Tracklisting:

1) Lost (Season One) – Camp Cope
2) Johnny – Basement Revolver
3) Can U Hear Me Now? – Porridge Radio
4) All 4s – ARMS
5) If You’re on the Water – The Saxophones
6) In Ribbons – Psychic Shakes
7) a good pet – Real Swell
8) Breadcrumbs – The Perennials
9) Father is a Craftsman – Modern Studies
10) Aligning With the Sun – Dear Tracks
11) Cake Bath – Cloud Cover
12) Postdoc Blues – John K. Samson
13) Room For Love – Wooden Dinosaur
14) Crab Line – Trust Fund
15) 1 – Young Jesus
16) Life’s Rough – Serial Chiller
17) Never Lonely – Space Mountain
18) I Wish I Was Plural – Free Space
19) More Than Science – Sunshine Faces
20) Maya – Competition
21) Fireball – Albosel
22) It Hurts- A Day Without Love
23) That Went Well- Guppy
24) Kids Playing Outside – Almanac Mountain
25) Patience To Undo the Patience – Psalmships

You can check out the previous monthly roundups here, and our various other playlists and mixtapes here. Be sure to pop back throughout September and beyond to see what autumn brings!

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While previous releases have focused on personal themes such as commitment and individual connection to the natural world, the new full-length, Cryptoseismology, sees Cote take on some rather more far-reaching themes. Referring to hidden or secret earthquakes, the title hints at these targets, the concealed but powerful forces at work beneath society which may not be immediately apparent yet shape the very world we live in. Indeed, the record is perhaps more cynical and certainly more biting than previous Almanac Mountain releases, serving as a voice for “a generation disillusioned by the false promises, misuse and exploitation of the economic, informational and technological hopes of the 1980s.” Cote, along with with guest guitarists Russ Harland and Andy Klosenski (of Honky Gabacho), utilises all the tools necessary to take on such matters (amongst others, melancholy, irony, paranoia and strangeness), to prove that taking on big, societal issues can lead to fun, important and undeniably odd music.We’re delighted to host the second single from Cryptoseismology for your listening pleasure. ‘Kids Playing Outside’ is a glittering, synth-heavy hit which sounds like a top-down drive through some neon lit metropolis, though the lyrics open with the polar opposite. “Saturday morning, cartoon time, let’s go,” Cote sings, like some disco king trapped within the shell of a suburban nine-year-old. “Pocket full of quarters and dimes, lets go!” From here the song visits numerous other narrators in different scenarios, though all are struggling for control in a world permeated by entertainment and pop culture and mass media. As Cote explains, the track explores: “how our inherent impulse to maintain ownership of our exterior environments varies in consequence from place to place, generation to generation, race to race.” Stream the track below:

Cryptoseismology is set for release on the 21st October, and you can pre-order it now from the Almanac Mountain Bandcamp page.

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