In the same way a lump of rock is no force alone but may form an avalanche or a mighty cairn, the combined weight of the constituent parts on Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones, the debut album from Moundabout, starts to suffocate deliciously. (Rocket Recordings) Flowers Rot, Bring me Stones by Moundabout Moundabout – Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones And read on for the best of the best from July 2022. To sign up for all those benefits, and to help us keep bringing you the kind of music you're about to read about below, you can click here. In addition, subscribers can enjoy exclusive music from some of the world's most forward-thinking artists, regular deep-dive essays, a monthly podcast, specially-curated 'Organic Intelligence' guides to under the radar international sub-genres and more. With that in mind, the albums and tracks below should be read merely as our personal highlights rather than anything definitive, which we hope might provide moments to stop and spend time before surrendering once again to the currents.Īll the below, as well as all the other excellent music we've covered at tQ this month will also be compiled into an exclusive, hours-long playlist exclusive to our subscribers. All the time, I'll hear comments to the effect of 'I'm just overwhelmed by how much stuff there is out there'.

I gather that this way of experiencing new music – a torrent with which it's impossible to keep up – is far from exclusive to those of us whose job it is to listen. It means that rather than delivering the poised and refreshed take on July's musical highlights that I was hoping for, the last few weeks' listening has been the usual tempest, exciting and interesting music sweeping furiously by like flotsam and jetsam to which I might cling. In the end, I in fact spent most of the month bedridden with a mystery virus, and arguing with my landlord who intends to raise the rent beyond what my meagre tQ wages can afford.

I had planned to take half of July off for a mid-year reset, a breather in which to take stock of the last six months' music, lay out my plans for tackling what the next six months have in the pipeline, and perhaps go for a nice hike.

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