The Year In Music

1. Ashes - Ólafur Arnalds, Sandrayati
2. A Promise To Love - Sailing Stones
3. Mother Tongue - Abigail Lapell
4. Wasp In the Fig - Eartheater
5. loving parents - Conic Rose
6. The Maze - Manchester Orchestra
7. Now We Can Sing - Max Richter

cover artwork:
This month's featured artwork is from the album Wedding by Conic Rose
Art by: Elisa Breyer @elisabreyer3000 


Email me @ [email protected] to share recommendations of songs and/or albums you have enjoyed listening to from this year. 

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. More and More - Shearwater
2. Sounds We Cannot Hear - Protomartyr
3. The Expanse - Antipole, Pedro Code
4. The Conversation - Nation of Language
5. Disappear - Spike
6. From Now On - Cory Wong, Louis Cato
7. Reflections - Jon Batiste

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. Real To Reel - Akhavelli
2. Talon - Lip Critic
3. Magazine - Mandy, Indiana
4. Light - Cold Court
5. Heart Has To Work So Hard - Blondshell
6. Anouk - Bea Elmy Martin
7. Thou Shalt Sprout - mary in the junkyard

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. The Needle - Sarah Saturday
2. Good Things - Ammonite
3. Third Side of the Moon - Modest Mouse
4. How Heavenly A State - Death Cab for Cutie
5. Naraka - Boards of Canada
6. Beautiful ending - Giant Claw Remix - caroline, Giant Claw
7. Farewell to Spring - MONO

Check out Afterlife for more about the show and any possible shows

 
Also check out drift.prism for the kinetic art and led sculptures by Caleb McLaughlin 

cover artwork:
This month's featured artwork is from the EP Good Things by Ammonite
Art by: Yasmin Vardi @yasminvardi &   Beatrice Vorster @tape_2046

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. Nightglow - Duett
2. BIG FISHY - Dolphin Hyperspace, Louis Cole
3. RAINBOW BRIDGE - Joshua Milo
4. NAILS - Spirit Fingers Trio
5. Lucidity - Chiminyo
6. We Close Our Eyes So We Can See - Hammock
7. Dreams - Meg Lui, Sufjan Stevens

Here is the link to the video for Spirit Fingers Trio LIVE "Nails"

cover artwork:
This month's featured artwork is from the album The Second Coming Was a Moonrise by Hammock
Photographer: Stephen Proctor @sproctor

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. Echo From The Flames - Tom Misch
2. What Is Left To Say - Thundercat, The Lemon Twigs
3. play - WILLOW, Kamasi Washington
4. Threads - Nubiyan Twist, Patrice Rushen
5. Smile - deary
6. mettle - she's green
7. Mum Does the Washing - Joshua Idehen

cover artwork:
This month's featured artwork is from the album Birding by deary
Photographer: Josh Hight @josh._.hight

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. deliver us from evil - Arms and Sleepers
2. Down The Line - Art School Girlfriend
3. Enough - PVA
4. DUH - Power Snatch
5. So Far From Losing You - Archive
6. Glimmerine - Apparat
7. Iranam - Shervin Hajipour

cover artwork: 
This month's featured artwork is from Lean In by Art School Girlfriend
Photographer: Zak Watson

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. Window to Your World - Mammal Hands
2. No Others - Momoko Gill
3. Selfish - Charlotte Day Wilson
4. Jaded - Maddie Ashman
5. The Kites - Almost Twins
6. Da - Anuk Schmelcher
7. Seven Sorrows - Tigran Hamasyan

cover artwork: 
This month's featured artwork is from her side - EP by Maddie Ashman
Creative direction: Clemente Lohr
Photographer & editor: Sandra Ebert

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. Open Fields - Felsmann + Tiley, The Kite String Tangle
2. Seven Sounds - Clean Cut Kid
3. Death of Love - James Blake
4. Scared Of Loving Wild Again - Lucy Rose
5. On Sitric Road - Ye Vagabonds
6. Something Else - Joshua Burnside
7. Sentimental Value - Hania Rani

Music video for Something Else

Director | David Moody
Producer | Lee O’Hare
Director of Photography | Burschi Wojnar
Starring | Joshua Burnside + Aine Gordon + Aisling McCormick

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist

1. In The Sound Of Breathing - SAGES
2. Childhood- Barry Can't Swim
3. LITTLE MORE - Will Reagan
4. IT HURTS - Will Reagan
5. On an Evening, At the Lake - Felix Rösch
6. A Story Yet to Be Told - Federico Albanese
7. A Dawning - Ólafur Arnalds, Talos
8. Swim Between Trees - flipturn
9. In Parking Lots - Insignificant Other
10. You Wanted Us, You Got Us (feat. Zayna Youssef) - Ben Quad
11. A House With- Denison Witmer

Music used in the intro of this episode: west cork, 12 feb - Ólafur Arnalds, Talos

Check out my playlists on Spotify:  

2026 Playlist - Music from the year 2026 and in some cases late 2025, but mostly 2026.  

2026 Instrumental - Songs released in 2026. No words. Besides some oohs or aahs and maybe a la la. 

2025 Playlist