Mondays are for elaborate hairpieces

Jenee Halstead – Raised by Wolves

Saint Motel – 1997 (via soundcloud)

Rec Center – No. 2

Teenage Sweater – Oceans and Seas (via bandcamp)

The Shrouded Strangers – (Don’t Look at the) Pink Lightning

via teh graun: Damon Albarn gets his Dr Dee out.

The record’s out now (and it’s lush), but the opera will be performed in London this summer by English National Opera. Apparently something cultural that’s going along with the big sports day?

Of course, Blur will be headlining the big shindig at Hyde Park (where have I heard that before?), which will surely be awesome. Oh yes.

Mondays are for saying it

Paris – Say it

Shake the Baron – Crazy Align

Night Noise Team – Blue Light (via soundcloud)

Old Bricks – Anthem

Little, Big – Wasted

Dante Elephante – Heartbeat (via soundcloud)

Mondays are for getting colourful

The Spring Standards – Only Skin

Orpheum Bell – Whatever shines so bright

Michael J. Epstein’s Memorial Library – Faith in Free Pt 1

La Sera – Break my heart

Mondays are also for deep sea diving

Jürgen Müller – Science of the Sea (bandcamp full album stream/purchase)

Mondays are for queuing in the dark.

King of Prussia – Your Graduating Hours

Morning Bell – Hats Off to you, Josephine Baker

Anabot – I am not afraid of the dark

Tyburn Saints – Broken Bottles

Unicycle Loves You – Garbage Dump

Mondays are for seeing the woods and the trees

Cowgill – Plans (via bandcamp)

Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – Shannon (via soundcloud)

Safe Barracks – Raise Your Sights (via soundcloud)

Dylan Connor – Lynchburg Lemonade (via bandcamp)

Partly Faithful – Partly Faithful (via soundcloud)

Mondays are for getting dolled up

Crystal Bright & The Silver Hands – Especially Your Mother

England in 1819 – Air That We Once Breathed

Eux Autres – Home Tonight

My Empire of Sound – Carry Us Home

Jenny Gillespie – Creature Of Our Make

Lera Lynn – Ring of Fire

Cardinal – Carbolic Smoke Bomb

The Hunted Hunting the Hunter – Three Colours (via soundcloud)

Oh Mercy – Stay Please Stay (via soundcloud)

The ever-fabulous 4AD sessions come along with this from Bon Iver and Jagjaguwar; lushness. Stripped back, yes, but still lushness.

Check it all out at 4AD.com

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Mondays are for holding onto your balloon.

Library Voices – Traveller’s Digest (Teen Daze remix) (via bandcamp) + original track

Matt Longo – Level-Headed Man (via bandcamp)

The Draymin – Heart Attack

Literature – Grifted

Churches – Feel Alright (via soundcloud)

Mondays are for existential angst

David’s Lyre – English Roses (via soundcloud)

Admiral Fallow – Delivered (alternative version) (via bandcamp)

Tough Troubles – Dogging (via bandcamp – plus free download of the Romances LP)

Coasts – Stay with me (via soundcloud)

Leland Sundries – Apparition (via soundcloud)

The Forty Nineteens – Turn It Around