By Will McGuirk

So here go, 2022, driving into the new year with the latest new vinyl due out Friday Jan 7.

‘People in Cars’ from Curse of Lono, from London UK captures that long romance between motors and music. Singer-songwriter Felix Bechtolsheimer says “When I first got clean, I used to feel like running away a lot. Whenever things got too much I'd jump in my uncle's Jeep and drive along the ocean, all the way from Boynton to Miami and back again, blasting Rolling Stones records until I felt better.” This album will take you on a similar trip, and you should come out all the better for it.

Lincoln’s 2017 EP, ‘A Constant State of Ohio’, winds its wordy way in a vein similar to Dan Mangan and the Weakerthans and maybe Arctic Monkeys. I thinks its a bit shabby these days to describe bands in terms of other bands because we are all in our own channels but yah worth a listen, several listens actually.

Somali Yacht Club are releasing ‘The Sun.’ Some driven psychedelic stoner rock from the Ukrainian act. on this debut.