Clown Disturbing Children
• Black Country, New Road - Mary
• 44th Move - Anthem
• Tess Parks - Sunnyside
• Ryan Bourne - End of Story

Your usual spacey start, a shoegazey second hour with a throwback to My Bloody Valentine, and an hour of video game soundtracks to wrap things up in celebration of this week's CUFF.cade installation at the Calgary Underground Film Festival. Thanks to the CUFF crew for showing up to talk about the event.

Hope you enjoy it!

Playlist:

• Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - Harmonic Rain
• Barker - Cosmic Microwave
• In The Well - Quotidian
• Air, Vegyn - La femme d'argent - Vegyn Remix
• buq - 9ts
• DJ Koze, featuring Markus Acher - What About Us
• Rival Consoles - Catherine
• Joseph Shabason, Spencer Zahn, Vibrant Matter, Thom Gill - Soli 6
• Skjold, Peder - Populus
• Khotin - Heavyball
• Mogwai - Hammer Room
• shn shn - New Horizons
• Brian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - Suddenly
• Memória de Peixe - Good Morning
• Destroyer - The Same Thing as Nothing at All
• My Bloody Valentine - Thorn
• My Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over Me
• Anika - Oxygen
• Blume - In the End
• Bluffing - Bluffing
• Choses Sauvages - Incendie au paradis
• Stereolab - Aerial Troubles
• Jim Guthrie - In the Pocket
• Lena Raine - First Steps
• Bill Kiley - Sneaky Driver
• Jukio Kallio - Minit's Awakening
• Eric Cheng - Frontiers
• Ben Lukas Boysen, Sebastian Plano - Under and Over
• Daniel Koestner - Salt & Pep
• Sea Power - Whirling-In-Rags, 8AM
• Daedelus - Tiptoes
• Hiroshige Tonomura - Moon Stage

Gentle psychedelia, a bit of folderol, classic Calgary art-rock, and jangling British post-punk—another week of mellow sounds easing you into a Monday morning. Hope you enjoy it.

Playlist:

• Buildings and Food - Algae Boats
• Ghost Cartridge, Mantrakid - Peace
• Disinblud - Blue Rags, Raging Wind
• Julien Mier - Barbed Wire
• Moon Apple - Séance III - (F)Ire Tiger
• Various Artists, featuring Drum & Lace - Marmo
• Seefeel - Plainsong
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Gush
• Ashi Shonen - Nous Écoutons
• Apta - One Foot
• Harrison - Southwood
• Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks
• Immersion, SUSS - State of Motion
• Action & Tension & Space - Folkemusikk fra Kvala
• Tommy Guerrero - Cryptic Signals
• Graham Reynolds - Linger in Silence
• Various Artists, featuring Shecky Formé - Left to You
• Shecky Formé, featuring Shecky Formé - Micro/Macro
• Ora Cogan - The North
• Tindersticks - Don't Walk, Run - Edit
• Dean Wareham - The Cloud is Coming
• Belle and Sebastian - A Space Boy Dream
• Cymande - Willy's Headache
• BADBADNOTGOOD, featuring Tim Bernardes - Poeira Cósmica
• Hyldon, Adrian Younge - Olhos Castanhos
• The Royal Family - For the Birds
• Jon McKiel - Everlee
• The Monochrome Set - Milk and Honey
• White Magic for Lovers - The Boy from the Bookshop
• Thanya Iyer - I am here now
• Sam Cohen - Another World
• Babe Rainbow, featuring Camille Jansen - Rainbows end
• Black Market Karma - Mellowmaker

Ringing out March with a mix of mellow, mildly melancholy sounds, from soft psychedelia to meditative jazz, international pop and ghostly motorik. Hope it helps calm your mind and ease you into the second quarter of 2025.

Playlist:

• Michel Banabila - Little Star
• Black Taffy - The Space Left Behind
• Tony Price - Raymond Moriyama
• Bryan Ferry, Amelia Barratt - Pictures on a Wall
• Joni Void - Event Flow - A Sequence
• These New Puritans - Bells
• Alabaster DePlume - Prayer for My Sovereign Dignity
• Jairus Sharif - No Chip, Run
• Yetsuby - aaa1
• JB Dunckel, Jonathan Fitoussi - Ghost Town
• Lael Neale - Down on the Freeway
• Destroyer - Sun Meet Snow
• Population II - Haut-fond
• Studio - Origin
• Various Artists, featuring Nose - zombadoh
• Wil Malone - When I'm Dead and Gone
• The Wilson Malone Voiceband - A Nice Day for Monks
• Test Card - The sunset rise surround
• Tortoise - Oganesson
• Gerry - Bloody
• Charles Spearin - When Tigers Used to Smoke
• Cindy Lee - Baby Blue
• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Bilemedim Ki
• Los Pirañas - Despectiva caridad
• Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Psychology Active (Finding You)
• Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Ils Disent
• Jonathan Personne - Vision
• Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized
• All Seeing Dolls - I Believe You About the Moon
• Holgans - Winterling
• The Luyas - No Domination
• Feel Alright - Toodle Oo