Where Your Mind Takes You

Different Noises 149

This playlist is a diverse collection of contrasting textures, bringing together driving punk, abrasive post-rock, and avant-garde jazz alongside quiet acoustic folk and experimental electronica. The track selection moves between heavy, rhythmically dense instrumentation and fragile, stripped-back arrangements. Rather than sticking to a single style, the compilation shifts between different atmospheres, moods, and musical traditions to create a varied listening experience from start to finish.

AUDIO

PLAYLIST

1. Johann Kloos - Wartime

2. Big | Brave - in grief or in hope

3. Crow - Skyline -

4. Dad Fight - Reality Check

5. Meanies - Blacklist

6. Alexandria Maillot - Cherry Pit

7. Severed Heads - The Voice Of Russia (Perth)

8. Burial Clouds - Eyes Without Light

9. Celestial Power - Politics of Ecstasy

10. Roma Amor - Into The Wood

11. Peter Black - Dressing Gown Blues

12. Columbia Icefield - El Derecho 4

13. Luciano Bagnasco - 2da. parte

14. Peter Hobbs - Noctural Hive Mind

15. Julia Greenberg - Sometimes The Sea

16. Jordan White - Left Arm Orthodox

17. GEINS’T NAÏT & LØ - Prag Teshima

18. Empire Child - By Boat

19. Gustavo Cortiñas - Dialogue With The Ancestors (iii)

20. DUAL - Becket/Rabascall/Vieira - La Part Animal

21. Michael F. Williams - Ascension

22. Amsterdam Klezmer Band - Diaspora Tanz

23. The Go-Betweens - Don’t Touch Anything (Acoustic)

24. Asteroid Ekosystem - Sounds Have Dreams/A Slower Dance

25. Dave Graney and Clare Moore - Laburnum Of The Mind

NOTES

1. A self-released track shared via Johann Kloos’s personal SoundCloud platform. This atmospheric, guitar-driven piece showcases the Salford-based multi-instrumentalist’s versatile compositional range, blending intricate instrumentation with a compelling and cinematic sonic depth.

2. The title track from BIG|BRAVE’s tenth studio album released on the Thrill Jockey record label. This striking, funereal lullaby acts as the emotional anchor of the record, masterfully juxtaposing Robin Wattie’s melodic, vulnerable vocal phrasing against a gargantuan, texturally dense wall of guitar noise and live-recorded drone feedback.

3. “Skyline” is the second single from the album Hold Sway, released on the Cheersquad Records & Tapes label. Written and sung by Crow’s founding member Peter Archer, this bittersweet track serves as a poignant tribute to his legacy following his passing just ahead of the release of the esteemed Australian band’s first new album in over 15 years.

4. A track from an upcoming split 7-inch single shared with iconic Melbourne punk veterans The Meanies. This high-energy release showcases the raw, fast-paced energy of the young Queensland punk outfit as they gear up to support their veteran compatriots on a national Australian tour.

5. This high-octane punk track fronts the split mentioned above.

6. A single from the upcoming album Cryptomnesia. This atmospheric track highlights the Vancouver-based artist’s self-described “swoon rock” style, blending elements of dream pop and indietronica with raw, emotionally charged songwriting.

7. The opening track from the archival compilation album Emergency Broadcasts, released on the Klanggalerie label. This piece showcases the pioneering Australian electronic outfit’s mastery of experimental soundscapes, anchoring a collection of rare and location-tagged broadcasts that highlight their influential, boundary-pushing production style.

8. The closing track from the album Burn Holy, self-released by the Portland-based post-doom collective. Serving as the intense finale to the record, the piece contrasts heavy, crushing riffs with intricate melodies, heightened by Marina Lavelle’s expansive vocal delivery.

9. The opening track from the self-titled debut album by the underground psychedelic collective Celestial Power, released jointly by the Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records labels. This sprawling, ten-minute epic serves as a blistering introduction to the project—featuring members of Dead Sea Apes and Water Damage—by locking into a heavy, relentless, and completely unyielding wall of overdriven guitar mantras and minimal, hypnotic repetition.

10. A track from the album Back To Dark, released on the Klanggalerie and Old Europa Cafe labels. Stepping away from the Italian duo’s traditional folk cabaret roots, this atmospheric piece leans into a raw, primitive gothic rock and minimalist doom sound, driven by low-tuned guitar riffs and Euski’s characteristically deep, hoarse vocal delivery.

11. A track from the album A Bowl of Spiders, released on the Cheersquad Records & Tapes label. This piece showcases the Sydney-based singer-songwriter and legendary Hard-Ons guitarist’s solo artistry, delivering a characteristically eclectic and melodically rich rock composition that highlights his distinctive songwriting style.

12. This atmospheric experimental jazz piece is from A Silence Opens, an album released on the Out Of Your Head Records label by trumpeter Nate Wooley’s quartet as a deeply moving tribute following the passing of his mentor, the prominent trumpeter and composer Ron Miles.

13. This experimental piece is from the album Momentos en el absurdo, released on the diForma label by the Argentinian avant-garde guitarist and composer.

14. This ambient environmental piece is from the electroacoustic album Bee Sides, released on the New Zealand label Rattle Records as a conceptual project meticulously crafted entirely from field recordings of bees and their forest environments.

15. This windswept, literary folk-rock piece is the second single from the Born Sentimental EP, released on New Jersey's Magic Door Record Label by the New York City singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and theatre composer.

16. This jazz track is from the album Music for Imaginary Spaces, released on the Aut Records label by the Cologne-based composer, serving as the first chapter in a series that merges custom-programmed digital reverbs with the architectural resonance of Orthodox Christian vocal traditions to create sonic, imaginary environments.

17. This experimental post-industrial track is from the album Tomoko, released on the Austrian label Klanggalerie as a collaborative avant-garde project between Geins’t Naït founder Thierry Mérigout and his daughter Lø.

18. This reggae track is from the self-titled debut album The Empire Child, released on the Fine Roots Recordings label by the London-based artist whose music is deeply shaped by her Indo-Jamaican and South African heritage.

19. This intense, polyrhythmic jazz improvisation concludes a three-part suite on the album The Drum Also Sings, a percussion-forward project built entirely around three distinct drum kits. Released independently by the Mexican-born, Chicago-based drummer and composer, the piece serves as a raw, collective conversation between himself and fellow drummers Dave King and Isaiah Spencer, paying direct homage to the melodic drumming legacy of Max Roach.

20. This avant-garde jazz track is from the collaborative album Iniciació al moviment / L'infant amatent, released on the Aut Records label by Catalan pianist Tomàs Becket, vocalist Jordi Rabascall, and Portuguese drummer Joao Vieira. Originally captured as an improvised session at Underpool Studios in Barcelona, the project explores collective listening and physical energy, transforming voice, synthesisers, and percussion into dense, organic soundscapes that blur the borders between the human and the elemental.

21. This contemporary classical piece is composed by Michael F Williams as a deeply moving tribute to his late colleague and friend, the late New Zealand composer and academic Martin Lodge. Performed by the Jade String Quartet, the track appears on the commemorative album Aeon (Commemorating Martin Lodge), released on the New Zealand label Rattle Records. Built around a repeating cello line, Ascension is a tender musical reflection inspired by the Buddhist concept of Dukkha—exploring themes of pain, impermanence, and the eventual transition into light.

22. This high-energy klezmer track is from the album Diaspora, released on Berlin’s renowned Balkan and world music label Asphalt Tango Records. Composed by clarinettist Janfie van Strien, the piece serves as a rhythmic peak on an acoustic, live-recorded project that celebrates the group’s nearly three decades of reinventing traditional Jewish dance music.

23. This acoustic demo is a rare track from the extensive rarities and demos collection featured on the comprehensive box set G Stands For Go-Betweens: Volume 3 (2000–2006), released on the Domino label. Written by Robert Forster, the track captures an intimate, stripped-back glimpse into the late-era songwriting sessions of the iconic Australian indie rock duo before the song was ultimately re-recorded and completed for Forster’s 2008 solo album, The Evangelist.

24. These two tracks are from the album Sounds Have Dreams, released on the independent Alister Spence Music label. The project is the brainchild of composer and pianist Alister Spence, who leads a powerhouse Australian quartet featuring pioneering punk guitar legend Ed Kuepper, improvisational double bassist Lloyd Swanton (of The Necks), and drummer Toby Hall. Blending jazz, psychedelia, and post-rock, the music unfolds from a unique creative process where Spence composed frameworks and loops around Kuepper’s raw, real-time guitar phrases to build a hypnotic sonic trip.

25. This moody track is the title piece from the album Laburnum Of The Mind, released on the Cockaigne label by the legendary Australian indie rock partners. Backed by Moore’s signature cool, steady rhythms and featuring guest piano and percussion from Sylvie, the sprawling seven-minute track anchors an album of sophisticated, low-slung grooves and characteristically sharp, sideways lyrical commentary.