This album will rearrange your brain. Even weirder that it came out on SST records in 1987. The darkest side of paisley.

That this will probably never be in print again bums me out no end. Like T. Rex on soporifics if Marc Bolan wuz a girl. The best.

OPAL - Happy Nightmare Baby (full album) -1987 youtu.be/b-GXVfQEs1k?...

Colleen :: Libres antes del final aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/03/c...

#BrionGysin "Dreamachine" LP reviewed at @aquariumdrunkard.com by Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social 🔥🔥 "Produced by #ramuntchomatta, the 32-min track summons Gysin's artistic ethos to a haunting perfection" aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/01/b...

Rachel Love :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/02/r... ... originally a founding member of the pioneering all-female trio Dolly Mixture, musician Rachel Love has launched a solo career forty plus years later.

Brion Gysin :: Dreamachine (1984/1992) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/01/b... Dreamachine gathers Brion Gysin’s cult recordings in a blend of ambient, spoken word, avant-garde, minimalism, and afrobeat, mimicking the art device by translating its effects into an audio experience.

All One Song :: Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) on “Big Crime” aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/01/a... Welcome to All One Song season two. We kick off this exploration of the Shakey-verse with Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo.

The Tower Recordings – Furniture Music For Evening Shuttles (1998) youtu.be/AYuSzngApus?...

John Andrews & The Yawns :: STREETSWEEPER aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/31/j... ... on his fifth solo record with backing collective the Yawns, the ever-talented John Andrews channels a number of personal and regional anecdotal experiences within the mellow dazzle of STREETSWEEPER.

Videodrome :: Rolling Thunder (1977) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/31/v... Rolling Thunder is perhaps the most salient example of “revengeamatic” films: a grindhouse subgenre of revenge films characterized by a protagonist’s methodical quest for payback against those who wronged them...

Belle and Sebastian :: If You’re Feeling Sinister at 30 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/30/b... It came from a group of people who shunned the publicity cycle, doing no interviews, releasing no singles and shunning TV and radio appearances...

Luka Kuplowsky :: The Grass Grows, Antonych Grows aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/30/l... ...a sound aesthetic reminiscent of minimalist art-rock, like late Sylvian or early Eno were playing in a post-apocalyptic fairy forest or in a children’s book that explains heliobiology.

Belle and Sebastian :: If You’re Feeling Sinister at 30 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/30/b... It came from a group of people who shunned the publicity cycle, doing no interviews, releasing no singles and shunning TV and radio appearances...

Very much enjoyed writing (and listening to) this.

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Wet Tuna aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/26/t... The Tuna guide us on a rural glam walking tour of downtown NYC with an ever-unfolding take on Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side,” an exploration of “Cortez the Killer” that detours into Daydream-era Sonic Youth and more ...

The Inward Map: David Sylvian’s Solo Trilogy, 1984–1987 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/25/t... There’s a particular kind of artist who seems to step out of their time just enough to make it visible. David Sylvian, in the years immediately following Japan, became that kind of figure.

Excellent episode of @aquariumdrunkard.com's Transmissions with great stories from Thurston and Kramer, even if @tylerwilcox.bsky.social was only able to say like 4 words in total, haha. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/26/t...

Transmissions at Big Ears :: Thurston Moore and Kramer aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/26/t... AD Transmissions podcast is back with a special episode: Tyler Wilcox in conversation with underground music lifers Thurston Moore and Kramer.

The Lagniappe Sessions :: Wet Tuna aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/26/t... The Tuna guide us on a rural glam walking tour of downtown NYC with an ever-unfolding take on Lou Reed’s “Walk On the Wild Side,” an exploration of “Cortez the Killer” that detours into Daydream-era Sonic Youth and more ...

Shane Parish :: Autechre Guitar aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/25/s... Parish maintains the sparse, glitchy ambience of the originals while placing something else entirely in its place, with just his fingerstyle technique and the ability to, with it, form these ghostly layers of concentric circles

“These three records […] feel like three distinct responses to the same underlying impulse: to strip away what is unnecessary, and to see what remains.” For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote some words on three early @davidsylvian.bsky.social solo albums (1984–1987).

The Inward Map: David Sylvian’s Solo Trilogy, 1984–1987 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/25/t... There’s a particular kind of artist who seems to step out of their time just enough to make it visible. David Sylvian, in the years immediately following Japan, became that kind of figure...

Listening now. A banger 💥

Laurindo Almeida Quartet Featuring Bud Shank (1955) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/24/l... This quiet trailblazer of Braz-jazz not only meets all the criteria for Midnite Jazz, but also captures the nocturnal side of midcentury Brazilian samba/West Coast Jazz fusion.

Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 3 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/24/s... Cullum’s pedal steel guitar and cast of fellow Nashville all-stars conjure up seventies UK folk balladry, seaside krautrock excursions and a healthy dose of the Wyatt/Ayers psych-prog nucleus.

Burning Spear - Black Wa-Da-Da (Invasion) youtu.be/pyt6UaiUz1E?...

Linton Kwesi Johnson :: Bass Culture aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/23/l... Jamaica-born and Brixton-raised, the album finds Johnson distilling Babylon’s heavy hand into deep, subterranean basslines laced with incendiary street-level missives

Yukihiro Takahashi :: Saravah! aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/23/y... While 1978 was the year of the Yellow Magic Orchestra trio’s pivotal debut record, it also marked the debut solo offerings of members Ryuichi Sakamoto (Thousand Knives) and Takahashi.

Iron and Wine :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/20/i... “Deciding on which ones go on the record is just an intuitive thing,” Beam says. “There’s no right or wrong answers, you just try to find ones that flow into the next, keep you on your toes.”

I get excited for these every year. It's like ambient house christmas.

V/A :: Pop Ambient 2026 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/19/v... Drifting in on a familiar frequency, Volume 26 of Kompakt’s annual ambient dispatch feels nocturnal, gently untethered, and softly out of focus. For those who appreciate the power of the pause.

Gregory Uhlmann :: Extra Stars aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/19/g... The SML guitarist moves away from the instrumental collective’s fragrant, glitched-up grooves on his new solo album, instead charting a path through weirder waters featuring a wealth of pedals, loops, samples and synths...

Damaged Bug :: Zuzax aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/18/d... Via Damaged Bug, John Dwyer brings the pounding krautish grooves you expect, as well as some things you don’t: gothy, baritone, ballads a la Roxy Music or John Cale; 70s-fusion jazz-influenced improvisations, and Afro-beat rhythms.

The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 2 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/17/t... Welcome to the second installment of The Box Set: An Appreciation in which things take a decidedly funky turn. Now at AD. Feat: James Brown, Miles Davis, Eddie Hazel & more....

I've probably spent two years of my life listening to some aspect of What It Is! Funky Soul And Rare Grooves 1967-1977. It's a Rosetta Stone of funk.

The Box Set: An Appreciation, Vol. 2 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/17/t... Welcome to the second installment of The Box Set: An Appreciation in which things take a decidedly funky turn. Now at AD. Feat: James Brown, Miles Davis, Eddie Hazel & more....

Jay-U Experience :: Enough Is Enough aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/16/j... With the mercury hitting 91°F here in Los Angeles, our summer crate is calling. At five tracks and under thirty minutes, Enough Is Enough makes no apologies for refusing to hitch its wagon to a single sound...

Florian Pellissier Quintet :: Pacifiques Biches aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/16/f... Jazz grip. Via Paris, the Florian Pellissier Quintet dropped their fifth long-player, Pacifiques Biches, in the waning days of last year, casting a subtle, if luminous, glow over the tinsel-lit holiday hustle.

The Grateful Dead :: The 1975 Ace’s Sessions (2026 Edition) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/16/t... There are Dead Freaks … and then there are Dead Freaks. If you find yourself in the latter category, point your browser immediately over to the always-excellent Save Your Face blog.

Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard :: March 2026 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/15/r... Sunday, 4-6pm PT.

Clutchy Hopkins - The Life Of Clutchy Hopkins | 2005 (FULL ALBUM) youtu.be/Vau_kHjrC-A?...

Out today — the new @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social LP is a thing of beauty.

Kim Gordon :: PLAY ME aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/13/k... ...shuddering beats disintegrate, dragging pieces of themselves over rough surfaces, all noise and rhythm and confrontation.

Happy to share my memories of recording with Augie. I'm forever fortunate to be a footnote in a hero's discography.

Terrific remembrance of a Texas legend from @jerrydaviddecicca.bsky.social.

Adiós Augie Meyers: 1940-2026 aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/12/a... On March 7th, musician and producer Augie Meyers passed away at the age of 85. A founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet and The Texas Tornados ...

Greg Belson’s Divine Funk: Rare American Gospel Soul And Funk aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/11/g... Hit me! Get sanctified, testify, and let it all hang out across a dozen raw Holy Ghost-infused funk and soul jammers where the spirit locks deep in the pocket.

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis :: Deface the Currency aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/11/t... While their first record dealt in deep grooves and comfortably familiar rhythms, Deface the Currency aims for something noisier, angrier and more invigorating.

Magic