The A.M.

A throwback to an early 2000s post-rock debut, excursions into psych-folk and ambient country, and your usual genre-and-decade-spanning mix of offbeat easy listening—enjoy another three hours of mellow Monday mantras on The AM.
Playlist:

• Kindly Spoken Thieves - Lillian
• SUSS - Flight
• The Golden Age of Wrestling - The Chauffeur
• In The Well - Meadow Transient
• Zachary Gray - Tessellate!
• Greg Foat, Sokratis Votskos, Warren Hampshire, Ayo Salawu - Kiki’s Tavern (For Vasilis)
• Hiro Ama - Sunday
• Miyauchi Yuri - Yoti e
• Tommy Perman, Andrew Wasylyk - Communal Imagination
• Salami Rose Joe Louis, Flanafi - I Gotta Find Some New Friends
• Harmonia, featuring Vittoria Maccabruni & Michael Rother - Wave By Wave
• Black Moth Super Rainbow - Melting on the Meadow
• MISZCZYK, featuring Bile Sister - The Ecstatic Dance
• Dreamsploitation - Creating Love and Happiness out of the Noir - the Melancholy
• Miracle Fortress - Tracers
• Yuuf - Silky Spring
• Efterklang - Antitech
• Caméra - Rumeurs
• Year of Glad - Old Growth
• Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - Dizzy Ditty
• Sam Prekop - The New Last
• Project Gemini - Seven Seconds to Sunrise
• Jeffrey Silverstein - Gassed Up
• Woods - Lay With Luck
• Beth Gibbons - Reaching Out
• Melody's Echo Chamber - Endless Shore
• Felt - Under a Pale Light
• Knife Pleats - Constellation
• Ducks Ltd. - Harm's Way
• Lab Coast - Astronaut
• The Clientele - As Night Is Falling
• Summer Bruises - Fog

It's the long weekend—but The AM is still here live, sending you laid-back vibes to help set that anxiety aside. Except during a detour through Can's paranoid grooves and a few of the sounds they inspired, that is.
Happy Family Day, and have a fantastic week!
Playlist:

• Bilal Nasser - Yawn Into It
• Daedelus - A Considered Reply - Day 1
• yutaka hirasaka - overflowed
• Miyauchi Yuri - jiade
• Marly Lüske - Forest Belt
• Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - Moon
• Temporal Waves - Cortical Network Oscillations
• Various Artists, featuring Roman Flügel - Rules
• Stilz - Scarlet Lips
• Various Artists, featuring Charles Murphy - The Foot That’s Holding Me Down
• Will Régnier - Comme des traces oubliées
• The Hologram People - Isola Dei Morti Viventi [Main Theme]
• Tristan De Liége x Jambal - Uncertainties
• The Heliocentrics, The Gaslamp Killer - She’s Coming
• Can - Moonshake
• Can - I’m So Green
• Ivan the Tolerable - On Land
• Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Nymphea
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Undressed in Solitude
• Feist - Family
• Loving - To Turn
• Quién es Geronimo - Mi Casa
• Helena Deland - The Animals
• Molly Lewis - Silhouette
• Ciao Ciao Marigold - aglaonema pictum tricolor
• Stelar Door - Saw Hollow
• The Analog Girl - Phases
• Zoo Gazer - 浅滩备忘录 (Memo of Shoal)
• Landing - The Roots Below
• Sunglaciers - Cursed
• So Totally - Distinct Star

The first two hours of this week's AM dip in and out of neo-classical, experimental jazz, and other instrumental sounds. Hour three shakes off the drowsiness for some dream-pop, shoegaze, and a Deftones cover for good measure.
Hope the Daylight Savings didn't hit you too hard this morning, and enjoy the extra sunshine.
Playlist:

• nubo, featuring Rebekah Reid - For Our Hearts
• Moshimoss - Unknown Souls
• Joseph Shabason - Aytche
• Sagor & Swing - Vals På Vingar
• GODTET - Struck Bamboo Pipes
• Akusmi - Oblique (Extended)
• Markus Floats - Death
• Bristol Manor - Personal Gains
• Gidge - The Fells
• gum.mp3, featuring 48thSt + Harrison - Mars and Its Moons
• Nalepa - It Ought to Be
• Hana Stretton - Captain’s Flat
• Awenda Provincial Park - quarrel, my love
• Shahzad Ismaily, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer - Sajni
• Labelle - L’homme félin
• Haiku Salut - Bleak and Beautiful (All Things)
• Haiku Salut - Foreign Pollen
• Buildings & Food - Swimming in Denton
• Erika Angell - Never Tried to Run
• Bell Orchestre - Icicles / Bicycles
• Peter Belec, Jeff Roy - Stardust
• L.A. Takedown - They Move and They Shine (Live at Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, 3/30/23)
• wasmarkhere - I Am Gone
• Whitelands - Now Here’s the Weather
• No Joy - Teenager - From Heaven
• Pure X - Easy
• La Luz - Strange World
• Pick A Piper, featuring Mabe Fratti - Pavesa
• Exploded View - Gone Tomorrow
• Sleepkit - Memory Candle

2024 has been a fantastic year for music so far. This week's episode takes a stroll through 30+ albums released in the first half of the year, from ambient to jazz and psychedelica—check out the rest of the list at https://theam.ca
It's also the last AM with Peter at the helm for the next month. Syf from Acheulean Age and Emily R from Greenhouse will be filling in for August, so you'll be in good hands. Enjoy and see you in September!
Playlist:

• Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer - A Treasure Chest
• Ezra Feinberg, featuring Mary Lattimore - Get Some Rest
• Caméra - Matsutaké
• Osmanthus - Cutting and Layering
• Shabaka, featuring Moses Sumney - Insecurities
• Ayal Senior - Burnt Likshen
• Sam Gendel, Fabiano do Nascimento - Poeira
• Bilal Nasser - On the Surface
• Geotic - The Quarrel
• Buildings and Food - Flatland
• Easy Idiot - Theme for Feeling Drunk and Cool
• Temporal Waves - Cyclotron
• Organic Pulse Ensemble - Peace Piece
• Fuubutsushi - Distance Learner
• Circles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis - Gloaming Way
• The Sorcerers - Bebaynetu
• Beth Gibbons - Floating on a Moment
• Project Gemini - Lost in the Woods (Paranoia)
• Loving - No Mast
• Luka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryōkan Taigu)
• Lau Ro - Lugar
• Unessential Oils - Overwhelmed and Unprepared
• OHMA - the wildflowers are upon us
• Cindy Lee - What's It Going to Take
• Yu Ching - Fly! Little Black Thing
• Retep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - Moon
• Bibi Club - Rue du Repos
• Jon McKiel - Hex
• Magic Fig - Distant Dream
• Molly Lewis, featuring Thee Sacred Souls - Crushed Velvet
• Jessica Pratt - Better Hate
• Eye of Newt - Bot for Teacher
• ROY - Cold Water In My Tea
• Psychic Temple - Fields of Grass / 9 Is the End (It's Over)

Drifting from the meditative sounds of Spirituals and Will Samson (and, uh, the Chemical Brothers) in hour one to shoegaze and dream-pop courtesy of Yoo Doo Right, Fontaines DC and Ora Cogan in hour three—plus a throwback to some good ol' early 2000s Canadian post-rock, new Allah-Las and Cola, and other offbeat sounds for the last Monday of September.
Playlist:

• Spirituals - Seventies
• Will Samson - And Yet (Gold Panda Remix)
• Buildings and Food - Imprints of the Circle
• Kai Campos, CJ MIrra, featuring Allan Ginsberg - Bixby Canyon
• The Chemical Brothers, featuring Halo Maud - For That Beautiful Feeling
• Uh Huh, Lamping - In My Mind
• Dreampham - March of the Puppers
• Mark Webber - 2x rec
• Craven Faults - Odda Delf
• Cantrips - The Big Break
• The Orielles - Tableau 002
• Tara Clerkin Trio - The Turning Ground
• Steady Holiday - Newfound Oxygen
• Brightblack Morning Light - Gathered Years
• Precious Fathers - Prairie Train
• Precious Fathers - Snowshoes
• Fievel Is Glauque - Go Down Softly
• Abby Sage - The Florist
• The Breathing Effect - Ashore
• Yabra - Vulcan Nights
• Julie Byrne, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love’s Refrain
• Fontaines DC - Cello Song
• Allah-Las - Dust
• Fog Lake - Roswell
• Sunnsetter - Float in Circles
• Cindy - Wednesday
• Cola - Keys Down If You Stay
• Slowdive - Shanty
• Crystal Eyes - A Dream I Had
• Ora Cogan - Feel Life
• Yoo Doo Right - The Moral Compass of a Self-Driving Car