The A.M.

The week is ramping up, April is winding down, and The AM is here to see you through another Monday morning. Enjoy new sounds from AM favourites like Salami Rose Joe Louis, Khotin, and Felbm, a throwback to atmospheric Bristolians Movietone, fresh sounds from Blind Yeo, Rogê, and Immersion, and plenty more to make Monday more bearable.Playlist: Simon Harry Piers Jeffes, Penguin Cafe, NATURE - Cutting Branches for a Temporary ShelterJelena Ćirić, Snorri Hallgrímsson, Cécile Lacharme, Oliver Patrice - Green GrassDissolve in Sepia - Farewell LetterPye Corner Audio - Self SynchroniseAeTopus - Why Not Nowshn shn - OuterlandsDeadDeer - Love in JapanKogane, Thomas White - porcelain frogsSalami Rose Joe Louis - Arm Fell AsleepKhotin - Oasis BioreferenceMemory Pearl, featuring Joseph Shabason, Moritz Fasbender, Sam Prekop - Music Travel IILaurie Torres - Feux fuyantFelbm - spring iiRogê - CurymanAvi C. Engel - CocoonJairus Sharif - MawuMovietone - Sun DrawingMovietone - Useless LandscapeMess Esque - Light ShowroomDosh - Mpls Rock and Roll8know8 - Brighter DaysBlind Yeo - Half LightDean Wareham - Reich der TräumeBabe Rainbow - Now and zenPersica 3 - SundogMaria Somerville - GardenNETRVNNER - ForecastImmersion, SUSS - In Between UsThe Radio Dept - The new improved hypocrisyMiracle Fortress - BlasphemyOmertà - Moments in Love

Sharing some Easter/420-appropriate psychedelic religious music for the 8:30 throwback. Otherwise, your usual mix of ambient electronics, dream-pop, experimental tangents, and other sounds to start your week right. Hope you enjoy it!Playlist: Vega Trails - MurmurationsMiyauchi Yuri - hukk reworkTest Card - Looking back like hours for fools (Octophonic remix)Kara-Lis Coverdale - DazeVarious Artists, featuring Britton Judd - Caterpillar TreehouseWume - RavelWarrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - All You Need In Five Minutes Brisk Walk8know8 - Make It WorkAshi Shonen - EntendreZachary Gray - Trippin' Drummachinemike RemixRachel Kitchlew, featuring SHOLTO, David Bardon - Opium LoungeVarious Artists, featuring Felbm - BloesemSnails - Sunny DayDana Gavanski - Hang in for Us BothNap Eyes - Dark Mystery Enigma BirdPulp - Spike IslandThe Electric Prunes - Holy Are YouThe Electric Prunes - General ConfessionalHermitess - Green BladeAdrian Younge - Esperando por VoceSAULT - I.L.T.S.Dirty Projectors, David Longstreth, stargaze - More ManiaThe Garrys - CakewalkPopulation II - CardinauxMelody's Echo Chamber - Norfolk HotelKairos Creature Club - ExileMen I Trust - Paul's ThemeOrange Crate Art - Mystery Clown Disturbing ChildrenBlack Country, New Road - Mary44th Move - AnthemTess Parks - SunnysideRyan Bourne - End of Story

Your usual spacey start, a shoegazey second hour with a throwback to My Bloody Valentine, and an hour of video game soundtracks to wrap things up in celebration of this week's CUFF.cade installation at the Calgary Underground Film Festival. Thanks to the CUFF crew for showing up to talk about the event. Hope you enjoy it!Playlist: Morgan Szymanski, Tommy Perman - Harmonic RainBarker - Cosmic MicrowaveIn The Well - QuotidianAir, Vegyn - La femme d'argent - Vegyn Remixbuq - 9tsDJ Koze, featuring Markus Acher - What About UsRival Consoles - CatherineJoseph Shabason, Spencer Zahn, Vibrant Matter, Thom Gill - Soli 6Skjold, Peder - PopulusKhotin - HeavyballMogwai - Hammer Roomshn shn - New HorizonsBrian Eno, Beatie Wolfe - SuddenlyMemória de Peixe - Good MorningDestroyer - The Same Thing as Nothing at AllMy Bloody Valentine - ThornMy Bloody Valentine - Drive It All Over MeAnika - OxygenBlume - In the EndBluffing - BluffingChoses Sauvages - Incendie au paradisStereolab - Aerial TroublesJim Guthrie - In the PocketLena Raine - First StepsBill Kiley - Sneaky DriverJukio Kallio - Minit's AwakeningEric Cheng - FrontiersBen Lukas Boysen, Sebastian Plano - Under and OverDaniel Koestner - Salt & PepSea Power - Whirling-In-Rags, 8AMDaedelus - TiptoesHiroshige Tonomura - Moon Stage

Gentle psychedelia, a bit of folderol, classic Calgary art-rock, and jangling British post-punk—another week of mellow sounds easing you into a Monday morning. Hope you enjoy it.Playlist: Buildings and Food - Algae BoatsGhost Cartridge, Mantrakid - PeaceDisinblud - Blue Rags, Raging WindJulien Mier - Barbed WireMoon Apple - Séance III - (F)Ire TigerVarious Artists, featuring Drum & Lace - MarmoSeefeel - PlainsongKaitlyn Aurelia Smith - GushAshi Shonen - Nous ÉcoutonsApta - One FootHarrison - SouthwoodLemon Jelly - Nice Weather For DucksImmersion, SUSS - State of MotionAction & Tension & Space - Folkemusikk fra KvalaTommy Guerrero - Cryptic SignalsGraham Reynolds - Linger in SilenceVarious Artists, featuring Shecky Formé - Left to YouShecky Formé, featuring Shecky Formé - Micro/MacroOra Cogan - The NorthTindersticks - Don't Walk, Run - EditDean Wareham - The Cloud is ComingBelle and Sebastian - A Space Boy DreamCymande - Willy's HeadacheBADBADNOTGOOD, featuring Tim Bernardes - Poeira CósmicaHyldon, Adrian Younge - Olhos CastanhosThe Royal Family - For the BirdsJon McKiel - EverleeThe Monochrome Set - Milk and HoneyWhite Magic for Lovers - The Boy from the BookshopThanya Iyer - I am here nowSam Cohen - Another WorldBabe Rainbow, featuring Camille Jansen - Rainbows endBlack Market Karma - Mellowmaker

Ringing out March with a mix of mellow, mildly melancholy sounds, from soft psychedelia to meditative jazz, international pop and ghostly motorik. Hope it helps calm your mind and ease you into the second quarter of 2025.Playlist: Michel Banabila - Little StarBlack Taffy - The Space Left BehindTony Price - Raymond MoriyamaBryan Ferry, Amelia Barratt - Pictures on a WallJoni Void - Event Flow - A SequenceThese New Puritans - BellsAlabaster DePlume - Prayer for My Sovereign DignityJairus Sharif - No Chip, RunYetsuby - aaa1JB Dunckel, Jonathan Fitoussi - Ghost TownLael Neale - Down on the FreewayDestroyer - Sun Meet SnowPopulation II - Haut-fondStudio - OriginVarious Artists, featuring Nose - zombadohWil Malone - When I'm Dead and GoneThe Wilson Malone Voiceband - A Nice Day for MonksTest Card - The sunset rise surroundTortoise - OganessonGerry - BloodyCharles Spearin - When Tigers Used to SmokeCindy Lee - Baby BlueDerya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek - Bilemedim KiLos Pirañas - Despectiva caridadLaetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Psychology Active (Finding You)Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Ils DisentJonathan Personne - VisionSpacemen 3 - HypnotizedAll Seeing Dolls - I Believe You About the MoonHolgans - WinterlingThe Luyas - No DominationFeel Alright - Toodle Oo

Spring has arrived and this week's AM basks in sunnier sounds than recent weeks, with jangling pop, glowing psychedelia, and dreamy girl-group-influenced sounds—after your usual AM mix of ambient synths and meditative mantras to start your Monday off right. Hope you enjoy itPlaylist: Jill Fraser - I Stand AmazedMicro Moon - BorderIan Boddy, Harald Grosskopf - DiodengesangMoat Bells - Snails on glassAndrea Cichecki - Choosing Pathsbuq - T3LNatural Information Society, Bitchin Bajas - Clock No ClockAshi Shonen - BreakoutPacific Coliseum - HatsudaiMade-Up - MoodsMen I Trust - I Don't Like MusicL.T. Leif - Own BloodJenny Hval - To be a roseBlack Moth Super Rainbow - Open the Fucking FantasySalami Rose Joe Louis, featuring Luke Titus, Flanafi - Dribs and dragsCat's Eyes - I'm Not StupidCat's Eyes - The Best Person I KnowRachel Kitchlew, featuring SHOLTO, David Bardon - MammoneEl Michels Affair - KodakAdrian Younge - A Musica Na Minha FantasiaLightning Bug - The Lotus EatersAbsolutely Free - Earth IIPersica 3 - Hold OnBon Enfant - Sous-marineAstrobal - L'abeille pourpreFuturopaco - La Banda Piu PericolosaChocolat - Gobleki TepeThe Limiñanas - J'adore le mondeMatt Berry - Why On Fire?Flo & Eddie - I Been Born AgainJon McKiel - Mourning DoveAndy Bell - Space Station Mantra

A bit of a melancholy AM as we get closer to spring. Sometimes you need to just lie low a bit before the bloom can come. Hope you enjoy it—and see you when the seasons have officially changed.Playlist: Altus - Transmission ErosionPeter Gagliardi - KerberosCate Brooks - Living DataMax Cooper - The Missing PieceCelia Hollander - Air/EarthAshi Shonen - Flashing LightsSilver Y - Rest HomeDaniel Brandt - SteadyT. Gowdy - CouranteJoseph Shabason, Spencer Zahn, Vibrant Matter, Thom Gill - a river a museumThe Music Liberation Front Sweden - Watson's TelescopeYo La Tengo - End CreditsPOSTNAMERS - Father AlphabetOra Cogan - LucileFuubutsushi - Harmony of Irrelevant FactsRoy Ayers - LoveRoy Ayers - The FuzzNyron Higor - CirandaMonde UFO - Samba 9Easy Souls - Sleepy CreekAndre Ethier - Caterpillars 2ROY - Can You Really Own AnythingScott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)Deradoorian - Digital GravestoneRick White and The Sadies - Here In My BodyAll Seeing Dolls - Blossoms In Her MindHoly Void - In The End I Am Nothing AnywaysPanda Bear - Anywhere but HereSam Cohen, featuring Makaya McCraven - SunriseBASIC - Dream CityK.C. Accidental - Residential Love Song

In honour of International Women's Day this past weekend, it's another episode of All Femme AM, three hours of music from some of The AM's favourite female artists. As always, it's a chance to ease your way into the week with modular synths, psychedelic pop, and other hazy sounds to make Monday mornings a bit more bearable. Hope you enjoy it.Playlist: Loula Yorke - Staying with the TroubleThe Hardy Tree - August 1975Laurie Torres - Golden t-shirtsBuildings and Food - Outside My WindowYu Su - Menta Y MentaAnna Phoebe - Horizons (Hinako Omori Remix)Hannah Peel - Reaction DiffusionMoon Apple - Pillar IV - Mantra Major ForceDiscovery Zone - Supernatural - ExtendedYetsuby - FlyHaiku Salut - CarouselStegosarahs - Sudden StateIchiko Aoba - ColoraturaBeth Gibbons - Reaching OutBroadcast - PapercutsBroadcast - Where Youth And Laughter GoTess Parks - SurroundEiyn Sof - Horses, My HorsesRachika Nayar - Years and YearsLucrecia Dalt, featuring Mabe Fratti - cosa rara - en la playaVirginia Astley - With my eyes wide openHermitess - Phone CallHabibi - My MoonHana Vave - The ExpeditionSamara Lubelski - The Boy Who Bought the CosmosPearl and the Oysters - Think of RainCastle If - Djinn's PromiseVanishing Twin - Language Is a City (Let Me Out!) - LiveLiving Hour - Tous les garçons et les fillesPumpegris - Føkk det

Welcome to March! It's a gloomy Monday in Calgary, but the sounds on The AM are cozy as always. Enjoy a throwback to Yo La Tengo, new music from Thanya Iyer and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and a third-hour wander through sample-heavy sounds on this week's episode.Playlist: Nick Storring - Roxa IDaskal - Hsin-YiMatt McBane - BuoyHiro Ama - Music for Peace and Harmony (flywheel remix)Laurie Torres - Feux fuyantsHollie Kenniff, featuring Anna Phoebe - The Way of the Wind - ReworkCool LCD - Infinity FogJoni Void - Cloud Level (with Ytamo)T. Gowdy - Blest Age!Various Artists, featuring Modern Living - Snow BirdYasmin Williams - GuitkaElliot Galvin, featuring Shabaka Hutchings - Gold BrightDirty Three - Ever SinceNo Birds - Triplets to SolidsYo La Tengo - Our Way to FallYo La Tengo - You Can Have It AllAlabaster DePlume - InvincibilityThanya Iyer - Low TidesKaitlyn Aurealia Smith - What's Between UsDissolve in Sepia - BleuContagious Yawns - Ideas into Insectslesbianhorse - You'll Feel Young, Healthy & AliveDreamsploitation - Flashback, Temporal Bliss, FlashbackTraffik Island - Ulla DullaThe Go! Team - Get It TogetherPeanut Butter Wolf, The Free Design - UmbrellasMilkweed - Exile of the Sons of UisliuSchmlandinksy - Market ParkourL.T. Leif & APB - HewmidooFog Lake - CatacombsLoving - She Refused to SaySteven Lambke - Turn the Planet Over

Ending February with some new discoveries, new releases from old favourites, and a throwback to the 30th anniversary of Tricky's solo debut. Expect trip-hop vibes, cathartic electronics, jazz-funk odysseys, and dream-pop classics—all selected to start your week on solid footing.Playlist: Apta - AwashTim Hecker - Joyride AlternateBrown Fang - Light No FiresZachary Gray - Trippin' (FC Commitments Remix)Hollie Kenniff, featuring Helios - For Forever - ReworkGustaf Ljunggren, Emil de Waal - BoldeGroup Listening - Tell Everyone EverythingHania Rani - Thin Line - Live at Studio 1, WarsawBLVD NOIR - Leslie's PianoYasmine Hamdan - Hon هونDead Bandit - PinkLoma - ArrythmiaBristol Manor - Dusk BeginsSounds of New Soma - NahpunktTricky - OvercomeTricky - PonderosaMarkus Floats - DeathMoses Sumney - Neither/NorA.R. Kane - SugarwingsMercedes Benz - When You Come HomeChris Reimer - HongdiPsychic TV - The OrchidsPOSTNAMERS - The WithdrawingLael Neale - Tell Me How To Be HereNathan Damp - GudgeZoon - Brave New World (Without You)Jonathan Personne - Zoé sur la montagnePolyglots - Transmission Radio SilencieuseAlain Bellaïche - Sea FluorescentHeal Mura - More Pillows Than HeadsUntrained Animals - Endless Trains

Ending February with some new discoveries, new releases from old favourites, and a throwback to the 30th anniversary of Tricky's solo debut. Expect trip-hop vibes, cathartic electronics, jazz-funk odysseys, and dream-pop classics—all selected to start your week on solid footing.Playlist: Apta - AwashTim Hecker - Joyride AlternateBrown Fang - Light No FiresZachary Gray - Trippin' (FC Commitments Remix)Hollie Kenniff, featuring Helios - For Forever - ReworkGustaf Ljunggren, Emil de Waal - BoldeGroup Listening - Tell Everyone EverythingHania Rani - Thin Line - Live at Studio 1, WarsawBLVD NOIR - Leslie's PianoYasmine Hamdan - Hon هونDead Bandit - PinkLoma - ArrythmiaBristol Manor - Dusk BeginsSounds of New Soma - NahpunktTricky - OvercomeTricky - PonderosaMarkus Floats - DeathMoses Sumney - Neither/NorA.R. Kane - SugarwingsMercedes Benz - When You Come HomeChris Reimer - HongdiPsychic TV - The OrchidsPOSTNAMERS - The WithdrawingLael Neale - Tell Me How To Be HereNathan Damp - GudgeZoon - Brave New World (Without You)Jonathan Personne - Zoé sur la montagnePolyglots - Transmission Radio SilencieuseAlain Bellaïche - Sea FluorescentHeal Mura - More Pillows Than HeadsUntrained Animals - Endless Trains

Happy long weekend. Here's hoping you slept through this week's episode and are listening to it at a comfortable remove, but either way, I hope you enjoy a fairly eclectic episode—any playlist that can include post-punk, proto-rap, ambient harp, and anti-capitalist library music is one worth indulging in. Thanks for sharing these sounds on a cold Monday morning!Playlist: Jeff Greinke - The Great Butterfly MigrationMemory Pearl - Astral TravelRich Ruth, Lockeland Strings - Blue ShellCamilla Sparksss - My Way My Love Remix by William Basinski and Gary WrightMoon Apple - Séance I - Water SnakeKaunsel - Shade FarmerASKO - wâkôhtowinMary Lattimore, Walt McClements - Nest of EarringsMakaya McCraven - Holy LandsThe Worm - Grass Grows Pt. 1June McDoom - Emerald River DanceN Nao - Château d'eauVictrix - I Saw MeDestroyer, featuring Fiver - BolognaGil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedGil Scott-Heron - When You Are Who You AreCymande - I Wanna KnowYves Jarvis - All CylindersIvan the Tolerable - ConfessionalsBlume - Dusk's OvertureBernardino Femminielli - L'entrée des artistesHalo Maud - PesnopoïkaFuturopaco - Crollo CapitalistaKi! - Kawkab el-SharqPopulation II - Le thé est prêtPreoccupations - FocusHorsegirl - Information ContentMALLED - She is TealPia Fraus - Across the StreetStereolab - TempterSUUNS - Fish on a String

Love is in the air! Love is everywhere! With a throwback to a Pharoah Sanders classic and an array of lovesick songs in the third hour, this week's AM counts as a semi-Valentines episode for those who celebrate such things—and also includes plenty of new ambient, electronic and spiritual jazz selections for those who don't. Hope you enjoy it.Playlist: Nico Georis - Who Knows the PathI Am Robot and Proud - Lines in a GridTest Card - There are years in OctoberKhotin - DwellberryMark McGuire - South For The WinterMatthew Cardinal - Lover's Loop 1Yu Su, featuring Michelle Helene Mackenzie - Little Birds, MoonbathN Nao - FleuronKaitlyn Aurealia Smith - Into Your EyesBuildings and Food - StreetlightsFLOCKS - Now TransientHeal Mura - Thong LenJairus Sharif - MawuJOYFULTALK - Blissed For a MinuteOrganic Pulse Ensemble - Rings on the SurfaceBrown Spirits - Winter SolsticePharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere - Live in Paris (1975)The Natural Yogurt Band, The Oracle - MessagesFlying Lotus - Let Me Cook (Instrumental)Yuma Abe - That Feels GoodJonah Yano - Romance ESLSUUNS - Peace and LoveRobert Wyatt - LoveExtra Happy Ghost!!! - True Love Leaves No TracesANOHNI and the Johnsons - I'm in LoveKris Ellestad - The Book of LoveEric Chenaux - Love Don't ChangeThe Fireman - Is This Love?Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Easy LoveAir - LoveEconomics - neon loveCircle Research - Look of LoveBADBADNOTGOOD - Fall In LoveD'Angelo and the Vanguard - Really LoveKeiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu and Toshiyuki Ueno - You've Come Far NESMort Garson - Concerto for Philodendron & PothosMort Garson - PlantasiaMort Garson - Symphony for a Spider PlantMort Garson - Baby's Tears BluesMort Garson - Ode to an African VioletMichael Boddicker - End Credits Theme

Your guide to a good morning: start off cosmic, with electronic experiments and soul-jazz explorations for the new new age. Let things come into focus through patient post-rock crescendos. Then the day begins with psych-pop, indie rock, and other eclectic jams. If it's working, don't change the formula. Hope you enjoy it, and see you again in February.Playlist: Memory Pearl, featuring Sam Prekop and Mortiz Fasbender - Music Travel IIIMoon Apple - Pillar IV - Mantra Major ForceDissolve in Sepia - Heart of the OceanPrepared - Modul Vier IIIPeace Flag Ensemble - Hot MicAlabaster DePlume - Oh My Actual DaysJustin Walter - StepsWayne Patrick Garrett - Something About UsYasu Cub - Cold, Cold NightApplesauce Tears - A Celebration with GeneverRich Aucoin - MoogAvi C. Engel - CocoonMinor Conflict - Margate SandsThe Innocence Mission - Orange of the Westering SunHuman Pyramids - Moving HomeEllis Island Sound - MombassadorfBell Orchestre - NuevoBell Orchestre - Throw It on a FireThee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra La La La Band - Horses in the SkyMogwai - Pale Vegan Hip PainLaura Cahen - Je ResteFeed LA - FrühMary Ocher - I Am the OccupationOmertà - Au CommencementRobert Ascroft - Where Did You GoBlackwater Holylight - All I NeedBluffing - NatureCliché Toupee - FarshSoft Location - Let the Moon Get Into ItMALLED - StirringsHoly Void - Salvation

Apologies for the hard-to-hear introduction: The mic was muted and was fixed after that. An eclectic one this week, starting with healing sounds from Singular Balance, moving through a throwback to Chad VanGaalen's Flemish Eye debut, sharing a mini-tribute to the great David Lynch, and wrapping with a pair of instrumental protest songs. Complex moods for a complex day—hope you enjoy it.Playlist: Singular Balance - HealingRyan Lottermoser - Butterfly of the Night No. 4Kilometre Club, featuring Hollie Kenniff - Airliner - shn shn RemixMary Ocher - Love is Not a PlaceMoshimoss - Ocean in the PalmTest Card - Summer vanishes once a holidayEYE - La Mort de la MaîtresseArrangement - New LifeT. Gowdy - StrewnEx-Easter Island Head - NortherPhilip Clemo - MazeMarshall Allen, featuring Neneh Cherry - New DawnT2 - J.L.T.Zacht Automaat - Standing StonedEcholalia - Blood MoonChad VanGaalen - Graduated AssassinChad VanGaalen - Human TotemEiko Ishibashi - ComaAda Lea - Come On, Baby! Be a Good Girl for the CameraThe Space Lady - I Had Too Much to Dream Last NightChrystabell, David Lynch - The Answers to the QuestionsJulee Cruise - FallingLou Reed - This Magic MomentDavid Lynch - Wishin' WellJonnine - As You Sleep By My FeetJoni Void, featuring Sook-Yin Lee - VertigoVarious Artists, featuring Harmonische-23 - B33Bristol Manor - Shadows & FormSUSS - This Land is Your LandBill Frisell - We Shall Overcome

This week's episode has a (slightly misguided) hour-long spotlight on sounds from 1984 to celebrate CJSW's 1985 FM debut—but what better way to celebrate an amateur campus and community station than with a minor flub and great music. Happy anniversary, CJSW!Playlist: Masayoshi Fujita, featuring Moor Mother - Our Mother's LightsZeta II Reticulli - Teacozy 1Veryan - One Universal BreathVarious Artists , A Person Disguised As People, featuring Moat Bells - Psych FM8EKiasmos - SisteronVarious Artists, Catch & Release Records, featuring Laura Palmer - A PoemKush K - being soft is your biggest assetStelar Door - Saw HollowAngell & Crane - SwingjugendThis Mortal Coil - The Last RayCocteau Twins - Pepper-TreeFelt - Spanish HouseVarious Artists, featuring Illegitimate Sons of Christ - In One MoveNew Order - Thieves Like UsLeonard Cohen - The LawOhama - Part In PeaceOhama - Of WhalesHaroumi Hosono - AndrogenaHolger Czukay - The Photo SongMichael Rother - Flammende HerzenOrganic Pulse Ensemble - Passing PhaseBadge Époque Ensemble - LujonPolyphonic Exophilia - Staring at the SunJack Erin Brown - Code GreySAULT - SignsBobby Hughes Combination - Olympic GirlsVinyl Williams - Pure ImaginationGum Country - Brain SongSleepkit - Human RhythmArt d'Ecco - The Traveller

For the first episode of 2025, we're counting down The AM's top 50 albums of the past 12 months. Enjoy the second half of AM Gold 2024!Playlist: Dummy - GodspinJon McKiel - Under BurdenVarious Artists, featuring Green-House, Keela - Within Without (Liberation)Luka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryōkan Taigu)Nala Sinephro - Continuum 3Peel Dream Magazine - Machine RepeatingOHMA - between all thingsJennifer Castle - EarthsongDialect - Overgrown SongProject Gemini - TwilightBernardino Femminielli - La foire aux lumiéresMemorials - Name MeJessica Pratt - Get Your Head OutEric Chenaux Trio - These ThingsAyal Senior - Burnt LokshenElori Saxl - Shorter LifespanBuildings and Food - Planting a DesertGeotic - The Men-Shaped FogSam Wilson - WatersideLoving - The Light In YouChad VanGaalen - Little SongOrganic Pulse Ensemble - YpocalypseAndrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman, featuring Aidan Moffat - Be the HammerTomin - Life RevisitedLau Ro - Each DaySW Hedrick - Explore, ExploitHiro Ama - Everything Is Going To Make Sense In The EndCindy Lee - Government ChequeCaméra - MatsutakePeggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - fall rideSiP - HerbalifeTristan Arp - Invisible CitiesHypnodrone Ensemble - AlchemiaFabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel - CoresEzra Feinberg - Soft Power

AM Gold 2024 – Part One: Looking back at 101 favourite albums from the last year. See the full list at theam.ca, or wait until 2025 to find out what capped this year's list.Playlist: Ryan Lottermoser - Twilight VigilTomo Katsurada - MoshimoHélène Vogelsinger - ElevationTrees Speak - Emotion EngineLoula Yorke - the stream sent forth such sallies of glad soundIvan the Tolerable - Poole HospitalDrum & Lace, featuring Nailah Hunter - PluckedLynn Avery & Cole Pulice - The Mirror-GladeOsmanthus - Cutting and LayeringTemporal Waves - CyclotronHollie Kenniff - SurfaceWarrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - A Shared Sense of PurposeSeahawks - Sail Across the MoonClinic Stars - I Am the DancerMark McGuire - AnhedoniaCharbonneau / Amato - BOCDean McPhee - CosmosMiyauchi Yuri - JiadeP:ano - marikoYasmin Williams, featuring Kaki King, Darian Donovan Thomas - HarvestBananagun - Those Who Came BeforeCircles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis - Gloaming WayRetep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - The Enchanted PeopleAnna Butterss - Seeing YouSHOLTO - Trident (Jazz Not War)Wayne Patrick Garrett - Something About UsBIG|BRAVE - TheftBeak> - Ah YehGodspeed You! Black Emperor - Grey Rubble - Green ShootsDaisy Rickman - Winter SolsticeBADBADNOTGOOD - Mid SpiralUnessential Oils - Solutions to My GloomBibi Club - Le Feu

No Christmas tunes on this week's AM—although there is one sad Christmas Eve song in the 8:30 Throwback. No, it's just an average mid-winter episode of The AM, gradually waking up from gently drifting synths and ambient jazz through a psych-pop second hour to a trip-hop-laced conclusion. Hope you enjoy the break from holiday sounds, and see you next week for the annual AM Gold year in review episodes.Playlist: Various Artists, featuring Asta Hiroki & Tristan De Liége - reassurance, consolationPye Corner Audio - Mainframe - Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith RemixRoedelius - TB11 34 20Boisson Végétale - Late Night YellowR Grunwald - Bound in StillnessSebastien Tellier - Septieme CielDomenique Dumont - To UnknowniaArooj Aftab - Last Night ReprisePhilip Clemo - To BreathePostnamers - Scarves and LashesDavid Zucchi - AwayTarwater - Everybody Had a Hard YearSeawind of Battery - DreamscaperMilkweed - The Tree as a Kinship SymbolBernice - Empty Cup (Yves Jarvis Sequel)Simon Fisher Turner - ToastNicholas Krgovich, Jan Lankish - At Last I Am FreeThe Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill YouThe Everly Brothers - Green RiverKit Sebastian - EnkazMargo Guryan - SunParsnip - Turn to LoveFaith Healer - CanonizedAstral Swans - The CowardPortishead - The RipSinewave - DodecahedronMassive Attack - Pray for RainBristol Manor - All At OnceConcretism - Of Frisbees and PylonsCate Brooks - PrismaticsThe Comet is Coming - The AfterlifeO.rang - SupercultureDreamsploitation - The Soft Focus Sound of TodayL.T.Leif - Into the Air

Some contemplative tunes for the last week before the Winter Solstice, including Nap Eyes tackling WB Yeats, Robert Wyatt's Matching Mole, and a selection of songs that may have made my year-end list if I'd found them a bit sooner. Hope you enjoy it, and see you again once the days start getting longer.Playlist: Fabiano do Nascimento, Shin Sasakubo - Ap​ó​s a TempestadeBlue Lake - The ForestWayne Patrick Garrett - Mystic GrottoDavid Zucchi - MandiWoo - Memory OscillatorGoogle Earth - Wouldn't Youdavid a jaycock - Salford Shopping CityCaribou - August 20/24Machinedrum, featuring aja monet - ORACLEZachary Gray - In ArrearsPapa M - Devil TongueTeitur, Girls in Airports - KrabbaskerKate Bollinger - Postcard from a CloudVarious Artists, featuring Pearl and the Oysters - Koi Wa MomoiroMatching Mole - O'CarolineMatching Mole - Instant KittenDorothea Paas - Whatever That MeansNap Eyes - I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming EmptinessMe & My Friend - ImperfectionismYuma Abe - I'm falling for youKlaus Johann Grobe - Io Sempre Di TuHelado Negro - Best For You and MeLætitia Sadier - The Inner SmileAnimal, Surrender! - One of These Things FirstEiyn Sof - Liquid LightAluminum - HaHaBlume - Shifting TidesThe Reds, Pinks & Purples - Finding Shells on the BeachMilk Toast - (You've Got A) Little ProblemDucks Ltd - Train Full of GasolineLab Coast - Walking On Ayr

A bit of a musical hodgepodge this week, making it through some tracks that didn't fit into the rest of 2024, and squeezing in some late-year releases that demand a moment in the spotlight. But who needs consistency as long as you have quality? Hope you enjoy the variety, and have a fantastic week.Playlist: Robin Guthrie - Starting FiresHollie Kenniff, featuring Goldmund - EsperanceASKO - enoksasantSeahawks - Shining DreamCharbonneau / Amato - GroupeKristen Roos - BoutonHarpsichord Canvas, featuring Orchid Mantis - The Dream Is Over Nowecotype - Inner OrderApplesauce Tears - Faded and BraidedVarious Artists, featuring Lucas Croon - KrautwickelCastillo + Jarboe, featuring Thor Harris - The HumourAvi C. Engel - CocoonWhite Poppy - Orchid Child (Acoustic Mix)Deradoorian - Digital Gravestonespirit blue - Desire MachineYo La Tengo - Leaving Home - Alternate VersionYo La Tengo - Wizard's Sleeveanaiis, Grupo Cosmo - VoyageMandrake Handshake - The Change and the ChangingN NAO - CorpsFievel Is Glauque - As Above So BelowDruid - RememberingMinor Conflict - GluePrefuse 73 - She Needs No IntroductionSleepkit - Candy Apple GirlHildegard - Melody I HeardBon Enfant - MinimumSunglaciers - One Time or AnotherCindy - All WeekendFashion Club, featuring Julie Byrne - Rotten MindJolie Holland & Samantha Parton - Wildflower BluesTe Huhu - Get It On

Another three hours of offbeat easy listening to warm a frozen December morning. Enjoy ambient psychedelica, soundtrack grooves, prog-inflected detours, and dream-pop ditties. This week's throwback is Butter 08, a goofy, groovy one-off Cibo Matto/JSBE collaboration from back in 1996—thanks to Mike Bell for tipping me to the existence of this one.Playlist: David Zucchi - Salve ReginaDissolve in Sepia - ApricityBen Lukas Boysen, featuring Tom Adams - VinetaTristan de Liège, Velvet Empress - KensingtonTomo Katsurada - Zen BungalowWayne Patrick Garrett - ReflectionsYabra - Transmission IIDrum & Lace, featuring Nailah Hunter - PluckedPrince Shima - New AlbionAir - Ce matin-là - Demo 2SiP - PalominoLoud Diamond - Good DayJuana Molina - Astro de la luz segundaThe Books - Chain of Missing LinksZacht Automaat - God Only Knows (Beach Boys)Butter 08 - How Do I RelaxButter 08 - Butter of 69MISZCZYK, featuring Chandra - Bad RideBadge Époque Ensemble - Unity (It's up to You)Laurence Vanay - Underwater Light ReflectionsSagor & Swing - Soft ForestJane Weaver - UniversGal Gracen - (Infinity)Brian Eno - St Elmo's FireMemorials - Cut It Like a DiamondChurch Chords - Man On a WirePeggy Lee & Cole Schmidt - GloopSnake River - TV LightChild Actress - Aries SunDummy - Nine Clean NailsOrange Crate Art - Diagrams from Spherical ModelsCentury Palm - New Creation

A more downbeat, wintry episode, with occasional bursts of sunnier psychedelia and pop-adjacent sounds. Hope you enjoy it, and keep warm out there.Playlist: Various Artists, featuring Rachika Nayar, Julianna Barwick, Cassandra Croft - Song to the SirenHollie Kenniff - AmareIKSRE - vermillion - Kilometre Club RemixA Lily - Solar SystemsAnimals on Wheels - Stan's Soluble FishMe & My Friend - InspirationFlying Lotus - Garmonbozia (Instrumental)Angell & Crane - Yellow DiamondElori Saxl - How We Got HerePhilip Clemo - Space to Dreamermhoi - Ginger IslandOrchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp - Tout CasséKOKOROKO - HigherCrumb - AMAMAAlan Sparhawk - Black WaterZacht Automaat - Long Long LongZacht Automaat - Lost in the Peak DistrictEcholalia - Odd EnergyVoid Comp - ControlAtoms For Peace - Before Your Very EyesCloe Martin - Winter Is Way Too LongBananagun - Free EnergyThe Soundcarriers - With Us For NowSleepkit - Yo Gamma GammaSUUNS - WaveEmilíana Torrini - Black WaterBristol Manor - Shadows & FormJilk - Hiss ReleaseYoo Doo Right - Spirit's Heavy, But Not Overthrown, Part 1Hypnodrone Ensemble - Desdemona

Skip to the 2:15 mark (ish) for a conversation with the filmmakers behind Slice of Life, a documentary at this week's CUFF.Docs film festival. Or listen from the start for your usual AM mix of hazy electronics, psychedelic sounds, and (this week) a bit of a dream-country detour to round out the show.Playlist: Sankt Otten - HeldenVarious Artists , featuring Frunk29 - Journey In Search Of The Holy GrayEarthen Sea - Another SpaceRAMZi - flotilliAstrocolor - CosmosisJay Holy - All the TimeLuciano Michelini, Lorenzo Dada - Modular Clouds in RomeRyan Lottermoser - Blooming Despite the DarkRich Aucoin - Waldorf WaveUnderworld - denver lunaVarious Artists , featuring We.B - The Cycle of SeasonsMark McGuire - (I Can) Only ImagineHaruka Nakamura - passageUnderground Wires - HEAPhilip Clemo - DawnSHOLTO - Letting Go of ForeverKlint - Are You ThereKlint - DiamondBADBADNOTGOOD - Best Left Unsolved (Bonus Track)Black Moth Super Rainbow - Demon's GlueL'éclair, Klaus Johann Grobe - LotusScions - Fight SongP:ano - songTalking Heads - The Big CountryJennifer Castle - LouisGhostkeeper - RollyRose City Band - Lights on the WaySkinshape - How Can It Be?

Jazzy sounds start your first post-Daylight Savings morning, plus the usual mix of shoegaze, jangle-pop, post-punk, and a throwback to Bruce Haack's Electric Lucifer. Enjoy the sounds, stay sane this week, and enjoy a showfill from Greenhouse's Emily R. next Monday morning.Playlist: Spirit of Naima - Cut FreeSW Hedrick - Early GoldenBlue Lake - WeftAyal Senior - Ta ShmaPeggy Lee, Cole Schmidt - BlameSylvain Rifflet - MǎmǎhūhūTomin - LifeErki Pärnoja - Rumba in mostly 7 for oneBristol Manor - Sepia TonesPrefuse 73 - The End of AirThe Smile - Instant PsalmWhite Poppy - Memories (Surf Mix)Bon Enfant - Enfant de l'airMemorials - LamplighterSleepkit - Flower Through Your HeadBruce Haack - Cherubic HymnBruce Haack - Program MeKit Sebastian - Göç / MeWhatitdo Archive Group - Wild ManPanda Bear, featuring Cindy Lee - DefenseDana Gavanski - Business of the AttitudeJonathan Personne - Nuage noirNick Brobak - They Can Save YouColor Green - Ball and KeyJonah Yano - Someone Asked Me How I've BeenNaima Bock - MovingChad VanGaalen - Snake PitAffiliate Links - Three Minute Drum SoloThe Smashing Times - June RabbitTess Parks - Crown ShyOMBIIGIZI - Hands Are UpSmoke Bellow - HomecomingCheer - IntersectionsKeiichi Suzuki, Hirokazu Tanaka, Hiroshi Kanazu and Toshiyuki Ueno - You've Come Far, NessMort Garson - Concerto for Philodendron & PothosMort Garson - PlantasiaMort Garson - Symphony for a Spider PlantMort Garson - Baby's Tears BluesMichael Boddicker - End Title March

Thank you to each and every one of the 60+ folks who donated to this year's AM Funding Drive episode. We're back to more normal programming this week, with offbeat easy listening, post rock and shoegaze textures, and (since its Hallo-week), an hour of spooky-adjacent sounds to wrap things up. Hope you enjoy it!Playlist: Woodford Halse Records, featuring Apta - JuremaDissolve in Sepia - PetrichorSeahawks - Time Enough For LoveSiP - CarmelosVoyage Futur - Nocturnal FluxPsychic Pollution - Unauthorized Activities (Version 1)Rooster37 - Lost in the FogHawksmoor - The TranscendentalistDialect - Ancient Faith RadioBonobo - Counterparthowiewonder, featuring Straizo - LotusJonny Trunk - Deep in a DreamDar Disku - FajrCarson Tworow and David Lavoie - The SlabsKlint - Where the Leaves FallCalibro 35 - ChaserBadge Époque Ensemble - Enormous ProfitHrsta - Hechicero Del Bosquewihtikow - RustClinic Stars - Shiver (walking over time)Witch Victim - Car AlarmTraffik Island - Ghost TownMahogany Frog - We Encircle Within This RingDream Division - Black GlovesThe Vampire Sound Inc. - NecromaniaRichard Delvy - Green SlimeThe Garrys - The Dance of St. VitusThe Hologram People - Night Sweats Part 1 & 2Shooting Guns - Moon DustBradley Thomas Turner - Spooky Season (in the Foyer)Garden Gate - Spirits of the DeadCastle If - Haunted BossaSpeak Low - Thriller

Thank you to each and every one of the 60+ folks who donated to this year's AM Funding Drive episode. We're back to more normal programming this week, with offbeat easy listening, post rock and shoegaze textures, and (since its Hallo-week), an hour of spooky-adjacent sounds to wrap things up. Hope you enjoy it!Playlist: Woodford Halse Records, featuring Apta - JuremaDissolve in Sepia - PetrichorSeahawks - Time Enough For LoveSiP - CarmelosVoyage Futur - Nocturnal FluxPsychic Pollution - Unauthorized Activities (Version 1)Rooster37 - Lost in the FogHawksmoor - The TranscendentalistDialect - Ancient Faith RadioBonobo - Counterparthowiewonder, featuring Straizo - LotusJonny Trunk - Deep in a DreamDar Disku - FajrCarson Tworow and David Lavoie - The SlabsKlint - Where the Leaves FallCalibro 35 - ChaserBadge Époque Ensemble - Enormous ProfitHrsta - Hechicero Del Bosquewihtikow - RustClinic Stars - Shiver (walking over time)Witch Victim - Car AlarmTraffik Island - Ghost TownMahogany Frog - We Encircle Within This RingDream Division - Black GlovesThe Vampire Sound Inc. - NecromaniaRichard Delvy - Green SlimeThe Garrys - The Dance of St. VitusThe Hologram People - Night Sweats Part 1 & 2Shooting Guns - Moon DustBradley Thomas Turner - Spooky Season (in the Foyer)Garden Gate - Spirits of the DeadCastle If - Haunted BossaSpeak Low - Thriller

It's the CJSW Funding Drive! Call in to 403.220.5000, or head to cjsw.com/donatePlaylist: Jessica McMann - The River Has Many Ways of Being: BigfootMike Reed - Floating With an Intimate StrangerHiro Ama - Everything Is Going To Make Sense In the EndNash the Slash - IslandsBuildings and Food - FlatlandSam Wilson - Into the HollowWarrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan - A Shared Sense of PurposeCarl Didur - Close My EyesEasy Idiot - One Day, I'll Own an Upright PianoLuiz Henrique - JandiraYuma Abe, Haroumi Hosono - Fuyu GoeJean-Pierre Ferland - Au fond des choses le soleil emmène au soleilProject Gemini - Seven Seconds to SunriseRay Barbee - A Man's Wisdom Gives Him PatienceBibi Club - L'ile aux bleuetsMelenas - BangBristol Manor - Thinking About YouEye of Newt - Feel So GoodBlume - Feel So GoodMaya Ongaku - Anoyo DriveYOCTO - Hagio AgioBernardino Femminielli - La vie, Gigi!Ara Balouzian - One Triangle and One Square

Not a Thanksgiving episode, but one that's hopefully appropriate for a day of gratitude & harvest-time relaxation. Don't mind the tongue-tied host, just enjoy the music and have a happy holiday Monday courtesy of the AM and CJSW.Playlist: Lyndsie Alguire - sandcastlesR Grunwald - Where I Go SometimesPalomatic - Flutter (Excerpt)Drum & Lace, featuring Max Gaertner - HuntingtonZachary Gray - Wabana HighUntrained Animals - Five SlidesGoogle Earth - Deep Sea LeaksTristan Arp, featuring Mabe Fratti - Ways of BeingPrefuse 73 - Vast Wildlife PoisonASKO - sîsîkwanPostnamers - Simon's Saintly DiscothequeThe World Next Door - Arranged ConstellationsSUSS - FlightYasmin Williams, featuring Darlingside - VirgaBibio - DopplertonBibio - ThatchedBill Frisell - Throughout (Live/Brussels Philharmonic)Virginia Astley - A Summer Long Since PassedWhite Poppy - Floral DreamsJessica Pratt - By Hook or By CrookTe Huhu - On HolidayJefre Cantu-Ledesma - The FaunBlume - I Need YouThe Church - The Immediate FutureThe Smile - Don't Get Me StartedChild Actress - Just Fine Never BetterAstral Swans - The Wind in a Mindless UniverseCola - RepriseHealees - WaterslideNick Cave & The Bad Seeds - O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)

Sounds for a warm autumn morning to start your week on the right note. Post-rock daydreams, modular synths, classic psychedelia, blue-eyed soul, and other weird grooves that are (hopefully) united by mood if not by genre. As always, hope you enjoy it, and have a fantastic week.Playlist: Loula Yorke - the stream sent forth such sallies of glad soundHiro Ama - Things We Talked AboutResavoir - Life BeforeMount Maxwell - Nature IDRejoicer - I Think This is ReasonableMonroeville Music Center - Il Pleut des Informations (ou Mass Media en Masse à Partir de Notre Cumulonimus Fiable)The Remote Viewer - Spend More Time With MeProxima Psychoacoustics - The BoardwalkAsta Hiroki - Never Lose an OpportunityDrummachinemike - MutedBen Lukas Boysen - FamaIn The Well - AtomiumHiroki Tamaki - RiverJonah Yano - No Petty MagicThe Galaxy Electric, Droog Mulholland - Mystery SongKid Koala - Til We Meet Again - Live at the Natural History MuseumKit Sebastian - OdysseyWool - If They Left Us Alone NowWool - To Kingdome ComeDead Ghosts - Chill GrooverSir Douglas Quintet - At the Crossroads - Alternate MixYoshiko Sai - Yoru no SeiDorothea Paas - Autumn RosesAlvaro Rojas - TalonsLymbyc Systym - TeddyPrecious Fathers - Past It PasturesAnna Butterss, featuring Jeff Parker - Dance SteveDavid Lavoie, Carson Tworow - Maybe It's OverratedGong Gong Gong 工工工, Mong Tong - Escaping Encirclementswasmarkhere - A Bright SparkBASIC - New AuspiciousDurutti Column - Don't Think You're Funny

"80. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process."Playlist: Matthew Cardinal - Mar 23Polypores - Follow the MagpieEzra Feinberg - Pose Beams - Gold Panda RemixDavid Lavoie, Carson Tworow - Where Are You GoingAtamone - Strangers in MTLYutaka Hirasaka - Go OnTristan de Liège, featuring Fabiano do Nascimento and Sam Gendel - Ventotstewart - buena - Pete Catt Remixwihtikow - ᐸᐦᑭᓯᒧᑖᕁUnderground Wires - The Neighbourhood WatchSalami Rose Joe Louis, featuring Nazir Ebo, Flanafi, Tone Whitfield - D I M C O L A R E P R I S EWhite Poppy - Ordinary MagicIvan the Tolerable - Finished PyramidEiyn Sof - Bridle of TarVanishing Twin - The Age Of ImmunologyGhostkeeper - PhantomShirley Hurt - Hell of a LifeTanya Tagaq - Fox - TiriganiakTanya Tagaq - GrowthAerial M - Always FarewellDevendra Banhard - The RoseThe Cure - AloneZoon - GiizhigBlack Moth Super Rainbow - Brain WasterHis Name is Alive - The Dirt Eaters (2024 Remaster)Brightblack Morning Light - Black Feather Wishes RiseWillie Dunn - The DreamerFiver - Spinning Out & Going NowhereHaruka Nakamura - RhythmWitch Victim - Tongue Tyer

As the nights get longer and sweater-weather chill enters the morning air, autumn vibes have invaded The AM. Boards of Canada, Broadcast, Cocteau Twins, and Yo La Tengo all making appearances in this week's episode, along with less expected, but still soothing, sounds for a Monday morning. Hope you enjoy.Playlist: Hollie Kenniff - SurfaceNala Sinephro - Continuum 3Azeda Booth - Be ItTristan Arp - Life After HumansZachary Gray - Upon AvonSoft Operator - That's Just Your Heart Giving UpBoards of Canada - Nothing is RealKhotin - WEM Lagoon JumpContagious Yawns - Golden HourHarmony Kleinman - Take FlightNETRVNNER - CrystallinePrairiewolf - Saying Yes to EverythingBeautify Junkyards - SomersaultBroadcast - CorporealPanurge - Land of JadeDie Welttraumforscher - Nordhaus (2023)Niningashi - AmeagariNiningashi - RestaurantMac DeMarco - 20200820 Turn My TV OnTindersticks - Don't Walk, RunBADBADNOTGOOD - Celestial HandsMo Dotti - Really WishClinic Stars - remainCocteau Twins - Pandora (for Cindy)Bus People - LuckHabibi - In My DreamsLederhosen Lucil - Two VikingsJohn Myrtle - FoggyChad VanGaalen - Sing Me 2 SleepYo La Tengo - You Can Have It AllThe Soundcarriers - AlwaysCindy Lee - To Heal This Wounded Heart

Take a deep breath with a neo-classical introduction, embrace the mystic might of Nat King Cole's Nature Boy in the 8:30 Throwback, and enjoy some dreamy jangle-pop in hour three. It's all part of the AM's ongoing quest to start your week with low-key beauty.Playlist: Ben Morales Frost, Violeta Vicci - Forest BathingTom Kinsella - Back to LonelinessYu Su - AvaneraBuildings and Food - Outside My Windowzeta ii reliculi - kobayashi maruBranches - CloudsJon Hopkins, featuring Vylana - part ii - palace/illusionMadlib, Moonbyrd - Wild Sweet Beauty - InstrumentalShabaka, featuring Lianne La Havas - Kiss Me Before I ForgetMaya Ongaku - Anoyo DriveUpupayāma - Fil DağıJungle By Night, featuring Pitou - DiveYves Jarvis - Open SesameFievel is Glauque - As Above So BelowNat King Cole - Nature BoySam Cooke - Lonely IslandMonster Rally - Floating Along a RiverSHOLTO - For the Love of StripesAndy Shauf - Catch Your EyeAndre Ethier - Kids AreEric Chenaux Trio - I've Always Said LoveThe Gabys - CursedPenny Arcade - One MoreLab Coast - The Pointe of It AllAllah-Las - Mulberry Jam - Peaking Lights DubThe Clientele - Trains in the NightKathy Heideman - The Earth Won't Hold MeJennifer Castle - Blowing KissesCereus Bright - Seven WondersKoushik - CoolinThought Bubble - No HidingWitch Victim - Horizon

Ushering in the autumn with a mix of hazy dream-pop (Grouper remixing Slowdive, Efrim Manuck's latest drone-pop project), synths, and post-rock, with a Bossa Nova detour courtesy of the late Sérgio Mendes. Plus, stick around for hour three and an interview with Tess Roby, who's starting an NMC residency this very morning. Hope you enjoy it!Playlist: Slowdive, featuring Grouper - kisses (sky ii)WE ARE WINTER'S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN - Uncloudy DayOmar S, AF13, Desire - MontanaSuuns - Vanishing PointVon Spar, Eiko Ishibashi, Joe Talia, Tasuhisa Yamamoto - IIIExperimental Music Summer Camp - MoscatTycho - DX OdysseyZachary Gray - SuburbiaCaribou - Come Find MeGhostkeeper - Astum OtaClinic Stars - Only HintingPeel Dream Magazine - RecitalDorian Concept - Hide - Bibio ReworkAbstract Crimewave - Flyga FramSergio Mendes - One Note SambaSergio Mendes - She's a CariocaTristan de Liège - WandererNaima Bock - Feed My ReleaseDana Gavanski - ReiterationRich Aucoin - FutureDawn to Dawn - Yours to KnowMui Zyu - The Rules of What an Earthling Can BeSleepkit - Peace of NothingPanda Bear, Sonic Boom - Peligro (Danger)The Mercury Program - Fragile or Possibly ExtinctNo Birds - Triplets to SolidsShecky Formé - Untitled (002)

Back on the air after a month away, with sedate sounds for a holiday Monday. Thanks again to Syf and Emily R. for holding down the fort for the last four weeks. This week: soul digressions, post-rock excursions, Nick Cave on joy, and the pleasure of getting lost.Playlist: Sarah Neufeld, Richard Reed Parry, Rebecca Foon - Slow New YearLyndsie Alguire - sandcastlesRikuto Fujimoto - New DawnHélène Vogelsinger - ElevationBoycalledcrow - Magic MedicineDialect - Born ThroughAndrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Root Grow Emergetender spring, featuring Joseph Shabason - You Have My Whole HeartMelinda Sullivan, Larry Goldings - Do You LikeBen Lukas Boysen - QuasarSanctums - Year OneSilje Nes - CrystalsThe Soundcarriers - What We FoundTess Parks - KoalasGuitaro - Chateau 100Dummy - Blue DadaDo Make Say Think - SayDuster - Isn't OverNick Cave & the Bad Seeds - JoyGregory Nieuwsma - The Pleasure of Getting LostMisha Panfilov - Rhythm-O-GreenBrendan Sound System - JulyRotary Connection - The Sea and SheThee Sacred Souls - Live For YouSAULT - Bitter StreetsTerry Durham - Crystal TelephoneMilitary Genius - Darkest HourGhostkeeper - Storm ChaserTOPS - Sunday MorningElectrelane - To the East

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 ChestEzra Feinberg, featuring Mary Lattimore - Get Some RestCaméra - MatsutakéOsmanthus - Cutting and LayeringShabaka, featuring Moses Sumney - InsecuritiesAyal Senior - Burnt LikshenSam Gendel, Fabiano do Nascimento - PoeiraBilal Nasser - On the SurfaceGeotic - The QuarrelBuildings and Food - FlatlandEasy Idiot - Theme for Feeling Drunk and CoolTemporal Waves - CyclotronOrganic Pulse Ensemble - Peace PieceFuubutsushi - Distance LearnerCircles Around the Sun, Mikaela Davis - Gloaming WayThe Sorcerers - BebaynetuBeth Gibbons - Floating on a MomentProject Gemini - Lost in the Woods (Paranoia)Loving - No MastLuka Kuplowsky - How Can I Possibly Sleep When There is Music (a response to Ryōkan Taigu)Lau Ro - LugarUnessential Oils - Overwhelmed and UnpreparedOHMA - the wildflowers are upon usCindy Lee - What's It Going to TakeYu Ching - Fly! Little Black ThingRetep Folo, Dorothy Moskowitz - MoonBibi Club - Rue du ReposJon McKiel - HexMagic Fig - Distant DreamMolly Lewis, featuring Thee Sacred Souls - Crushed VelvetJessica Pratt - Better HateEye of Newt - Bot for TeacherROY - Cold Water In My TeaPsychic Temple - Fields of Grass / 9 Is the End (It's Over)

Another scorching week here in Calgary—hopefully it cools off in time for Folk Fest, but for now here's a mix of chill tunes, tropical sounds, and CFMF selections to see you through the last week of the heatwave.Playlist: Skyminds - Agua EscondidaMarkus Floats - IntroductionHiro Ama - RoundaboutMelinda Sullivan, Larry Goldings - Big FootBen Lukas Boysen - State 20Proxima Psychoacoustics - The InformantThe Octopus Project - Grape LookWhere's the Other - The Sum of AllCastle If - Soft TideLilacs & Champagne - Rude DreamSML - Search Bar Hi HatMonster Rally - Prickly PearsTitanic - Cielo FalsoLT Leif - Cougar DartsBernardino Femminielli - La foire aux lumièresBeastie Boys - I Don't KnowHelio Matheus - Meu SegredoHelio Matheus - Mais KriolaPolyphonic Exophilia - ABRASAULT - Bitter StreetsThe Holydrug Couple - The SnailRobin Guthrie - La PerigrinaY La Bamba - Walk AlongEtran De L'Aïr - Nak DeranineLuna Li - omnichord jamLaurence-Anne - PolymorpheCowboy Junkies - KnivesGhost Woman - Street MeetAstral Swans - Under the WavesThe Soundcarriers - Already Overwasmarkhere - YeslekRubber Oh, featuring Rozi Plain - CirclesJasper Byrne + Sonic - dream dayBlume - Passes Me By

After a couple weeks of themed episodes, we're back with the normal AM you know and love. This week, a throwback to Shintaro Sakamoto's post-apocalyptic exotica, ambient jazz from Fuubutsushi and Sam Wilkes, dreamy sounds from Peel Dream Magazine and Dummy, and other cool sounds for a scorching-hot week.Playlist: Drum & Lace, featuring Violeta Vicci, Ian Hultquist - WhalesongDavid Allred - Emotional Change PromptAlex Henry Foster - Autumnal ProcessionsVarious Artists, featuring Corneil Nies - PaardekrachtRooster37 - No Particular OrderJay Holy - Tropic SciOf Montreal - Sea Mines that Mr. GoneTara Clerkin Trio - Marble WallsFuubutsushi - Distance LearnerSam Wilkes, Craig Weinrib, Dylan Day - Standing in the DoorwaySuuns - DoreenJairus Mozee - 1968Hermanos Gutiérrez - Los NavegantesLa Luz - Good Luck With Your SecretHabibi - My MoonKairos Creature Club - Good CompanyShintaro Sakamoto - Birth of the Super CultShintaro Sakamoto - This World Should Be More WonderfulRyan Bourne - Many CreaturesLes Chouettes - Salade Sauvage Deluxe Dressing MixRahill, featuring Beck - FablesUlrich Schnauss - Along Deserted StreetsTwink with Moths & Locusts and Heavy Friends - Love AshoreShelley Duvall - He Needs MeMOONRIIVR - Bachelor NationPeel Dream Magazine - Lie in the GutterDummy - NullspaceHush Pup - SwimmingElephant Stone - PilgrimageChurch Chords - Recent MineralsSnake River - I'll Take You To Another SideChild Actress - Fruit FliesNap Eyes - Demons

Sometimes you just have to embrace the twang. This week's episode is a bit of a Stampede special, embracing ambient country sounds, cosmic American music, and other lesser-travelled country roads.Playlist: Jessica McMann - AkiiHarold Budd - AfarSUSS - FlightDean McPhee - CosmosNick Cave & Warren Ellis - Rather Lovely ThingSam Wilson - The Moon SongBill MacKay, Ryley Walker - Pretty Weeds RevisitedFriends of Dean Martinez - The Warmth of the SunDaniel Lanois - AgaveCanadian Not Canadian - Wheelspur YardSteve Dawson & The Telescope 3 - Lily's ResistorYasmin Williams, Dobrotto - Nova to BaCountry Girl Kay - Canadian Waltz - Alternative VersionMarisa Anderson - Deep GapJeffrey Silverstein - Theme from Western Sky MusicMarc Ribot - Aurora En PekinWilliam Tyler - I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me)Bobbie Gentry - Mississippi DeltaBobbie Gentry - Lazy WillieDawn Landes - Wandering EyeShane Ghostkeeper - SunbeamROY - Little More TimeLee Hazlewood - Hey CowboyRoyal City - Under a Hollow TreePiero Umiliani - Mah Nà CowboyMaggie and Terre Roche - If You Empty Out All Your Pockets You Could Not Make the ChangeKathy Heideman - StormyElkhorn - WildernessRose City Band - Porch BoogieSylvia Tyson - Sweet AgonyJennifer Castle - Way of the CrowSteven Lambke - Sorrow and DoubtCountry Funk - Apart of MeDeadhorse - I'm a LawyerOne Hundred Dollars - Where the Sparrows DropLink Wray - Fire and Brimstone

This week's episode: A mellow Monday morning spent meandering through the decades of Canadian music. More of a contemplative mood, but as someone else put it, Canada Day should be for reflection as much as celebration. Hopefully this sets the right tone for a bit of both.Playlist: Hollie Kenniff, featuring Goldmund - Anything Wondrous is EndlessSlow Attack Ensemble - Dance FourMatthew Cardinal - JittersBuildings and Food - CoastingRAMZi - awakeninYu Su, featuring Michelle Helene Mackenzie - Little Birds, MoonbathDavid Pritchard - Wax WingsVarious Artists, featuring Laura Palmer - The ProtagonistNash the Slash - IslandsCaribou - BarnowlUntrained Animals - The Next QuestionBruce Cockburn - Islands in a Black SkySam Wilson - Into the HollowCarl Didur - Close My EyesThe Hylozoists - Warning Against Judging a Christian BrotherCaméra - Le PhiltreEsmerine - Fractals for Any TonalityTorngat - Bordeaux BoredomCowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song for Elvis)Louise Forestier - J'pense que c'est l'tempsBernardino Femminielli - Plaisirs AméricainsThe Zodiac - Cancer - The Moon ChildContraction - Claire fontaineJean-Pierre Ferland - Au fond des choses le soleil emméne au soleilKris Ellestad - Side We Seldom ShowTerry Jacks - Concrete SeaAbsolutely Free - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine AnymoreJulie & Dany - Jean-Talon Market Brass VersionHotel Josephine - Half Heartedly GoldPierre Lalonde - Honey, HoneyBart - All Good ThingsNeil Young - Transformer Man - UnpluggedZoon, featuring Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Astum - Yonatan Gat Remix

The first AM of the summer—a throwback to Destroyer's poppier early albums, plus a mix of sunshiny psychedelia, laid-back electronics, air-conditioned dream pop and other offbeat sounds to ease you into the end of June. Hope you like it.Playlist: Polypores - ReverieA Lily - Ħajti Kollha, Qalbitender spring, featuring Joseph Shabason - You Have My Whole HeartEasy Idiot - One Day I'll Own an Upright PianoSuki Sou - Velocity of WaterDrum & Lace - SolsticeTancredi Fazzino - ResetHeadache - Business OpportunitiesVon Lehbauer - An Endless NowVarious Artists , featuring Felix Machtelinckx - The RiserHermeto Pascoal - Música da LagoaAri Balouzian, Ben Marc, Trevor Estes - One Triangle and One SquareNorio Meada & All-Stars - Donpan BushiMatt Berry - AngiAyal Senior - Shekel of TyreDestroyer - Destroyer's the TempleDestroyer - The Way of Perpetual RoadsDana Gavanski - Song for Rachel (Maston Remix)Earth Girl Helen Brown - My A.I. (Baby Grandfather)Tindersticks - NancyEye of Newt - Bot for TeacherJessica Pratt - Better HateSparky Bosque - About YouElephant's Memory - Crossroads of the Stepping StonesRick White, The Sadies - Fly AwayNovillero - Daydreams & DistractionsThe Proper Ornaments - RecallingJulie Doiron, Astral Swans - Last Night I Saw My LoveChad Van Gaalen - Where Are You (Hooray for Earth remix)Winter - Anything At AllBlume - I Need YouGalaxie 500 - Ceremony

This week's episode serves as a semi-Sled Island spotlight, with music from a slew of artists who'll be in Calgary this week, including Michael Peter Olsen, Jeff Parker, Lael Neale, Tess Roby, WITCH, Malcolm Mooney, Juana Molina, Irreversible Entanglements, and more. It's only a semi-spotlight, though, because there's also your usual AM mix of new and classic tunes for a new (and potentially classic) week. Hope you enjoy it.Playlist: Kilometre Club, featuring Teset - WinterwoodMichael Peter Olsen, featuring Mairi Chaimbeul - MurmursYoshiaki Ochi - AnywhereFabiano do Nascimento, featuring Smaller Forces - Olhos D'águaChloé Antoniotti - VioletteAndrew Wasylyk, Tommy Perman - Blessing of the BannersCastle If - Drivin' EasyYuutsu - ClearJoshua Moshier, featuring Jeff Parker - Cancelled PlansEine Kleine China - Chris De Berghain (Live)Jay Chakravorty - Grid CellsASKO - si​̂​si​̂​kwanLos Days - Chasing the Day MoonColor Green - Fool's ParadeClevelode - It Must Have Rained Last Night (Avenue of Trees)Yu Ching - You, An IllusionLael Neale - For No One For NowFrançoise Hardy - Comment te dire adieuFrançoise Hardy - J'ai coupé le téléphoneDominique Dumont - Deux ParadisBibi Club - Rue du ReposGinger Beef, featuring Brendan McGuigan - Golden HourTess Roby - CatalystBeak> - Hungry Are WeWITCH - Up the SkyJuana Molina - CosocoMalcolm Mooney, Sean Noonan - No Strings AttachedIrreversible Entanglements - Open the GatesCalibro 35 - Gun PowderAladean Kheroufi - Why Do You Call For Rain?Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Juice CruiseVague Plot - CyclicNap Eyes - Ice Grass UnderpassGospelbeacH - The End