Happy July! I don’t even know what to say about my musical selections for June. I reviewed some albums for Ghettoblaster (Sarah Jaffe), continued to get stoked on the new Hold Steady album, saw David Bazan and mewithoutYou live and crept into a major electronic music phase, which I am currently entrenched in. My monthly playlist for July will be packed with it, don’t you worry.

1. Mumford & Sons – “Winter Winds” (Sigh No More)
2. Wye Oak – “That I Do (Mickey Free remix)” (My Neighbor / My Creator EP)
3. The Polyphonic Spree – “Section 2 (It’s the Sun)” (The Beginning Stages of…)
4. N.A.S.A. – Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)” (The Spirit of Apollo)
5. Iron & Wine – “Peace Beneath the City” (The Shepherd’s Dog)
6. This Will Destroy You – “Brutalism & the Worship of the Machine” (Field Studies)
7. The Hold Steady – “Rock Problems” (Heaven Is Whenever)
8. Sarah Jaffe – “Clementine” (Suburban Nature)
9. mewithoutYou – “Timothy Hay” (it’s all crazy! it’s all false! it’s all a dream! it’s alright)
10. Zomby – “Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)” (Mu5h / Spliff Dub single)
11. Burial – “Shutta” (Ghost Hardware EP)
12. Sleigh Bells – “Tell ‘Em” (Treats)
13. Wye Oak – “For Prayer” (The Knot)

And, of course, here’s your free, streaming playlist of all the songs above.

Oh hey. I guess it’s June now. When did that happen?

New albums from Roky Erickson, The Hold Steady, The National, LCD Soundsystem, Gayngs and Horse Feathers ruled the month, it seems. Otherwise it was a fairly quiet month.

1. Roky Erickson with Okkervil River – “Please, Judge” (True Love Cast Out All Evil)
2. Horse Feathers – “Thistled Spring” (Thistled Spring)
3. The Hold Steady – “We Can Get Together” (Heaven Is Whenever)
4. The National – “Bloodbuzz Ohio” (High Violet)
5. Gayngs – “The Last Prom On Earth” (Relayted)
6. Earth – “The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull” (The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull)
7. Avi Buffalo – “What’s In It For?” (Avi Buffalo)
8. Jesse Malin and the St. Marks Social – “Burning the Bowery” (Burning the Bowery)
9. LCD Soundsystem – “Dance Yrself Clean” (This Is Happening)
10. Sufjan Stevens – “Redford (for Yia-Yia and Pappou)” (Michigan)
11. Zomby – “Daft Punk Rave” (Where Were U in ’92?)
12. Iyaz – “Replay” (Replay)
13. Jason DeRulo – “Whatcha Say” (Jason DeRulo)

And, and always, you can listen here: