Michele K-tel gets heavy with new Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Sherwood & Pinch, The Twerps + a fond farewell wave to beloved Bay Area ensemble Tin Hat. Plus, you know, other eclectic sounds.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor “Peasantry or Light” (Constellation)
The Pop Group “Age Of Miracles”Citizen Zombie (!K7)
Mark Stewart “My Possession” Metatron (Mute)
Mark Stewart & The Mafia “Liberty City” Learning To Cope With Cowardice (On-U Sound)
Sherwood & Pinch “Gimmie Some More (Tight Like That)”
Late Night Endless (On-U Sound)

Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble “Can You Find a Place” Black Is Back – 40th Anniversary Project (Katalyst)
Daymé Arocena “Madres” (Brownswood)
The Dodos “Precipitation” Individ (Polyvinyl)
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld “The Sun Roars Into View” Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation)

The Twerps “Stranger” Range Anxiety (Merge)
Grifters “You Be The Stranger” Full Blown Possession (Sub Pop)
Giant Sand “Wayfaring Stranger / Fly Me To The Moon” Cash Covered (Mojo)
Benny Goodman “Sweet Stranger” The Indispensible B
Merle Haggard “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers”
The Lonesome Fugitive: The Merle Haggard Anthology 1963-1977
John Lee Hooker “I’m A Stranger”Travelin’
Doris Duke “We’re More Than Strangers” I’m A Loser (Remastered)
Freakwater “Rank Strangers” Dancing Under Water (Thrill Jockey)

Tin Hat Fond Farewell Tour
Tin Hat”Compay” Foreign Legion (BAG)
Tin Hat “Now More” ee (the rain is a handsome animal – 17 songs from the poetry of E.E.Cummings (New Amsterdam)
Tin Hat Trio “Happy Hour” The Rodeo Eroded (Rope a Dope)
Tin Hat Trio “Same Shirt, Different Day” Book Of Silk (Artemis)
Tin Hat Trio “Fountain of Youth” Helium (Angel)